Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1016001 times)

Bledlow · « **Reply #525 on:** 24 April, 2009, 02:58:47 pm »

Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 23 April, 2009, 11:07:00 pm

*peruses bookshelves in search of Watership Down*

You won't find it there, it's a few miles south of Newbury.

Oh yeah - be careful heading south over it. Unless they've removed it, there's a gate across the road at the aptly named Warren Farm, & it's sometimes shut. Two peopl I know had a near miss there when a brake cable broke on their tandem. Luckily the gate was open that day.

Adrian · « **Reply #526 on:** 24 April, 2009, 08:15:55 pm »

A swallow on a telegraph wire. Just need a second for it to be summer. Seen during a very pleasant day's walking in Sussex woodland enjoying the bluebells.

Pingu · « **Reply #527 on:** 25 April, 2009, 11:02:48 pm »

Swallows in Angus & Perthshire - summer must've arrived

Plus:

Yellowhammers
Bullfinch
Ubiquitous buzzards
Brown hare
Mountain hare
Deer
Red squirrel (first one this year)

Loadsa lambs

Used Mrs P's bat detector successfully for the first time - got some chirping at 55khz.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #528 on:** 25 April, 2009, 11:35:00 pm »

Swallows
House martins
long-tailed tit
greenfinches
chaffinches
heard a chiffchaff & willow warbler
heard & saw a cuckoo
kestrel

the duck in Priory Park still has 17 ducklings.

slowfen · « **Reply #529 on:** 26 April, 2009, 01:45:43 pm »

Seven buzzards in a thermal by Newton Cambs

Zoidburg · « **Reply #530 on:** 26 April, 2009, 06:20:22 pm »

Quote from: Mal Volio on 24 April, 2009, 02:16:58 pm

We seem to have acquired a racing pigeon

I saw a trailerload parked a few miles away on Tuesday, ready to be released, and when i got home there was a fine chap with one blue, one green leg ring boggling at me at eating bird food. He seems very tame and I suspect I could probably catch him.

I may call him Speckled Jim

Yes!

That's him there! there!

The Flanders Pigeon Murderer!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #531 on:** 26 April, 2009, 08:55:06 pm »

More red sqrls (same one as yesterday, plus one at my brother's house)
Great spotted wooderypeckery
Stoat
Black Grouse!

clifftaylor · « **Reply #532 on:** 26 April, 2009, 09:41:15 pm »

Mr Squashy, the hedgehog
Mr Flat, the pigeon
Mr Splat, the fox
Mr Puffy, the about-to-explode badger in the gutter

nobby · « **Reply #533 on:** 26 April, 2009, 10:04:30 pm »

Quote from: clifftaylor on 26 April, 2009, 09:41:15 pm

Mr Squashy, the hedgehog
Mr Flat, the pigeon
Mr Splat, the fox
Mr Puffy, the about-to-explode badger in the gutter

Ah, well if we are doing dead I've seen a little deer in the verge. Small, bigger than fox but smaller than alsatian, very reddish and no spots.
it was a fresh kill - bright red blood from the mouth - but I don't eat meat anymore so I left it.

Bledlow · « **Reply #534 on:** 26 April, 2009, 11:02:40 pm »

Two blue tits, feeding from my bird feeder while I was gardening not three feet away. Damn, they're getting tame! There's a pair of blackbirds who come almost as close. They catch my eye, then carry on.

RJ · « **Reply #535 on:** 27 April, 2009, 10:04:35 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 25 April, 2009, 11:02:48 pm

Used Mrs P's bat detector successfully for the first time - got some chirping at 55khz.

Cool! Soprano pipistrelle, presumably??

clarion · « **Reply #536 on:** 27 April, 2009, 10:09:03 pm »

Fox living in our garden!

