tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64956186492331031172024-03-12T21:25:10.166-07:00Views from my Garden GateCome and visit me
at my Garden Gate
as its secrets slowly reveal.Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-21308509623986224032017-01-29T14:46:00.000-08:002017-01-29T14:46:09.918-08:00Big Garden Birdwatch 2017Well it is that time of the year again! I can't believe I haven't posted on here in a year - Must try harder this year<br />
Today between 1.30pm and 2.30pm we chose to participate in the annual R.S.P.B. Big Garden Birdwatch, the weather was grey with drizzle for the most part which may have been the reason we didn't get the birds in the numbers we are used to seeing,<br />
Our results were as follows<br />
3 Great Tit<br />
5 Goldfinch<br />
3 Blue Tit<br />
8 Wood Pigeon<br />
9 Blackbird<br />
2 Dunnock<br />
5 Jackdaw<br />
2 Chaffinch<br />
1 Stock dove<br />
1 Long-tailed Tit<br />
3 Robin<br />
2 Magpie<br />
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker<br />
1 Coal Tit<br />
1 Song Thrush<br />
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It really was a quiet hour, making it very easy to count the birds!<br />
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Of course as always there were early and late visitors which didn't make an appearance during the hour but did at other times such as a large flock of redwings which showed up in the morning perching in an ash tree and a nuthatch spent the morning visiting the feeder every 10 minutes or so but didn't show itself at all during the hour and then this fieldfare was on our lawn for a good fifteen minutes half an hour after our count ended!<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-26773516065624762452016-01-31T09:41:00.000-08:002016-01-31T09:41:07.355-08:00Big Garden Birdwatch weekend It is that time of year again when we stand looking out of our bedroom window for an hour watching and counting all our garden visitors to take part in the <a href="https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdwatch">RSPB's annual Big Garden Birdwatch</a>. <div>
It has been a rubbish winter for garden birds this year, as far as our unusual winter visitors are concerned we have only seen one redpoll in our garden and no bramblings or siskins at all - in fact the only birds we have seen in our garden this winter that have been different to our regular visitors have been one male bullfinch which paid us a brief visit one morning earlier on this month and a goldcrest that has flitted through our hawthorn hedge every day. But as we have discovered from previous years, birds are not predictable - we have had plenty of regular visitors give a no show for the hour and others make a first appearance, so how would this year fair?</div>
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this is the view from our bedroom window, as you can see we look down at our bird feeder in our back yard, most of the birds feeding on these fly off to the hedge to eat and shelter from the sparrowhawk that flies through two or three times a day, very rarely managing to pick a bird off the feeder, we were hoping that it might fly through today and rest on the utility roof for a while before heading off again, no such luck! Our feeders are filled with sunflower hearts and we also have a suet cake hanging from the feeder too, on the ground we have an old large casserole which is now a bird bath and have emptied some sunflower hears onto the ground too for this weekend only! As we look out over fields too we include part of the field in our count - we often have jackdaws, pigeons and stock doves land in the field and the pigeons and stock doves also come into our yard clearing up the seeds the finches drop from the feeders. Occasionally we also see thrushes and green woodpeckers in the field so again kept our fingers crossed for those too.</div>
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We also checked the side garden and front of house too at times but as most of our bird action happens at the back of the house we always had someone counting there </div>
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Our count took place from 10.40 am to 11.40 am weather was overcast with some light drizzle at times, brightening up slightly for the last 10 minutes or so. participants in the count today were myself, Mr S and my daughter joined in for some of it too!</div>
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Goldfinch 6 </div>
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Blue tit 4 </div>
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Great tit 2</div>
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coal tit 1</div>
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blackbird 4</div>
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robin 2</div>
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dunnock 2</div>
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goldcrest 1</div>
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reed bunting 1</div>
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jackdaw 17</div>
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magpie 1</div>
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woodpigeon 4</div>
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stock dove 3</div>
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obvious highlights goldcrest and reed bunting (both of these photos taken from my bedroom, through our double glazed windows) </div>
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Missing that regularly visit 20 long tailed tits, wren, nuthatch and greenfinch and it would have been great to have included a redpoll or two along with a brambling, siskin, green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker. we did hear a tawny calling from a nearby tree and 7 Canada geese flew over too but couldn't include either of those. hey ho.</div>
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Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-5876572301056678082015-08-21T07:26:00.001-07:002015-08-21T07:26:40.103-07:00Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillarAfter the large numbers of elephant hawkmoths we have had in our traps this summer I shouldn't have been surprised to find an elephant hawkmoth caterpillar in our garden, but wow! what a treat - I almost didn't go over to investigate when I spotted i,t as the sun was shining behind it from where I was standing so it just looked like a large dark shrivelled leaf, which wouldn't have been unexpected as the caterpillar was a fuchsia plant which is still waiting to be planted and I keep forgetting to water it! - Any way something made me go back and take a closer look - I am so pleased I did - this is my first ever Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar and it has not disappointed me!<br />
