Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Early evening, and the blackbird is sounding the alarm from the neighbour’s Bramley apple tree at the end of the garden. She is off her nest (the blackbird, not the neighbour), and there’s a bloody great crow perched ominously atop our hedge, just feet away from the babies. It flies off as I approach but, as sparrows and tits and more blackbirds appear to squawk their displeasure, I notice a magpie swooping down the length of next door’s lawn. Nature red in tooth and claw, and the Corvidae are doing their bit (I’ve never noticed our resident jackdaws being quite so predatory, but perhaps that’s confirmation bias). I’m wary of approaching the nest for fear of causing Mrs B to abandon the brood for a bad job, and so sit down at a table to write only to find myself, in the space of two minutes, under surveillance from a beady eye, as she gathers worms for family tea before disappearing into the blackthorn behind me, having satisfied herself that I pose no threat. The magpie appears twice more as I write and I clap; once for sorrow, twice for joy. A cat slinks along the top of the back fence. It’s going to be a long spring.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
