Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018327 times)

clarion · « **Reply #2775 on:** 03 August, 2012, 10:13:39 am »

I should point out that those deer are not in Richmond Park, where I've seen them before, but in Bushy Park, over to the East, next to what I think is called King's Field.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2776 on:** 06 August, 2012, 08:50:36 pm »

The sparrowhawk is back. It sat in the silver birch at upstairs window height, until it realised all of us were looking at it.

On Wenlock Edge this week we saw exotica including marsh tits, a jay (yay!), three great spotted woodpeckers together and something that may have been a siskin. And oodles of mewing buzzards.

Tail End Charlie · « **Reply #2777 on:** 06 August, 2012, 09:36:28 pm »

I saw a lizard in my back garden last night. Surprised me, that.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2778 on:** 07 August, 2012, 06:34:53 am »

Quote from: Tail End Charlie on 06 August, 2012, 09:36:28 pm

I saw a lizard in my back garden last night. Surprised me, that.

See? David Icke was right.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #2779 on:** 07 August, 2012, 06:41:36 am »

Quote from: Morrisette on 03 August, 2012, 10:01:47 am

A deer of some sort standing in the road. It ran off when it saw me.

Lots of squashed slugs and snails on the cycle path (must have been a snail party last night with all the rain) - and also the biggest (alive) slugs I have ever seen - some absolute beasts, about mouse-size - that seem to be eating the dead ones pretty gross.

Is there a size limit on slugs? They are huge this year!

Apparently the smell of a squashed slug, eg on a road, will attract other slugs to eat it. Then they get squashed which attracts still more of them. Watch out for slug slicks ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18685229

Jaded · « **Reply #2780 on:** 13 August, 2012, 02:00:22 am »

jogler · « **Reply #2781 on:** 13 August, 2012, 09:05:47 am »

^^^
now you're showing off;most folk just have koi carp in their garden pool

Pingu · « **Reply #2782 on:** 13 August, 2012, 10:11:51 am »

Quote from: jogler on 13 August, 2012, 09:05:47 am

^^^
now you're showing off;most folk just have koi carp in their garden pool

He doesn't any more.

clarion · « **Reply #2783 on:** 13 August, 2012, 04:03:09 pm »

Any idea what this flower is? At first, I saw the stem, and thought it was a mushroom, but, crouching down to take a photo, I was surprised to see what appears to be a bell-shaped dark flower.

Tail End Charlie · « **Reply #2784 on:** 13 August, 2012, 06:33:00 pm »

Saw this little fella last night in my garden, cute, huh?

SandyV · « **Reply #2785 on:** 14 August, 2012, 03:55:41 am »

Not today, last week. A 2m long python. In a shopping centre car park in north Queensland. Locals wrangled it into a bag and took it away.

Crumbling Nick · « **Reply #2786 on:** 14 August, 2012, 11:09:49 pm »

Yesterday, a couple of red kites between Beech Hill & Theale. I'd not seen any south of the Kennet before, though I don't ride very much/often in that part of the world.

Purely anecdotal evidence, but it seems to suggest that the birds introduced at Stokenchurch are gradually spreading further afield.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2787 on:** 20 August, 2012, 04:35:25 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 30 July, 2012, 05:04:34 pm

On Saturday somewhere round Thame I saw a stoat hopping up and down under a gate. I wasn't sure at the time if it was a stoat or a weasel but it had a black tip to its tail and I've checked that means it was a stoat.

We've had this before.

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Snakehips · « **Reply #2788 on:** 20 August, 2012, 05:16:39 pm »

I was rather surprised to see a brace of Peacock standing on the edge of the A31 yesterday evening.

ferret · « **Reply #2789 on:** 22 August, 2012, 06:03:00 pm »

Clarion that could be a type of ink cap toadstool, but I could be wrong,

I did see one of these today

which amazingly turns in to one of these

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nicknack · « **Reply #2790 on:** 23 August, 2012, 04:52:15 pm »

Some ducky things with little black chicks. Thought they were coot chicks at first but the adult definitely wasn't. Bloody annoying things all dived underwater as soon as saw me and then went and hid in the reeds. I took a couple of crappy pictures and hope to go back for some better ones sometime soon. Anyone any idea what they might be?

nicknack · « **Reply #2791 on:** 23 August, 2012, 05:32:55 pm »

Ah! Cheers, thank you!

Fi · « **Reply #2792 on:** 23 August, 2012, 10:45:40 pm »

Lifted carpet on top of compost heap this evening, threw in veggie peelings, then noticed a small grass snake curled up on the pile of grass cuttings I'd put i yesterday. It lifted its head and I replaced the carpet very gently and gave up the idea of stirring some dried weeds into the grass.

jogler · « **Reply #2793 on:** 24 August, 2012, 05:13:53 pm »

Yesterday,as I progressed very,very slowly up Basfordbridge Lane I saw a conker shell

I initially considered that I was mistaken given that it is too early in the year for such to be possible.However,a second & longer look confirmed my first thought to be accurrate.(sp)

Jaded · « **Reply #2794 on:** 24 August, 2012, 06:12:56 pm »

Found this on a walk.

and lots of these

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Peter · « **Reply #2795 on:** 24 August, 2012, 07:22:23 pm »

It's beautiful, Jaded; I expect you know it's a magpie moth?

ferret · « **Reply #2796 on:** 24 August, 2012, 10:15:18 pm »

actually it was yesterday, I was in the car and had just gone over the mountain road when I pulled up at the T junction and there was the biggest white rabbit sat on the verge munching on the grass, straight away I thought of Jefferson Airplane

Jaded · « **Reply #2797 on:** 24 August, 2012, 11:36:31 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 24 August, 2012, 07:22:23 pm

It's beautiful, Jaded; I expect you know it's a magpie moth?

Ah, thank you

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #2798 on:** 25 August, 2012, 08:57:15 pm »

Seen in the last week, on holiday in Dumfries & Galloway again. Red squirrels, ospreys, and best of all a wonderful half hour sat on a cliff path watching an otter catching fish in the sea below us

(On the path between Rascarrel and Balcary Bay)

Riggers · « **Reply #2799 on:** 28 August, 2012, 10:17:14 am »

Seen on the cliffs past Horton (on the way to Oxwich Bay) in The Gower on Saturday. A Chough. Someone said they're quite rare now. Orange legs and beak. Odd cove.