Wildlife Corner

There's been some Meadow Browns around, but not managed to take a pic.

Smashing photo Dave. Sadly, I haven't seen a single House Sparrow in my garden this Winter.

Ok thanks, hopefully I won't have too much trouble finding one, haven't had chance it look yet as been away the last few days.

A beautiful lizard, a Purple Backed Spiny Lizard and cute Mule Deer. It was 42c when we went to Vegas a few years ago, too hot to venture out of the strip! Any more?

@AndySHi Andy To be honest and I have always claimed on here I am no expert or scientist its a hobble that I have been keen on for over 15 years. But I do know of on going studies in to the food value to bees on pollen and nectar with the 50 major food plants that are produced in the...

Thanks for that,I managed to get a peek at a small part of the caterpillar earlier and from the small section I could see, it looked very much like an apple moth larvae (same colour and texture looking skin).Would an apple moth even nest on a Callistemon?I was planning to prune off the new...

Saw a tiny one on my washing, any one know when they start breeding. Found this information:October- February: Adult ladybirds spend winter in a dormant state, known as 'overwintering'. March- April: Adult ladybirds become active and leave their overwintering sites to find food, aphids...

I have heard from my friend who is active in the local bee-keeping association and lives in locally to Enderby - he is happy to let you have his email to give you advice, I will PM it.

Here's an extract from an article in the Amateur Gardening Gardening Magazine." A bonkers plan to threatened to cut the range of plants available to UK amateur gardeners has been given the boot by Brussels. The EU "unanimously" rejected the proposal, which would have meant that all...

Great shots Jiffy! I have bats flying around my area but haven't seen or heard any yet this year. My other half has a phobia of them.

That's 8hrs (4 x 2hrs) in the evenings plus another 8hrs (4 x 2hrs) on Sundays all for £65, so only £4.06/hr. I've attended several courses here (not bee keeping, run by the likes of Alan Beat who writes in 'Country Smallholding', formerly Practical Self Sufficiency ) where they have a full...

....Brilliant Lili

Every time I wander down to the pond I see my fish loitering around near the surface and I'm wondering if it's worth dropping a few pellets to see if they'll take them.....might be worth a try. I did say last year was a very strange year for all sorts of reasons, lateness of the plants to grow...

There's good eating on one of them.

Unfortunately not, being a new development I think all the smaller birds were scared away, magpies are in great numbers though.I chucked him in the old wildflower pot (which is now mainly wild grass) hopefully it is alone as the last thing I want is a lawn infected with them. I would probally...

What a lovely little clip to watch on a dark day like today, Jenny

Just a little Dave but without the 'volume control'.

Good morning Loli,Zigs and Sheal my friends and many thanks for your positive and friendly comments,it was about 8.30am ishHeres a link for my other foxes

It looks sweet Dave, think we have a few in our shed judging by the state of the loungers in there - they must have some nice soft beds somewhere with the stuffing they stole! I don't mind them sharing the birds' food but we now now have rats stealing it too. They used to come in from the field...

A good reminder A, particularly when the public are encouraged to make fat balls at home. I never use fat from cooking, nearly everything we cook is in E V Olive Oil.