Wildlife Corner

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...

Mason bees have taken a fancy to the hose reel.

Thanks, i'm not sure on the clothes moth, 'net shows them as having white larvae and if these were from the larvae i found a couple of weeks back then they were yellow.Very odd.We did have carpet moth some years back, total nightmare, they were much smaller and a real pain.

Enjoy watching them grow

I'd guess fox.

Sparrows are very noisy so you can keep them sheal

I have to agree. There are dozens of them near me. I counted seven splashing in my tiny water feature. They were actually standing on the floating leaves to bathe.

Thought they were real at first, amazing piece of work.

Might be a bad idea to be feeding the birds right now with the bird flu going about. All those birds mingling so close together may well end up killing them. .?Hundreds of geese have died near us, and 20 odd swans in a small lake also snuffed it recently.Ive emptied our bird baths feed...

Brilliant fairplay @strongylodon , now snakes I don’t mind, but spiders and rats make me scream like a girl Behind my house there’s a common with a brook running between common and my garden, so it’s not unusual for me to shoot a rat now and again, used to bait them, until one dark night ,...

Yes I have @noisette47, but that was after the wasps had gone.

How beautiful @NigelJWhen I buy our own home again, I will definitely have a compost heap, but make sure I am careful with it, I hadn't realised so many lovely creature make them their homes

Just a update really.. Wildlife rescue took the bird yesterday and advise doubt if bird would survive but we nursed the bird for 3 hours until they arrived

The one plant that has been an absolutely huge success with butterflies this year has been Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp Agrimony), blue butterflies in particular (Holly and Common) seemed to adore it and visit daily! Also had quite a few visits from Green-veined Whites (which for some reason are...