Seen today

[JStone]

A very close (<10m away) view of a kingfisher sat on a post by a pond in N Bristol, on my lunchtime 'get out of the office before I go mad' stroll. It flew off to a tree, then came back to the same post for another 30s before finally departing.

[SandyV]

A good sized goanna sunning itself on the road. When I slowed it ran the wrong way (back in front of the car) - luckily the brakes are good so it got away.  No time for a picture though!

[Tourist Tony]

Snakehips, looks like a ferruginous duck (female that is) to me, but the head is a little too rounded. May be a hybrid, but FD is still best bet there.

[alan]

A bird of prey of some sort flying at 90* to traffic flow across the M53 just south of J4 (on the Wirral).The wing tips & colouring were definately those of some sort of hawk.
Despite it's low altitude I couldn't identify it further 'cause both of us were travelling at a rapid rate.

[Tourist Tony]

flap-flap-glide style of flying or glide?

[alan]

flap-flap-glide style of flying or glide?

flipflap

[Wowbagger]

At Two Tree Island:-

thousands of knots
hundreds of avocets, dunlin, lapwings
lots of redshank, shovelers, teal, wigeon
about 20 golden plovers
several little ringed plovers
a little egret
a few black-tailed godwit
about 8 greenshank
quite a few grey plovers

and probably a few odds and sods that I've forgotten about.

[Tourist Tony]

flap-flap-glide style of flying or glide?

flipflap

Well,the most common hawk would be a sparrowhawk, which has a long tail, rounded wingtips and a very characteristic flight where it beats its wings two or three times then glides, then repeats (flap flap glide)
A kestrel (pointed wings, but can look rounder at times) has a fluttering series of rapid wing beats in horizontal flight. A buzzard (short tail) tends to have a set of three or four rapid and shallow wingbeats followed by long glides.
Kites will show lots of tail twisting. A goshawk, if you are really,really lucky just looks like pure power. Deep body, strong flight, very purposeful and direct.

[Mrs Pingu]

Yesterday: 5 seals, a heron anna deer.
Today, more herons, a deer, some kestrels anna bloody huge great sea eagle! (called 'Ralf' apparently)

[border-rider]

Yesterday on the Transporter 200: a close-up heron on the Newport levels, and an overhead shouty kite at Dyfennog, near Sennybridge, in the Brecon Beacons.

[SandyV]

on the 400 on sunday - 2 crows harrying a fox

[Bledlow]

Two roe deer just ahead of us, scrambling through a hedge to get off the road when they heard us coming. About half a mile south of the M4 south of Reading. Got to within 10 yards of 'em.

[TimO]

Someone out walking a blue poodle this morning.  I have my suspicions that the colour wasn't entirely natural.

[Rig of Jarkness]

Netted quite a haul at Musselburgh today.  Star billing was a Wilson's phalarope but also snow bunting, red throated diver, slavonian grebe, velvet scoter, long tailed duck, great crested grebe, red breasted merganser, goosander, goldeneye, wigeon, teal, curlew, oystercatcher, redshank, cormorant and shag to name but some !

[RJ]

Damn.  I *need* Wilson's phal. (in this country) ...

[Rig of Jarkness]

It's been there for a few days.  There are several photies of it on The SOC: Bird photos

[nicknack]

Well, yesterday actually. A fox, sat just outside the entrance to Ebbsfleet International Station at about 9.15pm. Didn't seem to mind the people wandering past it. Looked perfectly healthy - good condition actually. Got up after a bit, walked about and sat back down again.

[clarion]

Quite mundane, but a sight that always lifts my heart.  This morning, I saw a pied wagtail at Figges Marsh.  It was a bit hidden in the grass, but just lifted up & away in it's typical swooping flight as I went past, so I got a perfect view of it's back as it flew off.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

On my way home yesterday I saw a pheasant stotting around in the grass.

[Butterfly]

Seen yesterday on Wandsworth Common, a really beautiful Great Spotted Woodpecker. A few hours later there were 2 long tailed tits in almost the same place. It was lovely .

[Moloko]

The 'claimed' 900 lumens of retina searing power of my bike light were enough to
stop a Muntjac deer briefly enough for me to get within 20ft of it.

I'd heard tales of them being around here right inside this urban vicinity, never thought I'd see
one of these elusive and shy little fellas though.

[Bledlow]

The 'claimed' 900 lumens of retina searing power of my bike light were enough to
stop a Muntjac deer briefly enough for me to get within 20ft of it.

I'd heard tales of them being around here right inside this urban vicinity, never thought I'd see
one of these elusive and shy little fellas though.

See 'em often here in inner Reading. There are a few living in the cemetery at Cemetery Junction. Give them remains of salad sometimes. They seem to be very fond of lettuce. Pretty used to people, but won't let you get very close.

[L CC]

Pretty used to people, but won't let you get very close.

One of the little buggers was sleeping on my doorstep the other week. We have a glass front door, I couldn't believe the cheek of it. When she saw me trying to get my camera out, she ran off.

[Regulator]

A pregnant (or very fat) muntjac in the office grounds....

[FatBloke]

Badger crossing my road! Chased him up the road where he turned right then along a fence beside the footpath until he managed to escape under the fence and into the golf course.

I like badgers, me!!!