Spring Watch 🦉 from your living room or garden 🐝

@Sandy_123 I'd like to see a picture of the buzzy bees if you manage to take one 🐝

That's sweet @SmellyBin

How big is that? Is that for one hedgehog?

@SmellyBin

I think they share spaces but have to stay apart because of their spines, because there's a psychological concept named after it called the hedgehog's dilemma

The concept is about human intimacy i.e. becoming closer can bring a fear of hurting others or being hurt by them. I read it with respect to personality disorders but it can apply to people in general I think

Whether actual hedgehogs truly have that dilemma in nature or whether it's made up for the purpose of the metaphor, I don't know 😆

@Bluebell21 That's been very helpful! Now I wonder if there might be a hedgehog cam online somewhere. I've tried finding one, but so far no luck.

The magpies that were building their nest in my tree have not entirely gone. Still gets visits from time to time.

The other one is under the bush.

With all this talk about gardens and Spring I decided to spruce up a nest box for birds that's been in the cupboard for years waiting to be assembled. Life is so boring I added a few dots just for the fun of it. Hopefully it won't scare away any potential users or attract predators, we'll see.

Any thoughts on this? I've been wondering about bats. I've seen them a few times past my bedroom window at night, but that has been over a week ago. They could be less active because of daylight, not sure…

But what I cannot understand is this: with the cold weather there might be less insects they can eat so does that mean the bats are also less hunting for food or are they more actively hunting for food if there are indeed less insects for them around meaning they have two work twice as hard?

Where is Chris Packham when you need him :)

Btw, I've seen a baby blackbird being fed this morning when I got out of bed, such a lovely start of the day!

Unfortunately, there's too mant cats round our way waiting for the birds, we fill the bird bath up, but there's not many come. Don't think I've seen a thrush for years. Everybody use to put bird feed out, but unfortunately the rats found out, so people have stopped doing it.