Young robin yesterday- not the one legged one unfortunately
and one of the coal tits today
All the little birds have been swarming the feeders in the last few days, including what I think was a young willow tit or similar. Couldn't get a pic though. I saw the adults earlier in the day. They're quite happy to flit in and out even when I'm in the shed, which is just a few feet away, round the corner from that feeding cage. I got sod all done - too busy watching them all
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This was upsetting the local corvids as it looked for prey.
This little sod is on an extended tasting menu as she grows up. She nipped the flowers off a hardy fuchsia this morning and yesterday had a go at a honeysuckle azalea, both of which are usually left alone. Here she is liveheading the crocosmia under the front window.
That's a great picture @CatDouch. Early reports from the big butterfly count are that red admirals are having a bumper year - mainly thought to be because they've not been migrating in winter as it's not cold enough here now. The worry for butterflies was that a lot of the caterpillar food plants died in the heatwave last year, meaning minimal butterflies this year, but I feel like most people are spotting more than normal so fingers crossed they got through it OK.
Early reports from the big butterfly count are that red admirals are having a bumper year - mainly thought to be because they've not been migrating in winter as it's not cold enough here now.
I find that a bit odd. This is what the Met Office have said about last December:
"The first two weeks of December were the coldest start to meteorological winter since 2010"
Any resident Admirals would have needed to survive that!
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and one of the coal tits today
All the little birds have been swarming the feeders in the last few days, including what I think was a young willow tit or similar. Couldn't get a pic though. I saw the adults earlier in the day.
They're quite happy to flit in and out even when I'm in the shed, which is just a few feet away, round the corner from that feeding cage. I got sod all done - too busy watching them all
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Early reports from the big butterfly count are that red admirals are having a bumper year - mainly thought to be because they've not been migrating in winter as it's not cold enough here now.
The worry for butterflies was that a lot of the caterpillar food plants died in the heatwave last year, meaning minimal butterflies this year, but I feel like most people are spotting more than normal so fingers crossed they got through it OK.
I find that a bit odd. This is what the Met Office have said about last December:
"The first two weeks of December were the coldest start to meteorological winter since 2010"
Any resident Admirals would have needed to survive that!
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful