Seen today

[Wowbagger]

A dunnock singing to itself - and me - in a beech tree above the charging point at Radcliffe on Trent.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yesterday, three roe deer and, better, a big brown hare.

[T42]

Peerless white duck by the Marne-Rhine canal yesterday



Courtesy of Blown Highlights'Я'Us

[Basil]

Two linnets, only yards apart, happily singing in the sun, near the beach today.

[JefO]

Two Robins (presumably a pair) having sex. In my garden.

[T42]

Two linnets, only yards apart, happily singing in the sun, near the beach today.

Which reminds me: yesterday I heard, then saw, two jays skreeking their fool heads off at nothing in particular. Or each other. Noisy buggers.

[sam]

two jays skreeking their fool heads off at nothing in particular. Or each other. Noisy buggers.

Old married couple?

[Peter]

In the River Beal today - a group of what I assume to be melanistic mallards, though I read that they might be a cross-breed?  Deep browny-black body with "standard" green head for four or five of them and one black with some white throat and head feathers.  I think there is a term for whiteness in otherwise white birds but I've forgotten what it is (Steph to the phone, please!).  All the birds were slightly larger than the "usual" mallards.  A wonderful sight.

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and

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(file pictures, not mine)

[Pingu]

...I think there is a term for whiteness...

Leucistic.

[Peter]

That's it, thanks!

[Salvatore]

Sparrows in the garden as we were having lunch. Then a sparrowhawk. Then nothing.

[Peter]

Two male and one female bullfinch taking turns to bathe in the top of the water butt in our urban back yard.  Doesn't get much better!

[JefO]

Not today, but Monday, we had an electric picnic boat out on the braods from Martham.
Many Marsh Harrier sightings, including seeing two males having an aerial battle over a female, who observed from above. Saw another female Marsh Harrier perched in a tree, on the bank within 20ft of us as we slowly (2mph) and quietly eased past. She looked at us through the side windows of the boat, turning her head as we went.
Two pairs of Great Crested Grebes, (mainly grey lag) Geese, Reed Bunting, wagtails, Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2 Grey Herons, Buzzard, a good few swans.
Heard Cettis Warblers, Bearded Reedling, and Bitterns.
After we had returned the boat, (4hours went in a flash!) we drove to Horsey Gap and observed 300+ seals on the beach.
An incredible day.
 

[Pingu]

Fulmars, curlew, cuddy ducks & dolfish in Furrybootoon.

[Jaded]

A rat. Opposite the Hippodrome in Bristol.

[Wowbagger]

A load of Brent geese swimming about on the incoming tide at Westcliff sea front.

[sg37409]

3 curlews in one field.  is this unusual ?

[Flite]

Saw about 100 curlews in a local field this week, so depends where you  live!

[Wowbagger]

Heard but not seen: a greater spotted woodpecker repeatedly drumming in the trees in Kelsale.

[pcolbeck]

4:00am this morning, the first hedgehog of the year traversing our patio.

[Flite]

We've had a hoggie that has refused to hibernate this winter.
We picked him up in mid December - a late hoglet and too underweight to hibernate and come out the other side.
One of our local rehabbers cleared him of parasites and got him up to 825gm, so he was released back into our garden during a mild spell in January, with a cosy nest box and support feeding and water and the expectation that he would go into hibernation when it got colder.
But he has been trundling around ever since. Making good use of the food and water, sometimes sleeping in the nest box, but obviously he has also built himself some other nests round and about. When we had light snow I tracked him quite a long way up the riverbank and back.
Nabbed him from the nest box the other day and weighed him 850gm, so he is in fine form ready for when the females re-emerge...
Just didn't read the manual

[Mrs Pingu]

Watched a presumably poorly crow that's been hanging around for a couple of days getting pecked to death (I didn't watch the whole thing, obv) by another couple of crows this morning. Not really what I needed with the current state of affairs.
We also seem to have an ailing magpie hanging around too 

[Arminius]

Heard but not seen: a greater spotted woodpecker repeatedly drumming in the trees in Kelsale.

Probably ditto, but I'm not sure how to distinguish between woodpecker types just by their drumming, and it was in the south of Edinburgh. First time I've been certain I heard one since I lived in Manchester, perhaps 15 years ago   

[andrew_s]

How to tell the difference between great and lesser spotted woodpeckers dumming
https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/wildlife-trusts/woodland-drummers

Green woodpeckers genarally don't drum.

[SteveC]

Lessers are very rare in the UK, though.