Seen today

[why1040]

On Smith's Lawn Windsor Park today, there was a red kite flying REALLY low over us for quite some time!  You don't realise just how sodding big they are when they're high up...

[metformin]

Seen plenty of wildlife this morning must have been due to the drizzle and nobody about. Pair of woodpeckers, a rabbit, hedgehog,  a grey squirrel, pheasants, crows, magpies, wood pigeons, mallard ducks & a moore hen.

[andym]

1 Black Woodpecker (seen a few now)
2 Jays (believe it or not, the first ones I've ever seen)
1 bird of prey swooping about 20m in front of me (probably Red Kite, but can't be certain)
1 unidentified sparrow-sized bird creeping on a tree, light brown, pretty well camouflaged in fact, and laid quite flat against the tree. Any ideas?

[clarion]

We heard a woodpecker this morning before even getting out of the tent.

Later we.saw a.tiny frog on the path, herons, swans, geese, seagulls aplenty, wagtails, what looked like a buzzard, and, most amazingly,.about two hundred seals on the beach near Horsey.  Pics will follow.

Also saw several bats and heard, but not seen, at least two owls.

[Peter]

1 Black Woodpecker (seen a few now)
2 Jays (believe it or not, the first ones I've ever seen)
1 bird of prey swooping about 20m in front of me (probably Red Kite, but can't be certain)
1 unidentified sparrow-sized bird creeping on a tree, light brown, pretty well camouflaged in fact, and laid quite flat against the tree. Any ideas?

Andym, I'm guessing you are in Germany or Eastern Europe, if you've seen a black woodpecker?  The brown bird creeping round the tree is likely to have been a (wait for it) tree-creeper!

[andym]

Yep Germany.
Did wonder about treecreeper, but it looked different to that on the RSPB identifier.

[Peter]

Yep Germany.
Did wonder about treecreeper, but it looked different to that on the RSPB identifier.

Andy, try a wryneck, which is a small woodpecker not much bigger than a sparrow.  I've never been lucky enough to see one, nor expect to in the north of England!

[LindaG]

A wren 
Hares 
Bunnies
Sheeps
Baby sheeps
Lapwings
Curlews
Tits
Crows
Horses with jackets on

[Riggers]

Swift.

Seen Saturday 7th April at Trebetherick in Cornwall.

Just the one mind you.

[Peter]

Hooray!

[Mr Arch]

Yesterday I saw two Wrens making a racket and battling it out as they plummeted to the ground. 
They just managed to stop fighting and make a landing behind a pile of bricks where after some more racket one popped back up and, sitting on a brick, sang its heart out before taking off again. 
Not sure where the other one went as it wasn't in the brick pile when I looked.

[rafletcher]

A hobby plucking and eating a wood pibeon in the field opposite our house, and then on our evening walk 4 hares in various fields.

[Wowbagger]

Someone reported seeing and hearing a cuckoo today in Great Wakering (6 miles or so from here) on the Southend RSPB website. I shall have to pop down there tomorrow to see if the silly bugger has decided to stay or sod off somewhere a bit warmer.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Don't know what it was, but it was dark grey with a tail like a bottle brush held stiffly out behind it. Scampering across a little lane near Hullavington, yesterday, on rather short legs. Didn't see its head, which makes identification a bit harder.

Today, honey bees - the first ones I've seen this year, as opposed to bumbles.

[LindaG]

A SWALLOW

[Bledlow]

Sunday, in south Reading.

A roe deer, & soon afterwards five cormorants, one with a fish.

[Peter]

Don't know what it was, but it was dark grey with a tail like a bottle brush held stiffly out behind it. Scampering across a little lane near Hullavington, yesterday, on rather short legs. Didn't see its head, which makes identification a bit harder.

Today, honey bees - the first ones I've seen this year, as opposed to bumbles.

Hate vto say it, but squirrels run like that!

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yeah, I did think it could be a squirrel - but it looked too dark grey and its tail was kind of 'wiry'.

[Bledlow]

Some of them are damn near black, & the dark ones are reported to be becoming more common.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'd forgotten about the black squirrels. Don't think I've ever seen one - at least till yesterday!

[clarion]

A SWALLOW

Dun't mek a summer

As for me, well, I saw a deer.  Sort of.

What I actually saw was a movement in a thicket behind a hedge.  Because of our relative movements against the obstructions, I could make out the shape as it put its head up, looked around, then jumped behind some bushes.  It was a wonderful contrast with Richmond Park where I could see loads of deer casually displayed beside the roads, unfazed by the movement and noise.  Much more special to spy something shy and evasive.

Funnily enough, we'd not long passed a chap, riding a bike, who was wearing a deerstalker hat.

[Pingu]

A SWALLOW

Swallows have been reported at Loch of Strathbeg.

[tiermat]

A SWALLOW

Swallows have been reported at Loch of Strathbeg.

Where they European of African swallows? Were they carrying coconut shells?  These are the questions we NEED answering

[Wowbagger]

I cycled out to where the cuckoo had been reported yesterday but there was no sign of it. However, I did spend a happy ten minutes or so watching a common lizard - a very pregnant female by the look of her abdominal girth.

[Peter]

Abdominal Girth.  Good album title - Meat Loaf or Demis Roussos, maybe.