Tuesday, October 25, 2011

September 2011 in the Garden

Wildlife seen in our garden in September, starting with a bird ringing session on the 1st.

1 grasshopper-warbler-5

A beautiful Grasshopper Warbler, a great surprise to catch one in the garden!

2 grasshopper-warbler-4

3 grasshopper-warbler-2

4 grasshopper-warbler-3

5 grasshopper-warbler-1

6 bluetit

A bluetit being ringed

7 bluetit-2

The ringers grip!

8 chaffinch

Chaffinch

9 dunnock

Dunnock

10 goldfinch-1

Juvenile Goldfinch

11 goldfinch-2

It doesn’t yet have red on its head but beautiful markings on its back

12 great-tit

Great Tit

13 greenfinch

Greenfinch

14 greenfinch-rosa-rugosa

This ones been feasting on the Rosa Rugosa hips!

15 willow-warbler

Willow Warbler

16 collared-dove

We have had a pair of Collared Doves visit lately

17 collared-dove-2

Not that common in our garden

18 duck-house

The new wildlife pond, complete with duck house, shame the ducks aren’t real!

19 newt

We have newts already!

20 water-hawthorn

The water hawthorn is blooming

21 red-squirrel-black-tail

We have been studying our re squirrels lately as they all have different colouration, we now think there are 5 different individuals that visit the garden to feed.

22 red-squirrel-black-tail-2

This one is Black Tail-blond Tip

23 squirrel-in-box

Look closely and you will see a face, this one prefers to go right inside the feeder to eat!

24 two-squirrels

Two feeding together-Highlights and Squirt

orange-buddleia

The orange buddleia has been very pretty this year

peacock

Peacock Butterfly

red-admiral

Red Admiral

small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell

stinkhorn

A phallic looking Stinkhorn!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Bargaly Glen 24th September 2011

This is a lovely walk down the Palnure Burn. Be careful though this is a 7 Stanes mountain bike route so beware speeding cyclists!

1-coronet caterpillar

Coronet Caterpillar on Ash(Craniophora ligustri)

2-tiny-snail

Tiny snail

3-balloon-in-tree

Arghhh, balloons!!!

4-garden-cross-spider

Garden Cross Spider ( Araneus diadematus )

5-marbled-carpet

Common Marbled Carpet (I think!)

6-Bargaly-glen-waterfall

Waterfall Palnure Burn

7-spiked-shieldbugs-eating-caterpillar

Spiked Shieldbugs sucking the life out of a caterpillar

8-Palnure-burn

Waterfall Palnure Burn

9-peacock

Peacock Butterfly

10-belties

Galloway “Belties”

11-autumn-colours

Autumn colours

12-autumn-leaves

Colourful Acer

13-micro-moth-on-ragwort

Micro moth on Ragwort

14-red-admiral

Red Admiral

15-Russula silvestris

Russula silvestris

16-Russula silvestris

Russula silvestris

17-beefsteak

Beef-Steak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica)

18-Leccinum

Leccinum

19-Leccinum

Leccinum

20 Dappled Webcap Cortinarius bolaris

Dappled Webcap (Cortinarius bolaris)

21-Leccinum toadstool-and-slug

Leccinum and slug

22-quick-water

Quick Water

23-stone

Quick Water Sculpture

24-waterfall

Tumbling Water

26 dragonfly

Female Black Darter

27-red-admiral

Red Admiral