This time of year can be awful for various animal species as humans go out and about doing what they do. People must be aware though that the sheer numbers of people out enjoying themselves, cutting trees and bushes, walking their dogs etc has a profound effect on nature. We must all be considerate towards other animals. Deer have given birth and during the last two weeks of April and the first two weeks of may , this time is critical for all our deer species .The female will leave the calf somewhere quite and return several times a day to feed it until it is a few weeks old and large enough to follow her around. So many calves are killed or taken by people thinking that they have been abandoned.wild animals very rarely abandon their young not like some humans. The biggest problem is dogs and farm machinery.This roe doe had given birth but moved her kid from an area near a footpath where lots of dogs were walked daily. she moved it across the road into a meadow of long grass.The farmer came and cut the grass.Her kid was cut up also.Seeing this mother grieving for her child was very sad. This goes on all across the UK every year.
Other parents are faring better, with this coal tit(Parus ater)nesting in a fallen hollow log.The parents were so engrossed in feeding the chicks that they took little notice of me nearby.
With the warm weather returned for nearly two weeks the reptiles have been busy feeding up again but some insects are hard to get at.This 14 spot ladybird (Propylea 14 punctata) is hitching a lift on the green lizard.
Some beetles such as water beetles fly, and that is how they colonize small water bodies, and then seem to disappear.They often mistake the reflective glow from vehicles as water when flying and looking down, and they drop out of the sky. This female water beetle(Acilius sulcatus) bounced off the bonnet of my car.
