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Bees...butterflies...and moths....
Bees...butterflies...and moths....
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 Pink flowers on Lemon Thyme  ...(plant bought for 2 quid 2 years ago....now through division have 4 or 5 dotted around in pots) |
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Taken 4 July 1302.
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 , but just been sitting in the garden with a cup of tea, next to the honeysuckle, and there was a Hummingbird Hawk-Moth on it. Not only have I never seen one in my garden before, I've never even seen one before. What a not-so-little beauty. |
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....amazing flowermyth.......
..would love to see one of those |
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as said earlier on this excellent thread in most of those pound shops you can buy cheap flower seeds ,as a lot of our wildlife depend on flowers etc why not scatter a pack of seeds or 2 on wasteland or hedgeroads in your area and give the wildlife a helping hand no need to water them mother nature will do the rest ,even if a small percentage of forumites followed suit it would make a difference
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and how satisfying when you revisit in a year and see spectacular results !^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Some very artistic photos here egner, lovely use of colour.
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Flowermyth - Make sure you take a close look (if you haven't already) at your Hummingbird Hawkmoth feeding. They have an enormous feeding proboscis as long as itself. Sorry if you know this. We get them here in Sussex nearly every year but not had one yet.
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...great stuff Foyleswar...
..thanks foinavon ..... ...hopefully they will move a little North And west to Oxford blackbarn...would love to see one.... |
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Egner - This geographic stuff is always very frustrating. We had three breeding pairs of Nightingales within 800 yards of the cottage this year, BUT just one sighting (so far) this year of a Red Kite - You no doubt have dozens of the b ugg ers.
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....loads of Red Kites blackbarn....beautiful.........one that swoops over my sisters garden so low about five miles away in Abingdon that you can see its eyes!!!!!!!
..plus others that are larger over Oxford...been trying to find out what they are...Buzzards maybe.... ..would gladly swap for a Nightingale though.....never seen one...never heard one...... |
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Egner - an excellent Nightingale recording here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkZRO-FYTM
It has been edited and you need to turn the sound down BUT from 2 minutes in it is perfect. (The first two minutes is a mix of warm up practice tunes and I am not kidding here) I thought I'd be jealous of your Red Kites having seen them on the M40. Not sure what the others would be, Buzzards are smaller/same as (depending on sex) Red Kites. Perhaps someone else will know. |
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they probably are buzzards egner majestic birds I see them hunting in the fields when I am at my caravan at the south coast in the last 3 decades or so they have moved right across the country ,although gamekeepers have been poisoning the poor creatures !
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thanks Blackbarn...that is amazing.....would be amazing to here that in the natural environment....you are very lucky.
yes Foyles......majestic indeed...shame some people cant find more enlightened solutions to work with nature rather than use blunt instruments such as poison. |
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Foyles - they're not bigger than Red Kites though, which is how he described them.
Gamekeepers don't poison Buzzards as they are easily shot (illegally admittedly) and if my local pair again take this year's clutch of my pair of Kestrel chicks, that is exactly what will happen to them.  Too many Buzzards!!! |
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its nature tho blackbarn regarding the kestrels and it usually evens itself out ,the poisoning or shooting of the buzzards is wrong in my eyes but don't think it will stop !
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Foyles - the argument around leaving nature to carry on without intervention is completely lost, even the RSPB agree and this principle is enshrined in law. We are too far down the line for nature to even itself out. You just need to agree where to draw YOUR line. Rabbits? Squirrels? Magpies? Crows? Buzzards? Badgers?
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yeah you and the rspb may be right but not so long ago you would never see a buzzard in the south of England ,now we have peragrin falcons in London , see loads of badgers dead in the roads on the way to the south coast and back poor feckas too slow to avoid the traffic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=legzXQlFNjs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7lglchYNew
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Foyles - "yeah you and the rspb may be right but not so long ago you would never see a buzzard in the south of England ,now we have peragrin falcons in London , see loads of badgers dead in the roads on the way to the south coast and back poor feckas too slow to avoid the traffic.
Foyles - I hold no brief for the RSPB, I was merely challenging your statement that "it usually evens itself out" My view is that it doesn't, and for many species the RSPB agree. You make a specific point about Buzzards but then muddle that up with Peregrine Falcons and badgers. I am here for a debate on any of these... As a start to the debate, here in Mid Sussex, there are far too many Buzzards, too many badgers (given our Hedgehog population) and too few Peregrines (for obvious reasons) |
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 Limnanthes Douglasii...(Poached Egg Plant) in the sun....... grown from seed and planted out as plugs...very easy to grow and flowers forever...as well as attracting bees.... butterflies and hoverflies. ..the fact it attracts Hoverflies means its a great companion plant to some vegetables as the hoverflies eat aphids ..blackfly...and other bugs. ..great if you grow tomatoes or beans.....also great to grow just for the sake of!!! Taken 7 July 1628. ..more info here... http://www.seedaholic.com/limnanthes-douglasii-3.html#Flowers |
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 ..and some more .taken 7 July 1620 |
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 ...and some more. Taken 7 July 1627. |
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 ...and some more!!! Taken 7 July 1630 |
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 ..some simple Pink Cosmos (bought as plug plants) Taken 7 July 1319 |
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 ..Bumblebee on White Nepeta (catmint)... Taken 7 July 1316 |
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...in spite of the wind today....managed to follow this fella around the garden for a while....
 ...a Comma Butterfly....here on a Privet leaf. Taken 7 July at 1546. |
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 ...the same Comma Butterfly on a Foxglove leaf... Taken 7 July at 1544. |
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 ..and here he is on a Corn Marigold Taken 7 July at 1549 |
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 ..and finally on a spent Phacelia Tanacetifolia flower...the little fella was flitting around all over the place... Taken 7 July at 1559. |
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 ....Limnanthes Douglasii mixing with white Cosmos Sonata..... Taken 7 July at 1301 |
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Nice double for you last night at Brighton ?
Hawk Moth - won 11/1 Flutterbee. - won 16/1 Were you on ?  |
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...unfortunately not facts.......would have been nice  |
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Autistic gardner on ch 4 now.......
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Yep, should be different !
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 ...Bumbleebee on its way to an Echium Blue Bedder (grown from seed).... Taken 9 July at 1041. |
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 ...almost there! Taken 9 July at 1041. |
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An invasion of Painted Lady butterflies from Europe has been promised. Not seen one in my area this year. Have you egner ?
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 ......Potentilla "Gibsons Scarlet" flower..... Taken 9 July at 1105. |