Santa
Wise Old Thumper
Apologies for the state of the photos, they're dreadful. Partly because I'm a terrible photographer, and partly because the sun was just in the 'wrong' place when I was taking them!
View from the kitchen door, that's a walnut tree. In summer I hang a hanging chair from it, and I can get wifi there :lol:
Same area but from the corner in the left, so the walnut tree is now on the far right. The hedge at the end is our back boundary, beyond it there is a farmer's field. He grows Christmas trees. They are brilliant as neighbours :lol:
And from the other angle. There is a rabbit warren under the flower bed at the back corner, where the small conifer type tree thingy is.
If you go back to the first picture, and then imagine you are turning right past the brick pillar, you come to the entrance to 'zone 2' :lol:
From there, if you look straight ahead (ish) you see this, a more wildlifey area leading down to the willow tree and pond, which is fed by a natural spring along the right boundary. We have our very own Peckham Spring :lol:
Look to the left, and here's the rest of that patch of garden. The large tree on the left is the one you just saw in the photo with the gate. That sorry looking twig right in the middle in the foreground is a mulberry tree. Apparently it's about 30 years old. The first building you can see down the bottom is the aviary where Bertram and Beatrice live, and the one behind it is where the babies are.
And a bit closer in. We kept on clonking some metal posts on the lawnmower so I eventually dug them up and discovered that they're turn of the century (19-20th) tennis net posts! As soon as you know that, you can see the flat bit where there obviously used to be a tennis court!
Here's our tiniest tree! Plenty of crows nest in it.
Right down the bottom, the willow tree which has sadly split in half, the walnut tree which fell down in the winds last year (causing the willow to split) and another walnut which is still standing...but is peppered with holes which the woodpeckers make! A family of Green woodpeckers nested in it last year
If you look to the left from the photo above, you come to our 'utility' area, aka lawn mower storage, dump, bonfire, compost heap. The wild rabbits have colonised the heap.
Some of the warren entrances
Pass the utility area and you come to the area where there definitely aren't any invisabuns. I've been busy today pulling down overgrown hawthorn, hence the giant pile of it to the left hand side. No, I don't use that small hutch to the front - that's going to go as enrichment in the new pen which is being prepared.
Here's the area I'm working on at the moment ready for a new shed and aviary which I'm planning on moving the babies into soon. It's going to be a 6*4 shed with a 6*6 aviary attached. Snowdrop's pen is the one to the right, Siouxsie's is to the left, and Daphne's is just out of shot opposite Siouxsie's. There used to be a pond where that hole is now!
Opposite the area I'm clearing for the new shed, there is a gap in the hedge which brings you into the orchard area. This is behind Bertram & Beatrice's shed which you saw earlier. The shed immediately to the left is where the four baby bunnies are living. The gap in the fence you can see ahead of you takes you back into the top part of the garden, the tree in the top left is the walnut tree you could see from the kitchen door.
Clear as mud? Would you care to try drawing a map :lol:
View from the kitchen door, that's a walnut tree. In summer I hang a hanging chair from it, and I can get wifi there :lol:
Same area but from the corner in the left, so the walnut tree is now on the far right. The hedge at the end is our back boundary, beyond it there is a farmer's field. He grows Christmas trees. They are brilliant as neighbours :lol:
And from the other angle. There is a rabbit warren under the flower bed at the back corner, where the small conifer type tree thingy is.
If you go back to the first picture, and then imagine you are turning right past the brick pillar, you come to the entrance to 'zone 2' :lol:
From there, if you look straight ahead (ish) you see this, a more wildlifey area leading down to the willow tree and pond, which is fed by a natural spring along the right boundary. We have our very own Peckham Spring :lol:
Look to the left, and here's the rest of that patch of garden. The large tree on the left is the one you just saw in the photo with the gate. That sorry looking twig right in the middle in the foreground is a mulberry tree. Apparently it's about 30 years old. The first building you can see down the bottom is the aviary where Bertram and Beatrice live, and the one behind it is where the babies are.
And a bit closer in. We kept on clonking some metal posts on the lawnmower so I eventually dug them up and discovered that they're turn of the century (19-20th) tennis net posts! As soon as you know that, you can see the flat bit where there obviously used to be a tennis court!
Here's our tiniest tree! Plenty of crows nest in it.
Right down the bottom, the willow tree which has sadly split in half, the walnut tree which fell down in the winds last year (causing the willow to split) and another walnut which is still standing...but is peppered with holes which the woodpeckers make! A family of Green woodpeckers nested in it last year
If you look to the left from the photo above, you come to our 'utility' area, aka lawn mower storage, dump, bonfire, compost heap. The wild rabbits have colonised the heap.
Some of the warren entrances
Pass the utility area and you come to the area where there definitely aren't any invisabuns. I've been busy today pulling down overgrown hawthorn, hence the giant pile of it to the left hand side. No, I don't use that small hutch to the front - that's going to go as enrichment in the new pen which is being prepared.
Here's the area I'm working on at the moment ready for a new shed and aviary which I'm planning on moving the babies into soon. It's going to be a 6*4 shed with a 6*6 aviary attached. Snowdrop's pen is the one to the right, Siouxsie's is to the left, and Daphne's is just out of shot opposite Siouxsie's. There used to be a pond where that hole is now!
Opposite the area I'm clearing for the new shed, there is a gap in the hedge which brings you into the orchard area. This is behind Bertram & Beatrice's shed which you saw earlier. The shed immediately to the left is where the four baby bunnies are living. The gap in the fence you can see ahead of you takes you back into the top part of the garden, the tree in the top left is the walnut tree you could see from the kitchen door.
Clear as mud? Would you care to try drawing a map :lol:
