Where on earth is June 2020 disappearing to!? Here’s what I got up to in Week 3 of 30 Days Wild…
Monday 15th June – I feel I’ve been neglecting the garden a bit recently so I decided to trim the dead peonies. Poor things. I also had a look at whether there was anything new emerging. I was intrigued by a thorny thing coming from the fence. It looked like a stem from a blackberry bush or something but I couldn’t see anything rooted to the ground. Then I realised it had found a gap in the fence and had grown through it from next door’s garden. You have to laugh!
Tuesday 16th June – The starlings have been quite quiet this week. I think they’ve pretty much eaten everything off the cherry tree! After a particularly busy day, I packed my work things away from the kitchen and looked outside to see about 20 starlings lined up on the roof of the house across from us. It looked so funny! I didn’t draw 20 of them but they were certainly worthy of a doodle!
Wednesday 17th June – It was too horrible to go outside all day. Over lunchtime we even had an almighty thunderstorm. It lasted for around an hour!
Thursday 18th June – More rain. It even woke me up at 3am. What more can I say. Actually, I can say something else. From a walk later in the week, it’s clear that the plants are really benefiting from all of this wet weather – everything was so green 🙂
Friday 19th June – It was a pretty damp day once again. It wasn’t really the weather to go out in the garden so I took a coffee downstairs and had a look outside to see if I could spot anything interesting. I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye on the other side of the patio doors and there was a sparrow looking straight up at me. Were it not for the glass, it would’ve been right next to me! Unfortunately, like many British birds, sparrow numbers have nosedived in recent years. So, although they might be common for now, never take them for granted.
Saturday 20th June – The sun finally came back. Properly. There’s a lovely walk around town that we’ve done on quite a few occasions. This time, we saw a heron flying in the distance. They really are massive birds. As we were approaching a gate a little further along the path, we heard this loud crash in some scrub next to us and saw a heron flying frantically away. I mean, there’s a bit of a swamp-like-thing there but I did not think that would be prime real estate for a heron!
Sunday 21st June – It was time for another long countryside walk. This one was a little shorter than last week but it was no less beautiful. My highlight of the whole walk was seeing a comma butterfly. What a lovely way to end the week!
Ramblings of a (very!) amateur artist 