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Calendar and diary for June 2003.
Diary and calendar
The flowery hiccup ends!Sunday 29th June 2003 in the garden diary...
My experiment with the front lawn came to an end today when I cut it for the first time since the middle of May.
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New generationsMonday 23rd June 2003 in the garden diary...
Over the last few days, I've noticed a number of new insects about and, best of all, today I found the first evidence of our very own pond-produced damselfly!
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First flowers from sown bogSunday 22nd June 2003 in the garden diary...
Last autumn I sowed a small damp area with a mixture of perennial wildflower seeds and today our eyes reaped the first harvest of flowers:
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Bird action, fuelled by feedersSaturday 21st June 2003 in the garden diary...
The garden seems full of noise and action at the moment, mostly from young birds. And today and there was another first for the garden: this time a nuthatch.
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New damselfly and frogs legsSaturday 14th June 2003 in the garden diary...
After last week's blue damselfly, today we had a visit from a red damselfly (more properly called a large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula).
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Good day for the winged predatorsSaturday 7th June 2003 in the garden diary...
I always feel that if you spend an hour or two in the garden, you are bound to see something interesting. Today's lovely weather meant I could do just that and I wasn't disappointed.
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Great tit nestlings and new pond lifeFriday 6th June 2003 in the garden diary...
At this time of year, even a few minutes snatched in the garden is likely to bring you into contact with some of its wild inhabitants.
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They're back!Wednesday 4th June 2003 in the garden diary...
No sooner was I bemoaning the missing house martins (see yesterday's diary) than they return!
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Missing house martinsTuesday 3rd June 2003 in the garden diary...
As the British Trust for Ornithology report that many house martins and swallows are expected late in Britain this year (see Garden visitors will arrive late), I'm left wondering if I will ever have them nesting on my house again.
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