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Tag: garden

  • Hazel

    Hazel

    The hazel bush that I planted in March 2009 has produced its first crop.

  • Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) beside garden pond.

  • Foxgloves

    Foxgloves

  • Hazel

    – The Hedges by this time are beginning to leaf – John Keats: Letter to B. R. Haydon – 8 April 1818

  • Hazel catkins

    Both of these photos were taken on 27th January 2010. The catkins shown above are growing in my garden – now that the very cold weather has eased they are developing fast and the bush has a lot of female flowers on it.  The ones below were photographed about a quarter of a mile from…

  • Success!

    I fixed up this bird table outside my kitchen window several months ago but didn’t have a single visitor until today – now the blackbirds are fighting each other to feed on it.

  • Hazel catkins

    Catkins on the tree which I planted last year in my garden. Some of the ones in the hedgerows are at around the same stage as these, but I’ve also seen others that are a couple of inches long and starting to open.

  • Albinistic blackbird

    I caught sight of a blackbird like this one on several occasions last year, but it was down in the park. It’s just begun visiting our gardens and is around most days at the moment. The cold weather is making birdwatching from the window a lot more interesting: so far, in addition to the heron,…

  • Pale Tussock Larva

    Vapourer moth larva? Found dead and partly decomposed, on a hawthorn plant. Edit: Pale Tussock larva Calliteara pudibunda – thanks James.

  • Moth larva

    Haven’t managed to identify this as yet.