Road map diaries May 2021
Here we are in the third week of May and I am thinking that we had better weather back in March. We have had rain for most of the last week apart from a small window during Wednesday afternoon and evening when it was possible to sit in the garden, enjoy a cup of tea and enjoy the wildlife in the garden. I am hoping that my new wildlife garden will attract more insects, including bees (whose national day it has just been), as well as birds. We now have several resident pheasants, both male and female, as well as a couple of squirrels and the large birds: rooks and jackdaws and pigeons. I think that the poor weather has had an adverse effect on the smaller birds in our garden as there are noticeably less coming to the protected bird feeders than this time last year when we sat in the garden each day and the garden was full of life. We were able to meet up with our daughter, who we hadn't seen for over a year, at an arboretum mid way between our two homes. Of course, she came ...