Diary of a wildlife garden: the robin's return | Kate Bradbury

The sight of a robin lifts the heart of Kate Bradbury as she works on her new wildlife gardenIn the darkest days of January, after I had taken up the decking and dug a hole to plant my apple tree, a robin became the first visitor to my newly-made wildlife garden. She appeared in a flash on top of the fence, flew to the wall and then spotted me and darted off again. She had been here before, I realised, perhaps lured by the recently unveiled earth and its unearthed worms, or the new compost heap,