Whilst I continue to develop the website and blog, I thought I’d share the odd nice photograph of the garden. The cranesbill, as it does every year, has bloomed fantastically and is covered in bees and hoverflies. Lots of new species added to the species list as well.

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Wow! A new record for the garden. Actually recorded a couple of days ago. The Flower Crab Spider, in her full yellow suit, was lurking ominously in the apple tree, waiting for a tasty bee to buzz by. Those long front legs ready grasp its victim in order to inject a venom and then digest the poor creature in its own skin and suck it dry. Ambush is the name of the game here, these guys don’t spin webs to catch food. They simply wait! Welcome to the garden.

Over the coming months and years, our hope is that via this blog and our website wildlifegarden.org, we will share our journey as we attempt to attract, record and help as much wildlife as possible from our small garden in Bristol.

We will use the blog to draw attention to things we see and actions we take along this journey. Species recorded will be added to the overall species list and any species we manage to photograph will of course be added to our gallery to help in future identifications.

We will make mistakes on the way, we kind of hope we do as it will be fun to learn from them. We may mistakenly record species incorrectly (lots of things out there look very similar) but we will endeavour to be as accurate as possible and where we know we don’t know we will say.

Why? Well, why not really!