Author Topic: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill (Read 134861 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #625 on:** 20 November, 2021, 10:24:58 am »

Me three.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #626 on:** 20 November, 2021, 05:15:20 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 November, 2021, 10:15:27 am

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 19 November, 2021, 11:14:57 pm
Yes it is but they've ruined it with such a lot of touching up, IMO.
I thought the same, but I don't have the photography expertise to be able to put a finger on what has been done.

The trail coming off the tail of the bird. You don't get 'blur' in one place with the rest of the bird being pin sharp.

ElyDave · « **Reply #627 on:** 18 December, 2021, 02:48:09 pm »

Some fucking little git has eaten the last half dozen beetroot I had in the garden, I'm assuming either a wascally wabbit or a deer.

Jurek · « **Reply #628 on:** 16 January, 2022, 05:15:15 pm »

There are falcons (or some similar bird of prey) nesting in the spire of the church located between my place and Forest Hill station.
Falcons in the church, woodpeckers in Mayow Park.
Cool.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #629 on:** 16 January, 2022, 06:16:28 pm »

Cool, could well be peregrines.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #630 on:** 23 January, 2022, 04:46:11 pm »

Built it. But will they come?

2022-01-23_03-35-11 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #631 on:** 23 January, 2022, 07:27:12 pm »

Pingu is watching bird feeder pr0n on the internet cos he's not getting enough at home.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #632 on:** 31 January, 2022, 12:34:18 pm »

Some cool photos of polar bears in abandoned buildings here for anyone who likes that sort of thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/polar-bears-move-into-abandoned-arctic-weather-station-photo-essay

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #633 on:** 31 January, 2022, 12:35:30 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 January, 2022, 04:46:11 pm

Built it. But will they come?
2022-01-23_03-35-11 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Think all of these got blown away by Storm Malik. Next time I need to put a stone in the plant pot along with the cones etc.

graculus · « **Reply #634 on:** 31 January, 2022, 04:28:01 pm »

Wrap up well all you iguanas:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60090861

Ham · « **Reply #635 on:** 02 February, 2022, 07:57:11 am »

The title says "Seagull", but I know better, I think this could be the Common Shag. Worth a click, anyhow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SYEpE95f7c

Wowbagger · « **Reply #636 on:** 10 February, 2022, 01:00:52 pm »

Cormorant with perch. I didn't take this photo - it turned up in the SE Essex RSPB group's website. It was taken two or three days ago at Lake Meadows, Billericay.

I'm pretty sure the perch, which must weigh over a pound I reckon, was already dead. They lose their green colouring and dark stripes quite quickly after they have died.

I have read that constricting snakes can dislocate their jaws in order to swallow large prey. That looks as though cormorants can as well.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #637 on:** 11 February, 2022, 05:04:49 pm »

There's been a blue tit investigating one of our nest boxes!

T42 · « **Reply #638 on:** 02 March, 2022, 04:31:43 pm »

Vote now for Mollusc of the Year!

https://tbg.senckenberg.de/molluscoftheyear-2022/

Kim · « **Reply #639 on:** 10 March, 2022, 01:55:14 pm »

Don't be an Auslan interpreter... https://limpingchicken.com/2022/03/10/watch-owl-poos-on-australian-sign-language-interpreter-man-carries-on-regardless/

Same guy who interpreted the spider incident with cool professionalism.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #640 on:** 11 March, 2022, 08:21:47 am »

Looking forward to seeing the Auslan for "a drop bear has stolen the premier's honey sandwiches".

Wowbagger · « **Reply #641 on:** 09 April, 2022, 11:05:26 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/09/hidden-camera-gets-first-live-uk-footage-of-wild-white-tailed-eagle-hatching

That's rather good.

MikeFromLFE · « **Reply #642 on:** 04 May, 2022, 04:27:03 pm »

I discovered a robin's nest in my allotment shed, complete with quite a few very small chicks.

Our allotment robin had been going in & out of the shed door when we were there, I assumed it was feeding on the enormous number of huge spiders, but it must have been nest building.
I've seen the robins feeding each other which is apparently common among pairs when nest building.
Every day's a school day

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #643 on:** 04 May, 2022, 10:01:37 pm »

I am watching a bat flying about outside from the comfort of my Poang.

rafletcher · « **Reply #644 on:** 09 May, 2022, 12:02:50 pm »

The sparrows that nest behind next door's barge boards are back again, probably for the 10th year in sucession. Not the same ones, natch. And another blue tit is looking over the nest box, maybe he'll find a mate.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #645 on:** 13 May, 2022, 10:36:36 pm »

Have a bird of some sort, nesting in a rose bush.

Will get put up photos in a bit.

Was trimming the roses back but have stopped when i found the nest hope that I haven't done anything to upset the bird

hellymedic · « **Reply #646 on:** 20 June, 2022, 09:07:05 pm »

Sainsbury's price for 40 Whiskas pouches has gone up from £11.75 to £13.70 overnight.
I am Not Pleased.

Pingu · « **Reply #647 on:** 23 June, 2022, 12:04:41 am »

I'm in the living room with the windows shut and I can hear a wol shouting outside

Ham · « **Reply #648 on:** 28 June, 2022, 10:49:31 am »

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #649 on:** 28 June, 2022, 11:09:19 am »

Surprised by some wildlife recently; I think the persistent bad weather is driving them down out of the hills.
Seen since Sun
Young stag, just off the road to our house.
Two red kites
hedgehog
3 species of finch, 1 species of thrush, 2 of sparrow. No partridge in a pear tree though.