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ElyDave · « **Reply #5175 on:** 29 June, 2018, 08:25:33 pm »

Two buzzards circling ominously overhead while I was out cycling

A green woodpecker on the patio, this evening, pecking around under the rosemary. Flew off just as I got the camera

Pingu · « **Reply #5176 on:** 30 June, 2018, 09:53:16 am »

Quote from: Basil on 28 June, 2018, 10:29:55 am

A lovely moth on my window this morning. Wingspan 25mm.

Any ideas?

DSC_0001 by Basil W, on Flickr

Edited to correct wingspan.

Small magpie?

Basil · « **Reply #5177 on:** 30 June, 2018, 10:02:52 am »

I think you may be right. Thanks.

T42 · « **Reply #5178 on:** 30 June, 2018, 05:02:31 pm »

Mrs T saw a dead fox this morning, quite young. Hit by a car, guts out. To stop it being splattered she dragged it off the road by one ear - said the fur was beautifully soft. Shame.

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #5179 on:** 30 June, 2018, 05:03:51 pm »

A Skipper of some kind.......

And........

No idea what they are officially called.

And in the garden last week, a White Letter Hairstreak, and I am very chuffed.....

Pingu · « **Reply #5180 on:** 01 July, 2018, 12:34:06 pm »

Quote from: Aunt Maud on 30 June, 2018, 05:03:51 pm

And........

No idea what they are officially called.

Garden tiger moth?

T42 · « **Reply #5181 on:** 02 July, 2018, 01:15:52 pm »

Just before lunch, a swallowtail butterfly and A.N.Other unfamiliar one on the buddleia. A.N.Other looked sorta like a faded tortoiseshell.

PaulR · « **Reply #5182 on:** 08 July, 2018, 06:43:42 am »

This morning I woke up just before 4 and wandered down to the Thame. I listened to two reed warblers for a while and then noticed some larger slower ripples in the surface of the river than could be caused by fish. At first I thought it must be a moorhen and I walked as quietly as I could downstream. I became aware that there was a bow wave heading upstream towards me. All of a sudden, this wave resolved into an otter, paddling silently along and straight past me, about ten feet from where I stood. It spotted me and halted, and sat in the water staring at me, giving a series of what seemed like indignant huffs before disappearing under the surface with a loud plop.

T42 · « **Reply #5183 on:** 08 July, 2018, 08:14:17 am »

Funny: I've spent most of my life in Europe, but the only otters I've ever seen were sea otters in California.

Pingu · « **Reply #5184 on:** 08 July, 2018, 10:23:28 am »

An oystercatcher chick yesterday.

SteveC · « **Reply #5185 on:** 08 July, 2018, 12:50:15 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 08 July, 2018, 08:14:17 am

Funny: I've spent most of my life in Europe, but the only otters I've ever seen were sea otters in California.

For many years they were incredibly rare in the UK, particularly in England.
But of late they have been making a comeback. I've seen them in the open during daylight on the Somerset levels (Sunday afternoon on a nature reserve with loads of people about; it really wasn't bothered by us).
And, apparently, Dorset is now back up to having as many otters as the environment can support which is really good news.

ElyDave · « **Reply #5186 on:** 13 July, 2018, 09:53:52 pm »

This little chap, nearly stepped on until I saw him move

And nearby, this, the only spot of colour around

Canardly · « **Reply #5187 on:** 13 July, 2018, 09:59:06 pm »

Seems to have been flying ant day today. Thousands but all gone by 8pm.

Basil · « **Reply #5188 on:** 13 July, 2018, 10:26:51 pm »

I love sitting out on our patio for the evening change over. Tonight it happened at exactly 10 pm.
One minute the swifts are screaming and buzzing us in formations and then they suddenly disappear. Immediately the pipistrelle bats appear, Couple of bigger ones too. Greater Horseshoe?

Basil · « **Reply #5189 on:** 14 July, 2018, 02:07:32 pm »

And today for the first time ever in any of my gardens, a gold Finch at the feeder.

ElyDave · « **Reply #5190 on:** 15 July, 2018, 10:07:47 am »

A weasel, as it ran halfway across the road carrying a dead mouse, saw me on the bike, dropped the mouse and ran back again

Pingu · « **Reply #5191 on:** 16 July, 2018, 10:43:11 pm »

So many dead badgers by the road this weekend

fuzzy · « **Reply #5192 on:** 23 July, 2018, 12:17:08 pm »

We are currently getting frequent visits to the bird bath from a pair of Goldfinches. They look and sound gorgeous as the twitter away to each other taking alternate sips from the water.

Kim · « **Reply #5193 on:** 23 July, 2018, 01:29:10 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 16 July, 2018, 10:43:11 pm

So many dead badgers by the road this weekend

More than usual around here too. And it's not just that they smell extra-bad, they're plainly visible ones.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5194 on:** 23 July, 2018, 01:39:46 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 30 June, 2018, 05:02:31 pm

Mrs T saw a dead fox this morning, quite young. Hit by a car, guts out. To stop it being splattered she dragged it off the road by one ear - said the fur was beautifully soft. Shame.

Mrs Cudzo's neighbours back in the 1970s or 80s farmed foxes for fur. Stank.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5195 on:** 23 July, 2018, 01:42:27 pm »

Heard but not seen: an unidentified small bird giving a loud alarm call for a long time at dawn o'clock. At a guess it might have been blackbird, jay or magpie, as they're common here, and the cause of its alarm could have been a fox (not farmed!) or a sea gull. Don't know though.

Wonderful moth photos upthread. Thanks to all moth photographers.

orienteer · « **Reply #5196 on:** 23 July, 2018, 02:46:25 pm »

A Jersey Tiger moth indoors the other day in west London:
https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/jersey-tiger
When I caught in a plastic basket it displayed its red hind wings, before I released it outside.

Seems it has spread from the CI and S Devon along the south coast, with a population in London that might have been artifically introduced.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5197 on:** 31 July, 2018, 02:26:50 pm »

Last Friday I was eating fish & chips outside Cromar's very good F & C shop in St. Andrews. I heard a bit of a kerfuffle, looked up and saw a large raptor, I'm pretty sure a sparrow hawk, fly overhead pursued by a small flock of indignant house martins.

T42 · « **Reply #5198 on:** 01 August, 2018, 10:16:42 am »

Crayfish in our village stream today:

First time I've ever seen one, and in the last place I'd have expected it. I suspect it's come out of hiding in search of oxygen - there's precious little water left.

Andrij · « **Reply #5199 on:** 02 August, 2018, 09:18:02 pm »

A fox? A dog? It was shaped like a fox, and moved like a fox, but it had short hair. No, it didn't look like a wet fox.

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