Firstly here are some of the elephant hawkmoths from one of our mothing sessions this summer - along with some poplar hawkmoths - the elephants are the pink ones!<br />
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and here is today's Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-15985102433702601512015-04-25T02:53:00.000-07:002015-04-25T02:53:17.528-07:00It's nest building time This week the cattle returned to the common and it hasn't taken the jackdaws long to discover them! This morning when we were checking the moths from last nights trap, the cattle decided to walk over to see what was going on, at first they all lined up along the fence watching us, but soon realised not a lot was happening so then most of them lay down on the grass and chilled.<br />
That was when the jackdaws arrived, there were at least 3 pairs , but they weren't landing on the grass, instead they were landing on the cattle! - they then proceeded to peck out large beak fulls of hair and then fly off - some to our chimneys, with their wonderful new nesting material, fresh from the cows backs.<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-66312489968533473172015-02-22T06:03:00.001-08:002015-02-22T06:03:40.214-08:00Even on the dullest of days our back yard is filled with colourThis morning, I managed to grab a few photos of the birds visiting our feeders from our dining room just before the sleety raindrops started pouring down our windows .....<br />
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fed on a sunflower hearts and a fat slab!<br />
we also had a wren, dunnocks, blackbirds, goldfinch and robins visiting - even on the dullest of days our back yard is filled with colour<br />
<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-65298432421744749752015-01-08T12:06:00.000-08:002015-01-08T12:06:11.563-08:00catkins I have just been reminded that it has been a while since I posted any photos on here - so just for<span id="goog_1258743376"></span><span id="goog_1258743377"></span> you Stan, if you find them, here are my catkins from last week!<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-15666970664879052402014-12-23T12:12:00.000-08:002014-12-23T12:12:48.873-08:00Happy Homemade Christmas time for all the senses<div>
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and of course Christmas at home just wouldn't be right without some seasonal smells so today I made this clove studded orange - my house now smells wonderful</div>
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you can find the recipes for the mincemeat and mince pies on my<a href="http://angelasgate.blogspot.co.uk/p/recipes.html"> recipe page </a></div>
Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-21586162765441303352014-08-06T04:40:00.003-07:002014-08-06T04:40:45.211-07:00Small tortoiseshell on thistledownhow about this for somewhere soft to rest<br />
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Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-237474626453924552014-07-23T14:15:00.000-07:002014-07-23T14:15:38.857-07:00A couple of dragonfly visitors today This morning we had these two dragonflies darting about the garden, the red male seemed to prefer to fly over the lawn using the cold frame as it's perch, the green female spent most of her time in the herb garden, I think these are both ruddy darters<div>
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Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-58767479674302393942014-07-20T12:51:00.000-07:002014-07-20T12:51:04.269-07:00Moths from last night's trapIn total we identified 67 different species of moth from our trap last night, it took far too long, having spent an hour or so before breakfast and then going back to it for at least two more hours- not finishing until lunch time!<br />
I helped with the emptying and identifying for some of the time but kept getting distracted by the butterflies that were also floating around!<br />
I did though manage to take some photos of my favourites including these:<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-66265260170636330502014-07-17T13:49:00.000-07:002014-07-17T13:49:12.194-07:00Butterfly dayMy herbs and buddleia have been covered in butterflies today -<br />
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we also had a hummingbird hawk moth briefly which I didn't manage to photograph!Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-50760145839437133172014-06-12T03:55:00.000-07:002014-06-12T03:55:04.762-07:00Hummingbird Hawk MothI have had a busy morning, I finally found time to go outside where my cup of tea was waiting for me and started talking to daughter who was sat cross legged on table, as she does, eating her breakfast, when out of the corner of my eye I spied it! I had been waiting to see one all year so I rushed in for camera - it had the wrong lens on of course but I thought best try and get a photo quick before it flew away! so snapped these two photos, daughter then told me it had been there all the time she had been out there but hadn't realised what it was, at which point I relaxed a bit and decided to check the settings and the photo previews, when I looked up again the moth had gone and has not returned yet so for now these will have to do!<br />
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Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-27285437953701224012014-06-08T10:24:00.000-07:002014-06-08T10:24:29.250-07:00Look to the skiesIt was Cosford Airshow today, which meant we might get some impressive planes over our garden, so camera was kept close by just in case! Mr S and daughter were not disappointed when this Vulcan flew right over our garden<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-35364383275181460812014-06-02T00:46:00.002-07:002014-06-02T00:46:55.289-07:00Azure damselflyAnother gem from the weekend this beautiful azure damselfly spent most of Saturday in our garden<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-25247300603660205412014-06-01T10:04:00.000-07:002014-06-01T10:04:33.257-07:0022-spot ladybird Yesterday I found this tiny 22-spot ladybird in one of our raised beds on some lily leaves<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-70828040544890675552014-05-28T02:16:00.000-07:002014-05-28T02:16:18.238-07:00Unsprung photo - mason beeLast night was rather exciting for me as BBC Springwatch Unsprung shared my mite infested<b> mason bee</b> as the bug of the day photo,<br />
