Great pics, I certainly cannot compete.. I just rescued a butterfly trapped in the shading in my green house.... I think it was a Cabbage White, it better not repay me by laying eggs and the offspring scoffing my cabbage...
Having got used to the moles, voles, field mice and squirrels for over 40 years, rabbits have made an appearance in the neighbourhood. I saw one in the garden yesterday and today I discovered the trailing lobelia round pots has all been eaten at rabbit chewing level. I guess I'm going to be on a learning curve of what rabbits enjoy eating.
This Jay has been hammering away at the peanut feeder every day this week.
Didn't manage to get focus on this nervous fox.
Heard some rustling and munching under the trees, then saw the culprit.
The garden is also full of slow worms, so much so that I daren't get the mower or strimmer out for any of the wilder areas. Well, that's my excuse . Seriously though we have dozens of them of all sizes. They are mainly asleep in the compost bins so will try to get some shots of them to share.
A bit of a wildlife moment this morning - I was having a mug of coffee out in the garden, watching some juvenile blackbirds investigating all sorts of things, when suddenly I heard a loud scream and a frog leapt from a rock by the pond over into the undergrowth in the Wilderness, and the blackbird took off with an alarmed squark - I knew that frogs scream if being attacked by birds etc, but I'd never seen or heard it before - it was really quite loud.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I never knew that frogs made any other noise apart from their croak - I will have to tune into that scream as we also have birds using the pond where the frogs live. It must have been a surprise, hope the sound didn't make you didn't spill your coffee Dovefromabove!
Fantastic pictures here. Steephill - that deer photo is superb -in every way
Joyce- re the rabbits. They 'll have a go at just about anything and everything...
Fresh new growth on perennials in particular, but the young ones constantly nibble to try things out.
You might need to make a chicken wire cage round some plants before they emerge in spring. Some things they don't seem to touch - wefound Berberis, Juniper, Crocosmia, Willow, Heathers, various conifers, Lysimmachia, Alchemilla, Potentilla and Rhodies were fairly untroubled. They love crocus and tulips but don't touch daffs and snowdrops. Some years they're worse than other too. If you can protect climbers like clematis and honeysuckle till they mature a bit, then they're ok as the new growth is too high or sturdy enough to withstand a nibble.
Screaming frogs...would they keep cats out?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Baby Jackdaw being fed
Great pics, I certainly cannot compete.. I just rescued a butterfly trapped in the shading in my green house.... I think it was a Cabbage White, it better not repay me by laying eggs and the offspring scoffing my cabbage...
Thanks Sheps - such a great name for a butterfly. It has something of the fantastical about it!
Having got used to the moles, voles, field mice and squirrels for over 40 years, rabbits have made an appearance in the neighbourhood. I saw one in the garden yesterday and today I discovered the trailing lobelia round pots has all been eaten at rabbit chewing level. I guess I'm going to be on a learning curve of what rabbits enjoy eating.
Some of this week's highlights from the garden.
This Jay has been hammering away at the peanut feeder every day this week.
Didn't manage to get focus on this nervous fox.
Heard some rustling and munching under the trees, then saw the culprit.
The garden is also full of slow worms, so much so that I daren't get the mower or strimmer out for any of the wilder areas. Well, that's my excuse
. Seriously though we have dozens of them of all sizes. They are mainly asleep in the compost bins so will try to get some shots of them to share.
Good photography, Steephill...the Roe Deer is an absolute peach of a shot
Sheps...
A bit of a wildlife moment this morning - I was having a mug of coffee out in the garden, watching some juvenile blackbirds investigating all sorts of things, when suddenly I heard a loud scream and a frog leapt from a rock by the pond over into the undergrowth in the Wilderness, and the blackbird took off with an alarmed squark - I knew that frogs scream if being attacked by birds etc, but I'd never seen or heard it before - it was really quite loud.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I never knew that frogs made any other noise apart from their croak - I will have to tune into that scream as we also have birds using the pond where the frogs live. It must have been a surprise, hope the sound didn't make you didn't spill your coffee Dovefromabove!
It'd take more than that to make me spill my coffee GD! I'm used to hanging on to that for dear life
http://www.discoverwildlife.com/animals/can-frogs-scream
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fantastic pictures here. Steephill - that deer photo is superb -in every way
Joyce- re the rabbits. They 'll have a go at just about anything and everything...
Fresh new growth on perennials in particular, but the young ones constantly nibble to try things out.
You might need to make a chicken wire cage round some plants before they emerge in spring. Some things they don't seem to touch - we found Berberis, Juniper, Crocosmia, Willow, Heathers, various conifers, Lysimmachia, Alchemilla, Potentilla and Rhodies were fairly untroubled. They love crocus and tulips but don't touch daffs and snowdrops. Some years they're worse than other too. If you can protect climbers like clematis and honeysuckle till they mature a bit, then they're ok as the new growth is too high or sturdy enough to withstand a nibble.
Screaming frogs...would they keep cats out?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...