Vill ni jag ska starta en tråd om kritter jag råkar på i närheten av huset?
D'ya want a thread with the critters I stumble 'pon around here?
(edited to notify anyone voting, or at least the three who boosted that the thread's now actually happening, but since the poll gets reset if you edit I had to erase it and add a screenshot of the results)
Okay, here goes:
pinned Thread of Critters Not Staying Off My Damn Lawn.
(Mostly hasty mobile shots, and added to as time goes by and the creatures gather or I rediscover old photos.)
First up: the partridge family. Or rapphöns as they're properly called.
First time since we moved here 15 years ago that I've seen 'em, so today I guess we celebrate 🥳
The red admiral, amiralfjäril, trying to steal a lawn chair
Old photo of a li'l blue damselfly, they call her common, but she'll always be a sjöflickslända to me.
Spoopy month special:
Me and a parti-coloured bat (bat's on the right, and also called a rearmouse, wtf?).
Found 'em three years ago on a piece of lath while constructing stuff, so I relocated the gråskimlig fladdermus to a place with less of a risk of injury and/or death by cats.
"I never thought I'd grow a hare there!" is* what Christina, Queen of Sweden, said when her imported European hares spread from Lovön to neighboring islets (and after a few more imports they settled about the south half of Sweden).
This fälthare's probably taking a well deserved rest after running around and messing up the crops in late March.
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* or not. Probably not.
Summer's here and with it, the European hornet. Locally known as the bålgeting (meaning big effin' wasp) this hornet is the fear of everyone.
She's probably a queen as she's more than 30mm (I'd say about the size of a large hawk masquerading as a small dragon) and sounding like a slow jet engine.
Late summer and if the moor frogs weren't such chill li'l dudes and dudettes this one might've acted up and caused some serious trouble when I moved its shelter.
NSFW (not safe for worms)
Seems the youngsters use my lawn as a make-out spot. Caught a couple of earthworms in the middle of it!
Technically not on my lawn, this red kite was infringing on my aerial space, scaring the hens.
This smooth newt is playing it cool, up till just then chilling under a block of concrete, now realizing some douche moved it's shelter.
But the vattensalamander doesn't mind, really, it's a protected species, so it knows what's up.
A rusty tussock moth larvae taking a last day or two in the sun before going into the pupal stage, looking like an unholy paintbrush this isn't even the vapourer's final form.
See you in two weeks, lil one.
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