Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1016802 times)

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #6225 on:** 20 June, 2022, 08:55:38 am »

Great photos, benborp!

Pingu · « **Reply #6226 on:** 20 June, 2022, 08:58:25 am »

Yellowhammers are here all year round.

JellyLegs · « **Reply #6227 on:** 20 June, 2022, 01:23:13 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 20 June, 2022, 08:58:25 am

Yellowhammers are here all year round.

Thank you. In which case I am 99.95% sure it was a yellowhammer! 😀

PaulR · « **Reply #6228 on:** 20 June, 2022, 08:59:44 pm »

^^^^agree, those are brilliant shots of the swallow family benborp!

rafletcher · « **Reply #6229 on:** 26 June, 2022, 01:03:13 pm »

Two Red Kites, fighting for territory at 30m altitude. Several Scarlet Tiger moths and several Comma butterflies.

orienteer · « **Reply #6230 on:** 26 June, 2022, 05:53:19 pm »

Along the local river bank, usual mallards, coots, moorhens, plus a rat and a dormouse.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6231 on:** 26 June, 2022, 07:09:24 pm »

Lapwings on Woodhead Pass, goldfinches in hedges and swallows everywhere. Funf act: the Polish word for lapwing is the same as the Russian for seagull. I don't think the birds are actually related though?

SteveC · « **Reply #6232 on:** 01 July, 2022, 05:22:21 pm »

RSPB field trip to Aylesbeare Common in East Devon last night. Not much about, but we did have wonderful views of a yellowhammer right at the top of a tree in glorious sunshine.
And later, after the sun had gone, a nightjar (the 'target' bird for the trip) flying very close and others chirring in the distance.

rafletcher · « **Reply #6233 on:** 03 July, 2022, 11:42:44 am »

Now the fields have been cut, a hare in the one behind the house.

ElyDave · « **Reply #6234 on:** 03 July, 2022, 02:04:17 pm »

Hares relatively common around here, which is great.

Today (and irritatingly nothing on my bike-cam, I think I mis-pressed the start button) riding along merrily I had an otter wander across the road in front of me. I'm fairly sure it was a notter based on a field guide from the mammal society.

My first though on seeing the head emerge from the verge was badger, but then the rest of it appeared, low slung, sleek, long tail, chocolate brown fur. I was quite surprised how big it was.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #6235 on:** 03 July, 2022, 02:35:56 pm »

Nothing especially exciting at the EWT visitors' centre at Hanningfield: a couple of comma butterflies, a few much darker, smaller ones that were probably speckled wood but wouldn't sit still long enough for me to get a decent look. Lots of great crested grebes, quite a few greylag geese, a family of swans, a few terns and quite a few gulls, mostly herring gulls I think.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #6236 on:** 04 July, 2022, 08:08:33 am »

On Sat

Minke whale
Atlantic Dolphins
Porpoises
Basking shark
White tailed sea eagle
Puffins
Guillemots
Skua
Razorbills
Gannets
Gulls of many types.
[edit] mind running away with me. What I thought were Boobies were actually Guillemots, a far more boring name.

[Edit] and now I'm told that Guillemots are locally called Boobies. So I did see Boobies after all.

Pingu · « **Reply #6237 on:** 04 July, 2022, 08:38:13 am »

Boobies?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #6238 on:** 04 July, 2022, 12:40:53 pm »

At the Essex Wildlife Trust centre at Hanningfield yesterday they had a line of merchandise (cards, aprons and tea towels mostly) produced by a particular artist. They were under group titles "Tits", "Boobies", "Floaters", "Cocks", "Peckers" and "Honkers".

Feanor · « **Reply #6239 on:** 04 July, 2022, 04:52:31 pm »

Our witless squirrel has finally found the feeder. It's only taken him a month or so! Got back from the West Coast to find the feeder empty. So investigated the trail cam to see who was responsible...

Peek-a-boo! by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

*Ngggh!* *Ngggh!* Can't open it! Too heavy! by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Oh, perhaps if I get off the lid... by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

*Yay!* That worked! In now! by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Nom! by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #6240 on:** 04 July, 2022, 05:48:57 pm »

Yay! you haz sqrl and badger.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #6241 on:** 05 July, 2022, 07:53:18 am »

Nutkin! You naughty boy.

Steph · « **Reply #6242 on:** 10 July, 2022, 02:22:24 pm »

Female blackcap on my bird feeder

JellyLegs · « **Reply #6243 on:** 11 July, 2022, 10:56:47 pm »

Not today, but yesterday evening on my ride - a mole scurrying (would scrabbling be a better word?) across the narrow tarmac lane from verge to verge. It’s the first time I have ever seen a mole in daylight and I did have to do a double take.

Basil · « **Reply #6244 on:** 13 July, 2022, 10:24:36 am »

I spotted my first plump ripe blackberries of the year this morning.
"Gosh that's early", I thought.
They normally start towards the end of Jul....Oh"

rafletcher · « **Reply #6245 on:** 15 July, 2022, 02:10:34 pm »

A Mint Moth on some Marjoram, and a 10mm long froglet between the raised beds.

Untitled by Richard Fletcher, on Flickr

rafletcher · « **Reply #6246 on:** 16 July, 2022, 02:57:00 pm »

A Song Thrush, unusually, feasting on nice fat humbug snails on our patio. And at least half a dozen Peacock butterflies on a neighbours Buddleia.

ElyDave · « **Reply #6247 on:** 19 July, 2022, 06:58:03 am »

Out on the veg patch yesterday, a juvenile robin, not developed its red front yet and still with a trace of yellow around it's beak, but unmistakably a robin. Happy to sit and watch me from about 6ft away on a trellis as I pottered with a watering can

orienteer · « **Reply #6248 on:** 19 July, 2022, 10:47:11 am »

The toad living in our fountain appeared this morning, hadn't seen it for a few days, wonder what it thinks about the heatwave!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #6249 on:** 19 July, 2022, 10:11:30 pm »

On the IOW last week, I spotted a flash of feathers, yellow feet forward, talons out, as a (presumed) Sparrow Hawk dived into a hedgerow in search of dinner.