Hi Annie
That’s so exciting about the hog! Really promising news – when you get your garden sorted out, hopefully there will be more.
Pleased to hear the building is pretty much finished. So many pitfalls these days – the bricks and donkeys. Feel so sorry for some of those poor donkeys. Did you see the donkey garden on Chelsea Flower Show?
The hogs here are o.k. but I have a particularly persistent rat problem, so am having to do supervised feeding. Feel really sorry for the hogs who turn up after the food has gone in, but they may learn to arrive earlier. There’s a limit to how late I can stay up! Last night the rat kept scaring the hogs away by rustling in the undergrowth and at one point seemed to be trying to chase a smallish hog away! Trouble is, they are too intelligent. It seemed to realise that if a hog was there, I couldn’t be so vociferous in my scaring it away so kept trying to sneak up while a hog was there. The hogs were not happy, but at least 3 managed to get a fairly good feed. The good side is that it’s so much nicer to see the hogs in real life than on video.
I have a ‘pied’ blackbird in the garden, with white, or maybe slightly pale grey, stripes on it’s wings. There is also another jackdaw with quite a bit of white on it. Only one frog in the pond. It looks like a new one, quite small and started off quite dark. Not sure how long frogs live for. I was hoping the two from last year would be back. I thought I hadn’t got any waterboatmen this year, but then saw one in one of the ponds. I wonder whether the eggs from last year’s damsel flies hatched and may have eaten the eggs of the waterboatmen. Don’t know enough about ponds, etc.
Hope you enjoy your new extension. Might be fun getting the garden sorted out again. Some good tips on Garden Watch on the BBC red button, if you haven’t seen it.
A ‘mob’ of starlings just flew in – they have young ones at the moment. Must have been at least 30 of them – you can imagine the noise!
