Your day's wildlife

[nickyboy]

Stopped for a natural break on my ride today near Dunford Bridge and these little fellas caught my eye

A quick Google Lens when I got home says they're Alder Leaf Beetles. Seems an interesting insect. Long thought extinct in UK but they were found near Manchester in 2004 and suspected to have arrived in some foreign alders. Since then they've spread but are still uncommon

I'm rubbish on tree leaves. Is that an Alder they're on?

 

[Archie_tect]

A red squirrel played in the beech trees behind our garden this afternoon- it was a blustery day so it was having fun bouncing around on the whippy branches.

 

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Recent trip to the coast and marshes of N Norfolk

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Saw this beauty today. A pale tussock caterpillar apparently. The red part is its tail.

 

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I caught a very fat mouse having a little nap in one of the bird feeders.

 

[Dave 123]

Stopped for a natural break on my ride today near Dunford Bridge and these little fellas caught my eye

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A quick Google Lens when I got home says they're Alder Leaf Beetles. Seems an interesting insect. Long thought extinct in UK but they were found near Manchester in 2004 and suspected to have arrived in some foreign alders. Since then they've spread but are still uncommon

I'm rubbish on tree leaves. Is that an Alder they're on?

They are indeed.

 

[Dirk]

A Malvern hillside covered in Parasol mushrooms.
Never seen so many in one place!
The first photo doesn't really do it justice - there were over 50 that I could eyeball.

 

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I caught a very fat mouse having a little nap in one of the bird feeders.

How did he/she get in there?

 

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How did he/she get in there?

Through the hole with the light blue flange. When I tapped the feeder to wake the beastie from its slumbers, it shot out of the hole like a missile and flew five feet to the ground.

 

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Through the hole with the light blue flange. When I tapped the feeder to wake the beastie from its slumbers, it shot out of the hole like a missile and flew five feet to the ground.

yebbut, yebbut - It didn't fly/jump those 5 feet to get in there did it?

Oh - wait you said it flew out

 

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yebbut, yebbut - It didn't fly/jump those 5 feet to get in there did it?

Oh - wait you said it flew out

They climb up the metal pole. They seem to find it pretty easy.

 

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They climb up the metal pole. They seem to find it pretty easy.

Blimey. Mountaineering mice

 

[PeteXXX]

Sat on my garden fence earlier today.

I'm not sure if it's anything to do with the dead pigeon by my back door that I've just had to scoop up and dispose of!!

 

[Dave 123]

Warren Point today

 

[sheddy]

2 blackbirds presumably fighting over territory. Very vocal, chasing up and down the lane, flying in and out the bushes for 5 mins.