Blackbird Singing at the Dead of Night

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Monday, 21st March 2005
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary

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blackbirdSince they connected up the new street-lamp, dawn chorus has been a whole lot earlier, with a blackbird singing at 2 in the morning. The new lamps are considerably brighter, and taller, than the old.

wormThere's plenty of blackbird food around: I put in another three of my half-hour digging sessions on the wild flower meadow area and find that the rich black earth is well populated by earthworms.


millipedecelandine leavesAs I dig near the log pile a millipede snakes away, like a dragon at the Chinese new year celebrations.

As I'm digging near the hedge I rescue some small lesser celandine plants. They'll be welcome in the wild flower meadow.

snowdropsMy final job with the meadow is to clear a large patch of snowdrops. With the leaves still showing this is a good time to move them, but snowdrops thrive in our garden anyway: I've put bulbs to one side in a plant pot and forgotten about them and in spring they've sprouted and flowered, despite having very little in the way of soil in which to grow. Next Page

Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk

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