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Bledlow · « **Reply #2600 on:** 14 May, 2012, 06:58:10 pm »

Some buzzards in West Oxfordshire & neighbouring bits of Gloucestershire, & an inflated badger on the road just west of Cumnor, lying in wait for an unwary motorist.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2601 on:** 14 May, 2012, 07:57:59 pm »

Hector the cat's nemesis, Mrs. Blackbird, is no more. I have just seen a sparrowhawk kill her (cue lots of squawking). sit casually on the lawn for 5 minutes looking around, then fly off with the body. First bird of prey in our garden, and it didn't look as if it was scared of ANYTHING.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2602 on:** 15 May, 2012, 10:36:14 am »

Yesterday, in Priory Park, a heron perched on top of a very flimsy sign informing anglers of the closed fishing season.

Sadly, I didn't have my camera with me.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2603 on:** 15 May, 2012, 11:46:49 am »

He was there again today.

clarion · « **Reply #2604 on:** 15 May, 2012, 12:00:20 pm »

Excellent!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2605 on:** 16 May, 2012, 07:55:16 pm »

http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/16084-1/Video007.mpg?g2_GALLERYSID=7b178cacb01db718e14da85eae80b153

Tits, filmed by my brother.

Bledlow · « **Reply #2606 on:** 18 May, 2012, 06:47:34 pm »

Daddy blackbird being followed around the garden by hulking great baby blackbird which had got the idea of pecking at the ground but wasn't achieving anything with it - but luckily, daddy knew what he was doing, so I had the pleasure of seeing him presenting youngster with a nice tasty worm. Aaaaaah.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2607 on:** 19 May, 2012, 06:00:54 pm »

Nipped out this morning for a few miles to a farmshop wot does breakfast. While we were sat outside on a sundeck/logia thing, Mrs. Hall saw a blue tit, flying into a nesting box.

Said nesting box was part of a display of other nesting boxes all for sale and each with a label displaying the target species.

Either they had it right or the blue tits can read, as the bird in question was indeed using the box marked "blue tit".

Phew.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2608 on:** 20 May, 2012, 12:22:41 am »

Saw a kestrel jamming. Swallows and swifts over the Sharpness canal - haven't seen any in the city. Various unidentified water birds. Pink horse chestnuts, which I mention because they seem much less common here than the white variety and they're all a bit late this year.

Jaded · « **Reply #2609 on:** 21 May, 2012, 09:15:50 am »

Yesterday. About 100ft away.

This morning
About 10 feet away...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2610 on:** 21 May, 2012, 01:01:15 pm »

On Thursday, whilst Auntie Helen an I were cycling along the new stretch of road which has been built because of the Abberton Reservoir project, a swift came hurtling towards us and flew over our heads so low that we could feel it.

Bledlow · « **Reply #2611 on:** 21 May, 2012, 02:08:55 pm »

I've had such near misses a few times, most recently yesterday morning. One flew past my face (not above my head: at face level) so close that I felt the wind of its passing.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #2612 on:** 21 May, 2012, 04:46:26 pm »

On the way home from school we utterly trounced our previous record of 21, and spotted 28 ladybirds.

That's a lot of ladybirds to keep count of when you're only 4.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2613 on:** 21 May, 2012, 05:13:30 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2012, 04:46:26 pm

On the way home from school we utterly trounced our previous record of 21, and spotted 28 ladybirds.

That's a lot of ladybirds to keep count of when you're only 4.

How many spots?

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #2614 on:** 21 May, 2012, 05:56:29 pm »

Crikey, don't start him on that one. It already took nearly an hour to get (less than a mile) home....

cycleman · « **Reply #2615 on:** 21 May, 2012, 07:42:54 pm »

while crawling up windsor hill out of woburn green on the trike last night at around 11.30pm i was entertained by a bat catching insects gathered under a street light