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September’s End

25 Fri Sep 2015

Posted by Clare Pooley in amphibians, family, Insects, music, plants, Rural Diary, trees

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autumn, berries, buzzard, common lizard, crane fly, family, flowers, Fruit, fruit trees, fungus, garden flowers, greater celandine, wasp nest, wild flowers

IMG_2485Hawthorn

Common Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)

We have had some very cool nights already and lots of rain.  Autumn has arrived!  The nights are drawing in and when I get up just after six o’clock in the morning on Mondays and Fridays I have to wait for well over half an hour before the sun rises.

Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum

I have no news to give you about Alice – I haven’t spoken to her for about a fortnight so I assume she is busy and coping alright.

Morning Glory
Morning Glory
Dahlia
Dahlia
Dahlia
Dahlia

To our surprise, the day after I mentioned in this blog that it would take weeks for probate to be granted, it was granted!  Richard has spent two days in Manchester with his brother sorting out all their mother’s finances.  They also went to a place that Joyce was fond of and scattered her ashes.  Richard was hoping to spend three days with Chris and wanted to travel up in his new car but unfortunately his windscreen was hit by a stone chipping last week which left a four inch crack and it needs replacing!  The insurance company is sending someone to our house to carry out the replacement today (which is when Richard had hoped to return home).  He came home yesterday instead (Thursday).  He will have to go back to Manchester in a couple of weeks to finish going through all Joyce’s belongings and deciding what to do with them – a very difficult business.

Dog-rose-hips (Rosa canina)
Dog-rose-hips (Rosa canina)
Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus agg.)
Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus agg.)
Pyracantha berries
Pyracantha berries
Cotoneaster berries
Cotoneaster berries
Black Bryony (Tamus communis) growing through Cotoneaster horizontalis
Black Bryony (Tamus communis) growing through Cotoneaster horizontalis
Cotoneaster horizontalis
Cotoneaster horizontalis

Elinor has almost completed two weeks at college, is working hard and her tutors are very pleased with her.  She is enjoying the course but finds the social side of college life very tricky.  She is very insecure and worries all the time that she is saying or doing the wrong thing.  She has also been badly affected by her grandmother’s death and funeral.  She is afraid of going to sleep in case she doesn’t wake up again and she is frightened of being left alone both now and in the future.

Eating apples 'Saturne'
Eating apples ‘Saturne’
Pears 'Concorde'
Pears ‘Concorde’
Figs 'Brown Turkey'
Figs ‘Brown Turkey’
Crabapple 'Evereste'
Crabapple ‘Evereste’
Crabapple 'Harry Baker'
Crabapple ‘Harry Baker’
Crabapple
Crabapple

I have been busy in the house and with my mother; Richard has had a lot to do in the garden and has also been arranging our finances now that he has retired.  We have had no time for a walk recently and in fact have done very few walks together during the whole year.  We hope that in the next week or so things will have calmed down and we will be able to find time to go out together.

Chinese Lanterns (Physalis alkekengi)
Chinese Lanterns (Physalis alkekengi)
Japanese Ornamental Cherry 'Fragrant Cloud'
Japanese Ornamental Cherry ‘Fragrant Cloud’
Acer palmatum 'Atropurpureum'
Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’
Spindle (Euonymous europaeus)
Spindle (Euonymous europaeus)
Hazel new catkins (Corylus avellana)
Hazel new catkins (Corylus avellana)
Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Fungus
Fungus
Fungus
Fungus
Fungus
Fungus

The photographs in this post were mainly done during one afternoon this week.

IMG_2479Entrance to wasp nest

This is the entrance to one of the three wasp nests we have in our garden. They took over an old mouse or vole hole.

IMG_2487Crane fly

Crane fly (Tipula paludosa)

IMG_2494Buzzard

Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Greater Celandine

Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus)

I saw this plant just inside the stone wall that surrounds St Mary’s church in Bungay.

Greater Celandine

Greater Celandine

This plant is no relation to the Lesser Celandine we see in the springtime.  It is a type of poppy, similar to the Yellow Horned-poppy I found on Dunwich beach a few weeks ago.  Its orange-coloured sap has been used in Asia for burning away warts and corns since the beginning of Chinese civilisation.  This caustic liquid was also used to remove soreness and cloudiness from the eyes!  It uses an oil gland on its seeds to ensure they are taken a distance away.  Ants feed on the oil and then carry the seed off.

Juvenile Common Lizard

Juvenile Common Lizard

For the second week running, I discovered something hiding under our wheelie-bin.  Obviously, rubbish bins are the go-to shelter for small creatures.

IMG_5734Clouds

Elinor and I admired these clouds as we neared home the other day.

IMG_5736Clouds

We turned to our left and saw these!

The following song is dedicated to Elinor.

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Yet More Garden Visitors.

20 Fri Feb 2015

Posted by Clare Pooley in Insects, Rural Diary, wild birds

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birds, buzzard, common darter dragonfly, Damselfly, dove, emerald damselfly, flea beetle, garden, garden spider, grey dagger caterpillar, insects, leaf beetle, long-tailed tit, moorhen, snail, spider's webs

This is the last collection of photographs I took last year of the creatures I saw in my garden.  This post starts with photos I took in mid September and continues until the beginning of November.

