The birth of passion

I'm 27 and from mansfield in nottinghamshire.

smiley - orangebutterfly

I love my garden or should I say I love the wildlife in my garden. I'm trying to create a little wildlife haven in my back yard.

I've got a pond, no fish, one side of the pond I just leave to get wild and overgrown and have a dead tree rotting in a corner behind my shed which is absolutely thriving in insects and is a favourite spot for my blackbird family. It's very overgrown and damp there too and I have a little mound of grass cuttings and muck from when I dug the pond out.

This houses a group of frogs, who have turned it into a little network of holes, they are sometimes seen coming and going by, so I left it to get wild and to the frogs.

A few summers ago i had the pleasure of hearing a bird calling out from high above, it cried out in a shrill loud voice whilest circling overhead all evening.

It had me hooked.

It's call was so full of need wether it was for it's chicks or for a mate I've no idea but it wanted something.

Later on that evening me and my partner were off to the local 24hr supermarket when, as we reached the end of my street a huge bird was flying straight at us from my side.

Still making the shrill screaming noise it lifted up and over the windshield and that was the last I've ever heard or seen of it. It was the biggest bird I've ever seen in my whole life.

I spent around a year trying to identify it.

The only bird I can find that makes the noise and has the wing span to match it is a red kite.

I went on to join the RSPB and found out that only months prior to that night, some red kites had been released into the wild in my county.

I've never found out 100% if it was a red kite, but I like to think it was.

After that night I began to take an interest in the birds on my garden and started getting friendly with a male blackbird, he would get quite close to feed off the bread I would share with him.

I have a large amount of sparrows, doves, pigeons, starlings, blackbirds and a couple of mistle thrush's that are on my garden everyday.

I've just started to get a pair of blue tits that visit early in the mornings too.

So I love my garden like the birds do and try to encourage as many insects and creatures as possible to keep them visiting me.

I admit I feed them alot during winter but only on a very wet or very hot days do I feed them a little in the summer.

I give them fresh water in an old buiscuit tub, thats bright red and plastic, every other day but mostly they drink from the pond as they splash around in it, sometimes for up to five minutes blackbirds can be seen in there.

I don't have any kids or pets. I'm in a very happy long term relationship with my partner, who just happens to have found immense pleasure in the garden and birds too.

I dont go out at all for meals, pubs, leasure activities except a weekly walk down the local woodland with my niece who listens to me going on about the birds we see and can, at 8 years old, identify over 15 different bird species already and most of them by call alone.

Thats all I can really tell you about me but I'll add anything else as I go along. A blackbird.

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