WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU TODAY - 2017

They do too Woo

According to my book they shouldn't be anywhere near you, confined to Devon

 

Hi all can anyone tell me what bird this is feeding to day

 

Possibly a female Greenfinch @zenj.

 

@Sheal
Thanks Sheal when we googled on the net wasn't sure but also now with your lead think greenfinch , nice to know what's visiting

 

Bad picture, sorry, hubby caught this ( and rescued it ) from our kitchen. Not something I recognise, it's wings where quite impressive when out!

 

The goldfinches are back in full force this morning

 

My gardens been full of butterflies and bees for over a month now, I planted Nasturtiums in all the borders, the bees are loving the flowers and the butterfly's loving laying there eggs on the plants.

 

My cleomes looked like that last year, hundreds of them! , critters not cleomes! They where near nasturtium too, I wonder if there is a link?
Bugs love aphids, aphids love nasturtium ,,,,,,????

 

Up at the old airfield where we often walk there used to be two old dead trees especially loved by the Turtle Doves where they would sit and let us photograph them.A few weeks ago the farmer decided to bulldoze the trees to make room for some of his straw bales so the Turtle Doves cleared off to another part of the airfield.We stopped going up there as the chances of seeing these rare birds were well pretty rare so imagine our surprise to see one feeding on the concrete runway so we were able to get some photos and I got some film of itOn the way back we were lucky enough to see the pair of them although it was difficult to get decent photos of them

 

Lucky again @Kandy I wish I could see them down here! they pass through very quickly and miss them. I guess I was lucky enough to see them in Menorca in June.

 

I don't really know Loki I'm only a novice, the only thing I can think of is nasturtium are very leafy plenty of food for the caterpillar's survival, ive not seen many aphids on them they tend to enjoy my roses .

 

Thanks @strongylodon we would have been able to get a bit closer to the single one if a dog walker hadn't let her dog run away from her so this bird took off and I saw the two birds flying together when we let the woman go past with her dogs.Luckily on the way back she was behind us and was letting the dogs run through the stubble field

I shall have to start taking seed back up there as these birds were feeding on spilt grain after harvesting and I am wondering if these birds haven't bred this year as there was just the two of them.

Did you hear that eight young Ospreys have been translocated down to Poole Harbour so it is hoped that once released they will eventually set up nests in your part of the country so you will be able to see more of them We keep having odd ones turn up at our local reservoir to fish but as yet no sign of them wanting to breed.Perhaps if they put up a platform they might just nest there but the fishermen won't be too happy me thinks

Our nearest nesting Ospreys are over at Rutland and some of the chicks have even gone over to Wales to live and breed

 

@Kandy The young Ospreys were released just over a week ago while I was away. They are still being fed for a week or so and then they are on their own and hopefully join the others passing through in the next few weeks. They won't return for two to three years so it is a long term project and no one is sure whether they will even make back from Africa.