Wildlife on Fuerteventura

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Today I found a snail on my thermometer. Now normally these are crunched underfoot and thrown to the lizards and birds as I vehemently hate them for gorging on the new growth of my plants. For some reason today the patterns on the shell caught my eye and made me think about how incredible these little creatures are, growing their shells throughout their life. Then it was crunch...
However, if I find tiny little snails I pop them in my compost bin where the geckoes feed on them! I've actually seen this happen although never managed to capture it on camera.

 

[GMT]

Today I found a snail on my thermometer. Now normally these are crunched underfoot and thrown to the lizards and birds as I vehemently hate them for gorging on the new growth of my plants. For some reason today the patterns on the shell caught my eye and made me think about how incredible these little creatures are, growing their shells throughout their life. Then it was crunch...
However, if I find tiny little snails I pop them in my compost bin where the geckoes feed on them! I've actually seen this happen although never managed to capture it on camera.

 

Same here.        

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Yesterday, when I didn't have my phone to hand, Shrek sat on the fence with a very large lizard in his beak! Today, when I was ready for him, nada.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Heron in the village cabbage patch, sorry , prickly pear patch 

[Gone Fishing]

OK, today's starter for 10?

 

Hi Tamara
That would be a young Southern Green shield bug (aka stink bug)

They turn green and elongate into the shield shape as they get older, spending around a week looking like this.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Thanks GF, foe rather than friend then 😪

[windermeregolfer]

When playing golf I have been fascinated by the spoonbills that gather on the undeveloped land surrounded by the 5th 12th & 13th holes behind the Repsol garage, took my good camera with me yesterday when golfing ang got these photos - 

                           

The Spoonbill, aslo called the Eurasian Spoonbill or Common Spoonbill, is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family. ... A group of spoonbills has several collective nouns, including a "canteen" or "measurement" of spoonbills.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

That's great John, thank you! 
I've never seen them anywhere here. Are they around all year?

[Tardis]

Here's a Spoonbill that I photographed near Cotillo lighthouse at the end of February last year.

[Tardis]

If you see these on your plants, don't kill them.  They are Ladybird larvae.