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DRAWING & PAINTING:
2 April
These cardboard punnets that the apples came in look very useful, and I will be saving them to use in my knitted garden project.
3 April
A walk through a nearby small woodland. We saw big clumps of mistletoe in one of the trees.
I like paths where you can't see where it goes. Along the way we found this wigwam of fallen branches covered in strings of ivy, and with an old piece of tree trunk for a seat.
4 April
I never get tired of watching the water rushing over the weirs.
In the park two swans were resting by the side of one of the smaller ponds.
4 April
This is a good place for a pigeon to sit and rest, free drink and baths on offer. But this second position is not a good place to sit for obvious reasons and he didn't know I was inside the greenhouse until I made a noise.
This was fascinating, a virtual Grand National horse race with computer generated horses, and the race uses all the performance facts from real past horses, so these horses all have the original names. I think they are set against drone footage of the real racecourse.
5 April
Someone cleaned the pond filter today, I just watched! The six handles are pulled up to squeeze the six sponges underneath, so that the mud falls to the bottom. Then the cap can be taken off at the side and the muddy water falls out into a bucket. It goes round the apple trees to feed the. Later on we replanted a big pot. The soil was full of little white grubs which we threw on the garden, and replanted with wallflowers and some seeds.
6 April
Brown Teddy found a little side piece of the stream where the water comes out of the ground.
In the park someone pointed out this nuthatch high up in an old tree. He has a nest in the hole.
The Egyptian geese have a large clutch of goslings, everyone sitting around on the grass, unconcerned by people walking nearby.
Then we passed the allotments. Then into the woodland. This mossy tree had a saddle shape between the two trunks, just right to sit and rest for a while. Good job the moss was dry!
The muddy part has ended up with a double path as people go round. We came to the boggy hollow with iris plants, just off the main path.
9 April
Another bee got lost overnight and ended up on my bedroom net curtain. Once again, into the sandwich box with some leaves and flowers. In the morning he was happy to walk out onto the forget-me-not flowers and then fly away.
This is our regular female blackbird who always comes to just below the kitchen window when there is someone there. She is sitting in the apple tree by the pond.
Today we went to a different woodland. We went over the road bridge and saw the trains beneath going round the bend. In the woodland the first tree I saw was an old apple tree, obviously grown from an apple core someone has thrown down a long time ago.
Brown Teddy was looking for the mossy lumps that are the leftovers of fallen or cut down trees. There were still a few berries on this holly, surprising at this time of year.
It was mostly dry but a few muddy puddles here and there. This is the brook that runs through the woodland and joins a bigger river some miles away.
Brown Teddy said it would not be a good idea to cross this brook on the log. Fortunately the path has little bridges over any brooks. The robin came right out of the bushes where we were, in case we had disturbed any insects for him.
This tree has a large heart in the bark! I was going to count these tree rings from the photo when I got but I haven't got round to it yet! I think about 50 years old.
This bracket fungus always looks soft but it is quite hard.
An alarming leaning old tree, but I am sure if it was not safe the woodland keepers would sort it out. It is well supported on several other trees. The field over the wire fence was full of mole hills, all dried out in the sun.
At last, we found some bluebells out, and we will go back when we think more of them are out.
10 April
Yet another bee found in the porch in the morning. I opened the window and the door and he flew away in his own time later on, when he felt warm enough.
Eyes are always watching us when we are in the kitchen, sparrows in the greenery and Mr Blackbird looking very intently, waiting for pellets and soft bread.
11 April
Mr Blackbird likes a good old bath after all his hard work. I took a video and then saved some frame shots from it.
Here is my Youtube video of my different garden birds having their baths:
13 April
Plenty of apple blossom this year, although two of the trees are having a rest, with only a few flowers. These are the iberis plants in front of the pond, which we grew from seed, they will grow to make a very low hedge to cover the edge of the pond.
14 April
Robin has just had his bath.
We sat in the greenhouse and put three bits of bread on the door frame. Mr Woodie knew what to do with them!
15 April
How did this traffic cone get in the river. Obviously No Parking is allowed in the water! Here is a quiet bit of woodland by the river, but full of birdsong.
These ivy roots are making a rope up the tree. Fallen branches are used to edge the paths, so everyone knows where to tread and where not to.
18 April
I had to take lots of photos of breakfast, to get a picture of the yogurt with a big drop coming off it.
19 April
There is a leak near the pond filter, coming from the top edge of the liner. It will be quite a job to dig out along the edge and find the hole and mend it.
20 April
I just love the almond tree blossoms, and also the pink snow on the ground when it falls. The ducks like to sit and snooze under here.
The swans have a nest in the smaller pond, one was patrolling and one asleep on the nest.
23 April
I found this very useful pick up stick in the cupboard. It has two rubber cups at the end to make sure the item stays grabbed.
26 April
Robin sunning his feathers in a hot corner outside the kitchen window.
27 April
Two wood pigeons taking turns in the bath. The smaller Collared Dove was not sure if it was alright to take a drink, they are quite quick to fly of if disturbed.
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