Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Garden Wildlife this morning

Wildlife seems to have enjoyed the lockdown and this year I seem to have more birds, bees and amphibians than I have for a while. I have a small pond that this year must have a dozen or so newts as well as a couple of frogs. I was out this morning and had just finished a phone call when I saw the newts so I thought I'd grab a short video. We see three or four in this short clip.

Later, sitting on the steps having my coffee, I saw what to me was an new spider in a zantedeschia bloom. I've since learned it was a flower crab spider. Here's what the wildlife trust site has to say about it:

Unlike many spiders, flower crab spiders don’t spin webs to trap insects. Instead they ambush their prey, often laying in wait on foliage for unsuspecting bees, moths and other insects that come to feed on flower.

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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on July 19, 2021 at 2:11

And here is one of my toads. Notice how warty he is and how well camouflaged.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on July 19, 2021 at 8:17

There’s a fine fellow.

Recently, I keep seeing newts in the garden rather than the pond. Does anyone know if this is the time of the newt diaspora, or are they out feeding?

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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on July 20, 2021 at 3:50

When I lifted a plank that has been resting on a sleeper for some weeks, I found that ants had started using the tiny space under the plank for their eggs. They immediately started to scurry around carrying the eggs to safety. Within an hour every egg had gone.