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Wildlife in your Garden
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...pleasant place, Dario. My sons in-laws live in Formby, very nice.
wba83
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Amazing bird the sparrow hawk one of my favs
Dario Terracotta
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Actually live in Southport myself Eggs but my folks reside in Formby so spend a lot of time there.
PLANARIAM
Could well be a leech @bol-uk , but also it might be a flatworm (planarian)
Planarians are often mistaken for leeches. You can only really tell by watching them move. Leeches normally move by extending the front part of the body and then pulling in the back, like an inchworm. Planarians glide along slowly like slugs/snails.
Could watch my pond all day, particularly the very shallowist parts (1 to 2 inches.) At first glance there is nothing, but once your eyes get properly focussed on the bottom it's like the bloody Serengeti down there. lol
bol-uk
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PLANARIAM
Could well be a leech @bol-uk , but also it might be a flatworm (planarian)
Planarians are often mistaken for leeches. You can only really tell by watching them move. Leeches normally move by extending the front part of the body and then pulling in the back, like an inchworm. Planarians glide along slowly like slugs/snails.
Could watch my pond all day, particularly the very shallowist parts (1 to 2 inches.) At first glance there is nothing, but once your eyes get properly focussed on the bottom it's like the bloody Serengeti down there. lol
In that case, it was a leech. I did not know about the other things.
I have the same thing with my pond, only made it a few years ago and it is absolutely teeming with stuff. Newts, nymphs, tadpoles and frogs, boatsmen, flea things, water snails dragoon flies, mad things all over.
Brilliant.
Growing up and living all those years in Huyton that's one thing I never did mate, don't know why like.
My yard tends to fluctuate between being full of milkshake and boys.
We live on the Isle of Man so we get seagulls a-plenty, and the neighbours’ cat, but not much else at the minute.
Me and my lad have planted some veg, fruit and herbs in a few planters though and he’s also harassing me to buy a bird bath from the garden centre so hopefully we’ll see some real action soon.
We live on the Isle of Man so we get seagulls a-plenty, and the neighbours’ cat, but not much else at the minute.
Me and my lad have planted some veg, fruit and herbs in a few planters though and he’s also harassing me to buy a bird bath from the garden centre so hopefully we’ll see some real action soon.
*BUMP
Common blue damselfly at the pond
Common blue damselfly at the pond
Not a bee.
This is a perfectly harmless hoverfly. Apparently there are nearly 300 species of hoverfly in Britain.
I think, (If my google searching is correct), this little fellow is called 'Volucella bombylans' lol
This is a perfectly harmless hoverfly. Apparently there are nearly 300 species of hoverfly in Britain.
I think, (If my google searching is correct), this little fellow is called 'Volucella bombylans' lol
I'll get me coat
We had a peacock last week. No clue where it can from
...birds come from an egg.
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
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Used to live on a 5 acre farmlet a couple of hours outside Melbourne. We'd get the same mob of kangaroos every morning and evening in the paddocks, would see wombats and the occasional echidna which was great.
Inside the house we'd get Huntsman spiders, an Aussie version of a tarantula but totally harmless. Hated them, had to get the missus to get rid of them till we got a cat. After that we'd regularly wake up to an arachnid version of the opening of Saving Private Ryan, loads of dismembered, twitching spider corpses. Good times.
Inside the house we'd get Huntsman spiders, an Aussie version of a tarantula but totally harmless. Hated them, had to get the missus to get rid of them till we got a cat. After that we'd regularly wake up to an arachnid version of the opening of Saving Private Ryan, loads of dismembered, twitching spider corpses. Good times.