Wildlife - wot you got?

[lyndap]

Loads of frogs in our garden pond(more frogs than fish!), and over run by ants. Squirel and plenty of birds on allotment. We get a little robin hopping around by us when it sees us digging around down there.

[Squirrel]

Stacks of birds, I think a blue tit is nesting in the nest box I have put up in the back yard. I have something wild leaving very smelly poos in the front garden, they are light beige and stink.My collie pup likes to roll in them given any chance at all!

Something, I suspect rabbits, has almost completely ring barked two of my apple trees, and I often get a beautiful cock pheasant strolling through the garden. Plenty worms, mole hills etc - all in all a lovely garden!

[WiZeR]

On our site I have seen lots of foxes, they think nothing of walking over the bed you are in the middle of digging! At the moment the cubs are running around causing havock.

Starlings, Robins; the odd cat and lots of bugs

[Nicos]

our first mosquitoes of the year!!

[JennieAtkinson]

The midges are oot tonight I've been eaten alive. I'll look as though I have chickenpox tomorrow Perhaps a day off work

[sewer rat]

Sinta
Shouldn't you call him "Two Erics" otherwise he'll only be half a bee !

[fruit&vegvirgin]

I'm being thick, you've lost me with that one Rat!

saw a black and red and white woodpecker this morning, instead of the usual green jobs.

[smallblueplanet]

Eric the half a bee was from Monty Python...SR's older than he looks!!!

We get lots of Great Spotted Woodies here, they love peanuts!! Wish we could get the green ones onto the lawn to eat the ants - I know theres some about you can hear them 'laughing' lots.

[Squirrel]

Just spotted a sulpher yellow butterfly, not a clue what it is! Any ideas? Bigger than the large white.

[Birdie Wife]

It's a Brimstone probably.

The red deer have been looking in my garden again, trying to decide whether to run the gauntlet of jumping over and risk being savaged by the cat. Rita's tiny but she'll 'av a go, to coin a phrase. One of her favourite pastimes is ambushing sheep.

[bramble]

OK, the joke is over. So it was a heron, but stranger things can happen,especially with a glass or two of Guinness.

[supagranz]

When i look out of my window all i see is rooftops(I live 5 floors up in a tower block)...We get a few pidgeons...sea gulls...foxes screaming at 3am...and the big silver ones passing by on their way to Heathrow...But up the allotment its peaceful with all manner of wildlife......Oh yes and the M25 in the background.

[JennieAtkinson]

We didn't go out in the car yesterday, so only checked under the bonnet this morning (last check was Saturday) and there was a complete nest with egg!

On Friday we had great excitement, in the field next to the house was an Osprey with a large trout in its claws which it had just caught from the Loch. Wow! Got my birdie friend out and he confirmed it was an Osprey (possibly from Scandanavia) It stayed put for about half an hour, but we haven't seen it since.

[SueA]

Jennie I am SO jealous- you have fantastic visitors even if it means you're now a one car family?
I got exited just because the squirrel reappeared yesterday.

[sewer rat]

Jennie
You are so lucky to have seen the Osprey - I've only seen them twice in four years - once actually catching a fish. It may only be a visitor but they do return and frequent the same areas year after year so if your lucks in, this could be an annual event.