Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1013790 times)

cycleman · « **Reply #5250 on:** 08 October, 2018, 07:31:07 am »

A buzzard over slough this morning

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5251 on:** 09 October, 2018, 08:52:18 am »

A black swan on Sunday. Ok, it was in someone's rather large garden pond, along with various other duck-type fowl I couldn't identify.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5252 on:** 09 October, 2018, 02:22:19 pm »

Shropshire, Sunday: an excellent view of a sparrow hawk as it sped low along the lane in front of us (we were in a car), every so often alighting on top of the hedge and waiting for us to almost catch up before setting off again; and a pair of peregrines as we were leaving the upper car park as we walked up Carding Mill Valley.

Oh, and on Friday, just after we left Condover at about 10pm to make for our B & B along a narrow, muddy, hedge-lined lane, I said to my sister, who was driving, "Take care of the badgers." Within 30 seconds one was running along in front of us, so we followed at a respectful distance.

ElyDave · « **Reply #5253 on:** 09 October, 2018, 03:36:49 pm »

Two buzzards circling while I was on a phone call, seem to be a resident pair

Snakehips · « **Reply #5254 on:** 23 October, 2018, 04:35:16 pm »

A Great White Egret in Richmond Park.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5255 on:** 24 October, 2018, 04:45:31 pm »

Not seen, but heard. Around dawn this morning, the first skein of geese from the local reservoir practicing for their migration. A harbinger of winter.

Jaded · « **Reply #5256 on:** 28 October, 2018, 03:32:32 pm »

nicknack · « **Reply #5257 on:** 29 October, 2018, 05:28:02 pm »

A kestrel dismembering a mouse(?) on a pile of bricks just outside our living room window. A cat, who ambled by shortly afterwards, became very interested in said pile of bricks.

Bledlow · « **Reply #5258 on:** 08 November, 2018, 01:55:35 pm »

A Red Admiral sunning itself on a wall in my back garden, as I was hanging out the washing this morning. Wings fully spread.

When my shadow fell on it it moved to a still sunny spot. The sun's moved off the wall now, & it's gone.

Riggers · « **Reply #5259 on:** 14 November, 2018, 01:40:32 pm »

Sparrow Hawk. Sitting on a branch above our bird feeders (that we've only just reintroduced since Spring). Hopped onto another branch, looking around, then cleared off.

spesh · « **Reply #5260 on:** 16 November, 2018, 07:08:12 pm »

Quote from: Riggers on 14 November, 2018, 01:40:32 pm

Sparrow Hawk. Sitting on a branch above our bird feeders (that we've only just reintroduced since Spring). Hopped onto another branch, looking around, then cleared off.

Judging by the pigeon feathers scattered across one of the borders, I think I may have had a sparrowhawk plucking a kill in my back yard in the last day or so.

Apparently, they are not completely unknown in Portsmouth, but it's the first evidence I have seen in all the time that I have lived here.

Andrij · « **Reply #5261 on:** 16 November, 2018, 10:24:56 pm »

Last night: a ginger kitty with no tail.

PaulR · « **Reply #5262 on:** 18 November, 2018, 10:50:30 am »

This morning I headed out at about 6.30 and wandered up the upper Thame valley (just downstream of Aylesbury) hoping to see a glorious dawn, but it stayed grey for most of the time I was out. Plenty of birds out and about: cormorant, ravens, crows, magpies, greater spotted woodpecker, pheasants, fieldfares, redwings, wrens, finches of the green, chaff, gold and bull varieties, yellowhammers, tits of the blue, great and long-tailed varieties, loads of skylarks, a mute swan circling round, red kites and blackbirds.

Maybe that makes up for not having seen any Leonid meteors in the night.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ac48gEtiBxYHfDnX6

Pingu · « **Reply #5263 on:** 18 November, 2018, 05:41:15 pm »

Whooper swans and waxwings.

Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_2194_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Jaded · « **Reply #5264 on:** 20 November, 2018, 06:16:34 pm »

Pingu · « **Reply #5265 on:** 20 November, 2018, 08:56:58 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 20 November, 2018, 06:16:34 pm

There was one of these at Montrose during the past week, but I didn't manage to get to see it

Pingu · « **Reply #5266 on:** 20 November, 2018, 08:57:57 pm »

Oh, I forgot to say, 'Git!'.

Jaded · « **Reply #5267 on:** 25 November, 2018, 07:19:23 pm »

Pingu · « **Reply #5268 on:** 28 November, 2018, 09:47:25 am »

Otter in the harbour just now. Fairly shifting downstream towards the sea

Pingu · « **Reply #5269 on:** 12 December, 2018, 09:03:14 am »

Fox by the bike shed at work when I arrived this morning

Crumbling Nick · « **Reply #5270 on:** 15 December, 2018, 09:36:21 pm »

A robin in the garage...

I'd wimped out & taken the car to the optician's; it was seriously wet, but not quite freezing rain. I'd put the car away & returned to dry windows, ready to collect Mrs. N from the station, when a robin flew from one end of the garage to the other. The poor bird was evidently shit-scared (I cleaned up the excrement later

). Time to open the garge door, switch off lights & leave. I didn't see the bird depart, but can't blame her/him for seeking a bit of shelter & mild warmth.

Canardly · « **Reply #5271 on:** 25 December, 2018, 06:54:20 pm »

4 Partridges in the garden today. First time I can recall this happening. (no pear trees ahem.)

Pingu · « **Reply #5272 on:** 30 December, 2018, 06:32:10 pm »

Dolphins today. It seems like ages since I last saw them.

ElyDave · « **Reply #5273 on:** 03 January, 2019, 10:33:38 am »

a pair of what i think are marsh tits on the bird feeder yesterday, first time I've seen those in the garden.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5274 on:** 04 January, 2019, 01:20:53 pm »

A pair - male and female - of blackcaps on our feeders. Quite unusual. As was the pair of greenfinches.