I know I posted this elsewhere on the forum, but he should really be on this thread. I couldn't find it the other day There's another juvenile, but he's got a bit more colour on his tum. The bullfinch visits regularly too
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I was sad that I never see any newts in my garden after my neigbour gave me a family he had disturbed under paving when building a patio. This week when topping up my plastic waterbutts distributed around the garden for watering, I found 3, in various containers containing water. Yeh!
So far I've found one frog in the garden. Hopefully when we get time to dig a wildlife pond there will be more...
My daily wildlife moments were spent looking at a common sorrel plant in the area we had to leave wild because builders needed to drive over it. In its own way it was beautiful, with a bright red flowering stem. One morning in Spring, during lockdown, I noticed the top of the flowering stems were completely covered in blackfly; in addition to the odd ant, presumably "farming" the aphids, there were numerous other insects walking over them. I didn't know the honeydew was attractive to other flies etc but I suppose it's not surprising. And then, having no vulnerable plants in the area I just left the blackfly to see what happened. It was lovely to see blue tits collecting it over the next few days...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Last night we went for a walk on the beach at about 8 pm, there's dunes and a path. Halfway up Mr B said 'oh there's a tiny frog!'. Getting closer I saw it was actually a toadlet. Now I'm jealous of the dunes! I still don't have any toads or newts in my garden.
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I know I posted this elsewhere on the forum, but he should really be on this thread. I couldn't find it the other day
There's another juvenile, but he's got a bit more colour on his tum.
The bullfinch visits regularly too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My daily wildlife moments were spent looking at a common sorrel plant in the area we had to leave wild because builders needed to drive over it. In its own way it was beautiful, with a bright red flowering stem. One morning in Spring, during lockdown, I noticed the top of the flowering stems were completely covered in blackfly; in addition to the odd ant, presumably "farming" the aphids, there were numerous other insects walking over them. I didn't know the honeydew was attractive to other flies etc but I suppose it's not surprising. And then, having no vulnerable plants in the area I just left the blackfly to see what happened. It was lovely to see blue tits collecting it over the next few days...
Landed...
Dessert...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopoda
Does anyone know?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.