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    You clever B

    A very fleeting visit but I just had to share this observation with you. Ken was looking out as one of today's heavy downpours started and saw a honey bee fly from the fuchsia in the front garden up to a seed feeder hanging just above it. It flew through a port, sheltered inside till the rain...
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    Newt behaviour

    I had some toad spawn in a shallow dish (a plastic "plant pot saucer") on the slabs by the pond. The spawn had developed and there were a lot of tadpoles growing and feeding well. One day they were there, the next they were gone. They hadn't been tipped out of the dish, they weren't hiding in...
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    A few good birds

    Just before the new year my sister took me over to the business park in Folkestone where she had seen waxwings the day before (they were visiting B&Q and saw a mob of twitchers so grabbed the bins from the car and went to find out what was going on). We went back to the tree they'd seen them in...
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    Blackbird behaviour

    Hi all. I wonder if anyone can explain the blackbird behaviour I saw today please? I was at mother's and when I looked out into the garden I saw a male blackbird in the long grass, wings spread, ripping at something. It looked for all the world like a bird of prey with a kill. It released it's...
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    Frogspawn....

    Hi all, long time no post! I do sneak in from time to time to keep more or less up to date. As some of you "oldies" know, I love my pond and all its' inhabitants so I thought I'd report that I have the first blob of frogwpawn of the season. This is definitely early, about ten days early I think...
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    Uk toad behaviour

    I live in the Southeast of England and I have 5 toads in my garden pond which are still calling and mounting each other. I've never had toads stay around this long before. Two pairs spawned in April but these males still seem to be hoping for mates. I wondered if they are juveniles and this is...
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    Toads anyone?

    What goes on in the pond never ceases to amaze me but I'm totally baffled this time! Really early, Feb I think, I had a pair of toads in the pond. Didn't see if they stayed or not. In March I had two pairs of toads that spawned. A few weeks later I accquired three very keen males who proceeded...
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    Toads!

    I've had several male toads in the pond for a couple of weeks now, one or two have been there for ages. Over the past few days a dozen or so other males have arrived and in the last day or so three females turned up. I didn't see them arrive so I don't know if they brought their own mates with...
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    Samphire Hoe

    Ken and I had a walk round Samphire Hoe yesterday. It was one of the most pleasant walks I've had there o:) . Usually it's either freezing cold or blazing hot, there are no trees and no cover and I find it very bleak! I do understand that it is a unique habitat but I just don't feel comfotable...
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    Any snow out there?

    Good morning all :hi: We don't have any of the dreaded snow down here, lots of showers of huge great wet flakes but nothing laying, thank goodness. I feel so sorry for the poor birds, they'd been getting so enthusiastic and enjoying the Spring. Come to that so had I :D .
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    Hummingbird hawk moth

    A friend and I saw a hummingbird hawk moth in her garden last Sunday. Presumably one which had just woken up!
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    Toad behaviour

    I was sitting by the pond at twilight this evening and saw a thumbnail sized toad walk across the stones and into the pond. I wondered if toads return to the natal pond from birth, I'd always assumed they would wait till they were of spawning age. My pond is knee deep in frogs at this time of...
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    A froggy tale

    Hi All :hi: Everglades time is here again! :D There are a hundred or so frogs in the pond so far and many blobs of spawn. Last year I enlarged and deepened the the pond, improving it with better shallows and exits and a bird bathing area. (Sound like an estate agent don't I?). I've kept my...
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    Oh dear.

    Hi all :hi: May I wish you all a belated happy new year, I hope you and yours are well. Things are fine in my bit of the planet, number two son is now at uni in London and I miss him terribly (and all his friends). But the good news is that number one son has returned home for a while till he...
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    Buzzards

    Does anyone have info on buzzards in Kent, UK, please. I know they've been seen around Port Lymn wildlife park. I'm pretty sure I've seen one over the hills around Dover.
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    Happy birthday Rose

    Happy birthday Rose. :D Have a wonderful day. :flowers: :loveme: B (:
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    Chaff and.....

    Hi all, it's that time of year again so I've not visited for ages. But I was talking to my dad today and he asked if I would research something for him. He is 84 and was born in Cirencester. He can remember the men working on threshing machines in the fields and that the man on the back of the...
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    "Glass tube" larva, any help please?

    I presume they are larvae anyway...they are in my pond and I only noticed them because I scooped out something else in a jar and they were in the water. They look for all the world like a tiny glass tube, various sizes up to about 2 centimetres, the "tube" contains a few tiny black dots...
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    Dragonfly eggs

    Please can anyone tell me how long the eggs of dragonflies and damselflies stay attached to the plant stems before they hatch to become free swimming larvae?
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    Can't see me!

    I saw a robin today with a beakful of moss. I stopped to watch it, hoping to see where it was building. The robin also stopped and we eyed each other for a minute or so until it hopped around a branch out of my sight. I, very gently, moved to keep it in view. The robin then opened its beak and...
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    Phobias

    Ruth's thread aboud the bees and liking them or not made me wonder.... What are you afraid of? Personally I hate earwigs, especially the male ones and I don't like centipedes either.
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    Two pairs!

    I'm not a card player but two pairs must be worth something surely? This afternoon I found a pair of toads in the yard, very first toads I've seen all year. She was very small and I'd say it's her first year for spawning, he of course was even smaller and they just looked so sweet (sorry, but...
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    Blue tit behaviour.

    The blue tit that's taken possession of the sparrow box has been tapping inside it for four days now. Other years they've tapped on and off and sometimes around the entrance hole but I've never heard one at it this long. I've not seen it taking any nest material in yet either. I've always...
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    A funny thing...

    When I was walking through town this morning I passed a big old sycamore tree. I counted a dozen magpies in it, nattering away. Then I noticed that other magpies had flown in, some left and the nattering went on. I know it smacks of anthropomorphism but it really looked as though they were...
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    Garden first.

    I watched a pair of wood pigeons hoovering up dropped sunflower hearts under my tree today. There was a collared dove above watching them very closely, cocking it's head from side to side almost as though it couldn't believe it's eyes! I'm well pleased and I hope they come back and sing (well...
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