Wildlife Corner

I have to agree. There are dozens of them near me. I counted seven splashing in my tiny water feature. They were actually standing on the floating leaves to bathe.

Thought they were real at first, amazing piece of work.

Might be a bad idea to be feeding the birds right now with the bird flu going about. All those birds mingling so close together may well end up killing them. .?Hundreds of geese have died near us, and 20 odd swans in a small lake also snuffed it recently.Ive emptied our bird baths feed...

Brilliant fairplay @strongylodon , now snakes I don’t mind, but spiders and rats make me scream like a girl Behind my house there’s a common with a brook running between common and my garden, so it’s not unusual for me to shoot a rat now and again, used to bait them, until one dark night ,...

Yes I have @noisette47, but that was after the wasps had gone.

How beautiful @NigelJWhen I buy our own home again, I will definitely have a compost heap, but make sure I am careful with it, I hadn't realised so many lovely creature make them their homes

Just a update really.. Wildlife rescue took the bird yesterday and advise doubt if bird would survive but we nursed the bird for 3 hours until they arrived

The one plant that has been an absolutely huge success with butterflies this year has been Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp Agrimony), blue butterflies in particular (Holly and Common) seemed to adore it and visit daily! Also had quite a few visits from Green-veined Whites (which for some reason are...

Party pooper!

And not the only one! I found one of these in the swimming pool a couple of years ago... Poor crickets! They have a rough deal, don't they?

When's your book coming out?

Two beetles I found in my garden recently ...Black and yellow long horn beetle :-Thick legged flower beetle :-

And if you cant make Portugal to see them theres a flock 15 miles south of Edinburgh , no really there is. Mad

They will also eat frogs, voles, even ducklings. There's often up to 3 in the young woodland where we go for dog walks and there they feed exclusively on voles in competition with the Kestrels, Barn Owls and Foxes.

Thank you Lori I'm passing on al comments to the person with some hope they will work

Not as many of these have arrived on our shores as expected but five have been seen in Dorset and here is one. Distant but still a stunning bird.

Oedemera nobilis, thick legged flower beetle, (although only the males have thick legs) I found it in my conservatory yesterday, rather pretty in a metallic green colour. It apparently likes flowers such as daisies, Cornflowers etc, and I couldn't find anything bad about it so I let it go in the...

My girl strutted very proudly across the living room carpet - with a magpie in her mouth....which she'd got in through the cat flap. When I pulled out the chair she'd taken it behind....she jumped, dropped the magpie - which was then flying round the living room. I can't do birds....they flap...

Thanks Jordhandeson. A camera is never to hand when you need it.