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Check this out for one classy, yummy insect!

Posted 12 hours ago

by Adrian Thomas
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Now here's a creature I haven't covered on the blog before, and what a beauty. It's not one I've ever had in my garden, but it is a widespread dragonfly and does turn up at some garden ponds. I photographed this one at Walberswick in Suffolk...
Gardening for wildlife

From Birmingham to South Africa in one garden - and you're invited!

Posted 7 days ago

by Adrian Thomas
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Each year I like to bring you news of the RSPB’s ‘Garden Feature’ that our national events team prepares for Gardeners World Live at the NEC in Birmingham. The RSPB doesn’t do a ‘show garden’ as such – they cost...
Gardening for wildlife

Red-eyed wing-waving wonder

Posted 14 days ago

by Adrian Thomas
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On Bank Holiday Monday I had been in the garden most of the day, weeding and pruning and planting and potting-on and all the million other things that need doing at this time of year. It was overcast and cool all day, which was great because there were...
Gardening for wildlife

A meadow of snakes

Posted 21 days ago

by Adrian Thomas
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Isn't this just the most ravishingly elegant flower? And to think that it is quite probably native too. Wow! It is the Snake's-head Fritillary which, even if it isn't native, was certainly growing in England's wet meadows by the...
Gardening for wildlife

Sticky business for the Song Thrush

Posted 28 days ago

by Adrian Thomas
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At last! I’ve had some rain in my Sussex garden. It’s nowhere near enough to fill up the wetlands or stave off the hosepipe bans, but it is dearly welcome. But it does come with a downside – the synchronised emergence of a marauding...

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	Topic	Date	Replies
doggie	Nesting box advice Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by doggie 25 May 2012 6:36 AM	7
JJS1972	Sparrows not nesting Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by JJS1972 24 May 2012 10:54 PM	7
Birdie Wild	3 update on my coaltits aaah first sight of the kids they are away Posted to: Wildlife in the garden	Latest post by Birdie Wild 24 May 2012 9:59 PM	26
Barnsley lad	Aaargh it's struck again. Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by Barnsley lad 24 May 2012 9:16 PM	1
Barnsley lad	camera box abadoned Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by Barnsley lad 24 May 2012 9:05 PM	1
Sparrow	house keeping Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by Sparrow 24 May 2012 9:02 PM	2
doggie	New Pond and Bog Posted to: Water features	Latest post by doggie 24 May 2012 6:47 PM	207
Martin	Dead Blue Tits Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by Martin 24 May 2012 12:40 PM	5
bluebird	My baby Blue Tits are dying! Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by bluebird 24 May 2012 11:14 AM	38
ivon	loosing my blue tit chicks Posted to: Nestboxes	Latest post by ivon 23 May 2012 10:06 AM	3

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lotty

Pair Nesting ID needed please

Hi this is my first time on the site, I'm trying to find out what the ID of these birds are please...

my garden, birds, UK

Posted: 15 May 2012

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John Cooper

Blurry Heck!

Posted: 9 May 2012

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Scathtiar

woodcrete nest box

my second woodcrete nest box hung on the garage in the back garden-as this box does get sun on it for...

nest box woodcrete blue tits

Posted: 5 May 2012

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Scathtiar

blackbird

birds, blackbird bird table wild birds

Posted: 5 May 2012

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Scathtiar

blackbird fledgling

Posted: 5 May 2012

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Scathtiar

blackbird family

'our' blackbirds-lining up for breakfast

blackbirds

Posted: 5 May 2012

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Marilyn Miller

Mating grass snakes

My husband took this picture of a pair of grass snakes in our garden yesterday. The male was about 15"...

Posted: 3 May 2012

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Scathtiar

blue tit roosting

looking like a ball of fluff with a tail, our blue tit roosting in our nest box,

blue tit nest box sleeping roosting

Posted: 9 Apr 2012

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Scathtiar

blue tit in nest box

our female blue tit in the nest box; no eggs in there yet-she was still building the nest. photo taken...

Blue Tit, Garden nest box

Posted: 9 Apr 2012

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Scathtiar

bees

this was taken in june, when i saw this- i'm no bee expert -it looks like a male on a female doing...

bees bumblebees

Posted: 9 Apr 2012

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