No 3 - I Spy Wildlife in the garden

magpies, mice and moles. The moles are trying to build Snowdonia on our lawn.

I spy mole hills and mole tunnels into which my hands disappeared when planting spring cabbages, but no actual moles.
I do spy marsh tits on the feeder - they are regulars and strip out the sunflowers just as they finish flowering each year!

Nuthatches chased off the marsh tits this morning.

Newts for me although I haven't seen them for a long time as they're lurking in the pond.

Failed with letter N

I spied Orange tip butterflies earlier in the year.

I'm spying at this very moment Nuisance pigeons- a bit of a stretch for an N though, perhaps should wait for P to come along. We have some newts but can't see them now the colder weather is here, they hide I think.

I SPY Owls but mostly its I HEAR Owls at night, when darkness falls over the garden and wraps the trees in its mystical cloak, the silence of the rustling leaves is cut by an unearthly shriek that chills the blood of the small creatures that scuttle through the undergrowth...........


I get a bit carried away sometimes...

Are you one of those small creatures?

How did you guess, JJB?
I am somewhat vertically challenged.

I missed N for some reason! Nightingale ( thats on my wish list, I don’t get them in my garden ) . Only ever seen one once.

O is for otter. Regularly see them. To often have evidence of them being in my garden ( piles of chicken feathers).