Gentle Dramas at Dusktime

Dyson has become a reliable visitor to the little wildlife garden. He appears as soon as it's dark and gets along with Fox Mulder, the other foxes and Barbara, the hedgehog. This despite all the stories we read that all he wants to do is eat her.

Today the squirrel pair who nest in my chimney have an important family announcement

By deploying its customary cunning this Red Fox makes itself almost invisible in a yellow field

#FoxOfTheDay

Drying on the bracken waiting for her first flutter, she won't ever be this bright again

So nearly her moment

I've created a welfare state based on dog biscuits

A fresh and spirited Pearl Bordered Fritillary on purple Bugle at Park Farm Heath today

Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Brimstone Butterflies twisting tangos over the glades of Sussex

Anyway, here's a sneezy Hedgehog

Swifts over my Kentish cottage at sundown. Back from south of the Sahara at least four pairs screaming.

Even the starlings are joining in awe by impersonating them from their perches atop the birch

Hannah Bourne-Taylor Swift Awareness Week

(composited photo)

**** Fox Newsflash ****

We interrupt your evening with reports that someone stole some crockery from the pub. Authorities are looking for a reddish brown suspect with a large, bushy tail.

So far none of the obvious witnesses have come forwards.

Basking Feral Terrapin in deepest Kent today.

Judging by it's size the environment suits. Derek Gow Froglife

Top therapy

The Worm Who Fought Back!

Lobworms can snap back into their burrows quickly and have barb-like bristles on each segment of their bodies that they deploy to stop predators from pulling them out of the ground.

That's why wiser badgers pounce fast!

Jonathan Tulloch Badger Trust

Harmony in my little wildlife garden in deepest Kent where badgers and hedgehogs dine on lobworms and the fox family like to leap over the pond on their way home after a night of busy foraging

Also admiring butterflies in the sunny hedgerows today, I suspect with lunch in mind

Out of The Blubells

Red Campion at Denge Woods, Canterbury

wildflowerhour

Green Winged Orchids and Bulbous Buttercups from England’s garden for wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Setting Sail

#DandelionChallenge

RT if you agree the dairy industry needs to fix its bio security, stop moving infected dairy cows around the country, and work to stop cattle-to-cattle transmission – not demonise badgers.