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11/08/2011

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HOVERFLIES

There are about 6000 species and 200 genera in the family.

I get to see many varieties in my own garden, including this rather impressive one, which I believe to be Volucella zonaria!

Please let me know if you know otherwise?

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12/09/10, 27/09/10, 29/08/11, 14/09/11, 15/09/11, 24/09/11, 25/09/11

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A pair of tiny Goldcrests, one having a bath - 27/09/10

OBSERVING NATURE ...

The fattest Red-tailed Bumble Bee I've ever seen - 22/04/10

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OBSERVING NATURE ...

Small White and Holly Blue butterflies - 23/04/10

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The robin and the redbreast, the robin and the wren; if you take them out of their nest, ye'll ne'er thrive again - The robin and the redbreast, the martin and the swallow; if you touch one of their eggs, ill luck is sure to follow - Anonymous

WREN ...

26/03/11

GREENFINCH ...

28/03/11

BLACKCAP ...

22/02/10, 25/02/10

WILLOW WARBLER/CHIFFCHAFF ...

07/08/08, 26/03/11, 06/08/11

GOLDCREST ...

24/04/08, 02/05/08, 27/09/10, 26/03/11

A BUDDING SCHOLAR ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

Great Tits scuttle amongst the shrubs and trees - 22/04/10

BROWNED OFF ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

A male Blackbird chases a Song Thrush from the garden - 01/04/10

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OBSERVING NATURE ...

A Fox is digging in the garden - March

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Planting ground is painting the landscape with living things - Gertrude Jekyll

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An Orange Tip flutters through - A rare and wonderful sight never before seen in the garden - April 2009

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GUARANTEED TO MULTIPLY ...

Verbena bonariensis
Aquilegia (Granny's bonnet)
Borago officinalis (Borage)
Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm)
Viola (Dog violet)
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Alchamilla mollis (Ladies mantle)
Myosotis (Forget-me-nots)
Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser celandine)

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Lysamachia punctata
Lysamachia nummularia
Campanula poscharskyana
Vinca minor
Galium odoratum (Sweet woodruff)
Ivy

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A Great Tit in the lilac tree - 19/04/09

A FISH OUT OF WATER ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

A male Blackbird takes a beakful of worms to the nest - 18/04/09

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BIRD TWITTER ...

Great Tit on the birdtable - 13/04/09

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A Peacock butterfly basks in the warmth of the sun on the first day of summer - March

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OBSERVING NATURE ...

A fox is seen alongside the rail track at dusk - It may have a den close by - March

PROSPECT COTTAGE ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

Two male Blackbirds duel with each other - 13/03/09

BIRD SKELETONS AT GREAT DIXTER ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

A tiny Goldcrest flits around the garden - 05/02/09

HARLEQUIN LADYBIRDS ...

BIRD TWITTER ...

A pair of Thrushes are regular visitors to my garden - 09/01/09

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING STORMS ...

31/08/08

BIRD TWITTER ...

Tic, tic, tic, I'm back - Not that I've ever really gone away - 14/08/08

WOODMOUSE ...

I've had a visitor to my garden. Running to and fro on steps, feasting on seed left by birds - 09/08/08

BIRD TWITTER ...

Two adult, and two juvenile Goldfinches 25/07/08 - Using the seed feeder and bird bath 02/08/08

SPARROWHAWK IN THE GARDEN ...

22/08/08 and 21/09/08 (my photo)

BIRD TWITTER ...

Dunnocks have emptied the feeder, and not for the first time - Small and slender birds, with a very healthy appetite!

PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN ...

This is what was happening in the UK today - 1.8.08

BIRD TWITTER ...

Sparrows love seed and grain put down on the path - A Woodpigeon arrives to clear up what's left!

BIRD TWITTER ...

A Great Tit family are feeding from the fatball holder - 27/06/08

PLANTS FOR FREE - PLANT ECHEVERIA OFFSETS IN OLD BRICKS ...

PLANTS FOR FREE - DIVIDE LARGE CLUMPS OF PRIMROSES ...

SPANISH BLUEBELLS ...

look and smell lovely, but are bad news. Left to seed in a native bluebell wood, in a few seasons, will overwhelm and replace the choice native

UNFURLING FRONDS ...

COMMA ...

First sighting of the year - 4/4/08 - 26/3/09

SECRET SQUIRREL DIARY ...

Hanging off fatball feeder - Feasting on seed spilled from feeder - Nibbling on an apple half left out for the blackbirds - Tearing along everyone's back fence stopping to play 'spot the feeders'!

WREN AGAIN ...

Have you heard a wren in your garden or on your allotment today? I have, couldn't have failed to, how can such a tiny bird have such a huge voice?

LEAF PICTURE ...

This lovely picture of an owl sitting in a tree under the moon is very imaginative and was put together by Ginny at The Flour Loft’s seven year old daughter. She has used bark for the trunk, flowers pressed from last year, fallen leaves from an Amelanchier tree and the rest was collected from a recent walk.

MR &

MRS SPARROW ...

HOUSE SPARROW ...

The pairs you have in your garden will be faithful to their nest site and also to each other for life. However, if their mate is lost, they will be usually be replaced within days.

SPIDER ...

I must apologise to the pair of house spiders who were unwittingly turfed out of their abode whilst I was washing out my plant pots, but why make home in a plastic pot I ask myself?

SPARROWHAWK ...

I've seen many a sparrowhawk playing at being remarkably agile in my garden over the years, but not until today had I had the opportunity to view one at such close range. Such a fascinating bird, it had decided to perch on my back fence for at least five minutes, spending the time carefully observing its surroundings. Suddenly it took me by surprise by flying off at a sharp angle low into a lilac tree. I could hear the other birds being taken by surprise too, and whether it got its catch I do not know? That was the last I saw of it.

I am a
Violet

What Flower
Are You?

WHY AM I A VIOLET ...

You have a shy personality. You tend to hesitate before trying new things or meeting new people. But once people get to know you, you open up and show the world what you are really all about - So true!

BATS ...

Most evenings at this time of year as dusk falls, a pair of bats are often seen flying rapidly around the tree.

Where the roost is, I do not know, but it must be close by.

Bats eat insects. Some eat large insects like beetles and moths. Others eat large numbers of tiny insects like midges. A pipistrelle bat can catch over 3000 midges in one night!

ROBS ...

AND JENNY ...

are such good friends in the garden. Where one goes the other follows ...