Garden Wildlife UK

We appear to be having a butterfly summer. The recent weather has been kind and there are plenty on the wing. My visitors have been dominated by Large Whites backed up by Gatekeepers, Small Whites, Holly Blues A Common Blue and a Red Admiral.

Interesting to see it was using the spikes on the fence to keep it's prey steady.

It has been very cheering to read of various species having a good year as there have been a few stinkers recently.

IMGP3243 by David Hands, on Flickr
I had this Brimstone for company this afternoon. He wasn't vey compliant when I requested a photo.

Black Squirrel Photo taken: In the garden. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54621594795_d60ccb624f.jpg Black Squirrel by SnappyMac , on Flickr Species Information https://www.fairfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk/black-squirrels/ I believe the black squirrels are a grey mutation and are fairly common in...

I know a heron has visited my garden because I have seen it. To the best of my knowledge it has never got a meal. I have no fish but do have frogs and newts. The one in the video was visiting before 6 AM , if that were the case in my garden it would never be seen.

There must be glitch on Flikr as all I got was a little girl with a panda.

The wildlife hospital emailed me today to say the hog was starting to recover but asked me to hold off with any further enquiries for 4 weeks.

Definitely Wasps I would say. If you decide to let them stay you will have them until the end of September.

Linda257 wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:38 am

Aww ,glad you spotted it JS, hoping for its return soon to be released back its you garden, please do keep us updated

Will do. Hopefully I will have an update tomorrow.