Your day's wildlife

[biggs682]

First picture last night was a hog exiting it's house and the second one is it entering it's house just before 5am

 

[Dave 123]

Early purple orchid

Common Twayblade

 

[Dave 123]

From my moth trap last night

Water carpet

Scorched carpet

Common Quaker

Brindled Beauty

Garden carpet

 

[biggs682]

Over the last week or so a little black cat has been helping itself to some of the hog food we leave out.

So last night I made this and place the food under the old slabs and cat caught on camera so the hogs had all the food, need to refine it a bit.

 

[biggs682]

Just lifted this paving slab and found all snails , at least one of them (yellow spot) has been seen in our garden before

 

[Dave 123]

Flower details of Common Twayblade

 

[Dave 123]

Dandelion

 

[Dave 123]

Early Purple Orchid

 

[Poacher]

Yesterday I prepared and roasted chunks of butternut squash (plus red pepper, red onion, aubergine and garlic) for risottos.
Reluctant to waste the seeds, I roasted them with a coating of cold pressed rapeseed oil and maple syrup.
Not bad at all, but I remembered that a badger had enjoyed these even more than I did, so put most of them out in the small ceramic bowl I'd roasted them in.
Instead of badger, vixen showed up just before 21:00 and after initial suspicion, took a liking to them.





Three hours later she came back to finish them off,

and this time took the now nearly empty bowl away, for reasons best known to her.
First she took it round the left of the pond, but decided it was too risky to try slipping through the Lutyens bench with it in her mouth - fox dentists are expensive when you can even find one, and this bowl is rather unwieldy - and returned to the right of the pond. She showed her face again within a minute, so I knew she hadn't taken it far.









I found it, spotlessly clean, this morning in the farther reaches of the garden.

 

[Ridgeway]

On this afternoons ride:

Just chilling out and enjoying the sun.

Managed to stop in time and he/she just didn’t budge😂

 

[Poacher]

On this afternoons ride:

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Just chilling out and enjoying the sun.

Managed to stop in time and he/she just didn’t budge😂

Any idea on the species? My first thought was Montpellier, but I don't think they're found in Switzerland. Aesculapian maybe?

Nothing as exotic here today, but just as I was thinking about removing excess duckweed from the pond, two willing volunteers dropped in.

 

[All uphill]

 

[biggs682]

Cowslips

 

[Dave 123]

From our local woods

 

[Andy in Germany]

Buffalo.

And a friendly pig that identifies as a sheep.