As usual, I changed the coconut for the robin (though I now have a shy one that I barely see). I tidied up the old strings and tied them to the back fence by the leaf bins, so the fibres can be pulled at for nesting as needed.

I’d ordered some wood anemone rhizomes from eBay and planted them all in the woodland bed. It’ll be interesting to see if they come up and spread at all. I tidied the bed a little, but left all the lovely leaf litter and added some more logs from the ones waiting to be placed. The hellebore hasn’t grown much after its leaf was broken off. Maybe with less bird activity over the next few weeks it’ll have a chance to recover.

I trimmed the calendulas, taking off all the long, floppy branches and leaving them as much neater plants.

The sun was setting by the time I left, but then I went to the rec in the semi-dark to pick up pine needles that had dropped from the trees. I might go back and pick up the deader ones, rather than just the fresher branches, but I didn’t dare scrape about doing that in the dark.