Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1017854 times)

CountrySickness · « **Reply #1225 on:** 30 April, 2010, 08:17:44 pm »

A pair of redstarts on an extended commute home, I also had great close views of an otter fishing on the River Usk earlier in the week, but as that wasn't today I can't boast about it here...

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #1226 on:** 30 April, 2010, 09:50:49 pm »

Quote from: yellowhammer on 28 April, 2010, 04:21:59 pm

I was going to ask what that was but I can see it in the filename... how interesting, where do you find them all?

andym · « **Reply #1227 on:** 01 May, 2010, 09:07:28 am »

Heard yesterday, rather than seen today... first swifts of the year.
Wind must have been right, and it was warm with plenty of bugs in the evening.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #1228 on:** 01 May, 2010, 11:56:54 am »

Seen yesterday from the train. West of Chichester, male marsh harrier.

David Martin · « **Reply #1229 on:** 01 May, 2010, 01:07:30 pm »

Some say sparrows are on the decline. That is because they are all in my garden.

You can get very close if you stand still enough (about 10ft away).

Bledlow · « **Reply #1230 on:** 01 May, 2010, 05:27:14 pm »

House martins - been around for a while here.

A pair of long-tailed tits collecting feathers (ex-pigeon) from on & under my blackcurrant bush. Nesting material, I presume.

A dead fox on the A4074 this morning. Looked freshly dead & young. Didn't learn about cars fast enough.

TimO · « **Reply #1231 on:** 02 May, 2010, 11:37:55 am »

Cycling along the road near Dartford by myself on the FNRttC, when I had left the TEC group behind (dealing with yet another flat, unknown to me), and the main body of the ride was probably over half an hour ahead at the halfway stop. Lots and lots of bunnies along the edge of the road, I guess the main ride would have scared them, but a single cyclist didn't really pose much of a threat.

Not particularly unique, but I haven't seen any bunnies up close for quite a while, normally the activities of the day scares them off.

jogler · « **Reply #1232 on:** 02 May, 2010, 05:43:39 pm »

A pair of buzzards sweeping low over the A30 at the junction for St. Brewards

Pingu · « **Reply #1233 on:** 02 May, 2010, 07:31:33 pm »

Yesterday, two red squirrels in a wood just north of Glenfarg

Snakehips · « **Reply #1234 on:** 02 May, 2010, 09:30:12 pm »

The local magpies are feeding their young. Having eaten all the young blackbirds in the area they are now chasing adult starlings all around the place.

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jogler · « **Reply #1235 on:** 04 May, 2010, 06:40:22 pm »

Three buzzards on St.Keverne beacon

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1236 on:** 04 May, 2010, 07:39:15 pm »

A barn(?) owl on Saturday afternoon, near Melton Mowbray. It flew over our heads and landed in an oak tree by tthe side of the road, blending in very well. It took off as I was digging my camera out.

Saw a hare haring across a field a bit later.

clarion · « **Reply #1237 on:** 04 May, 2010, 09:48:03 pm »

That is so beautiful

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1238 on:** 06 May, 2010, 02:33:33 pm »

Yesterday evening as I was leaving Dunmow by car, five fox cubs playing in the road. Very sweet!

Today as I went to feed next door's hens - a dead hedgehog caught in the electric fence around their pen and presumably killed by the shock. It was quite difficult to extricate it from the fence as it had stuck its head through. Very sad to see it.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1239 on:** 06 May, 2010, 03:56:07 pm »

Quote from: yellowhammer on 04 May, 2010, 11:00:08 pm

Quote from: clarion on 04 May, 2010, 09:48:03 pm
That is so beautiful

Isn't it? I do have a bit of a thing for hawkmoths, albeit tinged with a curiosity about what they'd taste like. Nutty, I'd think.

How do you know what Nutty tastes like?

Adrian · « **Reply #1240 on:** 06 May, 2010, 06:13:01 pm »

A white deer by the railway line a little south of Three Bridges

mattc · « **Reply #1241 on:** 06 May, 2010, 06:23:12 pm »

Lapwings. Seen a week apart in farmed fields.
Last weekend, south of Hay-on-Wye, 5mins ahead of Arabella.
Previous weekend, somewhere in Hants, with Scottlington and Manotea.

The Audax bird!

jogler · « **Reply #1242 on:** 06 May, 2010, 08:07:19 pm »

On St. Keverne beacon a moorhen & several chicks waddling along the road,in primary

Butterfly · « **Reply #1243 on:** 07 May, 2010, 08:33:14 am »

Yesterday I saw a green wagtail in Battersea Park.

jogler · « **Reply #1244 on:** 07 May, 2010, 06:24:44 pm »

a buzzard over Manhay near Falmouth

Adrian · « **Reply #1245 on:** 07 May, 2010, 06:50:35 pm »

We saw loads of those today as well. We also saw a duck with 11 ducklings.

David Martin · « **Reply #1246 on:** 10 May, 2010, 12:41:19 am »

Couple of pics taken by my 11yo this weekend whilst looking for wildlife along the local ex-railway path.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1247 on:** 10 May, 2010, 08:36:21 am »

Quote from: yellowhammer on 30 April, 2010, 10:57:13 pm

That black adder was one of my favourites - he had just finished shedding his skin when I found him and looked absolutely mint, so black he was almost purple.

I was going to ask where you got the blue-rinse viper from. I thought she had been confined to the dustbin of history in 1990.

andym · « **Reply #1248 on:** 14 May, 2010, 09:04:55 pm »

Numerous rodents, mostly a light chocolatey brown sprinting across the path, most being about 1inch long.

Another squirrel... (actually seen yesterday)...

delthebike · « **Reply #1249 on:** 15 May, 2010, 11:45:58 am »

Saw a blue tit in the back garden looking for spiders under the roof overhang of the shed. I've never seen one here before.