A few birds in the garden
All the birds are busy mating and nesting and are quite lively at the moment, hunting round the garden for nesting material. The sparrows nest in the corner of the house roof by the guttering and do the same next ...
Spiders
The Living Rainforest – a few oddments
This last post from my visit to The Living Rainforest just has a few things not featured in the separate posts. I am starting with the Salmon Pink Bird-eating Spider - everyone's favourite! Despite its name, it is not pink ...
Ice everywhere
Another very cold day and most of the lakes largely frozen over with just a few clear patches of water. Lots of frost covering the ground and vegetation giving an eerie white glow. Not many photos as too busy today ...
A few oddments
Some of the leaves are still on the trees but many have already fallen. The Greenfinch are being greedy and eating far too much birdseed... The scruffy Coal Tit is starting to look a little neater but isn't quite there yet! This is ...
One or two little Spiders…..
It is also a good time of year to see spiders. Their webs seems to be everywhere, often with the spider sitting patiently in the middle awaiting its prey. The shrubs outside my front window are full of spiders and ...
Where there are webs…
Where there are webs, there are bound to be spiders waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey, or as in the case of this garden spider, building an extension to his home.
Short visit to the lake
I had a short visit to the lake yesterday before the rain set in again. There was a nice Little Egret on the scrape as well as lots of ducks. You can see the bright orangey-red head of the Pochard duck ...
Short Walks
It has been getting much chillier here and today the rain has been teeming down since early morning. I have only been on three short walks, one round Southlake, one round Maiden Erlegh lake, and one to Crowthorne and didn't ...
In the Garden
As well as the butterflies and moths, there is plents of other activity in the garden. The pond is doing well and attracting various insects including a very nice damselfly. The frogs and goldfish seem happy enough and are very ...
Garden and Pond update
When we put the pond in, we placed a couple of large pieces of slate under the water in the shallower end with a slate bridge over the top to give the frogs somewhere to both shelter and also to ...
Recent Walks
As well as the individual dragonflies I have posted separately, I have seen some quite interesting things in the last few days. It is a bit of a mish-mash, but here goes. Firstly, a nice little grasshopper. As I was leaving ...
Pond Life
Since discovering a pond in a meadow not far from where I live, I have spent some time watching the various wildlife both in and around it. I have managed to spot quite a few newts. There are three kinds ...
Spiders
I often see lots of webs when out walking, from ground level up, but don't always see many spiders. However, I have recently seen several different kinds of spiders and managed to get some photos. Not all spider make webs ...
Snakes and Slow Worms revisited
I enjoyed seeing the slow worms (Anguis fragilis) and snakes so much I went back for another look. It was only a short visit as there were lots of biting insects in the air and they all seemed to make a ...
Ladybirds
I see lots of ladybirds (Coccinellidae) while out and about. They are very beneficial in the garden as they eat aphids and other insects and are also considered lucky in many places. These two caught my eye as I left ...
Window activity
I often have spiders on the outside of my windows and try not to disturb them too much. Today I was watching a little spider moving about on his web on the outside of my front window - which has ...
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