here is the screenshot of my bee's big moment!<br />
Nature isn't always pretty<br />
If you want to hear what Nick baker had to say about it you can find it on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045lbnh/springwatch-unsprung-2014-episode-2">bbc i-player</a> for three weeks<br />
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I photographed this bee on Monday morning slowly crawling over our outside table it could hardly move as it was so weighed down by the <b>phoretic mites,</b> I made up a sugar and water solution and put some drops of it on the table for it to feed from, which it did, then I popped indoors for something and when I returned it had gone<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-77089608454052516062014-05-24T11:54:00.000-07:002014-05-24T11:54:14.697-07:00thunderstorm approaching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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About turn!<br />
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Fall Out!<br />
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I've always said I wanted ducks in our garden, I never expected them to come in the form of two male mallards though! - another first for our garden -stayed for around an hour on Saturday evening they would have stayed longer if our dog hadn't realised they were there!<br />
<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-87543166903187050262014-05-16T06:34:00.000-07:002014-05-16T06:34:51.851-07:00BrimstoneThis beautiful brimstone visited our garden today, I had to break off conversation with daughter to rush inside to find my camera, shouting 'stay' 'stay' 'stay' as if it understands dog commands!!!<br />
Any way it stayed and floated from one flower to the next for two or three minutes, long enough for me to get some photos -we haven't had one in our garden since August 2010 so you can imagine my excitement!!!!<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-47945336165220046482014-05-07T02:19:00.000-07:002014-05-07T02:19:35.985-07:00Lime Hawk-mothWe have put our trap out a few times this year with mixed results, last night came up trumps though - with this beauty resting on top. Our first ever <b>Lime Hawk-moth</b><br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-26355970179549344542014-05-04T12:47:00.000-07:002014-05-04T12:47:40.660-07:00Wood MouseWe had a visitor to our back yard earlier on this evening, cleaning up some of the dropped sunflowers, this cute Wood Mouse. I photographed it through our dining room window, but it spied me and froze just staring - eyes bulging, not even twitching, so I quickly took this photo and moved away from the window as I didn't want anything swooping down and taking it or worse still for one of our neighbours cats to get it, I went into kitchen and watched from there he was still staring at the dining room window, but then darted back under one of our old sinks - safe!<br />
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<br />Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-47687507191971850962014-04-28T13:56:00.000-07:002014-04-28T13:58:04.864-07:00fledgling goldfinchesAround 7.30pm tonight there was a loud tweeting commotion going on at our back yard feeders - four fledgling goldfinches arrived to get their supper with their doting parents before flying off somewhere safe for the night, I will await their return tomorrow and hope that all four will be enjoying breakfast here too!<br />
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I am also hoping for better light tomorrow and an early visit from our window cleaner would be useful too he's only been once this year!</div>
Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-54063281030164016432014-04-20T07:39:00.000-07:002014-04-20T07:39:15.241-07:00More pressed flowers and leavesAs spring moves up a notch, more flowers are now available from my garden, some would be considered as weeds and some are in our hedges, others are in my flower beds.<br />
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what can you identify?Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495618649233103117.post-32849141947015142912014-04-11T03:04:00.002-07:002014-04-11T03:04:25.554-07:00The emergence of the hoverflies You have to love spring - everything starts to wake up again, the plants are starting to grow, hedges are starting to leaf, blackthorn is in full flower and insects and other invertebrates are emerging! hundreds of them this week in my garden! I had to get ID confirmation, but now I know these are a species of <b>Eristalis hoverflies </b>also called <b>drone flies</b> as they look very similar to a honey bee drone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eristalis sp. hoverflies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eristalis sp. hoverflies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eristalis sp. hoverflies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eristalis sp. hoverflies</td></tr>
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The Eristalis have a wing vein with a very distinctive loop which you can see in this photo<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eristalis sp. hoverfly</td></tr>
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My garden also has many spiders you can see them all dart for cover when you get too close, but these <b>Nursery web spiders</b> don't seem so keen to hide so I managed to photograph several of them!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nursery Web Spider</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nursery Web Spider</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nursery Web Spider</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nursery Web Spider</td></tr>
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and when I was photographing the spiders I also spotted this pretty little <b>woundwort shieldbug</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">woundwort shieldbug</td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">photography by Angela Smith</span></i></b>Angela Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363516991943402662noreply@blogger.com0