Mammals can be elusive and sometimes the first clue that they are there isn't the flash of a tail or the flick of an ear poking out of the foliage but a field sign - like poo! Often, finding and identifying the poo you find in your garden or on a walk will be the only way you know that
If I ever get to take the class to the woods again this will be useful.
Water Shrew, my class dragged me into the playground to show this corpse. They know my interests.
Speckled Wood Saw one of these this afternoon in Christine & Michael’s garden. I scared it off before I could get a photo. Lovely, the first I’ve seen although they seem to be common.
Common Darter dragonfly
A nice walk along a section of the path from Aberfoyle to Callander and back. Lovely sunny day.
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A fair number of butterflies on the way to Loch Humphrey today. Small Tortoise Shell, Green Veined White & Peacock.
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Micro.blog August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge #mbaug Day 3 Bug
Found this good looking guy on a walk today, loosely a bug, searching suggests an Emperor moth caterpillar.
Large Red Damselfly, near Loch Ard. Id via Large Red Damselfly – British Dragonfly Society
There are now 3 chick and 2 unhatched eggs in the dabchick nest in Victoria Park.
We have been watching a pair of dabchicks in Victoria Park pretty much every day during lockdown. Today we saw the first sign a a hatching, a wee foot coming out from under a parent’s wing.
