A green woodpecker visited our garden this week. This is a rather rare guest. We interpret this as a success of our natural, ecological garden. Unfortunately, our landlady prefers short lawns without weeds and a structured, tidy garden design. We regularly have to justify our gardening style.

We just spotted a wood lizard (Zootoca vivipara) in our backyard. How exciting to see such a small creature in our garden. We live near a small forest and have a stone wall partially surrounding our garden. This seems to be a suitable habitat for the lizard, which is very gratifying.

I wanted to take a picture of a beautiful ladybird. Later at home I realized that the ladybird was chasing aphids.