sb67 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 The Bees were out and about in my garden today, I could sit and watch them all day 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2020 Great photos Steve 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2020 This two inch monster was bashing against the bedroom French doors last night......I could hear a knocking at the glass but didn’t want to open and find out what it was.......poor sod must have knocked himself silly. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2020 ^^ Is that a Mayfly? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Welly said: ^^ Is that a Mayfly? May Bug or as we call them down’ere Cockchafer 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 A recent introduction to the UK is Tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) - apparently a natural spread from the near continent (global warming) and now widely spread. The internet mentions they like to make their homes in bird nestboxes and that is precisely what they have done in our urban square garden. Paul 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagsniffer Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) Just been to put my bin out and saw this little fella, was a genuine pleasure to see it, think I’ve only ever seen three live ones in my life; Edited May 20, 2020 by Clagsniffer Grammar 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20, 2020 We went out bat watching tonight... followed by owl watching ... followed by an ISS pass, all in a few minutes! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 11 hours ago, chuffinghell said: Great photos Steve Thanks Chris. If only I could get decent photo's of the layout, that's giving me the hump now! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, boxbrownie said: This two inch monster was bashing against the bedroom French doors last night......I could hear a knocking at the glass but didn’t want to open and find out what it was.......poor sod must have knocked himself silly. 14 hours ago, Welly said: ^^ Is that a Mayfly? Ah no - very different beast - could always tell the difference in my motorcycling days when one hit my crash helmet visor....!!!! Heres a mayfly 21 hours ago, gordon s said: Not strictly wild life, but my koi have gone spawn crazy. It started a couple of days ago and this morning has been chaotic trying to keep them in the pond. There are continual splashing sounds and weed everywhere. The smell is pretty dire and the water has gone from gin clear to totally cloudy. Clearly they are all having a good time, but keep the sex noise down a tad, guys, some of us are trying to rest...... Not only in gardens! We all see conspicuous procreational activity in our gardens at this time of year. But just take a look at the effort these little fellas are putting in to ensure their genes survive....brook lampreys, they will die after spawning. They have cleared away all the larger stones up to 3cm away from their chosen site, its amazing what they can shift using the power of the water flow. And owl activity .... pretty sure there was one active in daylight yesterday where we were fishing in the Herefordshire wilds, there was a lot of screeching going on and the woodpeckers and blackbirds were not impressed by his presence judging by the din. On the way home there was a buzzard sat on a telegraph pole.... I commented to Jim that when I were a lad you used to see an owl on top of every telegraph pole on the way home from Wales. Dead on cue a Little Owl was just landing on a pole half a mile up the road as we passed.... great to see. Edited May 21, 2020 by Phil Bullock 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Was out last night with the Bat detector, we have common and Soprano Pipistrelles it would seem, flying around in the garden, luckily the Bat roosting box arrived today, that is now fitted half way up a tall birch tree, hope they find it. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted June 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2020 I dug out a couple of ponds last year and have been keeping my fingers crossed that I'd get to see a frog. This week I was rewarded! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 Out fishing near Leominster Monday evening. We were escorted off the riverbank by a tawny owl last knocking and saw a barn owl on drive home. Always great to see.... Phil 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Phil Bullock said: Out fishing near Leominster Monday evening. We were escorted off the riverbank by a tawny owl last knocking and saw a barn owl on drive home. Always great to see.... Phil Lovely, and about the only bird that doesn’t annoy by calling during the night......we have a couple in the copse and sometimes early evening it’s very restful just to sit outside and take it in...... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 Growing up in the Countryside - Ombersley, Worcs - I went to sleep every night to the sound of owls hooting and screeching. The best places to see them I know now are rivers valleys where there is plenty of old woodland - the Ystwyth and Rheidol valleys outside Aberystwyth seem to have excellent populations. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 So I now have a hedgehog issue. They are under our decking - which is going next week to be replaced by a slabbed patio . Do not want to lose them! Already have a hog house which gets used intermittently... and there is a corner of the garden which they could use, think I will go and get some firewood logs and build a stack for them hopefully to go under.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 The tawny owls have been going bananas around us lately. Most evenings, starting around 10, there'll be an outbreak of increasingly raucous and loud hooting, typically followed by owls flying low over our garden, settling on the chimney, nearby trees etc. I've never had such good, sustained views of owls before as in these last few weeks. I don't know whether they're just more active, or we're more aware of them because of the bat watching. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 We released a couple of rescued hedgehogs a few weeks ago they didn't bother with their respective houses but must be living locally as they are coming along with some others for food every night 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2020 I glanced out of the window at 20:30 this evening, and spotted a hedge hog snuffling his or her way up the garden. Unusual to get a daylight sighting. Adrian 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 Ours is appearing regular as clockwork at the moment - 9.35pm, unsually still light too but not tonight 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 11 hours ago, figworthy said: I glanced out of the window at 20:30 this evening, and spotted a hedge hog snuffling his or her way up the garden. Unusual to get a daylight sighting. Adrian Two days ago while still just light we saw the same, quite odd as it’s the first ever sighting. And yesterday I saw a Bank Vole for the first time in daylight, whizzing out from under the Summer house decking and into the longer grass around a cherry tree, they don’t half move fast! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2020 I got lucky with this one. My wife asked me to snap some flowers and I had a bee land when I already had the flower in focus. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Just started noticing some butterflies out and about, first one I've got a photo of this year :-) 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2020 Sorry no pics. I have a composter bin in my garden, a couple of weeks ago when I cut the lawn I filled it up with grass cuttings. When I went to check it this afternoon I found a nest of slow worms on top of the cuttings with several young. So I replaced the lid and I will check them again over the next few days. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted June 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2020 Yesterday, when coming back from getting the mail, I saw a gray fox crossing the back of the yard. The first one that I have seen in many years. I wish that I had my camera with me. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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