Wildlife Corner

Party pooper!

And not the only one! I found one of these in the swimming pool a couple of years ago... Poor crickets! They have a rough deal, don't they?

When's your book coming out?

Two beetles I found in my garden recently ...Black and yellow long horn beetle :-Thick legged flower beetle :-

And if you cant make Portugal to see them theres a flock 15 miles south of Edinburgh , no really there is. Mad

They will also eat frogs, voles, even ducklings. There's often up to 3 in the young woodland where we go for dog walks and there they feed exclusively on voles in competition with the Kestrels, Barn Owls and Foxes.

Thank you Lori I'm passing on al comments to the person with some hope they will work

Not as many of these have arrived on our shores as expected but five have been seen in Dorset and here is one. Distant but still a stunning bird.

Oedemera nobilis, thick legged flower beetle, (although only the males have thick legs) I found it in my conservatory yesterday, rather pretty in a metallic green colour. It apparently likes flowers such as daisies, Cornflowers etc, and I couldn't find anything bad about it so I let it go in the...

My girl strutted very proudly across the living room carpet - with a magpie in her mouth....which she'd got in through the cat flap. When I pulled out the chair she'd taken it behind....she jumped, dropped the magpie - which was then flying round the living room. I can't do birds....they flap...

Thanks Jordhandeson. A camera is never to hand when you need it.

I made a cage (wood frame with Chicken wire)to go over the trays, but the magpie's will still get in if i'm not on garde dutes, magpie will be hard to stop has they can get in through the same gap has a black bird

This is a Grackle, pretty much confined to Canada and the US east of the Rocky Mountains.

hi i bought a bird nest box and would like to know if it would be possible to connect to a pc for recording purpose .. thanks for your advice

Also prickly hedging type plants like Berberis and Pyracantha, somewhere the birds can hide and the cats will be deterred from.

I can only give my experience with mason bees.... we have them in various mortar gaps in our house walls. They are fairly docile, as you have researched. We have some in the doorway - we only have one key-opened external door - and have co-existed without any problems. I have also observed them...

This sounds good! The bees I have used to go into holes in the brickwork on the side of my house, so thought the tubes would be similar. I can’t wait to see if I get any cocoons!

We"ve only got the native red squirrels here, and they're very discreet. You'd never know if it wasn't for the baby oak, chestnut and walnut trees springing up in the borders, and a suspicious 30% show rate of crocus and tulips

Some good ideas there Jordhandeson and well made. I wish I had the ability to make things like that. I have a couple of nest boxes that my brother made for me, but they have smaller holes so only the tits can enter. Sparrows are not welcome here, even though they nest under the tiles on my...