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RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 13-04-2026
Just a butterfly to add today
Bird - Great Tit, Wood pigeon, Blackbird, Crows, Robin, Blue Tit, Magpie, Great Spotted Woodpecker (just a glimpse but heard the call). Lesser Black Backed Gull.
Butterfly/Moth :- Scarlet Tiger Moth caterpillar, A Blue butterfly(Common Blue or Holly Blue? Not near enough to identify), Peacock (lots of different butterflies on the wing today!), Brimstone, Orange Tip butterfly, Small White.
Bee:- White Tailed Bumblebee. Buff tailed Bumblebee (in the GH gathering pollen from the rocket flowers), honeybee.
Insect:- Ant, Ladybird, Hoverfly, Bee fly (a small one and a big one), Woodlouse
Another - Horse, Two more horses (different ones to yesterday ) being ridden up the road. Frog. Sheep. Ted the Dog. Grey Squirrel.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - JJB - 13-04-2026
Bird: Chaffinch
Butterfly: a rather tatty painted lady
Bee: Ashy miner bee (so lens tells me)
Not great pictures though.
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RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Small chilli - 14-04-2026
Just bird today. Edit. Also a garden slug (on our temporary shed/kitchen door), insect tick walking on breeze.
A Bird - female pheasant, robin, great northern diver, pied wagtail, chaffinch, song thrush, house sparrow, blackbird, sparrow hawk, dunnock , rook, rock dove, white tailed eagle, chickens
A Butterfly or Moth (incuding caterpillar, chrysalis and imago) drinker moth caterpillar
A Bee or Wasp - black honey bees, white tailed bumblebee, carder bee
A Mollusc - black slug, garden slug
An insect or spider . Spider unable to identify. Money spider. Tick
Another living creature - sheep, slow worm, vole, red deer, fallow deer, tadpole, Labrador, collie , rabbits, cat , a different cat
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RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 14-04-2026
Just a bird to add today
Bird - Great Tit, Wood pigeon, Blackbird, Crows, Robin, Blue Tit, Magpie, Great Spotted Woodpecker (just a glimpse but heard the call). Lesser Black Backed Gull. Starling (in Morries car park)
Butterfly/Moth :- Scarlet Tiger Moth caterpillar, A Blue butterfly(Common Blue or Holly Blue? Not near enough to identify), Peacock (lots of different butterflies on the wing today!), Brimstone, Orange Tip butterfly, Small White.
Bee:- White Tailed Bumblebee. Buff tailed Bumblebee (in the GH gathering pollen from the rocket flowers), honeybee.
Insect:- Ant, Ladybird, Hoverfly, Bee fly (a small one and a big one), Woodlouse
Another - Horse, Two more horses (different ones to yesterday ) being ridden up the road. Frog. Sheep. Ted the Dog. Grey Squirrel.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 15-04-2026
Nothing today
