Wildlife Corner

Thanks, Sheal. NICE!!, but I think I will pass on that.

My issue is the Starlings---they attack my suet cakes scaring the little birds away. All I need to do is step out on my deck and they fly away. But they eat those cakes up like crazy. Took this video few falls ago. sometime gatherings are larger ---they usually get up to the farmers field...

Yes, our suet balls are the same thing and the ones I bought were a pretty bell shape. Interesting.I won't buy them again because they only lasted one night. I'm guessing the raccoons had a greasy feed.

I do the birdwatch each year and the birds normally parade around in their best finery for us. @NigelJ that must be where all yours get to .I have been doing the birdwatch for many years but stopped when they first went digital because to register for it you also had to give them your phone...

Thanks I have a very greedy and wily Pheasant here, so I have to wait for him to disappear before I put food down for the ground feeding birds.

Not crows, but thick billed ravens from Ethiopia; omnivorous yes, but it did seem the more disgusting the better though.

Common UK Ladybird Identification - Woodland Trust

@Posh The nematodes are bred in large vats containing nutrients and bacteria, they are then transferred to, I think bran, which is shipped to the customer. The nematodes don't kill the vine weevils directly, they enter the body openings of the vine weevil larvae and then the bacteria the...

Brilliant I read they feed on lady's bedstraw and madder plant too, already had the bedstraw and bought a madder plant which has shot up in a short time.

Certainly at least similar if not exactly the same. I'll take more notice of their markings when I next see them.

I'm a lazy gardener. I'm afraid I don't have quite the same level of enthusiasm as many on this forum. But as it happens that seems to work well for me, because all the effort I do put in (and despite being a lazy gardener, I do put quite a lot of effort in) is all about creating what I think of...

Sun bathing, not sure if it helps get parasites out of the feathers or they just do it because they like it. It looks like a youngster to me.

Awesome backdrop @Perki , i need it in my garden really but it's blocking out the climbers on the pergola but i haven't given up on it yet

Thanks for the helpful replies.

I've planted some young shrubs that will produce berries but I'll have to wait and see whether the Blackbirds are interested. As a treat I feed them some raisins every day and they love them.

Many thanks for your advice ..I have tried taking a close up picture of the tubes .

Not sure what moth it is but definitely not a Adonis Blue Butterfly.

No foxes in the garden. No other signs of badgers, but some hedgehog droppings. We know what badger signs look like from our last place.

I have the same ones over here. First i thought "what a nice looking beetle". Then I opened up Google and amnd shortly after returned with a flamethrower.Mine seem to be pretty docile though. I can simply pick them up by hand. They cling to the leaves instead of dropping. And those...