I love living in Wales, I love living at Bron Y Glyn, our house. We have so much nature in our garden. Today I watched:

• a baby Great Spotted Woodpecker being fed

• a family of mallards on pond

• the Canada Geese attacking ducklings, we actually found 2 dead ducklings on the side of the pond. Daddy thinks they starved as they were really thin.

• we found a moorhen’s nest, I quickly picked one up to see if it was warm, which it was and then we put it back and left quickly so as not to disturb them too much.

Today we visited the Cornwall Seal Sanctuary.

Things learnt:

• Seals often swim or float upside down so their eyes are underwater and they can find food easier
• Seals sometimes roll over to move left or right
• Sea Lions are more upright than seals and can sort of walk on their front flippers, unlike seals that just flop along on their belly
• Walrus’s have big tusks
• Puffins are really good swimmers, there is an underwater viewing area where we watched the puffins flapping their wings underwater to swim. They are really fast.
• Puffins are small birds, only 25cm tall
• When flying puffins flap their wings 600 times a minute and can reach speeds of up to 58mph
• Puffins like to eat sand eels

We feed the wild birds in our garden and this time of year I enjoy watching the jays, great spotted woodpeckers, blackbirds and sparrows visit our feeders to take beakfuls of peanuts back to feed their babies.

Today I watched a young sparrow, called a fledgling being fed by it’s parents. It was making lots of noise, opening it’s beak and fluttering it’s wings to get the attention of it’s parents. They then pushed the food into the babies mouth.