Wildlife on Fuerteventura

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Thanks GF - probably a grasshopper as you say. My dog doesn't remember hearing any noises

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Shrek the Shrike on the corner post - taking a break from pinching baby sparrows from their nest!


A big moth, sunbathing.


And what I think is a Hummingbird moth loving my lavender!


just a blur in the middle of this one!

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Today a lovely black beetle who very obligingly walked over the coin I placed for comparison:



and not exactly wildlife but they merit a post, donkeys in Lajares:

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A very fat gecko fell out of my hose reel when I moved it:

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Loads of dead beetles? around today:



and the snails came out to play in the rain:

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Cabbage White?

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Shame you couldn't get it to sit on a €1 coin for size Tamara    ,  but assuming that's a Yellow Alder plant and flower, most probably a Small Cabbage White - the endemic Canary Islands Large White is now endangered  

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Thanks GF
Todays offering I believe is a European Mantis:

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a beautiful stink bug, vigorously pursuing a ladybird.


some lovely little birds on the beach at El Cotillo, very friendly and could hear a crisp bag rustle at 100m!

   



plenty of fish in the shallows

   

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Here's what those fish look like below the surface Tamara.

The silver/grey fish are grey mullet and the camo / brown ones are sand gobies