Street art !

Day 26

We live on a very quiet close, no through traffic and pretty considerate neighbours.

But still I struggle to get the kids to play out (hence 30 days wild, to encourage my son)

Today we got out the pavement chalks. 

This activity some times spreads all the way down the road, but today we just had a small sample of street art.

Any time outside is better than nothing!

Black & Yellow

Day 25

What's black and yellow?

What did I spot in our garden?

A wasp?

No not A WASP!!!!!

A whole b****y nest full of wasps!!

I thought a bird was peeping out of the nest box near my green house, so off I went for a closer look!!

No not a pretty little bird, but a bunch of angry wasps!!

Not a very good wild day.

Running out of steam . . .

Day 24

Yes, we're definitely running out of steam.

On Day 24 we did a cloud watch.

As we did the daily school reading,

we kept peeping out of the back door for a cloud photo.

It was a glorious day.

Maybe it would be fun to do in a thunder storm.

But all we got was beautiful blue sky, may we have more of it. . . . . 

Sports day

Day 23

Today I have no photos (a sigh of relief for some people!!).

Today was school sports day. I spent the morning cheering on the races and my son spent the morning chatting with friends, ooh and doing the occasional race.

As I'd taken the day off work, I spent some of the afternoon cutting the grass!!

 Not very wild, but definitely out doors!

Poppy. . . .

Day 22

Back to work and school today, I know it sounds like an excuse but its getting really difficult fitting everything in.

We only spent a bit of time outdoors today. I did a bit of garden tidying and my son did some bike riding. I didn't take any photos of the bike or the sorry looking garden BUT I did take a few photos of my beautiful Poppy.

I only have one at the moment but WOW its beautiful.

Revisit the sandwich tray with sand. . . .

Day 21

For day 21 of our 30 days wild we revisited our 'bird trap' (sandwich tray with sand!!)

We've had lots of visitors.

Occasionally we've added some water to start afresh. 

I have wished some of the smaller birds would stamp down a bit!!

The trusty blackbird is definitely the winner!!

Trail cam update.

Day 20

For day 20 we had a look through our trail cam photos.

I've picked out a few that we liked, but I'm not sure how easy they are to look at on the blog!

This one shows a blackbird mid take off.

This shows a collard dove mid landing, not the most graceful !

This one shows a mouse visiting over night. 

(If you think its a rat, please don't tell me, I don't want to know)