Every day, I should have taken a photo from the same place and then edited them together and had a time lapse film of things growing.
I love the tree peony although many of the flowers bloomed where I could not see them. The blossoms only last a day or so and then the huge petals fall off.
That first picture - under there the night before the two hedgehogs were at their circle and huff thing again. I watched for about ten minutes expecting something else to happen. It didn't. The male had his head to one side as he waled around the female, to avoid spikes in the eye. He looked rather sweet while she was quite fierce.
By the way, I turned the bat detector on them and they also seem to emit high frequency noises. I could definitely hear the huffing as a slightly different noise through the detector when tuned to a much lower frequency than bats.
Anyway, under the peony was a perfect dancefloor for them.
Bob was friendly this morning. He ate three things from my hand and actually landed and perched on me briefly. I saw Mrs Bob a couple of times, but she flew off as soon as she saw me looking.
I left food for the mice and heard them rustling. And laid out more food for the waiting dunnocks, pigeons, magpies, starlings, blackbirds, tits... and robin.
That box is covered in slugs and snails at night!!
Back to daylight, and the cherry is glorious now.
The lilacs are starting to smell sweet...
And already, there is the lovely smell of lily-of-the-valley, even though they are hardly out.
It all looks... uncanny under the red light!
I can smell the wonderful smells! Love it that you do that night time touring with the red light and that's cool that great numbers of gastropods come out and enjoy themselves.