Negotiations are what Riviera does best!
We’ve got a full menagerie over the summer. Jackdaws in the disused chimney, squirrels wondering about trying out an old jackdaw box this year (hasn’t made it inside yet Jennie, but there is a gap I’m going to have to fill before they do), pheasants, rabbits and a hare in the garden (eating my brassicas last year, cheeky blighters), a tawny owl roosts in the barn, and we think a barn owl is starting to roost there when the tawny isn’t. We’ve got starling and blue tit nesting so far, and a pair of wagtails were eyeing up the thickest bit of the hedge, but the other species are still just foraging. We’re inundated with swallows from the end of April, including in the kitchen if I leave the door open in warm weather, but we can’t get the house martins to nest so far. A bat forages around over the summer. Frogs and palmate newts in the pond. The odd hedgehog passes through, moles, voles and shrews. There’s a fox hanging around but hasn’t actually come in yet, which is good news for the chickens. We’re wondering when the heron will start feeding out of the pond, and occasionally we get a sparrowhawk trying to nab a bird off the feeder trees. Once the trees come up at the back we should get roe deer sheltering up and more nesting, but that’s a few years off yet.
Phew. It gets pretty hectic some days. 
