General Chat

LOTS OF EM HERE

I haven't seen a butterfly or a ladybug this year yet but I have a moth in the bathroom.
Also when I was a kid growing up in a small town in Northumberland there were always big fat black slugs everywhere when ever it rained now I never see one just brown speckled ones and snails, the snails have taken over my garden again this year.

Colin,

How strange as normally this time of the year we are plagued by them, they swoop down into the pool to drink water. It is really majestic to watch them, as sometimes I have to duck if in the pool...My OH recently remarked that they have not been around and I did not take too much notice until now..

Another strange thing is that this summer we have had lots of butterflies, the orange and black speckled ones, and rather large, something I have not seen for a good many years..Also little green grasshoppers and ladybugs..

Lindy ;)

I am bombarded by them every morning when I take the dog out.There are so many ,and they can fly so low and so close you can almost feel the breeze.

Well send em my way, i know what ime doing wrong
ime growing corn when i should be breeding flies

colin

Oh lovely info came through from you all while I was making tea and popping on here.
Sadly when school resumes in September the birds will have gone but I will watch in spring next year and hopefully they will be back and I will be able to suss out the swallow from the swift and the house martin.
Thank you for your input.x

Colin, there's plenty round here, I'm glad to say

Thanks for that Eldrick, it happened so fast it could have been any of them, lol.

swallow has a long forked tail, the house martin has a short forked tail and the swift shorter still and is all brown, often 'screaming' when flying.

You will never see a swift landing on the ground.

There is a nest in the canopy of the door to my little ones school, it looks like it is made out of paper mache and I saw one of the parents fly into it.
Now here is my problem, I can never remember the difference between a swallow,swift or house martin and the like.
This one had the V shaped tail and was dark in colour.

No, because they haven't disappeared. Never had so many here, everyone is remarking upon it.

And swifts and house martens as well. Wonderful

Swallows eat insects, not crops.

I've seen some Colin.......not so many flying about in the skies over the town but I've seen them out in the countryside hereabouts.

Any body seen any swallows this year, i was just asked and
have to say, i cant honestly remember seeing one, could it. Do
you think, their dissapearance. Be anthying to do with the Europeans
and their genetic crops?.
colin