Category: Paul’s Blog

I must admit that early on in the day I didn’t expect to have a new species to tick off for today; partly because the weather meant I was not going to spend much time in the garden. But here we are, one new species for the series and two photos of it. I have…

The photos from Day 25 in our garden are mainly taken with my Macro lens. I love the arrangement of the flowers on this curve of Bleeding Heart in our back garden. In the front garden the Clematis Montana is starting have solid patches of flowers. There are many more to come. And in the…

Only one new creature for today. And I don’t know what this new creature is other than is is a similar size and shape to a Ladybird. Edit: Having been given a clue that it might be Sphaeridium lunatum and when checking on t’internet for that shows identical looking beetles I think it a safe…

Wow, what a day! A few weeks ago I saw Chaffinch and Wren in our garden but as yet during this daily series I have not seen them. I have been keeping my eye on the area of the garden I would expect to see the Wrens and Blackbird, Dunnock, Robin, Blue Tit and Great…

Day 22 is all flying things. The header image is a Green Veined White Butterfly. At any time with any of the photos if anyone thinks I have got an ID wrong please let me know. In the past I would have simply called this a Cabbage White on the wrong assumption that it came…

Just one new thing from our garden on day 21 plus several birds we have seen before. This little green caterpillar is the new one for today. I need to get a confirmed ID for it but it does look similar to the caterpillar of a Light Brown Apple Moth, which is the moth I…

Having recently done some gardening and put some plants in our garden it seems sensible to show some of them since they have not been included in this series yet. The planting out has included Convolvulus and Iberis in addition to the Forget Me Not that has already appeared in the series. The planting also…

Day 19 and still with new things to show! On two of the photos you are going to have to trust me though. The header image is of the Cherry Blossom in our back garden. I have shown some of this as it was opening – and that was only 3 days ago on Day…