Wildlife photos please

[meteor]

It gets rather congested in the morning and Cyril becomes suspicious

[Nannysally99]

Lovely photos Meteor, if we had one if them I wouldn't get any work done
Fascinating

[bearded bloke]

It gets rather congested in the morning and Cyril becomes suspicious

I reckon it's the noise made by those yellowhammers that scare Cyril off bud

[meteor]

Cyril shares his breakfast with friends, another squirrel and a great tit, taken by a second camera, sorry about the quality

[Verinda]

Fabulous pictures Meteor!

[Guest]

Unfortunately no photo but the nightjar is back. For those who want a memory jog it is the one that sounds like you are trying to tune an old dial radio

[Nicos]

We ran out of peanuts a couple of weeks ago and bought some fat balls containing a mixture of seeds.

Anyway- my OH has just called me over to see the bird feeder cos there is an unusual bird there. Not recalled seeing it before- so I googled it.

It's a female siskin.

didn't manage to get a photo, but I thought you might like to see a piccie of one...they are tiny finches- smaller than some of the bluetits feeding at the same feeding station!

[Verinda]

Wow what a fab photo Nicos. We have siskins here too but they only turn up occasionally.

[Small pumpkin]

Spring must be in the air.





For those who don't have a magnifying glass handy. It's pheasant fighting. Original photos look quite good

[Bigmallly]

I can't see owt SP................

[Guest]

Unfortunately no photo but the nightjar is back. For those who want a memory jog it is the one that sounds like you are trying to tune an old dial radio

Ok I was a bit to eager, it is not back. We have however got last years 3 peewits plus another 2. I will try and take a pic but I doubt it will be very good as they are usually quite a way from the house

[Bigmallly]

I tried the camera out for the first time last night, I must have done something wrong with the time settings as it turned off at midnight. I got plenty of nothing photos and just the one with a creature, better luck tonight:

[Gillykat]

Ok I was a bit to eager, it is not back. We have however got last years 3 peewits plus another 2. I will try and take a pic but I doubt it will be very good as they are usually quite a way from the house

I thought it was a touch early for returning Nightjars But seeing as how you're further south than me I thought that perhaps they DO get to your area earlier

When we lived in a farm cottage in the middle of nowhere (it was sheer heaven to me!) we always knew Spring was on it's way once the Lapwings started their crazy calling and flights over the fields around us

[Gillykat]

A couple of pics from the allotment today ~ another Honey Bee on the pulmonaria and a Tachypodoiulus niger (aka which I found in the polytunnel and moved to the less-dry compost heap after I took it's pic! Did you know there are around 65 different types of Millipede in the UK? No? Me neither till I googled it!

In the course of pottering around I also saw a small Ground Beetle scurry across the fruit bed soil, various 'bluebottle' flies in the tunnel and on the daffodils, a Hoverfly on the comfrey patch and a Wolf Spider in the raised bed area...and my neighbour had a Bumble Bee sunning herself on his plot. All lovely signs after this terrible wet and dismal winter. Spring is on it;s way and soon we'll be rejoicing the return of the Swifts and Swallows and Chiffchaff singing from every treetop

[Nicos]

Siskin update...
She came back...with her boyfriend!
And boy they don't half peck at and flap their wings at the great tits!

Oh...and yesterday, near the coast , we heard a skylark singing it's little head off

Isn't Spring lovely?