Wildlife September - November 2012

[angie]

Roma thats so cute  , must have been looking for a warmer place to have his lunch.

Angie 

[Botanica]

I want to participate 







So nice !!!

[Roma]

Was it any consolation that it was a red squirrel, Roma?  Guess they are just as destructive as the greys whether knocking things over or eating bulbs/plants?

The reds don't appear to eat bulbs or plants.  It's a nuisance when they knock over pots with loose soil or disturb plants and bulbs when burying peanuts.  Of course I could stop feeding them but I like to see them.  There seems to be a lot around here just now.  We often see as many as four trying to get to the peanuts or coconut.

[Paul T]

Roma,

I have a mental image of rather large red squirrels burying the coconuts you fed them.   You really are making your squirrles work out, aren't you? 

[Tony Willis]

a recent new resident in our garden drying off between storms. Has a favorite perching post at the end of the garden

[mark smyth]

Botanica is that a young dormouse?

[J.B.Wyllie]

Much better picture.


Jean

[ronm]

The large hooked beak, the big blank unblinking eyes, the ruffled unkempt plumage ...... that's scary !!

[J.B.Wyllie]

Forgot to say Mark in my previous post

Jean

[mark smyth]

Thanks Jean

[Botanica]

Botanica is that a young dormouse?

It's young Campagnol species. I don't know exactly but i see this animal in forest in Ardennes (France).

Very nice animal !


An other one for you mark smyth 

[mark smyth]

10 years ago I had the chance to see and hold a wild dormouse

[Anthony Darby]

The large hooked beak, the big blank unblinking eyes, the ruffled unkempt plumage ...... that's scary !!

Perhaps that's why Mark changed it?

[Botanica]

Cool mark smyth.. the  wild dormouse (and you ! )

You are specialized in Galanthus plants culture..and collection ?
Not other species in your garden ?

In France we have galanthus nivalis, and Leucojum aestivum (in mountains) .

Have you Galanthus elwesii ? Very big one ! ..I search  seeds or bulbs of that !

I've seen that certain species cost much money like yellow forms !

An other picture in forest ...

[ronm]

Sympetrum sanguineum, The Ruddy Darter. These pictures from caught ( and released of course ) individuals in the garden during August and September. The males are so obvious, the females ....less so. In August there was hardly a female to be seen, now hardly a male!