Wildlife early 2009

[mark smyth]

Who is this sticking out of a tit nest box?

[Gerdk]

Armin,
No herons here visiting my garden - also it wasn't me who couldn't resent their tasty legs!

Cohan,
Thank you, the 'pond' has the size of a bathtub only and no problems with mowing in my small garden - there is no grass.

Gerd

[Anthony Darby]

A robin, Mark?

[cohan]

Cohan,
Thank you, the 'pond' has the size of a bathtub only and no problems with mowing in my small garden - there is no grass.
Gerd

no grass is a good idea of course, i have far too much area to have none, but i'd like to get it moved away from plantings, over time; we have to mow anyway to keep the forest from reclaiming the land... maybe a few sheep would be good, but i cant afford the fencing for now..lol

[mark smyth]

Yes Anthony it's a Robin using a tit box with an entrance hole that is too big.

[mark smyth]

I'm sure you all noticed that Spring Watch began it's two week run tonight on BBC2

[Maggi Young]

Yes: I haven't watched the programme this evening, but I may be more inclined to  do so now that Bill Oddie has been removed!

[Traloger]

Here are some pics of my male rainbow stag beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri). They come from Queensland Australia, but are bred by Daniel Kunte of 'Coleoptera XXL' in Germany. The female is smaller without the huge mandibles.

Very nice pictures of that beetle. Had no idea they existed.

[mark smyth]

Who lives in houses like this?

[Anthony Darby]

Are both pics of the same nest?

[Armin]

Mark,
white eggs? I guess it is not usual: a nest of Prunella modularis?

Last week I saw a very professional bee hotel in a fruit plantation.
Cannot resist to post it - try to copy it

 

[mark smyth]

Anthony, one nest is in a bush and the other is on cement.

Armin I see where you are coming from but you are wrong. The Dunnock has turquoise blue eggs

[Ragged Robin]

Mark, the bird's nest is beautifully constructed and it seem that there is lots of lichen woven in to the exterior - then discovered on the Web that it is used as a light reflector?  The interior seems to have dried grasses/reed/iris (?) lining it and a piece of blue nylon string!  I imagine it is the house of a water bird but it appears to me as if the nest is off the ground or against a wall ....continuing my search in your 'Who lives in houses like this?' puzzle - it's amazing what you find out along the way 

Just spotted Mark's reply posted as winging my reply after the bee hotel and see it's 2 nests - I'll start again   

[Ragged Robin]

Mark,
white eggs? I guess it is not usual: a nest of Prunella modularis?

Last week I saw a very professional bee hotel in a fruit plantation.
Cannot resist to post it - try to copy it

What bee wouldn't want to book in there, Armin?  It's an amazing hotel!  Do you know what the fruit plantation consisted of?

[gote]

Are both pics of the same nest?

Anthony,
I am trying to mail you but have no answer. Have you changed your address. PLS contact me at gote@svanholm.se
Göte