End of the year in our wildlife garden – Sept to Dec 2012

A selection of photos taken in and around our garden between September and December 2012

Very large frog..

Managed to catch it for a good look..

..before we let it go!

Brambling

This bull made a lot of noise first thing in the morning and kept waking us up!

Bumblebee on buddleia

Beetle Carabus-granulatus

Forest Bug-Pentatoma-rufipes

Geese flying over

Peacock butterfly on lavender

Redwing just about to take off!

Small Tortoiseshell on buddleia

Snow and the verbena is still out!

Vole

Weasel

 

Red Squirrels on the feeders

Blonde Tip

 

 

 

Eating monkey nuts on the lawn

The Jay sneaks in when the squirrels aren’t looking!

My turn!

 

Wee Red

This ones quite dark but has red paws

 

 

On the washing line post

 

 

Sharing

Can I climb the drainpipe?

Squirrel and Jay

Having a drink

Wee Red

 

Roe Deer on the field opposite..

..and in our garden

 

 

 

One morning we noticed this poor thing with an injured leg. It wasn’t walking very well and kept licking it. We rang the SSPCA and they came out to have a look, but couldn’t catch it as it was still able to run.

They told us to keep an eye on it, it would either get better or infection would set in and it would become unwell, they would then be able to catch and treat it. Thankfully we saw it several times after this and it appeared to improve.

A short video of the Roe Deer in our garden

…And finally, not in our garden but at an undisclosed location in Dumfries & Galloway ( I don’t want its head to end up on some glory hunters wall!), this beautiful white stag.