This week we have said goodbye to all the thunderstorms and rain and the weather has been beautiful at the yurt camp with temperatures up into the low twenties. Everything is looking very green with the fields full of clover and buttercups. I love this time of year as the garden is full of baby birds and fledglings. Also on our lake there a a multitude of tadpoles - more than I have ever seen in the 20 years we have lived here - probably due to the mild winter. The daily visit of the Heron does not seem to make an impact on the numbers and I noticed that the back legs are now appearing on the tadpoles so its not going to be long before they will reach maturity and be able to take to the land as frogs and toads. The picture above is of the baby woodpecker with some of the copious amounts of collared doves that live at Hemsford. The mother wood pecker has been teaching the fledgling to climb the post that supports the bird feeders and has been feeding her bay with peanuts and sun flower hearts that I put out on a daily basis. The yurt camp has been full last week for half term with visitors from Sicily, and this week with visitors arriving from all over the UK and being treated to some lovely balmy weather, Next month more continental visitors arrive with guest from Spain as well as some repeat visitors coming in July from Japan. Hoping the weather remains settled for the holiday season :)
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