Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1017065 times)

TimO · « **Reply #1600 on:** 09 January, 2011, 05:37:49 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 04 January, 2011, 05:13:44 pm

Though that's a herring gull.

Is it? Oh well, my Gull recognition is only marginally better than my random bird recognition. I'm doing pretty well to recognise it as a gull at all.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1601 on:** 09 January, 2011, 06:53:03 pm »

Four hares. Two in the distance and two others which bolted from cover just a metre or so away. If they had stayed put I very much doubt we would have spotted them.

Also lots of muddy mole hills!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1602 on:** 09 January, 2011, 11:04:54 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2011, 05:54:40 pm

The green woodpecker is also known as a yaffle - which is its high-pitched yelping cry. They don't drum.

See also Bagpuss and Professor Yaffle, who is, of course, a woodpecker.

(Good stuff about the drumming there Wow. Filed away for future reference)

rdaviesb · « **Reply #1603 on:** 10 January, 2011, 09:11:58 am »

A couple of days ago, a Snipe (which one of the cats carefully carried in through the back door and was thankfully rescued and flew away some minutes later).

Snakehips · « **Reply #1604 on:** 11 January, 2011, 04:06:14 pm »

While out earlier on another abortive Waxwing hunt I stopped by one of by favourite haunts , the ponds of Bushy Park. , and saw this (forefront) bird.

At first sight it looked like a male Tufted , shown behind for comparison. The bird is bigger than the Tufted and has only a small tuft on the back of its head. The top part of its head is a lovely chestnut colour and the lower part of the head looks greenish (as does the rump) in a more favourable light.

Unfortunately most of the time the light and certain other conditions were far from favourable , but as I stood there in the biting wind hoping for a better picture a male Shoveller came down on the water nearby. As I cycled away a Green Woodpecker joined me for a brief period.

All in all a pleasant experience.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #1605 on:** 12 January, 2011, 06:05:34 pm »

^ Sorry, no idea !

Today I was exploring further the frankly grim industrial estate in which my work is now located. Came across a nice little group of about 20 redpolls. So it's not all bad.

Pingu · « **Reply #1606 on:** 13 January, 2011, 01:18:54 pm »

Just been watching a crow on the beach outside work trying to break open a shell using the 'fly up & drop onto stones' method. I'm not sure if it managed to get a meal, though.

SandyV · « **Reply #1607 on:** 14 January, 2011, 10:39:39 pm »

I just saw a platypus! I've never seen one in the wild before as they are largely nocturnal. This one must be having trouble sleeping.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #1608 on:** 14 January, 2011, 11:09:05 pm »

Quote from: SandyV on 14 January, 2011, 10:39:39 pm

I just saw a platypus! I've never seen one in the wild before as they are largely nocturnal. This one must be having trouble sleeping.

Nice one

Adrian · « **Reply #1609 on:** 14 January, 2011, 11:21:18 pm »

Quote from: Charterhall on 14 January, 2011, 11:09:05 pm

Quote from: SandyV on 14 January, 2011, 10:39:39 pm
I just saw a platypus! I've never seen one in the wild before as they are largely nocturnal. This one must be having trouble sleeping.

Nice one

Unless the poor bugger has been displaced by the flooding.

SandyV · « **Reply #1610 on:** 16 January, 2011, 02:33:18 am »

No I'd run away from the flooding and the locals say they arw often there and led me to the spot. Excellent break. Back to the clean up in a much improved frame of mind.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1611 on:** 16 January, 2011, 08:10:24 pm »

Catkins! Lots 'n lots of 'em. Great clouds in the trees.

It's January, FFS, & December were reet cold. What's gone wrong with the world?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1612 on:** 16 January, 2011, 09:40:47 pm »

Whilst crossing Anglesey on a train this afternoon, a nice, if fleeting, view of a peregrine perched on a wall.

Snakehips · « **Reply #1613 on:** 17 January, 2011, 07:08:48 pm »

TinyURL preview enabled !!! Never heard of it. OK then ...

TimO · « **Reply #1614 on:** 17 January, 2011, 07:19:26 pm »

Quote from: Snakehips on 17 January, 2011, 07:08:48 pm

[img]http://tinyurl.com/659d7ss[/img]

The trouble with using TinyURL for an image, is that those of us with TinyURL preview enabled, see bugger all!

There's also little reason, since the whole point of TinyURL is to make the URL smaller if you are likely to need to type it, or if you want to use it where the total number of characters is limited, like in a tweet. Since neither case applies, there's no real reason why you can't just use the full original URL for the jpg.

Riggers · « **Reply #1615 on:** 18 January, 2011, 08:45:44 am »

Actually seen on Saturday in our back garden around 8am. Bold aren't they? They wandered about a bit locked together.

SandyV · « **Reply #1616 on:** 18 January, 2011, 09:09:58 am »

20 live fish rescued from our swimming pool and returned to the Brisbane River!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1617 on:** 19 January, 2011, 09:08:42 am »

Three swans just flew over my head. If my life was fiction that would probably be a symbol of somethingorother.

Riggers · « **Reply #1618 on:** 19 January, 2011, 11:38:10 am »

The portent of your symbolism has flown over my head too.

border-rider · « **Reply #1619 on:** 19 January, 2011, 11:42:47 am »

It's an omen of much good-fortune: you were lucky indeed not to be crapped on from a great height by three swans.

PaulR · « **Reply #1620 on:** 19 January, 2011, 01:22:34 pm »

The last time I was aware of three swans flying over my head, I was standing my the side of the Avon in Tewkesbury. One of the swans hit an overhead power cable and, after a flash and a bang, landed with a thud and a wisp of smelly smoke, in the reeds just along the riverbank from where I stood. Then people started emerging from their moored boats to enquire (a) what the hell than noise was and (b) why the electricity had gone off. I pointed to the swan and to the power line that was now draped across the river bank into the river.

Eventually two police officers turned up and took the swan away in a body bag.

JStone · « **Reply #1621 on:** 20 January, 2011, 12:04:09 pm »

Two goldfinch in the tree directly outside the office window - the first I've seen for ages. A colleague says there were 10-15 there earlier this morning.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1622 on:** 22 January, 2011, 04:37:36 pm »

The bulbs in my window boxes are starting to come up.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1623 on:** 22 January, 2011, 06:58:43 pm »

There were catkins this morning in the park.

Snakehips · « **Reply #1624 on:** 23 January, 2011, 08:45:15 am »

I think one of the females of the herd had tried to get away but the male had tracked her down (poor choice of hiding place) and was about to bring her back in to the fold.

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