WHAT'S YOUR WEATHER LIKE - 2022

Cooler today but still no sign of rain.

We have put out another large drinking bowl (plastic cat littler tray) for the wildlife and domestic life. More of the local cats are coming by to drink and then going out of the garden. I've spread bee, wasp and hoverfly bowls around the garden (large plant saucers with stones and angled pieces of slate protruding above the surface) and, especially, the wasps are seen in abundance. They are working hard at pollinating as well.

 

Training

The typical drinking bowls for the cats are large and have perching stones for the wasps. The wasps stay at one end to drink and the cats go to the other end whilst keeping an eye on the wasps.

I've just taken these pictures before refilling the bowls with water.

You'll see that one of them is a lot dirtier than the other. I pressure wash them fairly regularly but cats being perverse always seem to prefer the dirtier one - except for one cat that is more fastidious. We had noticed, many years ago, that cats most often preferred drinking the water from the plant saucers of the pots on the patio

The birds use both (there are more around the garden) for drinking and bathing. These two are next to each other.





The ones specifically for the small flying things are in flower beds where there are lots of plants with pollen.