little christmas visitors

These two little guys came to visit on Monday, it was rather hot and they flew into our undercover area.

 

 One landed on our freezer and the kids were worried that it was injured.

The other stayed up high in the rafters. 

The one on the freezer was panting and just sat there, it even allowed B3 to stroke it.

I managed a couple of photos then when I went to pat it, it flew off so it wasn't injured at all.

I thought they were a type of finch but when I checked out the bird book they are mistletoe birds, just visiting in time for Christmas, or maybe they were just after some of the mistletoe that like to get into our trees.

insect mania

Here are a couple of close ups of some insects found in our garden

I took these photos with my camera when it was new and we were doing a nature study in the garden.

A few weeks ago Karen had a photo of a dragonfly that she taken, I said how amazing and how I had never been able to do it- how wrong was I -I had already done it! 

I found these photos when I was going back through my files looking for stuff for our home education registration.

Here is a ladybird also in the same patch, I love how you can see the furry bits on the leaf as well.

growing fast

 Remember these baby birds from last week?

Well this is them a week on.

I had no idea that they could grow so fast!

 Here you can only see two in the nest and they hardly fit, number 3 is tucked in behind.

(Sorry the photo is a bit funny at the bottom, it uploaded that way  and as it took so long to load 1st time round I am not going back to do it again)

This photo was taken a little later in the day and the other chick is out on the ledge.

Photos 2 and 3 are by B4

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