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RE: Garden wildlife sightings


A very strange looking T shaped insect just flew in from the garden, I was even more surprised when it was identified as

a 'Plume Moth' - it looks anything but a moth!



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The three hedgehogs still continue to visit our Stockport garden at dusk each evening.



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A new garden butterfly for us today in the shape of a Gatekeeper.  Binocular camera shot attached.



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A Meadow Grasshopper in a garden in Moston, Manchester this morning.



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Good nos. of butterflies in the garden today,most I've seen this year. Several sightings of Holly Blue ,Gatekeepers, Peacocks,Small Tortoiseshells,Green Veined Whites ,Comma and good nos. of Large Whites

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In my sister's Audenshaw garden tonight, I was fortunate to see an adult Hedgehog. No sign of any others, but my sister has seen at least one hoglet on several occasions recently.

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Three Hedgehogs have been regular visitors to our Stockport garden over the last few weeks. We can almost set our watches 21.30/35.



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Volucella zonaria,  Hornet mimic hoverfly in my garden in Walshaw, Bury. Yesterday evening.



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3 Large White in the garden simultaneously today and a Speckled Wood in the kitchen. A Small Tortoiseshell visited the kitchen on Tuesday.

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Firswood... had a quick peek outside around midnight last night to see if the hedgehog was eating the food I'd put out, and was surprised to see a fox there, which looked at me and then scarpered. Will have to get a wildlife/trail camera...

-- Edited by Chris Porter on Thursday 15th of July 2021 11:26:35 AM

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A hedgehog has been visiting our Firswood garden most nights the last few weeks. Have left some food out ('hedgehog food' from Hulme Garden Centre) and it seems to love it. I'm also pretty sure there's at least one young one as I saw what I think was a smaller hedgehog scurrying past on the pavement (surprisingly fast) while the big one was tucking in. It always visits just after it's too dark to get reasonable photos.

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A report from my sister.

A Hedgehog has been visiting her Audenshaw garden over the last few nights.

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Meadow Brown in my Astley garden this afternoon; my first of the year.



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Red Admiral and Speckled wood in my Bredury garden early evening today.

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Over our garden near Mosley Common, what I presumed to be the same Four-Spotted Chaser passed by twice in half an hour this afternoon.
A 14-Spot Ladybird in the garden last weekend was the first one I had seen here.

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I recently picked up two hedgehogs going the whole hog (pun intended) on one of my camera traps.  

 

https://youtu.be/p07TSC0KdzY 



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Four species of butterfly in the garden early this afternoon.

Large White, female Orange Tip, Small Tortoiseshell and a bright male Brimstone.

Also the cotoneaster has been covered in bees and other pollinators over recent days

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just as I was prepering to visit the land of nod, I could hear a kind of barking outside the window in my Radcliffe garden. I went and had a peep, and to my amazement, a pair of hedgehogs were flirting with each other.

With great care, I managed to get some pictures of them (now on my Flickr page). They weren't the slightest bit bothered at all.

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sid ashton wrote:

At about 11 this morning had a fox strolling around our Hale garden.

Reading up on foxes it is apparently, not unusual to see foxes during broad daylight hours but twas a first for us biggrin


 It is definitely not unusual to see foxes in gardens in our road during daylight hours at the moment!!

Neighbours on both sides have seen them recently, in one case his lawn had been excavated in patches, fox worm-hunting I guess.



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At about 11 this morning had a fox strolling around our Hale garden.

Reading up on foxes it is apparently, not unusual to see foxes during broad daylight hours but twas a first for us biggrin



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A queen Tree Bumblebee was in our Tyldesley garden today visiting Crocus flowers

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Checking our garden camera traps today, it looks like we had four hedgehogs visit us last night. The first of the year. 



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A queen Buff-Tailed Bumblebee dropped in to the garden this morning, before continuing on its Sunday morning mooch

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Let the cat out at 19:30 tonight to be surprisingly met by a small hedgehog helping itself to the cat food.

I thought hedgehogs hibernated during the winter months - especially in these temperatures & conditions.


 They do but they need to be at least 750 grams to survive the winter. Keep feeding it and if it's very tiny it will need to go to a rescue centre.


 Thanks for the advice Adrian - I'll be hedgehogging at night & birding during the day but definitely keeping an eye on things.


