Another hot, dry, muggy week or so has flown by. As I type, rolling black clouds drop the occasional fleeting shower, but no real rain as of yet. Fingers and toes are crossed for a decent downpour. I’ve harvested some of my broad beans, delicious they were! It’s also been a fantastic year for garlic …
There are large sweeping droves of Himalayan balsam everywhere I walk at the moment. I think it’s absolutely gorgeous as do the bees and butterflies. I’m also seeing a lot of peacocks, talking of which, I heard Peanut honking in the garden early one morning, thankfully, she quickly returned home. This double rainbow was just …
Do you remember the bald hedgehog at the rescue? Well, just look at him now. He’s been successfully treated for ringworm and is now sporting a glistening new set of spikes. The little duckling that arrived over Christmas is all grown up too, she’s the duck in the front of this picture, the one behind …
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After a flurry of last minute donations, the rescue goes quiet at this time of the year. Visitors and donations dwindle, but many more pets arrive, as people often abandon them at Christmas. We do have some wonderful souls who continue to volunteer in the various units and a team of voluntary dog-walkers who turn …
The first batch of broad beans, utterly delicious. The first bowl of soft fruit, that the birds and dogs kindly left for us, so sweet. Morello cherries, the birds are more than welcome to these, as they’re sour. Three trees, totally laden with cherries will be devoured in days. June and July are all about …
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It’s all about wildlife this week. Several weeks ago, four young, tiny, wild bunnies arrived in the rescue, and they all needed hand-feeding, during the day and at night, which resulted in the staff taking them home each evening. How they have thrived! It’s always difficult to get youngsters feeding, but once they take to …
The veggie patch is coming along nicely, with veggies, wind-sown wildflowers and weeds, all thriving. The garlic, potatoes and broad beans are romping away. As are the shallots, hidden here behind the broad beans, potatoes and weeds. Fruit bushes are being contained here, until a new border is cleared for them. I have another thirty …
A member of staff hand-feeding a baby bunny. And so it begins, little guys arriving at wildlife. Four baby rabbits were dug up by something or other, and now need hand-feeding. Initially, the staff were taking them home for evening feeds, now, thankfully, they just need feeding during the day. These guys will be released …
Of late, I’ve spent weeks worrying about Percy Pige. What to do now, release him? Wait until late spring? Put him in the lifer aviary in the rescue? If release, where? Here, where he will fly straight to me given how tame he is, right into Buddy’s jaws. Release him elsewhere which means putting him …
