Your day's wildlife

[biggs682]

Been keeping a close eye on our purple sprouting plants for these egg's from the cabbage white butterfly .

Got to get rid of them otherwise the emerging caterpillars eat all of your crop .

These were spotted as I wheeled the bike to the garage .

 

[snorri]

There's a half tide rock on the shore here. During the period when it's surrounded by water, but not covered, it has been a popular perch for a number of years for an osprey to devour a fish that it had caught earlier. Yesterday I noticed a flurry of gulls harassing the osprey during its meal. Eventually the osprey picked up the fish in its talons and flew off to a more peaceful dining area.
I hadn't seen this behaviour before, perhaps the gulls felt there was safety in numbers..

 

[biggs682]

Some purple sprouting munching caterpillars

 

[philk56]

It's nesting time over here and looks like there should be offspring from this local resident Osprey pair

 

[Mart44]

Magpies sunbathing in the garden

 

[Illaveago]

A meal for two !

I spotted this cheeky wasp helping itself to a meal.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I spotted this cheeky wasp helping itself to a meal.

Isn't that a wasp being a meal?

 

[Illaveago]

Isn't that a wasp being a meal?

No I think it is being very careful hiding .
I feel sorry for the honey bee. The web is in an elm sucker in amongst the lavender.

 

[KneesUp]

The Common Garden Spider referred to here

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Went to the Rhayader Red Kite feeding centre the other day, very impress, got there about 15 minutes early & there was about 20 soaring around, then as the feeding time approached the numbers increased, no idea how many there actually was but several hundred I think.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Couple of Red Kites flying around north of Ludlow the other day on my ride back from #2 daughter

 

[johnblack]

Couple of Red Kites flying around north of Ludlow the other day on my ride back from #2 daughter

There are loads round my way, one of the main re-introduction sites was Chilterns - Oxon - Northants, probably see just as many as I do Buzzards. It would be rare not to see one on a ride.

 

[Mart44]

I dunno, I looked out of the window and there was another bloomin' brown bear sitting on the lawn. There's been so many this year that I can't keep up with chasing them off!

...OK, it's really a photo I took at Whipsnade Zoo a few years ago but that doesn't sound half so exciting.

 

[snorri]

I dunno, I looked out of the window and there was another bloomin' brown bear sitting on the lawn.

I was about to say"You call that a lawn?"
Then I read the next line.

 

[Mart44]

It looks better than our 'lawn' at the moment.

I suppose the grass in the photo is going to have 'bear' patches.