Wildlife photos please

[veggiechicken]

Its beautiful!! Looks like a Brimstone.Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata - UKMoths

[Scarlet]

Not really "wild" life... But a photo my brother took while in France last week. Love it!

[Verinda]

Its beautiful!! Looks like a Brimstone.Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata - UKMoths

Oh yes that's it, thank you VC. I wanted a smiley here but it won't work this eve!

[veggiechicken]

Look what's happening up against my wall I've left them to it

[veg&kids]

Not too sure what type of frog this is, can't quite see it's head! but saw this down near my allotment, there is a lovely river walk there I do regularly.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Saw this chap whilst trying to tidy up the 'messy corner' of the plot on Saturday.

Is it a frog or a toad? There isn't a pond for some distance, so I would have thought it was a toad (as frogs have to live in water and toads only go back to mate?), but he is uncommonly handsome for a toad.

[PyreneesPlot]

Looks froglike to me. Our toads are all warty and have red eyes

[FB.]

Saw this chap whilst trying to tidy up the 'messy corner' of the plot on Saturday.

Is it a frog or a toad? There isn't a pond for some distance, so I would have thought it was a toad (as frogs have to live in water and toads only go back to mate?), but he is uncommonly handsome for a toad.

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Frog - definitely.

Toads are dirt-brown all over, with dry warty skin (but because they are cold the skin might at first give the sensation of wetness); frogs are usually paler, more mottled or patterned, often with a dark stripe behind the eye, and have slimy skin.

[Verinda]

Definitely a frog

[Hazel at the Hill]

Thanks all - although I'm worried about where he lives now - no ponds within a number of plots, as far as I know. Mind you, he won't starve to death with the number of slugs there are!

[KittyColdNose]

We finally have birds visiting the garden, as well as bees who love the mitsuma flowers. I am not quick enough to get a piccy of the goldfinches though.

[FB.]

Thanks all - although I'm worried about where he lives now - no ponds within a number of plots, as far as I know. Mind you, he won't starve to death with the number of slugs there are!

Frogs will travel long distances.
They don't need standing water - just somewhere damp and a food supply.

In fact, if you put a frog or toad in a bucket of water it will often drown after several hours.
Similarly; around June, when the tadpoles have their legs and their tail is shrinking, the tadpoles may also drown unless there is something for them to periodically climb onto to get out of the water.

For interest: I was out walking the countryside a few days ago and came across a tiny toad only several millimetres long and a few millimetres wide - very likely to have emerged from the water only a matter of days beforehand. So take care not to accidentally step on minute frogs and toads which are scarcely bigger than a ladybird.

[Verinda]

I love toads, they have the most beautiful golden eyes. There are no toads in Ireland, except a few rare natterjacks that only live in certain locations but I've never seen one.

[veggiechicken]

The crows have come into roost for the night. They make such a racket, squabbling about who is going to sleep on which branch. For no apparent reason, they suddenly burst out of the trees, do a circuit around the garden, and take up their positions again. I often wonder whether they return to the same branch each time

[PyreneesPlot]

Crows or rooks? What's the saying - if you see a load of crows they are probably rooks and a single rook is probably a crow. Or something like that. I'm never sure when I see them!