Wildlife Corner

I've been to the Isle of Wight but for work, we done show trailors for Cowes week, so it was over and back in a day

Thank you @Sheal yes, they are Cosmos

Could well be the cold weather, but bumble bees only live for a couple of months. Our six and a half year old grand-daughter found one semi-comatose on the the lawn today and decided to make a home for bees. Nice to see a youngster so concerned.

We've got at least 2 nests with chicks atm that I know of. Never fails to amaze me the loud alarm call the adults can make, coming from such a wee body! Fingers crossed our 2 cats only set off alarms and don't cause any permanent damage.

I would put this as close to the bench as you can, a ready made nest for them, hopefully they will use it.

I know tadpoles eat each other so I expect they'll reach a balance

I know that feeling!

We have a wild Rat colony here. They have been here 4 years. They get fed along with everyone else. I like Rats.I do realise that the Sparrowhawk is trying to survive and needs to eat and has babies to feed. I guess I'm lucky its not here every day. Do you think it might like a tin of cat food...

That's something on my very long list I'd love to have

Innocent until proven guilty!

On this occasion I hope there wont be any pics as Ive only just painted the house and i really dont want to see a 7meter line of mud blobs along the front of the house again. Thought I`d add the swifts made it here about 7 days ago but theres no swallows here yet. Saw a magical sight 2 years...

Monsieur Renard dropped by last night.

thanks guys it was wonderful to watch Mr and Mrs Robin going about their business in such close proximity to us it felt like they barely left the garden in those 3 days, at least one was always present at any given moment i felt quite privileged to get to see into their little world for a few...

Fab pictures (especially as they were taken via the patio doors!)

Hi, Lovely pictures of the ducks and geese at millbrook lake :-) I live right near here and the Egyptian goose is still here and very well 8 years on Great info from you, as I was looking everywhere trying to find out what type of goose the Egyptian one was. Did you ever notice he has a very...

Thank you all very much for pointing me in the right direction. I'll look into your suggestions and let you know how I get on. This photo of the birdbath is from the last garden.

Lovely pics of the birds Strongy . ( The first lot of Swallows arrived back yesterday)

Been waiting for somebody else to post ...Turdus MerulaTheir nomenclature must be based upon what they do on washing left in the garden during the Elderberry season.

Ooops.......best brush up on my ID skills.

Sheffield Peregrines webcam here, looks like the female sitting the four eggs at the moment.