There's just so much going on at the moment that I thought I would publish a "catch-all" article to try and tie everything together.
Firstly, I managed to capture one of our glow -worms mating. It was a little difficult as I had a crap camera and it was necessarily dark! However, as you can see the male bug is a "click-beetle" and therefore flies. The female does not, hence her need to attract the flying males down to the ground with her glowing abdomen. The other evening we located eleven such females in our garden and anyone who saw us myopically peering into our lawn and chipping heap at 10.30 at night would have thought us mad. I'm not at all sure they would be wrong!
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| A Mating Glow Worm Couple... |
Frankie has been sitting in the garden with her camcorder at hand in an attempt to capture some of the bird life we have here. She has fallen in love with the woodpeckers that visit our feeders especially as they have been feeding a youngster with the nuts we (expensively) provide for them. Also, the other day we had a rare visitor (for us) as we don't very often see the exotically coloured Goldfinch here in the woods. This bird is such a beauty and would be equally at home with any of the strikingly plumaged birds of jungle, bush or outback.
Finally, our chickens are home....but more of that in the next blog......
