Having spent a week down in Cornwall I have noticed just how much difference that 500 odd miles South makes to birds & plants. Many of the Spring/early Summer plants down South have finished, where ours our either not out or still blooming. Also with the birds, down there families of things like Sparrows are fledged & nearly feeding themselves, where here the later birds are still building nests.
When we left last weekend our House Martins had just returned & were flying around our artificial nesting shelves, we come back & as you can see the blooming Sparrows got in there first & even though I have 3 Sparrow hotels around the house they decided the House Martins didn’t deserve such luxury as ready made nest’s they did.
The Blackbirds are normally as early as the Thrushes (as seen inn last post), but even they are late as daddy Blackbird is showing in the next shot, collecting sultanas to feed the babes.
While the Dunnock is busy collecting food on the front lawn.
Below are some of the plants that have come out in the week we have been away.
Azalea
Rhodi.
Pieres
Bluebells just coming out.
Primula
Wild Garlic on our riverside walk.