Nature in the rain

Well yesterday was rather awful as we got a storm hit, and the wind and rain didn't stop. However the blue tits were still coming into the garden (not when mummy was around of course, they have gotten very good at hiding from her) and they do amuse the little birdies. Florance especially likes to sit in the corner of her cage watching them. The crows do still come in occasionally too, although they are getting much more independant now. The wild thing that we wanted to note from yesterday was this flower that is growing next to Doris's run, and it is about to flower. It has sticky leaves too!

We have tried to ID this plant, but no luck as yet, so any help appreciated!

I wish mummy had taken me out in the car with her this morning. She saw a family of Magpies playing around on the rooftops this morning. Initially it looked like the typical corvid terretorial spat, but then they started sliding on the roof and then flying back up to throw the next one down the roof. There were six in total, but two were just looking on at the rest! I would have loved to have been up there with them - it does sound like such fun!

We have a couple of photographs today. The first is this little micromoth:

It looks like a red-barred Tortrix, but that would make it very out of season, so it must be something similar. We will post the picture in the moth group on facebook and see if we can get an id!

I also though this one was a fun picture -

you can just see her legs holding onto the web and waiting for something to get caught so she can run out and grab it!! These garden spiders are all so unique in their way of hunting. Somesit in the centre of the web, while others hide away like this. I wonder if it has more to do with the location of the web, or if they are different species of spiders?

Anyway, I will leave you with the ham-fisted carrot we got out of the bed earlier. Doris got this one, although the guinea pigs got some of the fingers each.