The hedgehogs in our garden are out and about, the long winter sleep is over so I have started feeding, they must be hungry!! Hellebores and the flowering Pulmonaria are proving to be a good early nectar source for our early bees. We have already recorded Tree Bee, Early and Ivy Mining Bee.
The nest boxes are busy. Great Tits are busy knocking chunks out the new House Sparrow apartment!. Blue tits have been prospecting every box in the garden including the old House Sparrow apartment box. The House Sparrow hen is removing old nest material from her nest box and the male is taking new nest material into another one of the three hole apartment. They will get it right eventually.