Wildlife

I spent the afternoon trimming the hedges with shears, freeing them from bindweed and brambles, and pulling up the weeds from between the stones that make up the garden paths. It's going to be a never-ending job, but the garden's so lovely it's just a pleasure to be there.
I'm slowly getting to know the local wildlife. The blackbird who lives in the magnolia tree was feeding its young who is no longer in a nest but stands on a branch in the thick of the leaves and tweets for food. The blackbird mama is annoyed by me, but not as much as she is with the cat next door.
There are a couple of lilac bushes next door that attract a multitude of butterflies such as this swallowtail which had a rest on our dandelion lawn.