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RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - JJB - 29-03-2026
Bird - blackbird
Another - newt
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Small chilli - 29-03-2026
Only a bird again today. But one of my all time favourites. Lapwing
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 29-03-2026
Nothing today.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Small chilli - 30-03-2026
A moth today. Yellow horned [attachment=8776]
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 30-03-2026
Insect - a Ladybird on the wheelbarrow tyre.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - JJB - 30-03-2026
Yet another oil beetle.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Veggie - 31-03-2026
Butterfly - Comma.
Nothing else new.
I'm going to list everything I've seen in March.
Does anyone want to play again in April?
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - Small chilli - 31-03-2026
Bird - raven
Insect - water cricket [attachment=8777]
Not a very good picture of a water cricket. But good enough for me to identify it. And realise I’ve been incorrectly calling them water boatmen for years. Not sure I’ve ever seen a water boatman now.
I definitely want to play again in April. I’m loving this. It’s making me actually look for things and then learn what they are.
My list for March
A Bird - robin, buzzard , song thrush, great tit, chaffinch, wren, chicken, longtail tit, blackbird, house sparrow, hooded crow , female pheasant, heron , Oystercatcher , blue tit, cormorant , dunnock , stonechat, Siskin , whooper swans, yellow hammer, green finch, eider duck, Canada goose, lapwing, raven.
A Butterfly or Moth (incuding caterpillar, chrysalis and imago)- micro moth, striped twin-spot carpet. Yellow horned (moth) ,
A Bee or Wasp- white tailed bumblebee , tree bumblebee, honey bee , bilberry bumblebee, heath bumblebee , early bumblebee,
A Mollusc - dusky slug, common garden slug, common garden snail, white lipped snail, netted slug,
An insect or spider - wood louse , European garden spider, tick, common crab spider, metellina segmentation spider, green bottle, crane fly, water cricket.
Another living creature - sheep, Red deer , highland cow x white shorthorn cows & calfs , fallow deer, 2 golden retrievers, skew, cat, muddy mungo paws ( aka a different collie), breeze, newt, Shetland pony, field mouse, Lawrence the highland bull, jack Russell, slow worm. Lamb, dab, stoat
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - JJB - 31-03-2026
I think I saw a honey? bee sitting on young broad bean plants, it wasn't a bumble or bee fly but with no photo I'm struggling to identify it.
RE: I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge - JJB - 01-04-2026
Saw a muntjac deer in the field across the road yesterday and a worm whilst digging.
A goldendoodle when out with the girls.