Monday, May 05, 2008

Lots of Wildlife

The garden is positively alive with native wildlife today. The pond is doing especially well, with clouds of water fleas, all sorts of beetles buzzing about, and hundreds of big healthy tadpoles!

The native wild cowslips which have been growing on the path are doing really well this year.

The borders are full of forget-me-nots, which attracted this lovely butterfly.

The frogs are all hanging out in the pond during this hot weather.

We counted 17 adult frogs visible at the same time.

There are tadpoles everywhere.

Newts! We spotted newts in the pond for the first time today.

Lots of pond skaters are whizzing around on the surface of the pond too.

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