Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1014353 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #5200 on:** 03 August, 2018, 09:51:01 pm »

Until last night I'd never seen a live badger. I saw two last night. The second was a wowbadger which nearly took me out on a fast descent. They're big and fast!

Kim · « **Reply #5201 on:** 12 August, 2018, 01:30:58 pm »

A stoat. Or possibly a weasel. It's so hard to tell.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5202 on:** 12 August, 2018, 09:21:42 pm »

Yesterday a red sqrl

and a (probably dog) otter lying on the road

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5203 on:** 13 August, 2018, 09:48:28 am »

Quote from: Kim on 12 August, 2018, 01:30:58 pm

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...tumbleweed...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5204 on:** 13 August, 2018, 04:32:56 pm »

A pigeon just flew into the kitchen window. Thump! It bounced off the glass, turned round and flew a few metres to the garden wall, where it rested for a minute.

T42 · « **Reply #5205 on:** 14 August, 2018, 11:36:28 am »

Just been set upon by a thing that looks like a house fly but bites. Sneaky bastard. Fast, too.

I'm outta here.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5206 on:** 14 August, 2018, 01:45:08 pm »

Sounds like a horse fly. They're nasty.

Basil · « **Reply #5207 on:** 14 August, 2018, 02:21:02 pm »

A juvenile dunnock beating itself almost senseless against the window of our utility room. The door to the outside, through which it must have entered, was wide open. But it could see the garden through the window, and that is where it wanted to go.
I opened the window. My proximity scaring it even more. So it turned round and flew out the door.

Jaded · « **Reply #5208 on:** 15 August, 2018, 11:02:12 am »

Hooray! Hedgecodges sighted!

Also Kittehs, a slug and a snail. But they aren't as interesting.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5209 on:** 15 August, 2018, 12:01:23 pm »

Hooray for fenceswine!

L CC · « **Reply #5210 on:** 15 August, 2018, 12:20:02 pm »

Seal in Middlesbrough Dock yesterday, made its way round to the Transporter this morning. Tides are really high this week.

Kim · « **Reply #5211 on:** 15 August, 2018, 02:01:09 pm »

A full-sized deer ran in front of me in broad daylight here yesterday. Never seen one in that area before.

Fortunately the uphill gradient to the motorway bridge meant I wasn't going particularly fast.

SteveC · « **Reply #5212 on:** 17 August, 2018, 05:57:57 pm »

Got to within about a metre of a grey squirrel today. It was sitting in the middle of the pavement eating a hazel nut and completely oblivious to me.
Never really been that close to one before.

graculus · « **Reply #5213 on:** 17 August, 2018, 07:52:25 pm »

Greater spotted woodpecker pecking at next door's apple tree. Never been able to watch one that close or for so long before (at least 5 minutes).

ElyDave · « **Reply #5214 on:** 17 August, 2018, 08:12:06 pm »

Last week on holibobs
- a deer running down the road in front of me
- 2 eagles, separately
- owls
- seals
- lots of sheeps

This week at home
- Kestrel and buzzards both local
- an emperor dragonfly, it had got itself wedged into the net of the kids trampoline. I heard a buzzing of wings fom my office but couldn't quite place it, then tracked it down while I was out watering the plants. It had got its thorax all the way through up to the wing roots. I was in two minds whether to try adn tease it through or cut it out. I ended up squashing the wings flat with one hand around the net, adn teasing it through forwards grasping around the thorax, my main concern was to not damage the eyes or wings. In any event, despite the buzzing of wings and curling of the tail sections, I managed to free it and it was off and away as soon as it could. Happy endings

hellymedic · « **Reply #5215 on:** 17 August, 2018, 11:12:39 pm »

Quote from: SteveC on 17 August, 2018, 05:57:57 pm

Got to within about a metre of a grey squirrel today. It was sitting in the middle of the pavement eating a hazel nut and completely oblivious to me.
Never really been that close to one before.

I've seen them very close-up in parks enjoying fries left behind by considerate park users.

They hold the chip with both hands, like a child would hold an ice cream cornet and eat them downwards from the end.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5216 on:** 21 August, 2018, 08:08:38 am »

Around 50 swallows gathered on the telephone wires outside our cottage this morning $:-\$ . And I noticed that the deciduous trees are already beginning to turn to their autumn colours.

Jaded · « **Reply #5217 on:** 21 August, 2018, 10:16:12 am »

I'm going to double post

T42 · « **Reply #5218 on:** 21 August, 2018, 12:58:11 pm »

hellymedic · « **Reply #5219 on:** 21 August, 2018, 01:48:04 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 21 August, 2018, 08:08:38 am

Around 50 swallows gathered on the telephone wires outside our cottage this morning $:-\$ . And I noticed that the deciduous trees are already beginning to turn to their autumn colours.

I understand trees turn earlier when they are stressed.

Two months' heat and drought has undoubtedly stressed many trees here in That London, where autumn has arrived two months earlier than usual.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5220 on:** 21 August, 2018, 01:51:30 pm »

Horse chestnuts often start changing colour in July.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5221 on:** 21 August, 2018, 02:48:37 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 21 August, 2018, 10:16:12 am

I'm going to double post

Google tells me this is a California condor. But that has a bald head. Is it a sea eagle?

rafletcher · « **Reply #5222 on:** 23 August, 2018, 08:47:48 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 August, 2018, 01:51:30 pm

Horse chestnuts often start changing colour in July.

Yes, we have plenty of those, all with the prevalent disease that causes early leaf browning and drop, what caught my attention was the hornbeam/whitebeam hedge of one of the neighbouring houses. As Helly says, the lack of water has stressed the trees this year. The local (Wendover) woods should be spectacular this year.

Jaded · « **Reply #5223 on:** 23 August, 2018, 09:29:49 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 21 August, 2018, 02:48:37 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 21 August, 2018, 10:16:12 am
I'm going to double post

Google tells me this is a California condor. But that has a bald head. Is it a sea eagle?

White tailed eagles, which I think are also known as Sea Eagles. The UKs biggest bird, apparently. Two males here.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #5224 on:** 27 August, 2018, 06:52:55 pm »

A group of five Little Egrets next to the River Ribble opposite Miller Park in Preston.