Garden observations volume 1
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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