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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Small tortoiseshell on thistledown

how about this for somewhere soft to rest


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Welcome to my Garden Gate

I consider myself so fortunate to live in a beautiful part of the English Countryside where very few people visit. I have lived in this special place for quite a few years and now I want to share some of it's treasures with you, I hope you will agree it truly is a special place.

Home back in 1920's

Home back in 1920's

BBC Springwatch Unsprung fame

BBC Springwatch Unsprung fame
Mite infested Mason bee

Spring crocus

Spring crocus

Daffodils

Daffodils

primrose

primrose

primula

primula

Helibores

Helibores

folfalarium

folfalarium

Aquilegia

Aquilegia


Water Avens

Water Avens

Rambling Rector

Rambling Rector

Birds seen or heard from my garden gate since November 2009

  • Hobby
  • bar-headed goose
  • barn owl
  • blackbird
  • blackheaded gull
  • blue tit
  • brambling
  • bullfinch
  • buzzard
  • canada goose
  • carrion crow
  • chaffinch
  • chiffchaff
  • coal tit
  • collared dove
  • cormorant
  • cuckoo
  • curlew
  • dunnock
  • fieldfare
  • goldfinch
  • grasshopper warbler
  • great spotted woodpecker
  • great tit
  • green woodpecker
  • greenfinch
  • hen harrier
  • heron
  • house martin
  • house sparrow
  • jackdaw
  • jay
  • kestrel
  • lapwing
  • little egret
  • long tailed tit
  • magpie
  • mallard
  • marsh harrier
  • marsh tit
  • meadow pipit
  • mistle thrush
  • mute swan
  • nuthatch
  • oyster catcher
  • peregrine falcon
  • pheasant
  • pied wagtail
  • raven
  • red kite
  • red legged partridge
  • redpoll
  • redshank
  • redwing
  • reed bunting
  • robin
  • rook
  • sedge warbler
  • shellduck
  • short eared owl
  • shoveller
  • siskin
  • snipe
  • song thrush
  • sparrowhawk
  • starling
  • stock dove
  • swallow
  • swift
  • tawny owl
  • teal
  • tree sparrow
  • treecreeper
  • tufted duck
  • water rail
  • wigeon
  • willow warbler
  • woodpigeon
  • wren

Great Tit

Great Tit

Blue Tit

Blue Tit

swallow

swallow

Robin

Robin

Nuthatch

Nuthatch

brambling

brambling

Mammals seen from my garden

  • Brown Hare
  • Brown Rat
  • Grey Squirrel
  • Noctule Bat
  • Polecat
  • Rabbit
  • Red Fox
  • Wood Mouse

Moth

Moth
Purple and Gold Pyralid ( Pyrausta purpuralis)

Hummingbird Hawk Moth

Orange Tip Butterfly

Ringlet Butterfly

Ringlet Butterfly

Comma butterfly

Comma butterfly

Speckled Wood

Speckled Wood

Large Skipper Butterfly

Large Skipper Butterfly

Meadow Brown Butterfly

Meadow Brown Butterfly

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

Green Veined White Butterfly

Green Veined White Butterfly

holly blue butterfly

holly blue butterfly

brimstone

brimstone

Butterflies seen from my garden gate since November 2009

  • brimstone
  • comma
  • common bue
  • gatekeeper
  • green veined white
  • holly blue
  • large skipper
  • large white
  • meadow brown
  • orange tip
  • painted lady
  • peacock
  • red admiral
  • ringlet
  • small copper
  • small heath
  • small skipper
  • small tortoiseshell
  • small white
  • speckled wood
  • speckled wood
  • wall

Moths found in our garden

  • Agopeta zogamma
  • Antler
  • August Thorn
  • Bird cherry ermine
  • Blood-vein
  • Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
  • Canary-shouldered Thorn
  • Chinese Character
  • Cloaked Minor
  • Clouded Border
  • Common Carpet
  • Common Footman
  • Common Rustic
  • Copper Underwing
  • Crescent
  • Dark arches
  • Dingy footman
  • Drinker
  • Dun-Bar
  • Dusky Thorn
  • Early Thorn
  • Euzophera pinguis
  • Flame Carpet
  • Flame Shoulder
  • Flounced Rustic
  • Ingrailled Clay
  • Lesser Broad bordered yellow Underwing
  • Lesser yellow Underwing
  • Lunar Yellow Underwing
  • Magpie
  • Mother of pearl
  • Mottled Rustic
  • Oak hook-tip
  • Pebble Prominent
  • Riband wave
  • Rosy Rustic
  • Ruby Tiger
  • Shaded Broad-bar
  • Silver Y
  • Small fan-footed wave
  • Small Rivulet
  • Smokey Wainscot
  • Snout
  • Suspected
  • Swallow Prominent
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