What A Joy!

I worked as hard as I've worked in a long time today! The day was dry so we set off to the lodge in B-I-L's campervan so that we had facilities at hand to spend the whole day there.

We have wanted to create a wildflower meadow for a few years now but we haven't achieved it yet. Our No Mow May lasted until August and it wasn't looking good before we strimmed and mowed it today.

I jumped with excitement as something moved in the undergrowth. I was shouting to The Man but he had ear defenders on and wondered why I was jumping about, waving my arms. When I moved the grass to see what it was it was the largest frog I have ever seen! We both got a few shots and then I ran about trying to catch it and put it into a safe, shaded place.

We got on with our mowing and raking then I spotted another frog. A smaller, yellow one. I went through the same fiasco of caching it and moving it.

In the afternoon I was in the campervan making refreshments when I heard The Man shouting of me to bring my camera. In the same metre square, he found a huge toad! They jump so fast and far! It was also put in the sheltered place away from the mower and the hot sun.

What a wonderful day. We got a lot of work done and gathered 14 black sacks of grass. Along the way we also saw several fox moth hairy caterpillars and some grasshoppers. Haven't seen grasshoppers for years.