What have you seen
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Roman tessera found in our garden today. Locally they are usually a dull white, dull blue/grey or red. The land has been disturbed so they tend to wander, but somewhere a mosaic lies hidden from view.
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Went to wind out the canopy over the lounge window today and had a one of our European tree frogs drop from the one metal bar and land on the path a drop of about 4 metres then just jump onto one of the raised troughs and go behind to get out of the sunshine until last year we had never seen any before so they have moved in from a local area and a lovely green colour.
Will have to look around our plot brue as we have a lot of stones here but no roman ones so far.
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Over the last few nights I have seen a rather large hedgehog out for a walk. Have manage to keep Flyte well away as I don't want him investigating the smell.
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Chased a Humming Bird Hawk Moth over the garden with my camera. The trouble was he didn't stay in any one place for more than a second or two so unfortunately no photos. Seeing him made me think about butterflies. We have seen plenty of 'white' butterflies this year but almost no 'coloured' ones. We usually get a lot on the buddleia and the verbena but not this year. A worrying sign I fear.
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Sitting outside the caravan on a CL late yesterday afternoon and a Hare ran straight past the 'van and into the field opposite. Stopped, had a good look around for 5 minutes before making a dash for the other side.
Awake at 3 a.m. on a calm windless night when a Little Owl took exception to something close by, maybe a fox, and gave out at it for a good couple of minutes. Glad I was awake.
Just having a sit out in the late evening sun and watched a Partridge sauntering along underneath the hedge line. And here was I thinking that the CL looked a bit barren for wildlife.
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That sounds good WN. Friends of ours have had most of their flowers eaten by a local Hare so they try to put barriers around certain large pots.
You were lucky with your photo brue not easy to get a photo as I know even though we have had a good year here with Hummingbird Hawkmoths.
JohnM20 we have had so far a good year for butterflies here in the Lot better than I thought with the extreme weather we have had, onto the second brood of Meadow Browns and Banded Grayling and some of the blue species even had Long tailed blue on the flowers by the door usually get some Short tailed blues as well also had some Swallowtails about in the last few days, Butterlies Moths and Birds are my thing to watch.
Had a few more Swallows flying over today on their way south and the local Jays are searching the Oak trees for acorns and there is not many about due to the heat.
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No sloes or blackberries here as the heat has dried them all up when I went out for a walk the other day and was surprised to see them all brown and shrivelled, will look at other oak trees and see what they have we did have some on two of our trees but again looks like they have dropped off very small ones so not good for the birds or red squirrels, did see a baby red squirrel cross the road in front of my car the other day so slowed down to let it go across the road.
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I’ve managed to keep my Tayberry alive by watering but I keep the bush pruned for a few Tayberry pies, Jam & Tayberry & Apple pies👍🏻
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Had a walk around the perimeter of Marshside RSPB reserve on the outskirts of Southport today.
Pleasantly surprised to find 2 very early Pink Feet Geese and 3 Barnacles had arrived so Autumn is officially declared.
The Rose Hips and the Blackberries were exceedingly plump looking and we ha d splash of colour from some Evening Primroses.
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Autumn signs abound. Leaves turning, dropping and seeds galore. Lots of brambles, hips, sloes, elderberries. Apples and pears weigh the branches down in our park and surrounding gardens. I’m surprised after such a dry summer. Word of warning, don’t pick brambles for eating unless above at least a metre above the ground!😉
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Took a stroll up Hambledon Hill in Dorset on Friday morning. Half way up, there were about 30 House Martins darting about. I could almost touch them.
As I crested the top, nearly tripped over a Red Kite scoffing its breakfast before interrupting a pair of Kestrels that were either fighting, or....! (Thought it was too late in the year for that sort of behaviour!)
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Heard rather than saw the Kingfisher on the canal today.
Saw a wonderful spiders web, the spider bending the fern to its will.
Hope the photo of it comes out ok as it was taken on the phone. You might need to enlarge it.
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Enjoyed our visit to Barrington Court gardens Saturday where we spotted a Jersey Tiger moth (I think) also saw lots of mistletoe in a neglected orchard area beyond the house which was closed for roof repairs.
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Treat ALL dead birds with greatest care, brue, Don't touch them but report the facts to the relevant Avian Flu Control point. Seems, rather like Covid 19, that bird flu will only die out in it's own good time, despite the damage done to bird numbers.
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We've got used to the procedures ABM as Avian Flu has been loitering around locally for quite some time. What surprised us while away was seeing the dead birds near a Field Centre, even one just outside the premises. Students were doing hedge surveys at the time. We were looking at small gatherings of Black Backed Gulls and it was sad to see them wandering amongst their dead compatriots (so to speak.) Let's hope things improve nationally over the winter as migrants take off and land. It's been a tough year for our bird population.
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While at FM we decided to take the hour and half electric boat trip,from Nene Park out of the lake onto the River Nene onto see if much wildlife. was about, After we all managed to get OH on board the Skipper and lookout did say with the weather being so hot (it was only 0930) much would be in the shade ,we did see two kingfishers and as the boat is so quiet we were able to get very close also very close to the wildfowl on the lake which included both little and larger grebe who were diving very close to the boat
But no sign of any otters which are now very active in the area
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Picture of Kingfisher taken at RSPB Lakenheath. Although got lots of pics in the open this particular one is my favourite
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Nice photo OP.
We went to RSPB Leighton Moss today which was a mixed bag. They were doing some heavy reshaping of one of the two scrapes that look out to the Bay so no birds at all as they obviously were disturbing them but we had a wander around the reserve itself and watched a Hobby chasing dragonflies and also saw 4 Greenshanks and a Sparrowhawk flying very low over the water on the outlook for some unsuspecting small grebe or moorhen.
Had a walk with Nellie along the channels leading out to Morecambe Bay yesterday and we saw a Kingfisher flying down one of them. It rested on the mud bank for a short while before flying off. And 2 Common Sandpipers as well as the usual waders.
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Had a good day at Brockholes Lancs WT reserve.
Still a few common terns about, reluctant to leave? 🤔Plenty of beautiful fungi, especially on the beech trees, think this one is some sort of bracket fungus. Thought I’d identified it using an on line guide, but my guess turned out to be only found in Australia, so maybe not!
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my fungi book is at home and I am sitting in our caravan.