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A Prickly Visitor Returns!
In April, I was pleased to see the return of a very welcome visitor – a hedgehog! A neighbour had an old shed removed which I suspected...
Sarah Marshall
Jun 26, 20204 min read
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Help Your Hedgehogs!
There are some simple ways that you can encourage hedgehogs into your own garden, and make life easier for any visitors you do have –...
Sarah Marshall
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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Daytime Fieldmouse
A rare daytime sighting of our resident Fieldmouse! #fieldmouse #Garden #spring
Sarah Marshall
Jul 10, 20191 min read
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Frogspawn!
While the garden has always had more than it’s fair share of frogs in all sizes, from mini to maxi, there’s always been one thing lacking...
Sarah Marshall
Jul 9, 20192 min read
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Hiatus
Looking back, I can’t believe my last entry here was in February! Since then, family health issues and general life stuff have kept me...
Sarah Marshall
Jul 9, 20191 min read
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Has Spring Sprung?
It’s been unseasonably warm for the past week or so – reaching 20 degrees Celsius and a record Winter temperature for the UK yesterday....
Sarah Marshall
Feb 27, 20192 min read
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An Evening Performance
I got home from work last night just as dusk was falling, and for the first time in ages the garden was full of birdsong. For a while now...
Sarah Marshall
Feb 14, 20191 min read
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Garden Photo Studio
Now that I’ve got my chair hide, I thought I would have a go at creating a small set up for bird photography in the garden (partly...
Sarah Marshall
Feb 3, 20193 min read
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Big Garden Birdwatch 2019
Every year in January I take part in the RSPB’s ‘Big Garden Birdwatch’, the world’s largest wildlife survey. Now in it’s 40th year, the...
Sarah Marshall
Jan 30, 20193 min read
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Project – Chair Hide
Just before Christmas – when I was convinced that my break would be filled with lots of cold, bright days ideal for photography – I...
Sarah Marshall
Jan 8, 20192 min read
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Garden Sparrowhawk
We’ve had the first hard frost of the season overnight – Winter is most definitely on it’s way! I’m off work this week, and when I...
Sarah Marshall
Nov 22, 20181 min read
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Quality Control – Fieldmouse Style
Not many people know this, but our garden is home to a tiny Quality Control monitor – the Fieldmouse! Turning the Hazelnut round and...
Sarah Marshall
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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Halloween Fieldmouse
I thought our Fieldmouse could celebrate Halloween with the rest of us this year with some extra hazelnuts in his very own pumpkin. I...
Sarah Marshall
Nov 3, 20181 min read
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A Bumper Weekend for Wildlife!
The weather’s starting to turn colder and distinctly Autumnal now. We’ve got a crop of fungi flourishing on the lawn and raking and...
Sarah Marshall
Oct 21, 20183 min read
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Autumn Arrives
It feels like five minutes ago that we were baking in the never ending heat and dryness of the Summer, and wishing for rain. Then, as...
Sarah Marshall
Sep 24, 20182 min read
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Our first Garden Owl!
I’ve thought for a while that there may be owls around in our local area – where we live was planned as a ‘Garden Village’ after the war,...
Sarah Marshall
Sep 4, 20182 min read
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Garden Round-Up – July 2018
Normally July sees me spending as much as my free time as possible out in the garden following insects about. This year, the bee season...
Sarah Marshall
Aug 1, 20183 min read
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Robin (almost) Redbreast
The garden birds have started to moult in earnest now – the adults, who’ve been looking quite tatty after weeks of exhausting work...
Sarah Marshall
Jul 28, 20182 min read
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Leafcutters in Action
I’d been quietly hoping for Leafcutter Bees to start using the bee hotels since I first put them up in 2016. I was seeing small...
Sarah Marshall
Jul 28, 20182 min read
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Recycling – Solitary Bee Style
Our resident Hylaeus (Yellow-Faced Bee) has finally stopped nesting in the Oasis house… and the new spot she has chosen is interesting to...
Sarah Marshall
Jul 26, 20181 min read
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