Archived & Upcoming Images of the Day
A sort of mousy balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet?
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Oh dear - another anthropomorphic 'kiss'.
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Another source of energy for butterflies is damaged fruit berries. Normally spotted on apple windfalls (very few this year) this Comma butterfly is finding the fruit-juice welcome.
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17yrs ago we inherited a buddleia that flowers for months after the others finish. Here the original plant (though much propagated) is providing nectar for a Red Admiral Butterfly.
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A fieldmouse (wood mouse) inspecting a hip on a 'fallen' rose twig.
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Jumping, fighting or loving - who knows. But a colourful group.
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Concentrating near the entrance hole to the loft as they congregate in the dawn light gives a chance of some closer images. Note the lovely leather texture on the wing and tail membranes and the ears pointing in different directions as it 'looks about' with sound.
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Almost the hare and the tortoise. Many later images (snails don't rush!) show the snail survived the encounter unscathed.
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Our acrobat mice continue their ... err ... acrobatics.
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We are tempting the fieldmice (wood mice) with various berries, but we have no idea which it is eating here.
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A Kestrel Female stayed on our new 'Raptor post' for 10 minutes giving us time to get some portraits. See also 14 Oct 2007 and 9 Sep 2007.
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Spiders have pulled this stem of grass into an almost abstract art form.
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A Male Chaffinch coming in to land on the log
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Traditionally rabbits love carrots, but what's the chance of catching a pair of rabbits each carrying away a piece.
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Craneflies are everywhere (including in the house) and this mouse seems to be interested in this one. Whether just curiosity or a potential snack we don't know.
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Now we know where the Brown Long-eared Bats are roosting we can time our expeditions into the cold, dark and windy a bit better and get more chances.
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To help you get over the last 2 traumatic images, here is a sweetie. These two were in several consecutive shots enjoying each other's company.
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We were surprised by one visit by a kestrel (see 28 Feb 2007) and now we have another. This site is more enclosed and the bird seems to be flying from a clearing where we felled a falling tree a few weeks ago & had a load of Blackthorn removed by local RSPB volunteers. We think the claw contains a piece of rabbit rather than a whole rodent.
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Ouch!!
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This little creature landed on Marie while picking blackberries. We now have an experts confirmation that this is a Palomena prasina nymph that will be adult at it's next stage. Thanks to Judith K. for getting the expert assessment for us
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The magpie on the left and the female Kestrel surprised us by seemingly ignoring each other. When massed Jackdaws and Rooks (corvids like the Magpie) come across a Kestrel in the air they mob it until it leaves.
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Several shots in a row show a battle between a Dunnock and a Robin. Here the dunnock is diving on an apparently nonchalant Robin.
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The return of the Long-eared Bats - not identified since the image of 26 Aug 2005. Again a 'morning' bat, but this time seen with Pipistrelles.
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We often see mice in positions we can't see they can land properly from, and now we see that sometimes they don't.
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We often see birds tossing food picked up by the tip of their beaks into the back, but have never had a photo before.
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Particularly immaculate robin.
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Full speed across the site. We suspect the camera was triggered by whatever the fox was chasing for supper.
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All the peanut grits have gone, and we can't rid ourselves of the feeling that the mouse is wondering whether to eat the piece on the slug.
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The relative sizes of these two is startling when you see them together. The mouse seems not the least bothered.
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The foxes continue to appear overnight, but have not seen them in the daytime recently.
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Looks to us like this sweetie is conducting the orchestra for the Ballet dancing fieldmouse (wood mouse) of 1 Sep 2007.
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