What's in your garden atm?

[smallblueplanet]

I blame the thread on hornets - I thought I'd seen one...well actually I thought I saw a dragonfly darting and skimming over the lawn. Of course it wouldn't stay still but as I watched I thought, ooh err, hang on it's got a fat body and that looks like yellow stripes! But it's flying like a dragonfly...so out comes the field guide...

I think we've just had a Broad-bodied Chaser over the lawn. It says in the characteristics "The yellow spots make females and immature males look like gigantic wasps!"

- not my photo btw!

[HeyWayne]

Saw a pretty decent sized beetle last night (took a picturegraph, but my camera's at home). Was climbing up the wall by the kitchen door. Having searched google images it would appear that it could be a female stag beetle (which is what I thought/hoped it was).

Plenty of bees now I have flowering butterfly lavender and foxgloves.

[Incy]

Beetle I saw yesterday appears to have been a green June Beetle.
What we are mostly seeing though is squirrels, there must have been around 20 of them in the back corner of our garden half an hour ago. Noisy little beasts too. I think they are trying to invade

[Sonata]

I keep seeing these small lizards which are about 3" long with an orange stripe on their bellies. We did have red dragonflies (apparently actually Large Red Damselflies), and now we have gorgeous electric blue ones. Quite a few bees and bumblebees too.

More beetles and things. Some sort of fly/gnat (hopefully not fungus fly!) near the runner bean runt. I did pop some of the nematode down there so hopefully that'll take care of that. They shouldn't be in raised beds though should they?

[Madasafish]

2 pheasants, one kestrel, a fox , 2 turkeys, 20 quails, long tailed tits and lots of other birds.. (not all at once)

[HayleyB]

Bees and flies, birds galore

[FionaH]

Horse flies! nasty bite on my leg, and frogs

[Redpepper]

Loads of bees, pesky pigeons and a beautiful small blue butterfly

[jacob marley]

A young Woodpecker sitting in a Shumach tree with it's parrent feeding it nut's from a feeder hanging in the tree and stack's of young Bluetits dodging about learning where the feeders are....jacob

[IgglePiggle]

1 blackbird, 1 Sparrow... err that's it, unless I count a pigeon that stops by sometimes Had 2 slow worms at start of year but aint seen them since, think the local cats have had them

Oh and some bee's

[MrsC]

Frogs and lots of them lol. But check out this picture of one of the hedgehogs I have living in our garden. Ain't he cute! He came out for a wander late afternoon yesterday