With a pond in our garden, although we are in a built-up area, we do still get the occasional Odonata (dragonfly & damselfly) species. However, this was the first time I've ever seen a Brown Hawker in the garden - to the best of my knowledge these usually prefer larger areas of water, and canals. This, by the body shape, was a female (males have a waisted appearance at segments 2-3). My book says that females do not have the blue spots seen on these segments on the males, but this one clearly has blue spots.
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| Brown Hawker (female) - our garden |
A few days later, I was dismantling the summer-house in the garden. I knew that we used to have mice living under it but was still quite surprised, when I lifted the floor, to see the huge amount of debris from their occupation - mainly black sunflower husks and hazelnut shells. Also, I was not expecting to find a Frog and a Toad under here - we don't get many toads in our garden.
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| Common Frog - our garden |
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| Common Toad - our garden |
Wow,thats some Garden tick Richard.
ReplyDeleteWe saw our first one last week,and were over the moon.
These are superb images.
John.
Thank you John.
ReplyDeleteI have my wife to thank for this one - we were sitting in the garden having a cup of tea when she spotted it landing in the tree!