Autumn is in full swing and it’s great to see so many different colours around, which look particularly vibrant on sunny days.
Life in and around the garden hasn’t altered too much, apart from the carpet of autumn leaves in the garden.
It looks like the hedgehog(s) might still be around because in the last week a few hedgehog poos have been seen around the garden – yes they were hard spot with leaves, but luckily one or two of the droppings were on the path.
Most mornings the ‘dawn chorus’ is made up of an isolated robin and the flock of geese moving from the roosting spots to their daytime feeding fields.
The bird feeders are being used, mainly by the house sparrows, blue tits, great tits and robins, with further autumn and winter visitors, including long tailed tits, likely to arrive in the coming weeks.
The temperatures have been fairly mild on the whole, which has meant not too many outside visitors to the garden.
One very strange thing to happen last week was being woken by a weird sound in the early hours of the morning.
It must have been an animal but, as I’d never heard this particular noise before, it was difficult to attribute to something.
The audio is on the video below, so if anyone has any ideas I’d welcome them in the comments or in the social media posts linked to this blog update.
The house still has six small tortoiseshell butterflies hibernating, although at least three have woken up in the last week, flown around and settled elsewhere.
How long they will stay around in the same locations I don’t know, but if we cause too much disturbance I’ll be putting them in boxes in the garage to overwinter.
Next time I’ll be looking at how the small fish are doing in the
pond!
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