 Lez, if you can, it's worth catching it and weighing it. There are several, local rescue centres and if you want to know the nearest, just let me know.



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Adrian Drummond-Hill wrote:
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Let the cat out at 19:30 tonight to be surprisingly met by a small hedgehog helping itself to the cat food.

I thought hedgehogs hibernated during the winter months - especially in these temperatures & conditions.


 They do but they need to be at least 750 grams to survive the winter. Keep feeding it and if it's very tiny it will need to go to a rescue centre.


 Thanks for the advice Adrian - I'll be hedgehogging at night & birding during the day but definitely keeping an eye on things.



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Lez Fairclough wrote:

Let the cat out at 19:30 tonight to be surprisingly met by a small hedgehog helping itself to the cat food.

I thought hedgehogs hibernated during the winter months - especially in these temperatures & conditions.


 They do but they need to be at least 750 grams to survive the winter. Keep feeding it and if it's very tiny it will need to go to a rescue centre.



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Let the cat out at 19:30 tonight to be surprisingly met by a small hedgehog helping itself to the cat food.

I thought hedgehogs hibernated during the winter months - especially in these temperatures & conditions.



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We had a hedgehog visit last night. It's been quite a while since we'd seen one so extra food has gone out in case it returns. We have high hopes as it had a feed last night and spent almost an hour in the garden.



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Today, I saw one Grey Squirrel, but before 4pm there was a Pipistrelle bat flying around the garden. It flew around for about quarter of an hour despite the rain and then landed somewhere near the gutter on the side of the house.

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Three Grey Squirrels were the first I've seen for a while in the garden over the weekend.

Also the ivy flowers are full of pollinators whenever there is any sun.

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Quite a few butterflies this morning feeding on Michaelmas Daisies:

1 Painted Lady
2 Small Tortoishell
1 Red Adirmral
1 Large White

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Originally posted today by Ivan Ellison:


Have just had a hornet mimic hoverfly in my Prestwich garden. Never seen one of these in uk before. Grabbed camera but it had flown off when I got back outside.



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2 Pipistrelle bats hunting over the garden yesterday evening.

This morning a Cricket sp was calling a few times from the plum tree but I couldnt see it.

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A Common Blue butterfly in the garden this afternoon

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An amazing Swallowtailed Moth this morning resting on the Magnolia a first for us, what a sight, just magic.



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In my Irlam garden today:

Emperor Dragonfly
1 Comma butterfly

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Couple of years back, my next-door neighbour found a wasp nest in his front garden, hanging from a twig on a shrub, and with a hole on the side. He has 3 kids, so had to get it removed. Pest control chap said it was the most perfectly shaped one he'd ever seen

We get many prospecting queen wasps each spring, though curiously none this year

Many queen bees though this year, don't often see them - had to trap & release half a dozen. They're enormous !

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Late on yesterday afternoon, Saturday 9th, we had a large "swarm" of wasps, no other way to descibe it, around the front of the house with probably a dozen or so inside, not nice. Luckily I had new can of wasp spray.  A bit strange spraying outside but fortunately the wasps appear to have taken the hint and are not present today.  I don't like killing living creatures but we don't like being stung either. Never seen such a big group of wasps together and was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.



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An early Heart & Dart plus Flame Carpet, Oak-tree and Common Pugs in my Swinton garden moth trap this morning.



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The bumblebee mimic Volucella bombylans in my Swinton garden yesterday.



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1 male Brimstone, 2 orange tip and 2 peacock in my Bredbury garden today.

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Several bats flying around our Hale garden this evening, no idea whatsoever as to the species but they certainly move around with some speed!!!!!



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Bredbury. Holly blue,orange tip, peacock and comma in the garden today.

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Palmate Newt in my garden pond in Swinton today during lockdown



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A garden I worked at today had  frog tadpoles swimming by the edge. 



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A lone Pipistrelle at 18.49 this evening.



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Butterlies:

Comma and Peacock this afternoon within minutes of each other.



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Pipistrelle bat flittering about my Kearsley garden yesterday a.m.

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Comma and Small Tortoiseshell in my garden this afternoon. Comma was too swift for the camera.
If I am confined to the house due to self isolation I might try to get my old moth trap working again.

Cheers John.

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Lots of frog spawn appearing in our Hale garden pond this morning.



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