GardenWildlife.co.uk
Welcome to Garden Wildlife, My name is Jeremy and I live in Somerset in the South West of the United Kingdom. Living in the country, I have always been interested in wildlife from a very young age, so I thought why not build a wildlife website? Here you can get information on Birds, Foxes, Squirrels and Hedgehogs not forgetting Bats all of which are frequent visitors to my garden. Not only this but find out information about all your favorite animals.
The most popular part of my site is my bird box camera in a bird nesting box. Click here to see the parent birds rearing their young every spring. If you have any questions or comments about any thing on my site please e-mail me.
April: The month so far!
This month look out for:
- Returning summer visitors (birds) and seabirds nesting
- Song birds singing
- Woodland flowers
- Trees and hedgerows in leaf
- Butterflies emerging
- Early meadow flowers including orchids
April is a fabulous month for wildlife, as the trees and shrubs burst into leaf with fresh, vibrant green foliage. The fragile leaves are vulnerable to insect attack, but this early growth is still beautiful perfection. Bird song grows in volume and diversity in April, although it is not until May that all our breeding species arrive back to complete the ensemble. However early morning sleep can be disturbed by a strident blackbird or song thrush. In the countryside on sunny days the chiff-chaff and blackcap will already have been singing for a week or two.
In the woodland, the floor can be a mass of white wood anemone, ramsons flowers, and slightly later a blue carpet packed with bluebells. It is possible to catch their heady scent even before you are under the filling treetop canopy. The woodland flowers need to be pollinated and catch the available light to grow before the darkness envelops them. This is why they grow so early and then slowly die back in summer.
In the meadows the cuckoo flower, green winged orchid, cowslip and adders tongue emerge.