A garden catch-up (with fox cubs as well)

By Words | Published May 3, 2010

With all the excitement of the fox cubs, I've neglected some of the other garden residents.

The tadpoles have all but disappeared into the depths of the pond, but the damselfly nymphs are nearing maturity and will soon be emerging in all their glory. For now, they are still more alien than angel.

Other bugs are emerging as well. I've seen some ladybirds (no pictures yet), but this strange beetle was crawling along the pond wall yesterday.

And we still have hedgehogs, despite Bold's rather cavalier treatment of one a week or so ago.

I haven't seen the cubs tonight, so here's some video from last night.


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Camera note: the pond life were photographed with the Canon 40D and Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. The hedgehog was snapped with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.

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14 Comments

  1. gdare May 3, 2010 at 6:05 pm #

    Hedgehog doesn`t seem to care too much about Bold 😛

  2. Words May 3, 2010 at 9:05 pm #

    Darko, she should care, she really should!

  3. Words May 3, 2010 at 9:05 pm #

    Erwin, thanks!

  4. SittingFox May 4, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    Glad to see the rest of the hedgehogs are still around, though hopefully they'll keep away from the foxes from now on.

    Nice shot of the nymph!

  5. Words May 5, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    Adele, yes the hedgehogs need to take care.

  6. cakkleberrylane May 6, 2010 at 1:05 am #

    Hope they know how to be safe!

  7. Words May 6, 2010 at 9:05 pm #

    Lois, most of the time they do.

  8. Flying Red Fox Blog May 7, 2010 at 7:05 am #

    Lovelly photos. 😀

  9. Ukwildlife May 7, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    Great photos. I think the beetle is one of the 'chafers' How big was it?

  10. Words May 7, 2010 at 9:05 pm #

    Mark, thanks!

  11. Words May 7, 2010 at 9:05 pm #

    Neil, the beetle was less than 1cm in length from what I recall. Definitely small (which I appreciate is not the level of technical info you need!)

  12. Ukwildlife May 8, 2010 at 12:05 pm #

    hmm perhaps not a chafer (not sure if there are perhaps small species though). One for WAB for ID?

  13. Words May 9, 2010 at 12:05 am #

    I could be wrong about the size of course!

  14. Wulpen October 19, 2012 at 8:10 pm #

    Great