Wildlife photos please

[Jungle Jane]

A couple of mallards turned up at my parents house & 15 ducklings

[veggiechicken]

What a gorgeous garden, JJ, and all the better for ducks.

[Nicos]

Wow!...what is it burnie?

[veggiechicken]

Is it a yellowhammer?
Lovely photo, burnie.

[burnie]

Sorry it's a Yellowhammer

[muck lover]

Yes i get the irony


Muck lover goes to a fair bit of effort to attract bees and other beneficials into the polytunnel.
Limnanthes,flowering raab broccoli and dandelions(!) all to tempt them in to pollinate the strawberries.
Today at last a bee was busy attending to the flowers. A middle sized one with a punky ginger tufty hairdo.
However it was almost time to close up the tunnel for the evening I spent ages trying to shoo the thing out.
Yes I get the irony but I am assuming she has parenteral responsibilities.

[jonahjonah]

One of my favorite things about the allotment. I removed the black plastic sheeting from my previously roughly dug over patch of land and something caught my eye. Glove-clad index finger included for scale. I actually saw two of them - careful digging required.

[Jungle Jane]

The hedgehog just now in the garden

[muck lover]

This morning at the car park at work I saw these little birds(?finches of some sort) pecking enthusiastically at the wall.
I watched them for ages and started the working day with a smile.

[jackarmy]

Goldfinches, that looks like snow lol
could be after calcium from the cement mix
just a guess tho .)

[DannyK]

Athenian Hi-vis bumblebee.

[DannyK]

Swallow nesting in busy shopping street in Athens. Am told it's been nesting there for years.

[Chris11]

Saw what I thought was an unusual bee/wasp in the greenhouse, and have now identified it as an Early Mining-Bee.

It seems they're not that rare or unusual, but I don't remember seeing one before. Pleased to see another sign that my wildlife-friendly gardening and companion planting is bringing more species to visit

Couldn't get a picture myself, but here's one of the same species from britishnatureguide.com :

[Small pumpkin]

Common red damselfly
Sat on my garlic. Probably better places to shelter from the rain.



Not best photo in the world, but not bad for an iPad photo.

[veggiechicken]

No photo but I've just evicted one of these from the kitchen. Saw it earlier in the GH. Absolutely huge!!

Beginners bees, wasps & ants: Vespa crabro - hornet | BWARS