Seen today

[Bledlow]

Flattened fauna:
One fox - well matured, nice & leathery, but still identifiable.
A rabbit & a hedgehog - relatively fresh.

On our ride today (getting it in before the wet weather): skylarks, greenfinches, kites, a heron, robins, a stupid wagtail that flew in front of Mrs B for at least a hundred yards before realising it should veer off to the side, a newly independent blackbird (immature plumage) rummaging around in a pub garden & the usual hordes of small brown birds.

Our local blackbird has found the gap at the bottom of the compost bin, & now mines it for worms. He's also realised that the patches of new grass seed are easy to dig up, seeking edible invertebrates. Little feathered bastard. If he didn't sing so nicely I'd be seriously pissed off.

[L CC]

Red Squirrel crossing the road in front of me & Mrs Ernst Pottering for Tea. She also saw a stoat but I was only half way up the hill so missed it.
Red Squirrel. That's only the second time in my life.

[Pingu]

Red Squirrel crossing the road in front of me & Mrs Ernst Pottering for Tea. She also saw a stoat but I was only half way up the hill so missed it.
Red Squirrel. That's only the second time in my life.

http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/scotlands-red-squirrels/squirrel-sightings/

[LindaG]

The other day we saw a school of harbour porpoises when we were on the ferry from Iona.  We also saw sea eagles and seals.  No otters, unfortunately.

[L CC]

Quote from: fboab on Yesterday at 06:57:14 PM

Red Squirrel crossing the road in front of me & Mrs Ernst Pottering for Tea. She also saw a stoat but I was only half way up the hill so missed it.
Red Squirrel. That's only the second time in my life.

http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/scotlands-red-squirrels/squirrel-sightings/

Duly reported.

[rogerzilla]

A roe deer in Syd's Copse (Coate Water country park).  We stared at it for about 5 minutes and it stared back, from 10 yards away.  It could have been stuffed, except that it occasionally twitched an ear.  We left it still standing there.

[Cudzoziemiec]

A kestrel hovering above the road, it then dived into a watery roadside ditch. I stopped to see what it had caught, but it flew off empty-taloned. I hope that was only cos it missed and it hadn't been scared off by my screeching to a halt.

[Juan Martín]

Two spotted woodpeckers having what appeared to be a bit of a puch-up. The usual several green woodpeckers and a barn owl - flying in broad daylight - beautiful.

[Bledlow]

Missed by me (I was in the shower), but Mrs B reports seeing a rather bedraggled jay in our back garden, where we've never previously seen one. It did not seem happy about the rain.

[Peter]

YH, those are beautiful.  Is that lavender?  I'm not used to seeing it at that magnification!

[Peter]

Whatever!  They're beautiful photographs, well done.

[Feline]

Those damselflies seem to have smiley faces, they are great pictures 

[Tim Hall]

Packing up acres of tentage this morning, I asked one the Young people to move the remains of the woodpile.

He pointed at it and asked "what's that?"  I told him it was a wood pile. "No, that"

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I'm presuming it's a ferret. It seemed very tame and unafraid of us humans. After ferreting (obv.) around in a couple of tents, it was caught in a t shirt and carried over to the trees and released.

[Wowbagger]

A golden eagle near Uig, Lewis.

There are lots of rabbits about, but no foxes on the island. I would imagine that rabbit is the eagle's staple diet.

[Bledlow]

Garden Tiger moth(s). Not sure if I've seen one a few times, or a few once each, sunning on the pavement/road in our street.

[Tim Hall]

Peregrine falcon over Three Bridges station as we returned from a tandem club ride. Identified not by me, but by Some One Who Knows.

[fuzzy]

I have been trying for ages to get a decent image of a Red Kite.

I'm getting there slowly (framing is crap though)

[Wowbagger]

Lots of stuff. Most notably, three golden eagles and a golden plover.

[Mrs Pingu]

Buzzards x lots (pretty close too, sat right outside my brothers house), larks. Also in his gdn, a jay & a red sqrl

[Juan Martín]

Yesterday morning, another daylight barn owl: ghosting through the coppices that border the roads around Smarden.

[fuzzy]

I'm getting there slowly (framing is crap though)

I dunno, I really like that!

Too kind 

[CountrySickness]

Marsh&Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies x not enough, redstarts x plenty

[why1040]

Not today, but Saturday while driving to Norrtälje for my uncle's birthday doohickey, I spotted 2 hares and in the archipelago itself, a sparvhök (probably translated sparrowhawk, but this is a guess...accipiter nisus).  I haven't seen the bird of prey before, so i was quite excited 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yes, that is a sparrow hawk. I remember seeing them in Poland, identifying it with a guide book and the Polish name gave no clues whatsoever to the English so had to work through the Latin.

[why1040]

Swifts are building a nest in my horse's stable, above the light fitting.  I'd be concerned, as my horse is a nosy bugger who tends to chew on pretty much everything, but the light fitting was deliberately put up with a sheet of plywood above it to keep nosy errr noses out as this isn't the first year we've had swifts in the stables! 

I also heard something while cycling home this evening.  It was well after dark (11:45), so whatever it was must've been nocturnal.  But it sounded most like one of my dog's chew toys, or perhaps a glove puppet!  I was riding alongside Black Park, so it's unlikely to have actually been a chew toy...it was reasonably rhythmical, two squeaks and then silence for 30 seconds or so, then two squeaks again, and so on.