I’ve moved my wildlife camera to a corner of the main deck and have begun to have some success – seeing sparrows hoping around during the day, and at night I’ve captured footage of a cute little mouse scurrying along its length. But the most exciting discovery was that we have a hedgehog!
I’ve captured footage of it rootling around on more than one occasion, a welcome member of the garden.
Hopefully you can see the video above. My camera captures video in AVI format, but this is quite an old and memory expensive format, but I’ve discovered they can be changed into the more useful MP4 format using (for example) https://cloudconvert.com/ which means I can post the videos here, and share them on Instagram. This camera was £35 well spent!
The garden and surrounding landscape is also greening up nicely, with lots of bulbs pushing through and bringing colour back into our world. Weather wise, after a beautiful start to the week, from Thursday it has gotten cold, grey and a little damp (drizzle, not the dreadful downpours of earlier in the year), but the vivid green foliage, and blues, yellows and whites of the flowers lifts one mood enormously.
Alliums (always later to flower) pushing through
This year (well, for this year, it was last autumn they were planted) I planted a lot more grape hyacinths and I’m enjoying their splash of blue amongst the vibrant yellow of the daffodils.
And whilst I always think they are a bit of a one-hit wonder – blink and you’ll miss them – the magnolias, like this in a neighbours back garden, or our white one in the front garden, do look good right now.