30 May 2009 PUDDLES AT ORCHARD PARK Noon plus twenty at Orchard Park. The sun is high. Apart from a genie-like wisp of cloud it is as clear as the Mediterranean waters I remember seeing off Greece ten years ago. Out the back, on a dirt track which affords forklift access and deliveries, a dozen [...]
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30 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman PUDDLES AT ORCHARD PARK, FIRST MULLIEN MOTHS OF THE SEASON
Sunday, May 31st, 200924 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman ‘BUZZBY’ THE BLUE TIT, SWARM IN THE COMPOST, HOUSE MARTIN NEWS
Sunday, May 24th, 200924 May 2009 ‘BUZZBY’ THE BLUE TIT More amazing things have happened today… The blue tits that nested just over the wall in the apple tree fork amongst swings, ladders, buckets on strings and children’s dens, fledged. We had a tense and involved evening of fledgling watching yesterday. The still slightly fluffy youngster couldn’t yet [...]
Read More »21 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman TIME PASSES QUICKLY, THE LIGHT ON THE ALLOTMENT
Thursday, May 21st, 200921 May 2009 TIME PASSES QUICKLY It’s lunchtime. I’m in the van parked up on Breach Common. There’s a song thrush repeating a constant triplicate series of different notes from woodland beyond the willowherb below. A fairy fluff of windborne seeds waft across on a breeze from the west. Pussy willow maybe? It’s a fabulous [...]
Read More »14 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HOUSE MARTINS ARE BACK!, WALKING OUT ON PARK WALK
Thursday, May 14th, 200914 May 2009 HOUSE MARTINS ARE BACK! I witnessed quite a duel above the allotments this morning. Being down there for an hour getting seasonal tasks done, I glanced up from cutting comfrey at a commotion in the sky. A buzzard, thick-set and rounded like an overblown moth, flapped and spiralled in tandem with an [...]
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