StoneGloves
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Re: So what offerings are appropriate?
Jun 19, 2010, 16:50
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I have an inner city allotment, it's been there years and was originally a walled garden for one of Grainger's last houses. I watched a Wall warming up, in the sun, last summer, on the garden wall. But there was just one and they are declining rapidly, nationally. None this year, but there have been more Small copper and many Six-spot burnet moth. The Meadow brown I found in the gutter dead, took it home and scanned it. It was the most common butterfly at my base camp, but only half the size, there, of its city brethren. More delicately coloured too.
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nigelswift
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Re: So what offerings are appropriate?
Jun 19, 2010, 17:08
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Yes, the Wall has really suffered since I were a lad but it's moving North due to global warming. There's a lot of funny stuff popping up now round me. And have you got Kites up your way yet? Totally superb they are.
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StoneGloves
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Re: So what offerings are appropriate?
Jun 19, 2010, 20:35
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I see stunt kites but not Red. They've been reported in the Derwent Valley, a couple of miles away. A buzzard once, in the inner city, not quite city centre. I've been watching the bees and learning to tell them apart ...
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Branwen
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Re: So what offerings are appropriate?
Jun 19, 2010, 20:48
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I was surprised how many bees species are solitary, making no honey or wax.
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