Wildlife Corner

They are fantastic pictures. I must admit my first thought was how do you get a bird to smoke and then blow smoke rings.

Since it's out of sight, Jack, I would provide cover and shelter with old twigs and prunings for insects and the like......and maybe a wild flower patch that can be left to do it's own thing.

Horseflys are brown and can give you a nasty bite, you hardly ever find them in houses or urban town gardens.

I know that this is a old thread but this video is unavailable.

Thank you Pete and ScrungeeI was also thinking Shield bug but couldn't find anything in my books, was also thinking it could be a Bronze shield bug

I've got fallow deer, more than we really want. They look lovely but just wait til they start nibbling your plants. The worst though is the males rubbing their itchy antlers on the young trees, sometimes killing them.

So pretty. shame the moth is a bit dull lol

Black Crowned Night Heron, Kowloon Gardens Hong Kong.Black Collared Starling.Red Whiskered Bulbul Kowloon gardens.Eastern Great White Egret, Hong Kong Harbour.

Just wondered if anyone has come across this before? My echinops nitro is teaming with some sort of shield bug. I'm not concerned about them, just curious, I've never seen them in such numbers on one plant before.

Yes, FC lots of bees and wasps - weather permitting. I've also had resident Miner bees since late Spring last year.

My Parson Jack Russells wouldn't agree with you I have 4 pairs of blackbirds in the garden this year and every year

It's not a snake, it's a legless lizard and has a gross trick if picking it up by it's tail as Pete says.

A very commendable action you took there for our garden ally, Snorky85.I did something similar about a year ago, also using sugar solution. It was early in the season so there were not many flowers around. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures.As a cautionary note to other people...

Noticeable drop in the number of small birds around me this winter - mostly down to the Red Kites which appear to be taking over ! Putting the feeders near the prickly hedge seemed to be appreciated & I have at least three nests in there this year so things should settle down. Now I need to do...

Thanks, if they do not vacate within a few weeks I might do just that, to minimize casualties.

She appeared in the garden this morning with two cubs both the size of the one in the picture. owt you, get off my onions.Where the bigger cub I saw the other day is, is a mystery.They both wandered around the garden, then I heard a plop, one had tried to walk across the pond, but it...

We had a really bad outbreak a few years back now and for some reason all the infected bunnies seemed to head for our garden from the surrounding woods, and fields. Such a horrid disease with a lingering death. I ended up taking several to our local vet, just couldn't stand to see them suffering...

We once had a lunch stop at the Chilterns Gateway visitor centre just off the M1 near Dunstable. It was raining. We couldn't see a thing and got very wet.G.

Not seen any teeth marks, but your right they could be picking them up from someone's garden, nearest golf course is at least 4 or 5 miles away.

I haven't been in the garden of late due to health. I am constantly gathering up tiny baby Ladybugs that have hatched out in the seals of my double glazing.