Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1017989 times)

Regulator · « **Reply #675 on:** 12 July, 2009, 04:54:13 pm »

Yesterday, a muntjac deer decided to cross the road in front of us as we left Wicken Fen. One look at Wobbly John on his recumbent contraption, bearing down on it, and it bounded back into the hedge.

clarion · « **Reply #676 on:** 12 July, 2009, 06:44:52 pm »

Interestingly, Butterfly removed a few caterpillars from the blackcurrant bush to the birdtable, but some ants got in there before the birds...

Butterfly · « **Reply #677 on:** 12 July, 2009, 07:18:50 pm »

Some Deer in a field between Haywards Heath and Ardingly

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Moloko · « **Reply #678 on:** 12 July, 2009, 07:22:09 pm »

Stopped off at the river, there's a disused barn there that's home to lots of house martins.
I stood still and was "buzzed" by them. They sometimes came within 3ft of me.

I also watched a kingfisher fly inches above the water just as the sun broke out of the clouds.
A wonderful spash of iridescent turquoise.

Bledlow · « **Reply #679 on:** 12 July, 2009, 10:29:09 pm »

Quote from: Sgt Bikeo on 12 July, 2009, 07:22:09 pm

Stopped off at the river, there's a disused barn there that's home to lots of house martins.
I stood still and was "buzzed" by them. They sometimes came within 3ft of me.

Last summer, Mrs B & I had a swift fly between us as we walked across a field (we felt the draught!), & saw one take an insect we were watching from maybe 3 or 4 feet away. Amazing birds.

RJ · « **Reply #680 on:** 13 July, 2009, 12:09:15 am »

Heard, rather than seen: several quail out in the fields of East Lothian.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #681 on:** 14 July, 2009, 06:18:18 pm »

A young fallow deer in the middle of the road. It seemed lost. It looked at me, I stopped and it walked towards me for a few paces. After I spoke to it, it pranced into a wheat field and was gone. It must have been less than ten yards from me.

clarion · « **Reply #682 on:** 14 July, 2009, 07:06:24 pm »

It was an advance scout for the badgers.

Clare · « **Reply #683 on:** 16 July, 2009, 03:40:35 pm »

A bat, not sure what type, flew into me last night as I was riding home, got caught on my sleeve, flapped about a bit then flew off.

That's the second time a bat has flown into me in the past week, what happened to sonar?

clarion · « **Reply #684 on:** 16 July, 2009, 03:42:18 pm »

Perhaps you're the ultimate stealth cyclist?

Sorry Mate I Didn't Sonar You?

Clare · « **Reply #685 on:** 16 July, 2009, 03:56:18 pm »

Maybe; both events happened on the same stretch of road, so maybe it's just one very stooopid bat.

clarion · « **Reply #686 on:** 16 July, 2009, 04:00:11 pm »

Maybe it just likes you?

Clare · « **Reply #687 on:** 16 July, 2009, 04:03:11 pm »

I shall love it and hug it and call it George.

Regulator · « **Reply #688 on:** 17 July, 2009, 09:28:31 am »

Seen yesterday... a weasel

It dashed across the road in front of me, then sat on the verge looking at me and 'chirping' at me. I stopped to get the camera out but it did a runner as soon as I stopped.

L CC · « **Reply #689 on:** 17 July, 2009, 10:08:33 am »

This morning on my (deepest rural suffolk) commute:
Momma roe deer and her two spindly legged bambi bambinos. So purty. And dozens of hares- I think the start of harvest has sent even more of them running about.

Bledlow · « **Reply #690 on:** 18 July, 2009, 06:23:09 pm »

Mummy, daddy & fledgling chaffinch in the garden. Fledgling sat on the fence while the parents fed at my seed feeder, sometimes popping over to to give the youngster some grub.

Jaded · « **Reply #691 on:** 19 July, 2009, 11:50:11 am »

An owl

Wrong camera with me though!

Bledlow · « **Reply #692 on:** 19 July, 2009, 12:10:39 pm »

Chaffinch mother & young have been back. Youngster was still being fed, but had a tentative go at the feeder. It'll be back on its own soon. Also (at the same time) a blue tit & a slightly fluffy fledgling, but the latter stayed in the neighbours buddleia, while mum commuted back & forth.

border-rider · « **Reply #693 on:** 19 July, 2009, 12:50:42 pm »

28 sparrows in our hedge, and a little owl sitting on the barn roof and shouting his head off.

mike · « **Reply #694 on:** 19 July, 2009, 03:08:24 pm »

four!!! rabbits sitting on the lawn this morning. Cocky little buggers didnt even run off when I opened the kitchen door, they just sat there and watched me.

Snakehips · « **Reply #695 on:** 21 July, 2009, 05:23:39 pm »

I was cycling round Trafalgar Square earlier and I saw this .......

Jaded · « **Reply #696 on:** 30 July, 2009, 12:05:09 pm »

A virtuoso display of flying and insect catching right in front of our windows.

TheLurker · « **Reply #697 on:** 30 July, 2009, 01:00:59 pm »

A (wild) black rabbit. Third sighting of same.

Kathy · « **Reply #698 on:** 30 July, 2009, 02:42:12 pm »

Quote from: TheLurker on 30 July, 2009, 01:00:59 pm

A (wild) black rabbit. Third sighting of same.

Whereabouts are you? There used to be lots along Pilgrim's Way in Kent, near Wrotham. We had one in our garden.

Moloko · « **Reply #699 on:** 30 July, 2009, 04:36:08 pm »

6 moorhens and a heron sheltering under the trees next to the now very large pond.

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