Garden Wildlife UK

It has been a good week for Butterflies. Orange Tips, Large Whites, Brimstones and some small blue ones either Holly Blue or Common Blue(I never got close enough for a proper ID) an a single Peacock.

Placido wrote:Well !! Now that's a new one and no mistake . Surprised the pigeon stood for it more than once.

That's what surprised me the most. I know Pigeons aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer but to put up with having ones bum feathers plucked shows unbelievable stupidity.

Walking through a farmers field of rape seed oil, And there running in front of me, but not to fast was a hare. No mistaking the black blotches behind its ears. First hare I have ever seen . :wow: They're not really common in my part of England but I do see them from time to time. Lovely animals. :)

Like myself I suppose you all thought that any feathers used for nest building were only those gathered either from where other birds has dropped them or in some cases from the breast of the hen bird. Not so! I was sat on my patio enjoying a well earned ice cream watching the birds in the garden. Th...

Just love my late visitors placi. How would any bird know to come to my garden up until 8pm and be guaranteed a variety of food that would mostly suit them? They have to be birds that have done this in previous years or birds that have spoken to birds that have done this in previous years. Like tha...

Placido wrote:Like that, Jacksparrow and is that strawberry I spot ??

Well spotted I have a wild variety in the garden and it appears everywhere but where I originally planted it.

Lady's Smock and Kingcup

The bright sun bleaches out the delicate mauve colour of the Lady's Smock.

Still loads of them but a lot fatter now.

k1, p1, k1, p1, k2tog ....... granny agen :nod:. Mealies at the ready. Rambo is far more athletic and inventive than his forebears - or maybe he's simply panicking more - not only on the kitchen door hangle but also the window sill and the door window sill. He looks shell-shocked. He's too young to...

Can't think I've seen one before Willpar. That proboscis looks lethal.