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Jane Louise

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

The Wren and Blackbird are doing fine in the outhouse.

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Have no idea what happend to one of the nesting boxed overnight but somethings had ago and pulled some of the nest out with no sign of any activity yet this morning..

Could anyone identify this little beauty I just snapped as I'm no expert when it comes to Butterflies. Lovely day to be out in the garden again..

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The hanging baskets are really coming on.

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
3 hours ago, knocker said:

One of the little fellas that frequent my garden

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He's very cute - a youngster maybe? 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
1 minute ago, ciel said:

He's very cute - a youngster maybe? 

Yes I was wondering that, must keep my eyes peeled. It's fascinating watching them interact around the garden

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
2 hours ago, Polar Maritime said:

The Wren and Blackbird are doing fine in the outhouse.

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Have no idea what happend to one of the nesting boxed overnight but somethings had ago and pulled some of the nest out with no sign of any activity yet this morning..

Could anyone identify this little beauty I just snapped as I'm no expert when it comes to Butterflies. Lovely day to be out in the garden again..

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The hanging baskets are really coming on.

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It's a male Orange-tip butterfly, PM.  The females are white with black wing-tips.

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  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (5 metres a.s.l.)
  • Weather Preferences: Something good in all four seasons
  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (5 metres a.s.l.)

And a day after the house martins arrived, today the 'screechy boys', aka the swifts are here.
So lovely to see and hear.  The places for their nests get less each year tho which concerns me.
(no reply from 'Frog. re. the Scottish gnats in Sept.  Never mind)

B.

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  • Location: Downton, Wiltshire
  • Location: Downton, Wiltshire

This little fella is having to be bottle fed by the farmer, so when I wander through the field in the morning he comes over to see if I've got anything to offer.

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell

A couple of these rather attractive Red-legged Partridges have been making regular garden visits recently.  Unfortunately, I have not seen any of the declining native Grey Partridge species around this year.

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From earlier in the week, this Starling is still transitioning from his spotty  winter plumage.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Not often I catch this little fella in a bush, normally he's scurrying around on the ground. I say he but I'm not sure how you can tell the difference.

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell

Didn't initially intend to post this very bad photo (taken thru' window), but it maybe was the one chance of catching him out in the open. He has been very noisy recently, but always manages to evade detection. I still have no idea where his nest, or nests are, but something clearly alarmed him this morning.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
13 minutes ago, ciel said:

Didn't initially intend to post this very bad photo (taken thru' window), but it maybe was the one chance of catching him out in the open. He has been very noisy recently, but always manages to evade detection. I still have no idea where his nest, or nests are, but something clearly alarmed him this morning.

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Excuse my ignorance but what is the wee fella ciel?

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
2 minutes ago, knocker said:

Excuse my ignorance but what is the wee fella ciel?

A Wren, knocker. They have a loud song for their diminutive size and are quite secretive in their habits.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
Just now, ciel said:

A Wren, knocker. They have a loud song for their diminutive size and are quite secretive in their habits.

Ah yes. Funny that as I saw one this morning down in the woods by the lake and for a fraction it was in clear view but was gone before I could get the camera organized. I do see them occasionally but it's a bit of a nightmare trying to get a photo as you point out. Of course the size doesn't help either.:)

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
4 hours ago, ciel said:

Didn't initially intend to post this very bad photo (taken thru' window), but it maybe was the one chance of catching him out in the open. He has been very noisy recently, but always manages to evade detection. I still have no idea where his nest, or nests are, but something clearly alarmed him this morning.

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I was looking at this again with less haste and if you could have got a clear shot this could have been a seriously good photo. One of those very frustrating moments. :)

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
23 minutes ago, knocker said:

I was looking at this again with less haste and if you could have got a clear shot this could have been a seriously good photo. One of those very frustrating moments. :)

I know, knocker. in haste, I had not adjusted the ISO from the previous evening , plus I knew if I had ventured outside the dog, who follows me everywhere, would have scared all birds away. 

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.

Saw my first red admiral of the season on Sunday; yesterday, it was the first common blue.

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  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
  • Location: Fettercain/Edzell
6 hours ago, Ed Stone said:

Saw my first red admiral of the season on Sunday; yesterday, it was the first common blue.

I fear another poor butterfly year, in this part of the world anyway.  Only have seen an few small whites this year so far.

 

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Invasive pests hitch a lift to ravage crops worldwide

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Chinese slate tiles may be cheap and look great on the kitchen floor but they can come with a hidden menace. Invasive pests are spreading around the world and the growth in trade and weak border controls are largely to blame, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Many of the pests are hitching a ride on untreated wooden pallets. They include the Asian longhorn beetle, which attacks broadleaved trees and is believed to have arrived in 2012 in a consignment of Chinese slate.

In its annual State of the World’s Plants Kew said that pests could cost the world’s farmers more than £400 billion a year if left unchecked.

Ash trees in Britain are facing a new pest, emerald ash borer, a beetle spreading westwards from Russia, the report said. It was originally found in China, Japan and Korea and has already killed more than 60 million trees in the US, where it arrived in 2002, probably in wooden pallets.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/invasive-pests-hitch-a-lift-to-ravage-crops-worldwide-vdf9wnssg

State of the World’s Plants 2017

https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

The four ducklings have reached a reasonable size but one of them has a severely damaged leg. Plus there is a sudden increase in the number of Herring Gulls around so I fear the worst.

In we go

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Foraging

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Streuth - it's enough to make the hairs on the back of ones head stand up.

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Look, no feet

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