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30 May 18
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1 & 2 on iplayer...oc
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Steve Backshall.....Sherbourne not very dangerous....surprised he's on this !
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Goldcrests.....family of those near Leopard Towers in Ealing
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Slugs ....niche interest !
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Great programme.
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Steve carbining up a tree and will sleep in it tonight....some danger there !
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I have to record Springwatch then fast forward bits as I cannot stand that women in the Shetlands.
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We have lost the charismatic Martin Hughes-Games for BBC tick-boxing nonsense....agreed
. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-05-29/why-isnt-martin-hughes-games-on-springwatch/. |
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i had a goldcrest in me garden this year, first time i ever saw one
tiny little thing. |
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Just checked the Goldcrest pics and the birds near me are actually Goldfinches
Their songs are a bit more complex than Goldcrests it seems . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cemdoZj1F5s I'm going to play it out the window on my ph....see if there is a reaction ! Goldcrest : . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FG41MHVYvM |
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goldfinch have a beautiful song, even in flight.
i never heard my goldcrest sing, nor seen it back in the garden since its brief visit we went out to see our local skylarks singing today, amazing birds. they've just been back in area for 2 years or so, |
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Caught a few minutes of this recently, I was amazed to see Kestrels catching insects in flight with their FEET then eating them.
Learn something new every day. It puts my "accidentally eat a fly" story the other day into perspective. It wasn't disgusting, it was just proving I'm a mighty hunter, at the top of the food chain  |
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Used to go up and see my Grandma in Hordern, Co Durham, when I was a kid, ....there were always Skylarks on the hill behind her house....stunning song as they climbed upwards !
Bit sad that woodpecker taking those tree creeper chicks. JC....flies are good for you....try to eat more ! |
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Just not the ones with brown feet !
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Just played the Goldfinch singing to the Ealing Towers goldfinches.......they were looking everywhere....heads spinning....they couldn't pinpoint it to my phone....lol
1-0 ! |
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In the last few weeks I've had a plethora of blue tits and robins picking at the bird feeders but butterflies are notable by their absence as I pretty much never get them fluttering in my garden for some reason. No squirrels either but that's solely down to Muttley always chasing after them
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Need more butterfly friendly flowers maybe....must be on the interweb !
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not many butterflies up here this year, maybe the late snow did for them
theres a few white ones about, not many admirals nor peacocks yet |
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was watching the bees in me foxgloves, as i pulled a few weeds out
left door open and got two wasps and two flies in the house, mrs not pleased ... |
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hordens about 20-25 minutes away from me
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T.L. I'll have to have a look at getting butterfly friendly plants, there is a garden centre around the corner so I'll ask in there. I do like gardening, a nice sunny afternoon, 80's music playing in the background and a chilly Aspalls cider on the go and I'm sorted for a few hours
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we have a couple of buddleia bushes to feed the butterflies and redcurrants for them to lay their eggs
lots of caterpillars for the feeding birds too |
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Thanks for that tip donny, I've just looked up 'buddleia bushes' and I'll plant a few of them sometime soon.
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Gardens/gardening connect you with your ancestoral past.....that's why they are relaxing.... I reckon.
Buddleia....that's right.....was trying to recall it ! Hordern was black and grey when it rained back then.....better now. I think butterfly numbers have gone on a massive decline over 20 years. |
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They all burnt coal in their fires I suppose.
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Guardian :
Butterflies have vanished from towns and cities more rapidly than from the countryside over the past two decades, according to a new study. Industrial agriculture has long been viewed as the scourge of butterflies and other insects but city life is worse – urban butterfly abundance fell by 69% compared to a 45% decline in rural areas over 20 years from 1995. Butterfly species such as the small copper and small heath have suffered particularly disastrous urban declines, according to the study published in the journal Ecological Indicators. Scientists at Butterfly Conservation, the University of Kent and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology found that numbers of small heath fell by 78% in urban areas compared to just 17% in the countryside, while small copper abundance fell by 75% in urban areas compared to 23% in the countryside. |
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. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/16/urban-butterfly-declines-69-compared-to-45-drop-countryside |
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Buddleia is a bit of a red herring for Butterflies. It's a decent food plant for the butterfly but only once its alive and in flight, BUT its the larval food plants you need, AND most of them are weeds - Couch Grass, Stinging Nettles, Thistles, Milkmaids, Hedge Mustard, Docks, etc etc. You can plant all the Buddleia you want but without these, no butterflies!!!.
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the caterpillars also enjoy munching on hollyhock leaves
by end of summer there are a few flowers at top of stem, and no leaves all part of the balance i suppose |
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Donny - They are probably moth caterpillars!!
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On again....watch from start on Iplayer is an option....got distracted by work nonsense !
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could well be blackbarn
they eat the plants, the birds eat them we dont use pesticides, nor detergents, just try to keep the garden balanced i may remove the odd full grown snail if hedgehog cant cope, but nothing else apart from weeds |
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Not sure what happened there! Thanks for that bit of advice blackbarn.
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Had to pause prog.....no spoilers !
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Spoil away....I will read later |
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Fullers 1845 ...cold...1st one of the day....not bad
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Nasturtium flowers are very attractive to butterflies. Eggs laid on underside of leaves. Soon masses of caterpillars munching on the plants.
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