Our small village is fortunate sufficient to have a wonderful Common Retailer / Publish Workplace: this implies my day by day run to put up meteorite orders may be completed on foot. Not solely is the half-mile stroll and again good train, it typically turns up attention-grabbing wildlife – I’ve seen Osprey, Passion, Peregrine and 4 different raptor species through the years.
Many gardens have excessive hedges of leylandii, privet, laurel: a few of these are interwoven with ivy. Yesterday I used to be happy to find that one in every of my favorite species – Ivy Bee – has begun to look on the ivy flowers which can be their most well-liked pollen and nectar supply. These charming and placid little creatures have the identical ‘cuteness’ as Honey Bees, however with darker stripes a bit like a wasp’s. Speaking of which: there’s a nest of those aggressive bugs in a leylandii hedge in our shut that necessitates a large detour!
