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2024-08-07 12:53 pm
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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
4 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
6 August
  • 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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2009-07-23 09:36 am
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Back at work? Big pile of mail? Filling come out on a bacon sandwich? Then you are me and I claim my GBP5.

So cheer your self up with a baaaby red squiggle




Also Peacock butterflies are totally goth underneath

Proper bird post to follow...
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2009-07-09 02:06 pm
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Out there are some angry bugs

Your insect of the day - If anyone can identify this even a bit I'd like to know...


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2009-07-08 11:42 am
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Bug porn!

A present for [livejournal.com profile] lovelybug and anyone else that likes that sort of thing under a cut for those that don't like our six legged pals )
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2009-07-07 12:51 pm
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Saturday was apparently invasive species day. In one short stretch of the Water of Leith by Stockbridge I saw Himalayan Balsam (lots), Rhodedendron, Fuschia, some kind of pampas grass (maybe not actually invasive, but certainly self seeded) and A family of six or seven mink kits with their mum. They were being very cute and squeaky and trying to persuade me that they wren't deadly invasive things at all...



Wuff! But Oh Noes! But Wuff!
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2009-07-01 02:28 pm
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Thank you for joining the bee of the day club

Today's bee is unidentified so far. It seems to have to much black to be a common carder. Perhaps it is a field cuckoo bumble bee - cos you get cuckoo bumble bees, which is also a cool fact...