Nature Watch

[sinkov]

The Buddleia is in full bloom, absolutely gorgeous. Some years it's thronged with butterflies, some years not so many. This year nothing, I haven't seen a single butterfly on it yet, not a one.

I find this is slightly disconcerting, they are rarer on my buddleia than a Wout Weghorst goal. Where are the butterflies, what's happened to them ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The Buddleia is in full bloom, absolutely gorgeous. Some years it's thronged with butterflies, some years not so many. This year nothing, I haven't seen a single butterfly on it yet, not a one.

I find this is slightly disconcerting, they are rarer on my buddleia than a Wout Weghorst goal. Where are the butterflies, what's happened to them ?

Our garden is full of bees and Cabbage Whites mon ami, it's also an all-time record for the variety of birds visiting our garden.

Without boring you:
Jays (2 x pairs).
Magpies - lots.
Every identifiable breed of sparrows and tits - the long tailed tit fledglings are something special!
Carrion crows and rooks (I feed them leftover meat and offal).
Starlings in their numerous and various murmurations.
We have a regular barn owl and a woodpecker or two.

Bats are six a penny at dusk.

We have deer visiting (I f*cking hate them with a passion!)
Badgers, hedgehogs, toads and frogs. I built a frog pond for the grandkids to see our amphibian friends and it's usually rammed!

All in all, the West Pennine Moors is a cracking place to live, it's not the Ribble Valley but Rivington Pike takes some beating!

[sinkov]

Sounds like paradise to me mon ami, but how are you for the commoner butterflies, Peacocks, Red Admirals, Painted Ladies ? No sign of them here.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sounds like paradise to me mon ami, but how are you for the commoner butterflies, Peacocks, Red Admirals, Painted Ladies ? No sign of them here.

None here either mon ami.

[army88]

Our garden is full of bees and Cabbage Whites mon ami, it's also an all-time record for the variety of birds visiting our garden.

Without boring you:
Jays (2 x pairs).
Magpies - lots.
Every identifiable breed of sparrows and tits - the long tailed tit fledglings are something special!
Carrion crows and rooks (I feed them leftover meat and offal).
Starlings in their numerous and various murmurations.
We have a regular barn owl and a woodpecker or two.

Bats are six a penny at dusk.

We have deer visiting (I f*cking hate them with a passion!)
Badgers, hedgehogs, toads and frogs. I built a frog pond for the grandkids to see our amphibian friends and it's usually rammed!

All in all, the West Pennine Moors is a cracking place to live, it's not the Ribble Valley but Rivington Pike takes some beating!

The abundance of magpies is C Packhams fault Bt and in his infinite wisdom he’s putting most other smaller bird species at risk as no
Culling of vermin ( magpies ) has a knock on effect.

Your lucky with the Barn Owl ( magnificent creature ).

I have some great butterflies on the moor that Sinkov s asking about and Bull finch , Gold finch , and a Short Eared Owl.

The deer are plentiful here but are carriers of ticks / TB and Weil s disease - they also need to be controlled as they’re breeding like wildfire aswel now.

[barrie_burn]

Just to keep you boys up to date.Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidoptera clade Rhopatocera from the order of Lepidoptera.Just one of the things I was taught in the first year at Haslingden Grammar

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just to keep you boys up to date.Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidoptera clade Rhopatocera from the order of Lepidoptera.Just one of the things I was taught in the first year at Haslingden Grammar

It must have been a laugh a minute my mate.

[ClaretinBudapest]

We brought up an owl that fell out of its nest.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We brought up an owl that fell out of its nest.

Awwwwwww!

[kritichris]

We have swifts nesting in our eaves but when the chicks fall out of those nests it's a one way trip to birdy heaven as our concrete patio takes no prisoners. 6 to date this summer., though the last two were showing signs of feathers.