After September’s new garden visitor the Comma butterfly to my sunnier front garden, the Red Admiral butterfly has now made an appearance or two for October! Hurrah for some sunny, dry afternoons/early evenings to get out and watch them… with a camera to hand of course 😉 What a delight it is to see butterflies… Read More Early October visitor: Red Admiral Butterfly
Spotted feeding on a Sedum a week ago, my cameras captured images and my books confirmed an ID to be the Comma Butterfly. I always love to see a new visitor to my garden. The interesting story on this species is that back in the 20th Century it was in serious decline and in recent… Read More New garden visitor: Comma Butterfly
“• Over 70% of the badger population in large areas of the country will be killed, many of them healthy. • The method of free-shooting badgers could cause severe to many thousands of badgers. • Independent scientific studies have shown that culling would be of little help in reducing bovine TB, and even suggest that… Read More e-petition to stop badger cull
You were the first Osprey chick to be fitted with a satellite tracking device from the Osprey nest at SWT Loch of the Lowes in Perthshire, Scotland. Your stats tell us you left Lowes and began your Autumn migration at 10am on Saturday 9th September 2012. Oh Blue… so many people are wishing a safe… Read More bye bye Blue44… we’ll still be watching you
A garden newbie arriving July 2012 that I like 🙂 This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in September 2012.
Being completely truthful, the much anticipated first flower spikes of Digitalis parviflora ‘Milk Chocolate’ were a bit of a disappointment. This plant arrived in my garden last year yielding no flowers in its initial (guessing too shady) position so… I moved it. During the move (sometime in Spring) I took the opportunity to pull my… Read More Bee friendly: Digitalis parviflora ‘Milk Chocolate’
The sun has had its hat on… la la la la la… the bees fed on the Heucheras… oh… la la la la la 🙂 So, why might I be singing… la la la la la… ‘Bowles’ Mauve’ (perennial wallflower Erysimum) has brought us a butterfly… tra la la la la la 😉 This Small… Read More Yay… a butterfly… time to count!
What a sweetie… See original video source here. Note this is not my video.Video location: overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. Previous post: Photos and video of Great Spotted Woodpecker family. This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in July 2012.
What fun this young Woodpecker family was to watch from the observation window at the Visitor Centre of SWT Loch of the Lowes. They stayed a while as Mum pecked out peanuts from a feeder, ground them down in the crack of a tree branch and fed her newly fledged chicks. Interestingly she was seen… Read More Great Spotted Woodpecker family & GBBD
Gotcha! This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in July 2012. These images were taken at the Visitor Centre observation window at SWT Reserve Loch of the Lowes.