Wildlife photos please number 2

[Nicos]

No photo but I was sat watching a great tit in the garden today flying down into the grass and tugging at something. It did it 4 times and then didn’t come back , so I went over to see where it was.
Turns out it was pulling off fur from a dead mouse!

[Nicos]

Still stunning...it just draws you in to want to touch it doesn’t it?

[Mr Bones]

That is stunning Bones.
I was just reading they can live for over 1,000 years so that could have been a young tree during the Robin Hood era!
How cool is that?

Same tree with its winter face, I think it looks more friendly in summer..

[Nicos]

That is stunning Bones.
I was just reading they can live for over 1,000 years so that could have been a young tree during the Robin Hood era!
How cool is that?

[Containergardener]

Stunning tree

[Mr Bones]

Old lime tree at the side of an ancient byway. For scale the knobbly bit is about 7 feet across.

[quanglewangle]

Dactylorhiza maculata Common Heath orchid. Not as many about as usual. On the coast path a few hundred metres north of us.

[Plot70]

You are right. It is one of those sort of things that usually fly away the moment you get the camera out as they are equipped with very sensitive camera radar.

[Bren In Pots]

Plot it even stayed long enough for you to get a good photo.

[Containergardener]

that's a monster

[Plot70]

A seriously big flying beetle landed on our front room window. A longhorn beetle of some kind. It was good for 30 to 40 mm long.

[Containergardener]

Hadn't seen the starlings for a while. Yesterday however what a racket when they all appeared back. Looking out this morning, they're with young ones decimating the feeders

[Containergardener]

I love foxgloves but bit of a wait for ours yet .

[quanglewangle]

Spring may have been a challenge in the garden but wild flowers have thrived. Skived off for a walk down to the coast.
Foxgloves

[Containergardener]

Oh wow lots of different ones.
Happy to have my soldiers eating pests then. Thanks.