Today

OK. So I have a post all ready to go, but I thought I'd post this instead.

I spent today in the garden. I can't stay inside making things when it is so beautiful and sunny, so I have been busy dividing the pond plants. They were taking over and I also discovered that there were two orfe in the pond last week. I though the cats and herons had got them all except for the last goldish that I discovered frozen to the top of the pond this winter. (When I say frozen to the top it was literally on top of the ice, in the snow, frozen solid to the surface. Poor thing). So I have been very busy and now I feel pretty virtuous if I do say so myself. The excess plant stuff and stinky mud is abandoned all over the garden and I have to tidy up tomorrow, but we'll gloss over that.

Last year's photo obviously!

But what I wanted to say was that we had a blackbird busy building a nest. She was very bold and hopped all around us whilst we were working. She was taking the moss from the pond planter baskets, although only the really muddy bits, and kept flying into THE TREE with beak fulls and her beak had a big muddy stripe across. We watched her for ages whilst we ate our lunch and I did try to get pictures. I went in the house for my camera because she was so close that even my camera would have been adequate, but she decided that she had enough moss and went off to collect mud in the opposite corner of the garden instead. Grrr. Maybe she'll be back again tomorrow.