Birdies

A glimpse into how to get about in this village.  You have to have wings.

At any one time I counted, 6 blackbirds, 20+ sparrows/dunnocks.  Song Thrush, chaffinch.  We also had wagtail, collared doves and variety of tits, but they flew off when I got the camera out.    Mum

Fieldfare?

Think it's a Fieldfare, none of the books I have show him with so much colour, but he's eating the remaining apples, knew there was a reason they stayed on the tree.

Frosty

This was taken a couple of weeks ago and it's frost - not snow!

Some Snow

This is the bird water bath.  Bear in mind, that we kept cleaning it off to start with, so the birdies could have a drink, then we gave up.

Ice sculpture

Lady next door found this in the woods behind the house, so we went to have a look.  Julie took the photo and there are many more, but it too so long to load up, this is your lot.

Wasp Spider - Beamsville, ON

This is what greeted me as I opened the blind on our lounge window yesterday. A rate british spider that usually builds its web in tall grass to catch grass hoppers.  It has a distinctive zigzag pattern down the centre of the web to reinforce it (it did have this yesterday but it's been torn)

Currently its eating daddy long legs, thoughtfully fed to it by David cheered on by the boys.

Ninja Mantis - Beamsville, ON

Sat on our garage door step - spotted by Adam.

Fall Webworms on the road to Jordan, all over the trees

H&D

Bluebell

Bluebell in the woods - bit of a trek but worth it.

Froad

This delightful creature, was in the back garden, don't know whether toad or frog.

Buttercups or cellandines

Presume these are cellandines as they are on long stalks.  Mum

Sunset

This is just going into the field around the corner.  Mum

Coupla bees

Foal

I know I took this last year, but he was in the field opposite:  Cutie pie:   mum

Tadpole in our pond

Having had many frogs in our overgrown garden over the years, we wanted a home for them as we started to give the garden it's makeover and put in a small wildlife pond.  Since then we've not seen another frog and we think that it's because they are not suited to the new style of garden.  We keep hearing people with fish ponds complaining about frog spawn and we don't have any and wanted some!!  I was with Liz on Friday who popped into her mother-in-laws who had tadpoles in her pond so we found a bucket and brought 6 or 7 back to put in our pond.  Despite the clear water and the small size, we can very rarely even spot one but managed to snap one yesterday.

The Greens

Ants in Port Credit Park 15 May 2010