30 Days Wild - Week Two
Jun. 15th, 2025 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitWeek Two was supposed to be about moving around and enjoying the wildlife, although for various reasons I didn't do that much.
Although I was outside hanging up the washing, and I refilled the water bowls at the same time.
And when I did go for one walk I spotted the house martins flying overhead, the sparrows twittering in the bushes and a bumble bee on a dog rose.
I also signed up for surveys by the British Trust for Ornithology as I do like to spot the birds in our garden and having to count them might help me take more notice of them in a way which fits in with my general lifestyle. In particular, I joined the Blackbirds in Gardens survey, which is looking at the effects of the Usutu virus on the blackbird population in the UK. So far I haven't seen any blackbirds in our garden, but when I went for a walk yesterday I saw four blackbirds less than 100 metres from our house. One of the reasons we don't have that many birds in our garden is that we are very close to an area of bushes and trees which are ideal for them.
This is the track I walked down, which is less than 15 minutes from home, and shows why birds don't find our garden as appealing as they might:
And here's my badge for Week Two:
And when I did go for one walk I spotted the house martins flying overhead, the sparrows twittering in the bushes and a bumble bee on a dog rose.
I also signed up for surveys by the British Trust for Ornithology as I do like to spot the birds in our garden and having to count them might help me take more notice of them in a way which fits in with my general lifestyle. In particular, I joined the Blackbirds in Gardens survey, which is looking at the effects of the Usutu virus on the blackbird population in the UK. So far I haven't seen any blackbirds in our garden, but when I went for a walk yesterday I saw four blackbirds less than 100 metres from our house. One of the reasons we don't have that many birds in our garden is that we are very close to an area of bushes and trees which are ideal for them.
This is the track I walked down, which is less than 15 minutes from home, and shows why birds don't find our garden as appealing as they might:
And here's my badge for Week Two:
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Date: 2025-06-15 08:29 pm (UTC)