003Little black beetle (640x480)

A Flea Beetle. Not a particularly desirable insect to have in the garden but I was fascinated by its shiny wing cases and the enormous rear legs used for jumping.

013Chrysolina varians (640x454)

A Leaf Beetle – I think this may be Chrysolina varians which lives on St John’s-wort. It was such a pretty iridescent beetle that I found on the clothes hanging on my washing line. With apologies for the horrible hand!

012Buzzard (640x469)

Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

I am pleased that Buzzards are returning to East Anglia.   Until eight or nine years ago I had never seen one here.

001Spiders' webs (640x427)

Some beautiful dew-covered Garden Spiders’ webs (Araneus diadematus) I saw at the beginning of October

023OOF Damselfly (640x427)

Apologies for the out of focus image. I believe this is an Emerald Damselfly (Lestes sponsa) or it might even be a Scarce Emerald Damselfly (Lestes dryas)

I spent ages following this damselfly round and round the pond until at last it settled and then of course, the camera wouldn’t focus on it!

004(Scarce) Emerald Damselfly (640x427) (2)

I saw it again the following day perched on willowherb seeds.

005(Scarce) Emerald Damselfly (640x429)

This is a better photograph but still not as clear as I would like.

I had never seen one of these damselflies before.  What makes me think it is an Emerald Damselfly is (a) its green body, (b) the way it rested with its wings spread out and (c) the brown wing-spot.  What makes me think it may be a Scarce Emerald Damselfly is the size of the wing-spots which are quite wide.  (The Emerald Damselfly’s wing-spots are narrow).

002Grey Dagger caterpillar (640x480)

Grey Dagger moth caterpillar (Acronicta psi)

003Grey Dagger caterpillar (640x480)

The prominent soft spike is just behind the caterpillar’s head which makes it look back-to-front. Probably a ruse to fool birds. The moth has dagger shaped markings on its wings. I found the caterpillar in the bottom of the wheelbarrow after I had taken the pyracantha prunings down to the heap at the bottom of the garden.

006Common Darter (640x433)

Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum)

009Long-tailed Tit in Spindle (640x465)

Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) in Spindle tree

011 (2)Long-tailed Tit (640x429)

And again

003Moorhen (640x427)

Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

007Doves (640x427)

White doves sitting on the shed roof

010Garden Spider (640x480)

Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)

011Garden spider (640x480)

Spider silhouette

012Garden spider (640x480)

I held the begonia leaf so that I could photograph the markings on the spider’s back

023Snail on leaf (476x640)

A tiny yellow snail on a dead leaf. I think this is a White-lipped Banded Snail (Cepaea hortensis)

I hope you have enjoyed looking at some of the things I saw in my garden last year.  Best wishes to you all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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More Birds!

16 Sun Nov 2014

Posted by Clare Pooley in Rural Diary, wild birds

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birds, black-headed gull, buzzard, dunnock, green woodpecker, kingfisher, pheasant, stock dove, Suffolk, Swallow

041Dunnock (640x427)

This is a Dunnock. They used to be called Hedge Sparrows but they are not like sparrows at all except for their brown and grey colouring. They have quite a bright jangling song and search for food mainly on the ground under hedges and shrubs.

This post will be of more photos of birds I saw this summer and autumn in my garden.  We are very lucky to have so many types of bird visiting.

042Dunnock (640x427)

The dunnock realised I was looking at it and so looked at me.

043Dunnock (640x427)

It then tried to edge behind the hawthorn leaf to hide.

062Green Woodpecker (640x419)

A Green Woodpecker also known as a Yaffle because of its laughing call. This bird is a juvenile as it hasn’t got its full green plumage yet. I hardly ever see these birds in trees. They love ants and ants’ eggs I am pleased to say, and are very welcome in our garden which is ‘ant city’.

065Green Woodpecker (640x427)

They are such attractive birds with their black masks and cherry-red, olive-green, grey-green and primrose-yellow plumage.

064Female pheasant (640x427)

I have re-posted this photo of a female pheasant to show how drab they are compared with the males. Their feathers are so good at blending in with grasses  which is very useful at nesting-time.

063Stock dove (640x427)

A Stock Dove

049Swallow (640x507)

A Swallow – one of our summer visitors. I miss them very much when they fly south for the winter. They left very early this year because we had such a cool August.

050Swallow (640x454)

Swallow

039Seagulls (640x433)

Another re-post of Black-headed Seagulls in the field behind our house. These were losing their summer plumage. During the winter they don’t have a black head only a black spot on the side of the head. And it isn’t black but dark brown!

012Buzzard (640x469)

A Buzzard flying over our house. Buzzards have returned to East Anglia in the last few years having been absent for a very long time.

I must apologise for the quality of the next photograph.  I am including it because I am so pleased and excited to have seen this bird at all, let alone seeing it in my garden.  It decided to perch in a very shaded part of the garden by the pond and I couldn’t focus on it at all.

011Kingfisher (640x467)

The orange and blue bird with white throat and neck patch is a Kingfisher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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