Wildlife wonderings

If only we had an elephant! That way we could tell how well the corn is doing! Is it as high as an elephant's eye? There's no denying that all of the garden is doing well! Thriving even! It must almost be time for M to put another bed in up the back - although she may already done so - 1 haven't been up there for a couple of days! It's good to come in these days and find some fresh produce on the kitchen bench - squash, zucchini (yellow ones!) and radishes over the last couple of days! Pretty fantastic.

Late afternoons/early evenings now find S and M out tending their patches - I'm not sure whether they're talking with them while they're there or just watering and weeding - but whatever they're doing, it is working.

Pearl went for a visit to Nana's last night. It's good because she was looking for an outing. When I took her out with me yesterday afternoon to collect the rubbish Otto (she likes to help) she raced straight past the bin and started off down the lane instead ... so off we went for a quick walk. It certainly is a different experience since Ebony moved out - without Pearl and Ebony (and sometimes Spot) posturing at each other as we came out of the Latimers' gate it's actually become a more pleasurable experience again. It was starting to become very stressful there - and I was very concerned that if they ever did connect with each other, there would be no way of separating them before either one or both of them were injured. Hmmm ... not so much a relaxing walk at that point - but it's back to being that now ... although I do miss Ebony racing out as you drive down the lane.

The swallows are back nesting out the front - have been for a while - and there are apparently two quite large chicks in the nest. I haven't seen them but both S and M have - and I think the cats have been checking it out as well! Tink has also been paying some attention to the little Willy WagTail that comes to sit just near her (but not too close) when she's sunning herself in the yard. And S's parrots (they may not be parrots - but it's easier/faster to say "parrots" than multi-coloured birds) have been around the front a few times over the last week as I drive in on the way home. I haven't yet been fast/quiet enough to get the camera out of the back of the car and take some decent shots of them ... but I am hopeful!