Adrian · « **Reply #537 on:** 27 April, 2009, 10:12:52 pm »

A parakeet which flew over my head as I was riding up Kennington Road this morning.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #538 on:** 28 April, 2009, 02:41:32 pm »

Usual assorted stuff in Priory Park. Saw a Goldcrest zoom from one tree to another and spent quite some time watching and listening to a wren. It wasn't the usual high-decibel tirade from a prominent perch, but a low-key warble from a bank of brambles and nettles, and for a few minutes I was looking for some sort of warbler, until I saw it. I wondered whether a female tending young might communicate with them in this way?

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #539 on:** 28 April, 2009, 08:08:46 pm »

Several days of birding in Purbeck and Hampshire.
Whimbrels
Bar and black tailed godwits
Little Egrets
Ruff
Common tern
Cuckoo
Blackcap
Willow tits
Garden warblers
Willow warblers
Chiffchaffs
Wood warbler
Stonechat
Tawny and little owls
Gadwall
Spotted redshank
Meadow pipit
Skylark
Swallow

Common lizard at Arne

Tim Hall · « **Reply #540 on:** 28 April, 2009, 08:40:43 pm »

A pair of buzzards over Chessington

Bledlow · « **Reply #541 on:** 29 April, 2009, 07:02:19 pm »

Goslings! 9 fat fluffy yellow things, on the old mill stream beside Caversham weir, while I was en route to Waitrose to buy Japanese soy sauce. Also lots of ducklings, a set of brand new little fluff balls closely following mum, & some slightly bigger ones being a little more independent. And a black swan.

Just now, a rather cheeky great tit having a four course dinner in my garden. Seeds from the feeder, a nibble of peanut, something from the blackcurrant bush, then fat sprinkles from the bird table. Greedy little bugger. All while I stood watching. As the next door neighbour said, all he was lacking was a little wine.

I wonder what he likes in the blackcurrant bush? Flowers? Aphids? I should look & see if there are any. I've seen a few other birds rummaging around in it, including a blue tit.

Ah. Buds are listed as part of their diet. The bush has both flowers & buds on it.

Butterfly · « **Reply #542 on:** 29 April, 2009, 09:34:12 pm »

Baby Moorhens on a nest on Waddon Pond

border-rider · « **Reply #543 on:** 29 April, 2009, 09:45:37 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 29 April, 2009, 09:34:12 pm

Baby Moorhens on a nest on Waddon Pond

I love baby moorhens

Little balls of fluff on long, long spindly legs

We had 'em on the pond last year, and as teenagers they came to scoff the bird food

clarion · « **Reply #544 on:** 29 April, 2009, 09:49:17 pm »

Implausible birds

Wascally Weasel · « **Reply #545 on:** 30 April, 2009, 08:43:49 am »

Parakeets!

Nothing unusual in this, since I go through Richmond Park most mornings - I was early today though and saw lots and lots of them feeding on the ground and therefore got a really close look at them as they flew away.

SandyV · « **Reply #546 on:** 30 April, 2009, 08:56:06 am »

I had to travel up north (Australia) yesterday and saw some aptly named Pretty Faced Wallabies feeding on the road verge near the airport.

The locals also swore that the creek had crocodiles but I didn't see any!

Several eagles though (not in the creek - had to look up for them)

docsquid · « **Reply #547 on:** 30 April, 2009, 03:30:11 pm »

Couple of days ago, but there are now TWO cuckoos at our woods.

clarion · « **Reply #548 on:** 30 April, 2009, 03:59:12 pm »

Still haven't heard a cuckoo this year - and the only one I've seen was eaten this morning by a FatCat in Steve bell's cartoon

clarion · « **Reply #549 on:** 30 April, 2009, 04:01:57 pm »

Seeing the fox at the bottom of the garden regularly now. S/he looks towards the house every time s/he goes alongside the fence at the end. It's a bit overgrown at the end, but the fox needs to climb up to leave the garden, so we get a good look. It's kinda nice having a fox in your compost heap (well, the remains of the previous resident's grass-clippings pile, really)* - much better than mice or rats.

* I don't keep chickens

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