Chucky's Nature Notes

...well first off the weather brightened up a little bit at last. Although I do have to admit to quite liking seeing the birdies outside all fluffed up in the wet, whilst I am nice and snug indoors (especially those naughty crows!). Mr Wagtail is still visiting the garden, but not as regularly anymore - I guess he has his hands full with the fledglings - teaching them to forage through the woods. And Doris was a little terror when mummy went out to a BBQ and left her having the run of the garden - but she does the innocent face so well! You wouldn't think she had burrowed under the garden gate and gotten onto the front street!!  Anyway, the hedgehog is once again a regular visitor to the garden, but we haven't heard the second hedgehog coming in as yet. Mummy wants to make a hedgehog house and get some proper hedgehog food also (although I am sure there are plenty of slugs - you only have to watch the nature cam to see that!).  The Blackbird want...

Hey guys, The Nature Cam is currently broken and mummy is trying to fix it. However, I have a backlog of photos to share with you anyway. First off we have Mr. Crow at the end of June, when he found the peanut butter feeder had been replaced. He was back and forth all afternoon for this, but on his own! No babies coming in to the garden just yet - I just hope he wasn't feeding the babies just this fatty stuff! He is also still up to his tricks with the fat balls - this is a lovely photo of him: We also did get a brief glimpse of this little guy at the end of June, however he is not coming into the garden so often now that the babies have fledged - I think they are teaching them to hunt out in the wooded area, and round the houses. And at the beginning of July our hedgehog came to say hi again too. And on the first day of July we got to see the little baby crow!! Only one though, so far. Last year we had three and they were little terrors. This one isn...

Hello again everybody, I am back :) Firstly I have some local inverts to share with you. The ladybird larva are firstly a 7-spot, and secondly a harlequin. They are both surviving together quite happily on the large patch of nettles on the local lake. There are even some 2-spot ladybird larva, but no photos of them unfortunately. Next is Mummy's new babies. These are Steatoda grossa babies (a sub-species of False Widow) and aren't they just the most gorgeous little things with their rather red bottoms! They are also voracious. The fruit flies are twice their size, but they take them down with hardly a pause! Amazing to watch. From the garden last month we had a kitty cat AGAIN. They are coming more regularly now! A greedy crow - well I guess it does have young to feed at the moment. I wonder how long before the young are coming in to take all the food too?? The hedgehog once again - mummy needs to get a hedgehog shelter and proper hedgehog food,...