Let’s see your pictures of spring.

[ABtrees]

However ..... a few more interesting fauna !

[GarethM]

Bluebells, possibly my favourite plant.

Slowly clearing up the woodland to hopefully expand them a little more every year.

[Conor Wright]

Random selection from the last week.

 

cauliflower is overwintered from last year's plant. This is the second full sized head and we expect it to come back again.

 

 

[AJStrees]

On 21/04/2024 at 17:50, ABtrees said:

However ..... a few more interesting fauna !

That moth looks pretty special. Is it the emperor moth?

[AJStrees]

Planted this paulownia tree (foxglove) a few years back. Flowering for the first time this year. 
 

 

[peds]

Some of the tadpoles in the pond we dug last summer are almost thinking about growing legs.

 

 

Edit to add: I've just counted, there's bloody loads of them. 

Edited May 1 by peds

[openspaceman]

9 hours ago, peds said:

Some of the tadpoles in the pond we dug last summer are almost thinking about growing legs.

 

 

Edit to add: I've just counted, there's bloody loads of them. 

For the first time in 45 years we have no tadpoles in the garden, I did spot a small frog, presumably from last summer's crop earlier in the spring.

 

Dearth of wildlife generally here I just hope the stag beetles from under my wood pile survive to adults.

[sime42]

Sad times indeed, wrt to the dearth of wildlife everywhere. It saddens me as well that not that many people seem to care. Not sure if most people just don't know, or don't even believe that the world as we know it is collapsing around us.

I'd love to have frogs but she has always wanted gold fish, so we've got them instead. It's a case of either or in a small pond. I'm just waiting for them to die off now, we started with 5 and now down to only 2 so getting there! Also, thousands of pond snails.

 

The Mason Bees are out in force here this week. I think the warmth and nice weather have brought them out. They're always more active when it's sunny. It turns out that they're difficult subjects to photograph, it took me scores of goes just to get this unsatisfactory one. Interestingly, I also spotted some tiny parasitic wasps that prey on the bees I think. Not so good.

 

 

 

[peds]

We'll do what we can 42, until we prevail or run out of things to try and preserve. 

I've noticed far fewer buzzing things around the garden centre so far this year, hopefully the warm weather will bring more of them about, but it seems like a slow start.

 

Good looking bee house, anyway.

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

@sime42 why are frogs and goldfish mutually exclusive? I have both in my little pond.