Bird, wildlife and flower log, 9-15 September 2013

This week I have had to extract a snail from the snack shack, but I am sure it had already been cleaned out by the time it would have got there! Maybe it was just taking shelter!!!

Squirrel knackered leg has been around quite a bit this week but it's been very quiet for the other squirrels. It's also been very quiet for blackbirds, just sightings of them darting out from underneath the mahonia.

This picture of squirrel "knackered leg" I took back in June, as I've not managed to capture anything this week I thought I'd catch up on a previous photo. It's broken back leg is easy to see.

Squirrel © 2013 Natasha Forder

This weekend has been very, very busy for the little birds. Especially greenfinches and chaffinches. I only fill the seed and nut feeders to about a third everyday, as they would eat their way through everything if they were full. And over the weekend they have been finishing what is out by about 11 am. That means lots of hungry birds, eating lots of food. There are still lots of young ones around too. Fat balls and fat blocks are also disappearing fast!

And I nearly forgot I saw a little frog this week too. I haven't seen any frogs for a while. I rescued it from one of the bird drinking trays that it was trapped in.

The wind has been getting up all evening and it started raining this afternoon, so not the nicest of days.

Birds	Wildlife and Insects	Flowers
Blackbird – male, female, juvenile	Grey squirrels	Lobelia x speciosa fan salmon
Great spotted woodpecker - male, female, juvenile	Snail	Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Chaffinch - male, female	Slug	Coreopsis grandiflora rising
Greenfinch - male, female, juvenile	Frog (little)	Coreopsis sunray
Blue tit - adult, juvenile		Gaillardia sunburst yellow
Great tit - adult, juvenile		Sedum
Dunnock - adult
Robin - adult, juvenile
Jay - adult
Magpie - adult
Crow - adult
Nuthatch - adult
Woodpigeon - adult, juvenile
Collared dove - adult
Coal tit