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

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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This Post Has 14 Comments

  1. gdare

    3 May 2010

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

  2. Words

    3 May 2010

    Darko, she should care, she really should!

  3. Words

    3 May 2010

    Erwin, thanks!

  4. SittingFox

    4 May 2010

    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

    5 May 2010

    Adele, yes the hedgehogs need to take care.

  6. cakkleberrylane

    6 May 2010

    Hope they know how to be safe!

  7. Words

    6 May 2010

    Lois, most of the time they do.

  8. Flying Red Fox Blog

    7 May 2010

    Lovelly photos. 😀

  9. Ukwildlife

    7 May 2010

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

  10. Words

    7 May 2010

    Mark, thanks!

  11. Words

    7 May 2010

    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

    8 May 2010

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

  13. Words

    9 May 2010

    I could be wrong about the size of course!

  14. Wulpen

    19 Oct 2012

    Great

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