Matt NaylerJun 1, 2024
#30DaysWild Day 1: A strange start to be cutting back so many flowers but with today being the end of #NoMowMay it is time to mow my lawn. However, to preserve some rough areas for my local wildlife, I have left uncut my #SayNoMow area. I know the freshly cut lawn will please the starlings that are nesting in my neighbours roof.
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#30DaysWild Day 2: a late lunch and a lazy afternoon in my parent's garden for a family birthday. We were accompanied for most of the afternoon by starlings singing on a neighbour's roof. I could also hear that there was a nearby nest in a hedge with a young family getting regular feeds.
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#30DaysWild Day 3: After a busy day at work, I am now taking the time to relax and recover, by watching #WildlifeFromMyWindow.

There is currently a family of long-tailed tits feeding on the fat balls in my garden. They are moving around so much I cannot tell if there are 4 or 5. ... is that now a sixth?

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#30DaysWild Day 4: Here is a video of a hedgehog enjoying a meal in one of the hedgehog feeding stations I installed at my parents house.
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#30DaysWild Day 5: A bright sunny start to the day and a surprise in my garden as a family of jackdaws arrived for breakfast from my washing line feeding station. They struggled to deal with it, so in the end they dropped to the floor to scavenge for overspill.
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#30DaysWild Day 6: The Google Nest camera monitoring my pond says it has seen a person. ... #starlings
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#30DaysWild Day 7: A rare walk into town during my lunch hour gave me a chance to listen out for nature. The road may have been a busy one but the hedgerows still sounded like there was a number of late nests still thriving.
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#30DaysWild Day 8: An afternoon working in the garden provides an opportunity to also clean down and disinfect my bird tables and other feeders. Before restocking those that have been rested.
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#30DaysWild Day 9: A family of young greenfinches at my pond. I wonder if these have fledged this morning.
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#30DaysWild Day 10: I am currently sat in my garden with my bat detector, hoping for hedgehogs as well to visit.
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#30DaysWild Day 11: Just said hello to this not so little #spider that is living in my hedgehog feeding station.
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#30DaysWild Day 12: here is a hedgehog just seen enjoying a meal in one of the hedgehog feeding stations I built for my parents front garden.
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#30DaysWild Day 13: Another new bird family in the garden today: collared doves.
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#30DaysWild Day 14: A meal for two in one of the hedgehog feeding stations I made for my parents front garden.
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#30DaysWild Day 15: Time to refill and rotate the bird feeders to keep everything fresh. Today's young family in the garden is the blue tits. Even the larger great tits looked intimidated by the number of them.
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#30DaysWild Day 16: Just back from a walk in some local woods with my father and his dog. #FathersDay
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#30DaysWild Day 17: Today's garden surprise was a wren, flushed out of the bushes by a blackbird. I know I have wrens all year round but they are just so rarely seen. #WildlifeFromMyWindow
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#30DaysWild Day 18: Today the garden seemed full of starlings. However they spent most of their time on the bird feeders when they usually prefer the lawn. So I decided to mow the lawn a week or two early, to allow the starlings the chance to teach their young how to worm correctly.

Hopefully my central #SayNoMow area provided a safe space for any adventurous froglets to hide.

Show threadMatt NaylerJun 19, 2024
#30DaysWild Day 19: Just finished work and my garden looks like a seen from a Hitchcock film. A large family of jackdaws occupying almost all the feeders.
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#30DaysWild Day 20: Fixed the 17 year old PC that I use to monitor the #RaspberryPi camera that is in my #hedgehog feeding station. 🦔
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#30DaysWild Day 21: I don't think this little mouse can believe his luck finding my restocked hedgehog feeding station. 🐀
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#30DaysWild Day 22: Here is a video of a hedgehog using the hog feeding station in my own back garden in the early hours of this morning. 🦔
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#30DaysWild Day 23: A bit of wildlife in my house. Is this a spider molting/shedding, or is this the end of a successful hunt? I suspect the former.

I often leave spiders in my house, as they are doing a job. However, this one was a little on the large side. After careful moving it outside, it quickly ran away.

Show threadMatt NaylerJun 24, 2024
#30DaysWild Day 24: Here is a hedgehog visiting my open-air hog feeding station in the early hours of this morning.
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#30DaysWild Day 25: I have growing number of jackdaws visiting my garden in the morning. This clip was from a few minutes ago, 08:23.
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#30DaysWild Day 26: It's always nice to read an article on how to support nature in your garden. Particularly when most actions are already in place.

"Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/26/build-a-hedgehog-highway-33-ways-to-welcome-more-wildlife-into-your-garden

Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden

Whatever your outside space – garden, balcony or window box – you can turn it into a haven for nature with a pint-sized pond and a slowworm sunbed

The Guardian
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#30DaysWild Day 27: The few days of warm weather appears to have now been broken by a heavy rain shower. This is much welcome, as it allows my pond to refill naturally, as the wide area of stones covers extra pond-lining that guides the rain into the pond.
Jun 27, 2024 at 7:53pmWeb
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#30DaysWild Day 28: The Google camera monitoring my wildlife pond keeps sending me alerts that it has seen a person.
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#30DaysWild Day 29: Between rain showers, I have been watching the different family of birds using my bird feeders. The largest group today were the long-tailed tits I never did get a final count of them that I have any confidence in, as they kept swapping over so many times. #WildlifeFromMyWindow
Show threadMatt NaylerJun 30, 2024
#30DaysWild Day 30: My attempt at growing a meadow in my front garden. I think it is in its forth year. For the first time, I ended up adding no fresh seed this year, as I was unsure whether to try the meadow again. However I am quite pleased with it. It is slightly passed its best, after the recent drier spell, but I keep it mowed around the edge; so the neighbours know it is a deliberate wild patch, not an uncared for lawn.