August Garden Birds, Bugs and Animals

Creatures in and around our garden during August.

Starting with a garden ringing session, over  30 birds were ringed in our garden on this day.

Including a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker

They nest in the woods behind our house

It was the first time we had managed to ring one though and boy did it make a noise, especially in the net, its a good job we don’t have neighbours!

Kirsty giving it a pep talk before letting it go, I think it was shouting back!

Goldfinch

Young Willow Warbler

Young Goldfinch without the red colouring on its head

Young Greenfinch

Young Robin, an adult was also ringed

Our feral bee colony that we have been monitoring for the Scottish Bee Keepers Association died out during the winter but made a brief visit before disappearing again

 

Beetle-nicrophorus-vespiloides

Beetle-nicrophorus-humator

We get quite a lot of beetles in our moth trap

Brown Chafer (Serica brunnea)

Caddis Fly, also common in the moth trap

Marsh Damselbug (Nabus limbatus)

Unusual foxgloves I grew for the first time this year

Harvestman-Leiobunum-rotundum-female

Hoverfly-Scaeva pyrastri

Hoverfly-Scaeva pyrastri on my Night Scented Phlox

White Lily

Meadow Pipit on the wire

Pheasant family on the lawn

This is the same family two weeks later!

Potato Capsid Bug (Closterotomus norwegicus)

Beautiful Roe Deer Buck in the field opposite in the evening light

Song Thrush

Hopefully eating all my snails!

Spider Xysticus cristatus

This young Wren was found in our conservatory, on the freezer

A bit worn out by the time we managed to catch it but after a short rest it flew off none the worse for its ordeal!