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A Daily Challenge to SPY wildlife in your garden/outdoors.
The aim is to SPY and identify each of the following:-
A Bird
A Butterfly or Moth (incuding caterpillar, chrysalis and imago)
A Bee or Wasp
A Mollusc
An insect or spider
Another living creature (you can only use a "named human" or a "pet" once  )
Every day must be different - for example, once you're seen a Robin, you can't SPY him again.
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9 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 9 hours ago by Small chilli.
Edit Reason: I’m an idiot
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Oh that’s a good challenge.
The only bird I can think of beginning with A is an albatross! Going to be tricky to spot one of these in my garden.
I’m definitely up for playing this one.
Back later with a list of A’s if I see any.
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I just re-read your post not an alphabetical challenge.  Well that makes things considerably easier
Ok back with a list of wildlife later. Does it have to be in the garden or can it be visible from the garden?
Edit….again
Fine ! Forget my last question! I’m obviously have trouble reading/ understanding perfectly simple things today.
I’ve definitely got it this time
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If it makes you feel better, I rewrote the post a couple of times as it didn't make sense to me either. 
basically, you can SPY them anywhere but only once.
I thought we could do it every month to show the changes in wildlife through the year.
We'll count today and tomorrow as March unless you want to have a couple of days in February to practice.
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A bird - white tailed eagle. 3 flying about overhead. I don’t see them every day so definitely mentioning them on the day I do.
A moth or butterfly - none
A bee or wasp - British black bees (honey bee). There first proper day out of the year. Very good to see.
A mollusc - a garden snail ( after research to ID the variety). Still hibernating in the sheet that’s covering the manure heap.
A insect - a spider . Species not identified as not officially an insect
Another living creature - fallow deer .
Not good photos but evidence. No eagles they wouldn’t have even been dots on the screen.
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Its going to be difficult to keep up with you, SC. 
I've added Spider to the Insect category and I'll add Caterpillar to the Butterfly/moth one.
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I'm taking mine from the last day I was in the garden, but I'm not sure I'll find a different one a day.
A bird - longtailed tit
A Butterfly or Moth - a brimstone I think, it was sulphur yellow
A Bee or Wasp - some sort of bumble dive bombed me, I've no idea what sort.
A Mollusc - snail
An insect - woodlouse
Another - field spaniel puppy
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
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Today
A Wren, Buff tailed bumble bee, a snail, a spider and a horse.
Didn't see a butterfly/moth.
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