Beautious

What wildlifehave you spotted in your garden recently?

Posted on 08/20/09, 06:33 pm

I have several frogs and a hedgehog - the birds seem to have gone quiet but the insect population has increased. I'm glad to see lots of lady birds, friendly hover wasps , bumble bees - aphids of course and ants - the frogs and hedgehog are getting a great smogesborg of slugs and snails though :O)

• Reply #1 08/23/09  8:10am
  
  freeinspirit
  Nothing fancy here, just frogs, lizards & bugs.
• Reply #2 08/24/09  4:41pm
  
  Beautious
  We seem to have had lots of butterflies this year too - peacock, red admiral, blue butterfly :O) too many cabbage white that is for sure. And loads of hawk moth catterpillars and those bright green ones with horn on the rear end :O) gee they can be viscious when you try to remove them from the tree.
• Reply #3 10/01/09  3:30pm
  
  kmhll447
  Too many deer.... I don't mind if they munch on the apple tree, the apples aren't much good, except to make applesauce, but a few nights ago I had to chase one out of the veggie garden, fenced, but obviously not high enough. The next morning, half of my ripening Mr. Stripey tomatoes were gone... :(
  
  We also have tadpoles and itty bitty frogs/toads in the little pond out front. It's been a blast watching their little legs start growing, and finally itty bitty frogs/toads, only about 1/4 to 1/2 inch long. There are lots of lizards, big & small.
  
  For a while, we had a hawk that chose the power pole on the corner of the property as his morning spot to sit and talk to us, it usually started about 5:30 in the morning.
  
  Any day now, the squirrels will be around a lot more, the walnut tree has started dropping walnuts. And this year there are tons of them, black walnuts, good for just munching, baking, mmmmmm!
• Reply #4 11/20/09  5:32pm
  
  pnkngrn
  This year we had hummingbirds and loads of other little birds as well. I cheat and buy tadpoles in the spring so we can have frogs in our pond. I love watching them mature. We had chipmunks and squirrels. I'm in Pennsylvania, so no hedgehogs here :( but we do get opossum and skunks.
  I think, the heavy rains this spring had an adverse affect on the butterflies and bumblebees, but the honeybees where here.

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