Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1012829 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5725 on:** 08 October, 2020, 08:43:14 pm »

Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 03 June, 2020, 03:58:10 pm

Very good. Presumably foxes know better than to tackle a hedgehog. Our Jack Russell terriers didn’t, back in the day. Had to dissuade them several times.

The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing (and the Jack Russells know very little at all!)

Jumping forward a few months and if we allow vicarious sightings, porpoises in the Avon.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/two-porpoises-swimming-under-clifton-4586959
(fuzzy video)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5726 on:** 10 October, 2020, 08:37:05 am »

Yesterday, at lunchtime with Jane otp: 3 swallows zooming around above the water meadows near Paper Mill Lock.

Peter · « **Reply #5727 on:** 10 October, 2020, 01:21:30 pm »

In quarantine, possibly?

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #5728 on:** 11 October, 2020, 01:40:07 pm »

I saw about 6 or 8 swallows on Wednesday during my ride home - they looked as if they were going to fly under a railway bridge, or at least into the cutting, before disappearing. This was behind Putney leisure centre.

Edited to add: on second thoughts, the above is most un-swallow-like.

cycleman · « **Reply #5729 on:** 11 October, 2020, 07:13:42 pm »

I see small groups of starlings most evenings I assume going to roost most evenings. I thought that they would have migrated by now

SteveC · « **Reply #5730 on:** 13 October, 2020, 05:23:24 pm »

Quote from: cycleman on 11 October, 2020, 07:13:42 pm

I see small groups of starlings most evenings I assume going to roost most evenings. I thought that they would have migrated by now

Where are you? Starlings are resident in the UK all year round. In fact we get birds from Russia and similar places migrating here to over winter.

cycleman · « **Reply #5731 on:** 13 October, 2020, 09:22:51 pm »

Slough

ElyDave · « **Reply #5732 on:** 14 October, 2020, 06:16:43 am »

Slough, too cool for starlings

Pingu · « **Reply #5733 on:** 14 October, 2020, 11:04:48 pm »

From our garden, saw a buzzard being mobbed by crows.

Pingu · « **Reply #5734 on:** 18 October, 2020, 10:37:30 pm »

Mouse rescued from the middle of a road on today's pootle.

Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) by The Pingus, on Flickr

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5735 on:** 18 October, 2020, 11:17:55 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 14 October, 2020, 11:04:48 pm

From our garden, saw a buzzard being mobbed by crows.

On Friday, shortly after Denis's nuptials, I witnessed a herring gull mobbing a sparrowhawk above Southend Civic Centre. After a few minutes of this, the sparrowhawk escaped the attentions of the gull but was then mobbed by a pair of carrion crows. They really meant business and there were several occasions on which one bird or another had to take extreme evasive action to avoid something sharp.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #5736 on:** 29 October, 2020, 03:08:53 pm »

Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on 23 July, 2020, 08:48:57 pm

What seems like only 2 weeks ago, wood pigeons built a nest in the monkey puzzle tree just outside the flat window.
...

Nevertheless, astonishing growth rate or not, I really hope they don’t make a habit of breeding repeatedly in that nest.

They’ve just had another sprog - at the end of October! They are very discreet about it, I must say, but it is annoying as their presence is putting me off putting out my bird feeder.

fuzzy · « **Reply #5737 on:** 08 November, 2020, 03:51:06 pm »

Out for a walk round the Chesham/ ley Hill area yesterday morning and, as we exited woods into ley hill at 11:30 a.m. I spied a bat flitting around above a garden. About the size of a robin.
Never seen a bat doing its thing at that time of day before.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #5738 on:** 21 November, 2020, 10:47:01 pm »

Couldn’t sleep the other night, wandered into the living room (which has no blinds) and saw a shadow passing outside. I could discern a shape - that tree is only a few metres away - so used a torch to provide non-flash light, which revealed a lovely wol:

It is the first owl I have ever seen at rest. I hear hooting regularly here, loud enough to wake my partner, but had not managed to set eyes on the source before.

Pingu · « **Reply #5739 on:** 22 November, 2020, 12:04:09 am »

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5740 on:** 22 November, 2020, 11:55:46 pm »

That is a very fine wol!

We just had a lot of screeching and chattering immediately outside the front door. I opened it and surprised a fox, which I suspect was libidinous, given the time of year and the noises it was making.

Kim · « **Reply #5741 on:** 27 November, 2020, 01:14:24 pm »

On yesterday's ride I saw a woman walking a dog that looked exactly like an ewok.

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #5742 on:** 28 November, 2020, 03:58:05 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 27 November, 2020, 01:14:24 pm

On yesterday's ride I saw a woman walking a dog that looked exactly like an ewok.

The woman looked like an Ewok? or the dog did?

J

orienteer · « **Reply #5743 on:** 28 November, 2020, 09:18:55 pm »

Quote from: quixoticgeek on 28 November, 2020, 03:58:05 pm

Quote from: Kim on 27 November, 2020, 01:14:24 pm
On yesterday's ride I saw a woman walking a dog that looked exactly like an ewok.

The woman looked like an Ewok? or the dog did?

J

Since owners tend to choose dogs that look like themselves, probably both

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #5744 on:** 28 November, 2020, 10:05:11 pm »

Water voles x2, Thames, Middlesex side, near Marble Hill Park.

The light was poor but I had quite a long time, for a change, to do the rat / vole differentiation and I’m 90% sure: rounded face, shorter furry tails compared to rats.

hellymedic · « **Reply #5745 on:** 08 December, 2020, 01:50:07 am »

A mozzie, in our hallway.
It's 17 days before Christmas FFS!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5746 on:** 16 December, 2020, 12:34:24 pm »

A cock pheasant on our patio just now. The dog is asleep and hasn't noticed.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5747 on:** 16 December, 2020, 12:52:50 pm »

Its still here but down the garden. The hound has finally woken up and she's staring at it through the patio doors.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5748 on:** 01 January, 2021, 01:31:39 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb1M8LAOZmg&ab_channel=PeterWalker

Carp in the park. Moorhens included for scale.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5749 on:** 10 January, 2021, 10:49:52 am »

A large (heron sized) egret in the field behind our house. Not seen one there before, in 20 years here.