- Firstly the bad news. The caterpillar (that I thought was a red admiral in the wrong place) that started to pupate on our big shed has been "broken into" by a wasp I expect and eaten. The chrysalis is still there - but has a hole in it and is empty. Sad, but there you are.
- Plenty of migrant hawkers and common darters, field grasshoppers and spider-hunting wasps in and around the garden still.
- The leaves on the trees (especially the damson trees) are yellowing quickly and falling in the blustery winds.
- Pears beginning to rot on the large pear tree (I'll have to rescue the still-edible ones now. We tested (by tasting) one t'other night and it was very nice indeed!
- Two woodmice still under the corrugated iron.
- Newts (and frogs) still in pond after I gave it a little TLC (blanket weed removal) yesterday.
- Hawks still apparent and a nice large dark buzzard flew low over the house this morning -always nice to see. Fewer kites at present though (always seems to be the way at this time of year, when I assume they follow the tractors round farmers fields at grass cutting / harvesting time).
- Jays still coming for their monkey nuts - I'll turn up the volume on that project in October.
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Sunday 12 September 2010
Swift Half update - 12th September 2010
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Doug,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the chrysalis. I was very interested to see how that went.
Love the new layout by the way.
Cheers pal.
ReplyDeleteYes - its a shame, but it really was in a very strange (exposed) place, so I was expecting this really.
I think the new layout is ok too - easier to read for me I think!
Cheers again!