1 male Brimstone, 2 orange tip and 2 peacock in my Bredbury garden today.

Bredbury. Holly blue,orange tip, peacock and comma in the garden today.

Stockport

A garden I worked at today had  frog tadpoles swimming by the edge. 

Stockport

Butterlies:

Comma and Peacock this afternoon within minutes of each other.

Comma and Small Tortoiseshell in my garden this afternoon. Comma was too swift for the camera.
If I am confined to the house due to self isolation I might try to get my old moth trap working again.

Cheers John.

Two fighting field mice in our garden last night. Incidentally, we had a male hedgehog sniffing in the hedgehog boxes, where at least two females are still hibernating.

After the sighting of a badger the night before last, last night one of our hibernating hedgehogs made an appearance.

Obviously due to the unseasonably mild conditions at least one of the three regularly visiting Hedgehogs have come out of hibernation and been helping themselves to the cat food & biscuits.

Last week I mistakenly bought a pack of dog food!! & apparently they like that even better so as long as the mild spell continues they will be having a feast every night.

Shocked to learn though that their average lifespan is only 2 to 3 years but so glad to be helping this now endangered species.

Its the 31st December and a butterfly (probably Peacock or Small Tortoishell) has just flown over my Irlam garden in the early afternoon sunshine!

With the help of Google I identified an Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillar in our Hale garden this afternoon, about 6cm long, quite a monster. Never seen one previously and was surprised to read that they are quite common in the UK.

At least 8 Painted Lady on the buddleia in our Openshaw garden. Seems there is a once in a decade eruption of this species at the moment coming through the country.

How can a day with peacock (3), red admiral, comma, small tortoiseshell and painted lady all in the garden be bad (this morning, obviously)!

Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge.

Butterflies this afternoon

Comma
Small Tortoiseshell
Speckled Wood
Gatekeeper
Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Green-veined White
Small White

An adult and juvenile Hedgehog in the garden last night was a very satisfying sight

A Small Skipper fluttering across Ashton Market, at 3.30 this afternoon, was a very unusual record

Reporting through this thread as Bramhall does not have one for other wildlife. My brother had a dark-green fritillary nectaring in a Bramhall garden (where he was working) this afternoon, a pretty extraordinary record for Stockport.

I rescued a Small Skipper butterfly from my kitchen this evening and released it. This is a new butterfly species for my Irlam garden.

Butterflies in my Irlam garden today:
1 Holly Blue
1 Brimstone
1 Large White

Nursery web spider in our Openshaw garden this afternoon.

Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee, in our Openshaw courtyard garden.

We had a hedgehog last night. Possibly the mild weather brought it out of hibernation.

 

Link to video  https://youtu.be/_GymxTFkqKg

A pretty worn Small Copper butterfly in my Astley garden around midday today.

We have many Green shield Bugs in our Hale garden this year, possibly there in previous years but not noticed them 

As with Vic a Humming bird Hawk Moth in my Kearsley garden

yesterday.Also too slow with the camera .

I managed to get a few pictures of one of our resident hedgehogs last night. This is a female but so far she hasn't brought any youngsters with her.

Just been watching a fox, possibly a female in our Hale garden.  It could have been looking to drink from our pond but was very nervous and didn't stay long.