Wildlife Corner

my wood pile has been there for years it is litterally rotting away i rekon if i touched it it would fall apart btw this is interesting http://maria.fremlin.de/stagbeetles/lifecycle.html

theres a wood pile in amongst this lot somewhere http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee3/mattfev20/wildlifegarden003.jpg

As far as i remember they are often found around oak trees, haven't seen one for a few years.

Not yet Ste.still a chance in autumn,got a male starling that waits every afternoon for me to take out fruit cores seems to love them waits about 3ft away for me to throw the bits to the floor,there's a dove that waits for a scoop of seed every day,there's a sparrow that has taken up residence...

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Good shots, Rosa. Blimey walnut, i thought we had a bumblebee and that was it! cheers

Hi guysFor the bird lovers amongst you out there, there is a free bird pack offer in the Sunday Express today, £25 worth of stuff for just £4.45 postage, nothing else to pay and no other purchase needed just click on the "place order" link. :thumb:

I really enjoyed the link, I love cats, large or small.

hello have just been to the local "works" cheap book shop and found a "complete british wildlife" book! Haver started taking a look in there and it is amazing! so many different species of everything! Being a city girl originaly I have never been much of an animal fan but its incredible the...

Great news if true, apart from the wildlife, Simon King is the star of the show and he truely deserves it:thumb:

Better Collared Doves than no birds at all, we have no nests but there again we haven't much of a garden! Great pics BM.:thumb:

Kath, yes it is hard photographing at night, i remembered yesterday that my camcorder has a night capture facility on it and you can also takes stills, i was too tired to wait around last night for my spikey friends to make an appearance for their nightly feed, but hopefully i'll get something...

Im having trouble with big rooks raiding my feeders ,there latest trick is to dive bomb them so that the seed drops to the ground. Any suggestions for a good Rook proof feeder.

Yip ... I have decided the same I was confused because its behaviour seemed wagtailish to me Ah well ... we live and learn

well these are relativley small to some of the spiders we have in our garden i once found a wolf spider which was roughly 10cm big it soon found the bottom of a brick

Thanks Matt22. I wonder if she as babies near by ?

@ Strongy, tip, go on a weekday out of peak holiday season, we went on a monday, not quite deserted but much easier to get around.The best time supposedly for water birds there is autumn/winter when all the winter migrants come in. Also during the summer months there is a lot more foliage...

Nice photo Inter!

That really was brilliant, thanks for sharing, IMP.

Thanks, Strongy. The one that is changing his coat is the weeny one that I had up in the slideshow. So at least we know now that he is a gecko.There did seem to be no end of different ones there, and all of these were in the kids garden, so out and around there must be countless...