What is buzzing or flying near you today??

These are the Goldfinches that come to feed every day in my garden.Compare mine with yours and you will see they are the same.Golden Oriels are larger and the males are bright yellow with black wings.The top and middle bird is defiently House Sparrow



Can't find the flying bug.I keep thinking of Weevil but not sure which one.Probably a Portugese one:D
Here is the link to identify the birds and if you look up Golden Oriel you will see the colours....
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/index.asp

 

A very annoying Jackdaw 'visited' our garden today, but was caught and killed by our Jack Russell. It is now hung-up to warn others off from 'visiting' when we put food elsewhere for them.

 

Magpies are the pest of the moment around our abode, it has a nest nearby and is constantly plundering nests in the area last weekend it had a blackbird fledgeling and was pulling it to pieces on the roof opposite to us,it has robbed two nests in our garden alone,I will have to borrow your jack Mikkel our ellie is close but has not quite managed to catch one yet.

 

Being friendly today after some meal worms..
robert

 

Great shots, everyone. Capney, I just love your friendly little visitor, wonderful close-up.

Shiney, someone posted a pic of a cockchafer last year, so I posted the below pics to show the grubs. As Kandy said, they are the ones that do damage in the garden, the bugs are harmless, even when they bump into you.














These pics were taken here in Florida last year.

 

While i was gazing out forlornly at the rain yesterday i noticed a mother feeding a sparrow chick ,it wasn`t young as it had lost the yellow grin, is it very early, but there was only one,so perhaps she had an early brood and lost them in the cold and wet,

Also i saw some swallows last week any body else spotted any yet :cnfs:

 

Swallows and Martins have been here since early April, the Swifts arrived two weeks ago.

 

Hope you don't mind me joining you Woo with another Painted Lady........They were everywhere today.

 

Great shots Woo and Roders - :gnthb:

 

Beautiful photos and the butterflies are doing so well this year , I was wondering though i don`t recall spotting any ladybirds yet , anybody else noticed ,or is it just near me

 

Lots of ladybirds have been spotted near us.:hehe:
I heard today that after the wave of "painted lady butterflies" the next visitors are the "humming bird hawk moths" cameras ready peeps.

 

Lovely flutterbys every. Now I'm hardly seeing any mostly Whites and little moth-like things ... I have spotted a few Clouded Yellows from afar.

This is cute ...

Hello there ...



Quick ... act casual ...



According to t'other half, they were actually 'having it off' on the high wire moments before these were taken ...:hehe: