love the pictures of the baby doves.. i had a pair that nested nearby for years but lost the male one last year to a damn cat.. do not have them in much now. the lastof the baby seagulls is reluctant to go and is getting quite vocal with the parents when it wants some food.. we have had something else nesting again too as have had lots of small white egg shells dropped around the front garden about the size of a small chicken egg.. any ideas what is is? the starling have had second brood and they are very nosey again.. the first lot have almost got their adult feathers now.
will try and add some pictures soon.. not had time to take any have had family staying and that has been exhausting.
It looks like the cocoon of the Black Arches, so newly emerged and a lucky find, unless of course there is another one in there!! Moths can be as pretty as a butterfly.
Yes, I would say that is the chrysalis of your moth. How lucky you are to have a Tortoiseshell, I haven't had one in my garden, London area, for years! What is the flower it's on?
It's a bit blurry 'cos the wind was blowing the fennel about a bit, but this wonderful hornet visited my garden today - it was buzzing as loud as a small aeroplane
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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love the pictures of the baby doves.. i had a pair that nested nearby for years but lost the male one last year to a damn cat.. do not have them in much now. the lastof the baby seagulls is reluctant to go and is getting quite vocal with the parents when it wants some food.. we have had something else nesting again too as have had lots of small white egg shells dropped around the front garden about the size of a small chicken egg.. any ideas what is is? the starling have had second brood and they are very nosey again.. the first lot have almost got their adult feathers now.
will try and add some pictures soon.. not had time to take any have had family staying and that has been exhausting.
Pheasants and partridge are regulars in our garden along with rabbits and a feral cat
It's Black Arches 'Lymantria monacha' one of the Tussocks species of moth.
It looks like the cocoon of the Black Arches, so newly emerged and a lucky find, unless of course there is another one in there!! Moths can be as pretty as a butterfly.
Yes, I would say that is the chrysalis of your moth. How lucky you are to have a Tortoiseshell, I haven't had one in my garden, London area, for years! What is the flower it's on?
It's a bit blurry 'cos the wind was blowing the fennel about a bit, but this wonderful hornet visited my garden today - it was buzzing as loud as a small aeroplane
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.