This spider was crawling on my chair, I decided to pick it up and it ran up my arm! It is sitting at the inside of my elbow. Not really sure if you can see how big it is, but it was massive! I really like spiders, I know a lot of people don't! Over here in Scotland we don't have any dangerous or deadly native spiders.
This is a Blackbird. They are really common in Scotland. This is the stump where I feed the birds and it is great to get photos of them.
My friend Fernando over at: https://feraldi91.blogspot.com/ posts a lot of photos of water droplets. So I thought I would try it out after seeing his great photos.
I like the reflections on these.
I saw this little cutie at Sea Life in Loch Lomond. It is a Tetraodontidae. He always looks happy when we visit Sea Life.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone. These are Grandaisy Pink Halo (Argyranthemum frutescens), I thought they would be the ideal flowers for today! Have a great day everyone :-D
I put floating pellets in the pond for the ducks and coots. I also put some at the edge of the water for the crows. This crow was happy to get a collection of them!
This is a bee on Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis). This purple flower is fairly common in Scotland during summer months and attracts a lot of insects.
Took this a few weeks ago. We had a little snow and I like how it was frozen on the leaves.
We saw this Racoon at Chessington Zoo last year. Lovely little creature and looked happy.
Not quite sure what these mushrooms are but they sure do offer shelter to the fairies in the forest.
This a lovely little Blue Tit getting the seeds I put down for it. This tree stump is a common place for people to put seeds down on and great for photos too. It attracts Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Nuthatches, Robins, Crows, Pigeons, Squirrels, Blackbirds and a few other birds from time to time. The ones I have listed are very common and plentiful in that part of the forest.
This is Stitch hanging out on the cat tree! He is chilling and often lies like this! He is a lovely cat.
This is a Scarlet Elf Cup mushroom. I think it looks like Pacman! I took this a few days ago. This week I have been getting out my walks. Just short walks but will build it up again.
This is an apple from our garden tree. It was frosty and frozen and I think it looks really cool!
This is a Hawthorn Shield Bug. I've posted one of these little guys before along with other Shield Bugs. They are nice little things. He was happy to walk on my hand for a short while.
I think this is a Common Bonnet Mushroom. I struggle to identify them and spend ages online trying! Anyway I thought this looked magical.
This is a Wood Pigeon chilling in the grass. I don't really give pigeons the attention I should. Maybe I should start paying more attention to them!
On Friday 24th January Scotland was hit with a bad storm called Eowyn. It was one of the worst we have ever seen. Giorgio over at Change easily (https://giorgiorusso2.blogspot.com/) was asking me for information on it. So it lasted most of the day and died down about 8pm. Sadly, so far 2 people have lost their lives. But the damage to houses and buildings has been really bad. There are trees down all over and fences and debris. I have been out a few times and here are some of the photos of the trees.
This weevil was keen to go up my jacket sleeve! Well I had other ideas....take a photo of it and then put it back on the leaves!
A good few crows here. I always feed them with seeds. They are such wonderful birds and good friends to have I think.
What a lovely view looking up! Tom at https://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/ posts looking up photos all the time and I think they are wonderful :-D
This is a Golden Pheasant. I took this photo at a farm last summer. I had never seen one prior to this.
This is a little robin in the forest. He was looking for food, so I gave him some seeds.
Took this a few years ago when there were plenty of frogs. Last year we didn't see too many. Maybe this year there will be more.
