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What's currently in your garden (or out and about)?
Saw a Hummingbird hawk-moth this evening. It's a shame I couldn't catch it hovering by a flower with its proboscis out (fnarr!) but it's nice to see one. Haven't noticed many moths or butterflies yet this year.
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Flies and wasps and ants mostly.
Seen lots of rabbbits squirrels and foxes whilst out walking with the dog. Nothing very exciting though.
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other than that flowers, a lawn... a washing line.. annoying neighbours with a stinky bbq and a bunch of neanderthal work shy dole-ites on the next road , making noise till stupid o'clock.
I always remember the washing line pic frobush posted of "how many tea towels do you need" of a neighbours garden :)
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When I lived in England we had a 4x10 patch of gravel out front which belonged to the downstairs neighbours, and had a few weeds poking through the gravel, and out back I had a concrete backyard, which is probably smaller than my bedroom is now.......Oh how things change :D
Keep it that way! You'll wake up to one of these bad boys drinking your precious eyeball nectar otherwise :-p
Also - a good number of the neighbourhood felines frequent our property (my favourite is Paddy, with his bent tail) :P
...and woodpeckers, but the woodpeckers don't look much like Woody :D
The meadow is heaving with butterflies... lots of colours and some bright red things I've not identified yet
That and great big black cows (though I don't think they're wild ! They're just for grass trimming purposes!)
I sat on the grass in my garden today staring at one patch of weeds (we haven't pulled them up cause they're flowering - and look nice enough to me) and counted at least fifteen different types of bug on the one plant.... including many different types of bee.
There's some weird black 'hover flies' around currently - they fly really slow... make a lot of noise and keep getting in the house.... they're a bit thick.
Just had to catch the biggest crane fly I've ever seen in my life to let it out...was hand size! And I was thankful that this bugger didn't get in .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer though it was having a good tap at the window a while back.
I also made a video in May of some other weird creatures that were about ...
Arrrghhh..! (Shuts windows and hides under duvet..)
I think he's cute
Apart from mosquitos who are complete c*nts!
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Wow -nice photography..
cute moth
As it happens I saw a trampled cockchafer on the pavement this afternoon, which is the only type of cockchafer I've ever seen. Maybe people think they're a cockroach and crush them.
Not really anymore bug-related stuff on it though ! Poor thing...I should trample them... accidentally thinking they're human
I like robins. My in-laws used to have one that they trained to eat out of our hands. Vicious territorial buggers to each other though. They're the cats of the avian world.