Garden Wildlife UK

Trying to sort out the different foxes who visit us. We were confused by the actions of the small one (pictured in previous posts ), he's famous for jumping on the large bird feeder table and we even leave food on the table for this fox. But some nights he totally ignores the table. Here's a photo I...

Poplar Hawkmoth. A member of the Hawk moth family. Every year I manage to get one of these friendly giants. This one has a wing span of just under 3 inches.

Jacksparrow wrote:It looks as though it is quite young Greg.

It's certainly a smallish Fox.
It eats some of the food and then carries some off, so it may be feeding cubs.

Just been watching a juvenile Blackbird taking on a Woodpigeon for the right to be first at the currants we'd put out. The juvenile won!

Here's a few more new ones....

Cinnabar moth.
Muslin moth. Small Phoenix.

Here's our fox, taken a few minutes ago ......

Placido wrote:Oh, love the Peppered Moth .
You showed us a 'Hebrew Character' previously, I think. The name just stuck ......

A Setaceous Hebrew Character is a different moth

A few new ones from this morning. The first one's a bit of a mouthful - Setaceous Hebrew Character.
Garden Carpet moth
Peppered moth

JooMoo wrote:Have they had an argument?

They have plenty of arguments ! But were friends for this photo

Here's an interesting one from this morning. The Spectacle Moth. The 3rd photo shows how it gets its name.