Well that didn't go according to the plan with the Trail Camera last night. I decided to have a go at altering some of the camera settings and ended up watching some strange videos; including one where there were small creatures scurrying around on the lawn. Occasionally they would stop at the grain, I had placed on a stepping stone, and then they would just move on.
My first thought was that they were newts, but at times the speed these "things" were moving ruled them out and then a phantom cat appeared from nowhere and in a split second was gone.
I now know what I did with the camera settings, but I'll let you watch the video to work out what the creatures were on the lawn, before I give anything away.
Yet another day at home, this time spent weeding and planting out Dahlias and other plants. Whilst keeping my head down a pair of Linnets visited the pond and then preceded to do a bit of preening in the neighbours Cherry Tree.
Still plenty of bees about with Honey Bees, Bronze Furrow Bees and Ashy Mining Bees.
Here are a few images and another video.
...........is the female having a good preen after having a big wash in the pond.
The sun certainly brought the bees out again. This is an Ashy Mining Bee, looking for its nest in lawn.
And just in case you missed him, here is Ted chilling out on the lawn.
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Meadow Pipit, Dunnock, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Magpie, Carrion Crow, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Linnet and Goldfinch
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), Bronze Furrow Bee (Halictus tumulorum) and Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata)
Slugs and Snails Recorded: Slugs sp.
NOTE
I hadn't realised it at the time, but having adjusted some of the camera settings I had also put it into time lapse. If you look at the minutes they are flying by. So the cat was probably there for quite awhile and the creatures on the lawn, well I'm pretty sure they were slugs.