Simply..wild....

24/7/2019

The garden is getting wilder (by which I mean more dishevelled!) but that very state, I like to think, is encouraging more wildlife.

Today I found in one of the meadow areas for the first time caterpillars of the very beautiful Cinnabar moth.

The Cinnabar moth is not a rarity, and ragwort, it's favoured food is plentiful around here, but I have only seen one once. Perhaps my decision to pay more attention to the bitds and insects in my garden this year is paying off.

Have you spotted anything new to you around where you live?

14 Comments

Gail

25/7/2019 03:52:42 am

I see more (lots more)dragonflies and hummingbirds than usual. They love my zinnias and black eyed Susan’s. But those insects that look like hummingbirds, i’ve seen none. I just sit on my front porch glider and watch all the pollinator activity

Freda

26/7/2019 02:26:23 am

Being in nature is wonderful.

cathy

25/7/2019 05:37:32 am

it's amazing what we see when we slow down, isn't it?

I was sitting in back of the house, reading, when I saw...rather heard a squirrel coming down the tree in front of me. When it saw me, it stopped behind a large weed, keeping an eye on me to see if I was friend or foe. (were we playing peek-a-boo?) It must have decided I posed no threat, because it soon made it's way to under the birdfeeder to munch on the seeds scattered by the birds. As soon as I turned a page in my book, though, it made a giant leap back to the tree where it hid on the backside. Then we started our game all over again.

Freda

26/7/2019 02:28:21 am

What fun to play with a squirrel! I once watched a blackbird and a squirrel chase each other round and round a tree - they must have a sense of fun I think.

Lotta link

25/7/2019 09:59:51 am

I remember seeing lots of Cinnabar moths and caterpillars as a child, but not so many in recent years despite the unkempt wildness in my garden. I do wonder though if it's because I was a lot closer to the ground then and I'm just not rummaging through the undergrowth in the same way now. Lots of interesting little beetles keep appearing here at the moment... colourful, metallic... no idea what they are but I like them!

Freda

26/7/2019 02:29:16 am

That closeness to the ground is one of the nice things about hand weeding..

Mary

25/7/2019 11:06:06 am

Two large Does and three baby deer feeding in my backyard yesterday (our dog thinks they are just large doggies). Hummingbirds--returnees each summer--pretending to be Spitfires in combat--fighting over the feeder at the kitchen window, off and on all day.

Freda

26/7/2019 02:30:07 am

How beautiful Mary.

Damsonlily

25/7/2019 12:14:43 pm

Yes! Vine weevil grubs in some bags of compost I have brought into my new garden and who are now happily playing with the radishes - my first crop here...sob...in one of the beds.
I don’t wish anything harm but......grrrrr (me growling)

Freda

26/7/2019 02:31:16 am

Horrible! Lines must be drawn!

Susan (Dorset)

25/7/2019 12:50:20 pm

My bats have returned for their 2nd roost of the season, under my fascia-board. They chirrup away in the evenings, and swoop out from their roost at dusk.
And, I discovered a grass snake hiding under a mulching sheet, plus the usual shiny coppery slow worms.

Susan (me again)

25/7/2019 12:53:23 pm

Ooh! And a grey squirrel nibbling my unripe hazelnuts. Grrrr (Susan growling!)

Freda

26/7/2019 02:32:47 am

Growling a sobbing and laughing - our feelings about nature are very mixed aren't they!

Julia

26/7/2019 06:54:32 am

My sister has a saying that we go to nature to find peace and serenity; and then we immediately try to tame away the parts we don’t like! We’ve had a fair share of unlikeable pests lately! My husband has contracted lymes disease from a tick bite, there were nightly mice parties in the ceiling of my sister’s rural home, and ravens looking to capture the chickens, and now our granddaughter has come home from a sleepover with lice! Oh the underbelly of the natural world! Meanwhile, the sun still gets up every morning and shines..:-)

Simply..wild....

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