Rojer's blog

Oct 2019

and

April 2020

Social isolation.

Isn't it boring?
Better than the alternative though innit?

Every day I go out for my 'exercise'. For me that's a walk around the north side of the pond, onto the canal towpath , round the rugby field and back. If I remember to set my tracker ap it usually runs at about a mile and a half.
I like to walk and usually cover more distance. Here's an eight mile stroll from earlier in March - before lockdown:

From now on I'm just going to randomly select pictures from the past few months alternating with the day's pics.

For starters, from October the first last year:

Not a spider; it's a harvestman

Dock bugs.

I thought that these were shield bugs but it seems not.

Second of October

Here's our muscovy, I didn't notice the foreground fish until I began to edit the picture.

Heron passing overhead.

There's often a heron sitting on the bank of the pond or hanging about in the rugby field.

Robin departing.

On the bank of the pond

Dunno if this vid will work, if not I'll try summat different next time.

It's a nocturnal visitor: a hedgehog.

Waxing Moon

October the fourth

Harvestmen (should that be harvestmans?) are quite common. Until seeing them here I'd never considered them to be anything but a weird kind of spider.

Dock bugs, which I'd thought to be shield bugs or (US) stink bugs, aren't although they look very like 'em.

There's a small patch of ground that is home to a quantity of dock bugs. I've seen up to a dozen or so at one time.

An escapee from a John street garden, a large buddleja bush is a magnet for insects. This year (2019) there were few butterflies but here's a bee's bum.

Swan.

13th April 2020

Back garden bluetit.

I've several hanging fatball feeders and I scatter seed around i the (weed covered) ground. As a result I've lots of sparrows - two dozen at a time sometimes - a few starlings - specialising in skwawking and fighting - the odd bluetit, robin and blackbird and occasional wood pigeon and collared dove.