ED Nature Watch

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I used chicken wire round a tree to stop my hapless kittens climbing up - they could get up ok then got stuc. You can get it at any hardware store.

[SimonM]

I am glad they are back and trying again, but if they are nesting so low down I do really fear the worst!

[SimonM]

In Peckham Rye Park ths afternoon and counted 6 coot chicks. Three "singles" each with a parent, and a trio of younger ones being sort-of supervised by a clearly harassed mother! I suppose there'll be the usual mortality rate there...

Of more interest was the island in the Japanese garden....two turtles head to head, courting perhaps? B) or whatever it is they do....I think she was shy and he was trying to get her to come out of her shell a bit....:))

[reetpetite]

Early this morning there was a duckling stranded in the wire netting around the edge of lake he was even trying to climb up it . He was getting stressed and so was his mother ,a young schoolboy who walks his dog with his Mum managed to rescue him and put him back in the lake .This youngster loves the ducks and was thrilled he was able to to help.It made my day.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm thrilled about the turtles! I've only seen one at a time. We could have a whole troop of Ninjas.

Well done that lad.

[Sue]

Help! I have a very tiny garden which at the moment seems to be filled with a swarm of very tiny flying things - midges?

Every day they are there swarming around the middle of the very tiny garden.

I thought midges were attracted to water. I don't have a pond. Should I not have put water out for the birds?

:-$

[SteveT]

I had a lot of mosquitos (gnats we called them) flying up and down in a column, every time I opened the door or window they invaded the place and I suffered bites. I then discovered an old spray can of 'Raid' and gave the column a blast came in and closed the door before the house stank. The next night another column appeared although now depleted, another quick blast from the can and now they are all gone, so now I can open the door or window without the risk of being chewed on, Hooray!

[red devil]

Citronella candles keep the mossies away if you don't want to exterminate them...

[Sue]

Do they actually serve any useful purpose?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Citronella candles or gnats?

Madame Goose and Mr Gander are pleased to present their six goslings. Adorable balls of yellow fluff.

[Sue]

Gnats!!!!!

[Eliza.D]

I've just seen a Great Spotted Woodpecker in a cherry tree in next doors garden. It's only the second time i have seen one. The last time it was a Green Woodpecker in Somerset about 7 years ago.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Since I was wearing my wellies, I just did a stream walk. Great fun pretending to be a kid when noone else around!

Think I saw marsh buttercups along the sides. At any rate, the flower head looks like a buttercup but it's a much larger plant than common buttercups.

[Sue]

kingcup?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

sweetiepie!

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May...

[reetpetite]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Since I was wearing my wellies, I just did a

> stream walk. Great fun pretending to be a kid when

> noone else around!

>

> Think I saw marsh buttercups along the sides. At

> any rate, the flower head looks like a buttercup

> but it's a much larger plant than common

> buttercups.

HA HA ! So you thought no one was around !

[Sue]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> sweetiepie!

>

> Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May...

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Eh?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sorry - the 'sweetiepie' was a return of your endearment 'kingcup'.

The Shakespeare was my nature watch observation today. I kept getting blossom in my eyes - v. painful.

[Sue]

:-$

Edited to say: Kingcups aka Marsh Marigolds do look like big buttercups, but it might be a bit late for them at the mo.

[dazeykat]

The swifts are here. Soon be summer.

[reetpetite]

:'(Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Citronella candles or gnats?

>

> Madame Goose and Mr Gander are pleased to present

> their six goslings. Adorable balls of yellow

> fluff.

Only 5 Goslings today:sad

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bleedin' crows.

[Sue]

dazeykat Wrote:

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> The swifts are here. Soon be summer.

xxxxx

Yeh just saw them for the first time this evening over Ulverscroft Road, YAY :)

[SimonM]

Still five goslings there this afternoon - no thanks at all to the heron who got angrily beaten off by the livid, honking parents!

[reetpetite]

Hateful Heron!