Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1026228 times)

JStone · « **Reply #2350 on:** 08 February, 2012, 09:40:59 am »

Blackcap (m) tucking into the fatballls this morning.

mike · « **Reply #2351 on:** 08 February, 2012, 05:45:33 pm »

I went for a walk in the woods near West Stow (Bury St Eds) with the camera, what with being unemployed and all...

pretty rubbish for photos, but i was trying to get some wide angle shots of the trees (many, many trees) and wandered round a corner to be about 5 yards from 2 huuuuuge stags! Antlers probably 4 or 5 feet across, not sure who was more surprised!

they legged it, I took a photo - or tried to, the camera was set on self timer with a wide lens on, so by the time it'd taken, one of them was hiding behind a tree, the other was looking back cautiously from about 50 yards away - this is a 100% crop:

I walked towards them after I'd fitted a more suitable lens, but they legged it across the open bit in front and into the next lot of trees.

Amazing to see them so close, even if i did nearly wet myself!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2352 on:** 08 February, 2012, 06:48:11 pm »

I remember disturbing one of those in a clearing in mid-summer. He was completely hidden in the undergrowth and I wouldn't have known he was there at all if he hadn't bolted, even though he was no more than 3m or 4 metres from me. For a split second I thought he was going to trample or gore me, but I guess it's the nature of these creatures to be even more nervous of 2-legged close-eyed animals than we are of them.

PaulR · « **Reply #2353 on:** 09 February, 2012, 06:46:25 pm »

A flock of waxwings this morning - the first I've seen this winter. About 50 of them heading north to Peckham.

border-rider · « **Reply #2354 on:** 09 February, 2012, 08:10:15 pm »

eeejit

sorry he's a bit blurry, but he was very wobbly and it wasn't very light.

Bledlow · « **Reply #2355 on:** 10 February, 2012, 10:03:26 am »

Spotted while ironing this morning - one each of chaffinch, blue tit & blackbird, & at least 16 redwings. They perched in a neighbour's tree, & faffed around while the chaffinch & tit visited my bird feeder. None of them tried it, though.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2356 on:** 11 February, 2012, 02:36:55 pm »

Today, in our garden, chaffinch, various sparrows, great, blue and long-tailed tits, robins, a jay, mistle thrush, blackbirds of course, collared doves and wood pigeons. And on our walk lapwings, fieldfares, red kites, and three hares. Magical.

Oh and thursday, in Tesco in Hemel, a robin

rafletcher · « **Reply #2357 on:** 11 February, 2012, 02:48:39 pm »

And a greater spotted woodpecker

anna magpie.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2358 on:** 11 February, 2012, 03:30:01 pm »

A rabbit!

fuzzy · « **Reply #2359 on:** 11 February, 2012, 07:20:19 pm »

A couple of visitors to our feeding stations -

Bledlow · « **Reply #2360 on:** 11 February, 2012, 08:37:06 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 11 February, 2012, 02:48:39 pm

And a greater spotted woodpecker

+1. This morning, in the grounds of Reading uni.

David Martin · « **Reply #2361 on:** 12 February, 2012, 07:36:41 pm »

Not a pretty sight

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This is one of several. Don't know what got it but there are lots of buzzards around.

Pingu · « **Reply #2362 on:** 12 February, 2012, 09:31:33 pm »

1 dead badger, a few buzzards. Heard a woodpecker pecking wood and a skylark larking in the sky.

Butterfly · « **Reply #2363 on:** 14 February, 2012, 11:24:04 am »

2 mice on my commute - about 4 miles apart, one on Mitcham (fairly wild) Common, but the other on the pavement at the top of Streatham hill

. About 7.55 in the morning between bus stops full of commuters! Must have the hardy town mouse type

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Wowbagger · « **Reply #2364 on:** 14 February, 2012, 04:34:08 pm »

Ten magpies in a flock.

One green woodpecker.

Pingu · « **Reply #2365 on:** 15 February, 2012, 02:13:54 pm »

Seal nomming a mahoosive salmon in the harbour.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2366 on:** 15 February, 2012, 02:49:38 pm »

A heron in a drainage canal(?) at Heathrow, two moorhens at Reading Calcot, and a bird the shape and size of a buzzard but with a very pale underside - some variant? All on Sunday through a coach window.

tiermat · « **Reply #2367 on:** 15 February, 2012, 02:56:52 pm »

Not today, but on Sunday whilst playing Poo Sticks with TLD and the two Torslanda offspring, a Kingfisher!

We were stood on a small footbridge looking down at the stream when a flash of Cerulean went past.

Made me smile it did they are one of my favourite birds.

Pingu · « **Reply #2368 on:** 15 February, 2012, 09:28:36 pm »

A weasel? A teeny mustelid, anyway, on my way home this evening

Snakehips · « **Reply #2369 on:** 16 February, 2012, 06:14:18 pm »

Two Goldcrest in a rose bush in East Acton.

TimO · « **Reply #2370 on:** 16 February, 2012, 06:31:06 pm »

A squirrel on the Tram stop platform near my house. I quite often see squirrels around there, but never got that close before (about three foot away), or remembered to get my phone out to take a photo.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2371 on:** 16 February, 2012, 10:11:23 pm »

A very large herd of fallow deer near Fryerning.

Chris S · « **Reply #2372 on:** 17 February, 2012, 09:53:24 am »

Quote from: TimO on 16 February, 2012, 06:31:06 pm

A squirrel on the Tram stop platform near my house. I quite often see squirrels around there, but never got that close before (about three foot away), or remembered to get my phone out to take a photo.

That's not a squirrel, it's a tree rat.

This is a squirrel:

tiermat · « **Reply #2373 on:** 17 February, 2012, 10:04:10 am »

Whilst out on the Thursday night pub ride, I sawed an Wol, it flew across the road in front of me.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2374 on:** 17 February, 2012, 07:07:43 pm »

Two cormorants.

Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1026228 times)

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