The Wildlife (and Gardening for Wildlife) thread

[6Foot2]

We had a Jersey Tiger land on our kitchen window (inside)

 

 

Identification: Google.

[Dos_Box]

Took part in a moth survey at my girlfriends dads house on the south side of the Ribble estuary on Saturday. A great day, lot's of moths and butterflies out, then some nice (and much needed) downpours in the afternoon as we were all hading home. Not bad pics for a phone camera!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[6Foot2]

We had a Gatekeeper (aka Hedge brown) visit the mint planted by 5Foot2.

 

 

Identification: Google images.

[LeMarchand]

We have had a hedgehog take up residence; s/he can often be heard drinking from/tipping up the enamel bowl of water we leave out for the cat. We have since put out a few more drinking spots, but the enamel bowl seems to be favoured.

 

Plus, the other morning I stepped out of the front door to hear rustling in the low shrub on the right of the path in the narrow flower bed between our path and the neighbour's gravel "lawn". I assumed it was one of the neighbourhood cats until a fox sloped away, giving me a "I was enjoying my sleep!" look.

[6Foot2]

This "little" fella was caught in the strike jamb of my workshop door today:

 

 

Google says that it is a European hornet.

 

I reported the sighting to the Bees Wasps & Ants Recording Society (BWARS).

[Dos_Box]

We don't often see hornets up here, and defo one insect I keep well away from!

[Andrew_C]

Had a few over the summer - fairly sure they were European ones.

[LeMarchand]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cked321vzlxyo

 

 

Rare albino stag photographed in Devon.

 

Don't let the Kids from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" know!

Edited Thursday at 13:28 by LeMarchand

[Bumhug360]

Got BirdNET-Go installed on my home server, monitors the audio stream from the camera in the garden and detects what birds are visiting the garden, so far today had these 

 

Since August 29th had 20,860 detections and 101 unique species, even added it to dashboard for Home Assistant

 

Also gives you a few graphs if you love to play around with data

 

[ICTDirect_Dave]

That is super cool!

[sigma]

23 hours ago, Bumhug360 said:

Got BirdNET-Go installed on my home server, monitors the audio stream from the camera in the garden and detects what birds are visiting the garden, so far today had these 

 

Since August 29th had 20,860 detections and 101 unique species, even added it to dashboard for Home Assistant

 

Also gives you a few graphs if you love to play around with data

 

 

 

What is the "plants" input from?

[Ditto]

Now that is cool! Merlin Bird ID app on steroids! What camera do you have and is the feed wired or wireless. What with Christmas around the corner, I can see this on my list...

[Bumhug360]

2 hours ago, sigma said:

 

What is the "plants" input from?

 

Ecowitt WH51 Wireless Soil Moisture Sensor, connects to a GW2000 gateway with a WS90 weather station providing other helpful info. I tend to overwater or forget to water and have really struggled to grow basic things. So it started monitoring the soil moisture for a sunflower which managed to get 7ft tall in a pot and now its keeping an eye on a rose cutting (I haven't got round to changing the graph name yet!). Home Assistant sends me a notification when it needs watering or if its getting too wet

 

1 hour ago, Ditto said:

Now that is cool! Merlin Bird ID app on steroids! What camera do you have and is the feed wired or wireless. What with Christmas around the corner, I can see this on my list...

 

Reolink Elite Floodlight Wi-Fi, but any camera that picks up sound and has an RTSP feed can be used.