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I've been doing very small sets of garden observations on Facebook, and since Facebook sucks balls I'm going to do a roundup here
12 July
I don't know how people identify insects, and I'm not sure I want to learn, but in a brief species count in my garden at like midday in the sun I found.
- Wood pigeon that I scared off the feeder as I went out
- Lesser black backed gulls making a racket
- A smol bumble bee of some kind
- Teeny tiny flies, too small to see except by movement
- A suspiciously clothes moth looking moth
- Tiny bits of spider silk but no visible spiders
- Smol (5mm ish) long bodied black flies
- Similar size and shape flies with bronzy orange body
- Long (1cm+) black bodied fly/beetle
- 5mm ish round bodied fly with very see through wings
- A bluebottle
- A similar to bluebottle but noticeably smaller fly
- An woodlouse
- A suspiciously familiar black cat who kept following me around scaring the creatures
21 July
- Beeeee!
- Smol hovering flies with brown bodies
- Tinies flies, lots of them
- The smallest possible spider
- Is it a seed or is it a pupa? Who can say?
- Swifts doing an eeeeeeeee!
- Lesser black back gulls squabbling
- An domestic cat
- An mouse, sad victim of said cat
- Some foam on the heather which may be hiding a creature
- A garden snail, trying to unalive itself in my watering can
- A much smaller snail, resting in the crack of the back door5 August
- A blackbird, eating rowan berries and then making an annoying wheezy squeal in the sycamore tree
- The world's teeniest spider, which I actually got a photo of by putting my hand behind its web so the camera would focus
- A lovely glossy almost purple shield bug
- Beee
- A very basic beige moth
- Some kind of hovering fly who was mostly black with thin pale stripes
- Black lies on the stem of a sad sunflower
- Some other kind of long bodied 3-5mm blackish fly
- Collared doves flying over
- Very noisy lesser black backed gulls who are a permanent feature
- The sound of a probably blue tit (unless that was the wheezy blackbird warming up)
- Much more orangey hovering flies
- A.N. other bee who was more orange
- A bluebottle
- one sparrow who immediately flew away. There used to be dozens of them, even after I acquired a little cat, so not sure why they've all gone or become invisible - maybe the weird weather is affecting their food.
- One (1) black ant
- One large? white butterfly who briefly flitted across and into next door.
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Going round Saughton Park yesterday morning saw plenty of bees of several types, but only two butterflies. I've seen only one other one while here and it's been very low numbers at home too - they're clearly having a tough year.
Something(s) have bitten me in about a dozen places...
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