My post to Join in with Tina from My Gardener Says and her wonderful monthly meme Wildlife Wednesday
April arrived and brought an explosion of foliage and flowers, along with nesting Blue Tits, Starlings and for a brief time Coal Tits but we think they have abandoned their nest. And somewhere in the undergrowth hidden from view a Mallard duck made a nest too.
We are separated from a tributary to the River Flit by the 15 meter width of my neighbours garden. Our boundary is mostly made up of a solid fence but at one point about 30 metres of trellis and chain link fence, this lets more light into my garden and as we like each other a little lack of privacy is fine by us both. The trellis supports old roses and ivy.
But Mother Duck having nested and succesfully hatched 12 chicks in our…
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