Sparrowhawk

There was a sparrowhawk on the boundary hedge, but it flew off just as I was taking the photo. Still, it gives me an opportunity to blip (a very small section of) the infamous boundary hedge saga.

The hedge in question consists mainly of mature cottoneaster horizontalis. It's a lovely, mature, easy to maintain hedge and completely non-invasive. It looks good in summer and winter. Great for the birds. Full of berries in winter. We love to watch the blackbirds gorging themselves every winter and the young blue tits searching for spiders in the summer. To the right (the wooden archway) is our inner fence around our herb garden area, just outside our conservatory. We have a pyracantha (with the orange berries) growing up and over it.

Up until this week, we could not see into the side of our neighbour's garden shed. He seems to be in the middle of pulling it down, prior to (hopefully) erecting his 2m boundary fence (although now he says he's not going to build it after all). Will he won't he? Your guess is honestly as good as mine.

The reason we can see the side of his garden hut now, is that he has hacked away a section of the boundary hedge. He admitted to me yesterday that they did this out of spite. It's arguable that this section is on their side of the boundary, but this is still aggressive and inflammatory.

I don't want to write any more on this issue just now. Lots of legal advice to follow.