Back soon

I know, its been a long time. A very long time. But, I will be back to posting regularly in a couple of weeks. Basically, being a year 11 student doesn't come without its problems. I've had loads of revision/coursework over the last few months. Although, to be honest, I will admit that, once I had left the blog for a while, I lost a little bit of motivation to post again. But, I WILL be back in a couple of weeks when my exams are finished, promise!

I have been keeping up with your blogs over the last months though, and WOW, its been interesting to see how spring has unfolded in various parts of the country. I'm sorry I haven't left any comments recently either, but again, I'll get back to that soon.

A lot has happened over the last few months in our garden. And it has been a shame not to be able to share it. Maybe a massive update post is in order in a couple of weeks. But for now, I'll just tell y'all what's been going on.

So, in the garden, we haven't seen a lot in the way of nesting birds. In fact, none of our nestboxes were used this year, despite our best efforts to place them all in the best spots. What we have seen, is a lot of fledglings in our garden, who have popped out of nests in gardens surrounding ours. The first fledglings we saw were Blue Tits. We have had a family of around 6 or 7 fledglings being fed by two parents. These were followed by noisy Starlings and Magpies, Robins, Dunnocks and Great Tits. It really has been busy. We still have Blackbird adults carrying insects off to various nests recently too, so maybe they will be next on the list.

Our plants also made the winter to spring transition a while back, and it was great to have planted a great deal more this year. We have grown much more veg this year, and it was great to plant a lot more flowers, shrubs etc. In fact, we have spent a LOT more time sorting stuff out in the garden this year than we have before, so its now the closest its ever got to looking neat. We've still left lots of wild messy bits though to attract the lizards and frogs.

As well as all this, I've made a camera upgrade in the last few months. I now have a Canon 500D SLR camera, which I had been looking forward to buying for a couple of years before. It really is a brilliant piece of kit. I have the 18-55mm kit lens, but I have now only just saved up for a 300mm lens for bird photos. I really look forward to taking some photos to share on this blog soon.

Even though I take about 10 GCSE subjects, I usually have more than one exam per subject, and so far I've taken 12 exams. 6 more to go over the next two weeks, so I'm off to revise some more in a minute. Once I've finished them all, I'll have loads of time for posting this summer. So stick around folks, more to come soon.