A NEW CHAPTER

And so after the great tit chicks fledged and the parents to the eight youngsters to explore the countryside around our house, we're left with an empty nestbox and the hope that the youngsters make it through the perils life will throw at them.

In the meantime my partner, Sarah, has now chosen to brighten our garden with her annual window box and hanging baskets display.

Every year she produces wonderful arrangements of colourful flowers brightening up our garden - you can see an example of this with one of my images on the main blog page.

This year she's had a little help from our daughter, Poppy, in the form of pointing and some early stage speaking - which doesn't make sense.

So the next chapter of this blog will feature the every growing hanging baskets and window box, along with the various plants, vegetables and fruit we have growing in the garden.

I'll be keeping an eye out on other wildlife, including a second brood for the blackbirds next door and the flocks of goldfinches in the surrounding fields.

To begin below is a picture of the hanging baskets and window box just minutes after they've been planted out.