The Tadpoles have back legs...

 

Now they have legs they have started to eat meat so we give them cat food. This hopefully will stop them eating the insect eggs and larvae etc in the water and also later eating each other.

We do have a lot to look after.

Tadpoles in the stream

 

The stream was added a few years ago as no wildlife gardens should be without one. Finally this spring the frogs have left us some babies...

We will try and show how they grow, the next stage will be back legs.

Dog Otter in the Harbour

He was very laid back and just popped under the water every few minutes and and would pop back up           with some food    

                                                        

at one point he was scared by the passing of a ferry and took shelter by a fishing trawler, giving us a better view                                                                              

from this you really see his large webbed feet

 

and then he was gone

 

Our Skies

 Here are a few of the dramatic skies we see from our windows

Great White part 2

 It would appear that some of the caterpillars have been attacked by parasitic wasps as they are claiming the apartment wall and eggs emerge and the poor caterpillar covers them with silk and the stays and guards them untill it dies rather than pupate........

This little guy missed the target with his silk, not suppressing really 

also our eight legged friends are waiting in the wings to get a meal from these zombie like creatures

Large Wites

 We had a few self seeded black radis in the front garden, we left them as the bees loved the flowers and now so it seems so do the large white butterfly caterpillars......like the leaves.

Little ones grow up fast

here we have mummy tweety with from left to right Tintin, Thompson and Snowy