Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018768 times)

Ham · « **Reply #3000 on:** 14 January, 2013, 11:06:20 am »

Quote from: Lordy on 12 January, 2013, 05:19:47 pm

Vectra in the middle of a farmers field but as much as I looked at the skid marks I couldn't work out how it managed it

Driving by the seat of his pants?

Bledlow · « **Reply #3001 on:** 16 January, 2013, 12:29:51 pm »

A forlorn blackbird trying to dig up something edible from the frozen ground.

I put some sunflower seeds down, in the hope he'd find them.

Peter · « **Reply #3002 on:** 16 January, 2013, 03:32:23 pm »

Good man. We put out oily bread, too, in this weather. It should be ok until they are breeding. Don't want them stuffing their chicks with it!

Bledlow · « **Reply #3003 on:** 16 January, 2013, 04:40:25 pm »

Mr Blackbird came back with Mrs Blackbird, & they guzzled the lot!

I put out some more. I have a bird feeder, but it's no good for blackbirds.

Oily bread sounds like a good idea. Calorie rich. I have a stale bread roll with sunflower seeds. Break it up? How oily?

[Edit]Just remembered that I have some lard. That won't run out of the bread.

Peter · « **Reply #3004 on:** 16 January, 2013, 05:19:22 pm »

We dice some cheap bread and sprinkle sunflower oil over it and stir it up. We make a bowl of it and put it out two or three times a day. I should imagine you could just dice the lard, too but don't put it where you might walk!

Peter

Pingu · « **Reply #3005 on:** 16 January, 2013, 10:42:39 pm »

They like apples & pears too. Cut them in half & place flesh side up on the ground.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3006 on:** 17 January, 2013, 11:30:15 am »

They currently have most of a nectarine. Mrs B threw it out when she found it was going mouldy where bruised.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3007 on:** 17 January, 2013, 12:51:39 pm »

And we put some old salami pizza out at night. Usually it's gone by morning to a fox, cats, birds and slugs, but not this time. Perhaps they only like pepperoni.

In the actually seen news - a bumble bee, crawling groggily across the pavement of a busy road. What could have woken it up at this time of year, in these temperatures?

Pingu · « **Reply #3008 on:** 17 January, 2013, 01:17:22 pm »

The scent of salami pizza?

Pingu · « **Reply #3009 on:** 17 January, 2013, 01:17:54 pm »

Quote from: Bledlow on 17 January, 2013, 11:30:15 am

They currently have most of a nectarine. Mrs B threw it out when she found it was going mouldy where bruised.

Do they eat citrus, then?

Bledlow · « **Reply #3010 on:** 17 January, 2013, 02:00:18 pm »

Citrus? Not that I know of, but I'm pretty sure they eat plums & cherries, so should like nectarines.

Pingu · « **Reply #3011 on:** 17 January, 2013, 04:10:37 pm »

Quote from: Bledlow on 17 January, 2013, 02:00:18 pm

Citrus? Not that I know of, but I'm pretty sure they eat plums & cherries, so should like nectarines.

I read nectarine, my brain pictured satsuma. WTF, brain

RJ · « **Reply #3012 on:** 17 January, 2013, 04:54:11 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 17 January, 2013, 04:10:37 pm

Quote from: Bledlow on 17 January, 2013, 02:00:18 pm
Citrus? Not that I know of, but I'm pretty sure they eat plums & cherries, so should like nectarines.

I read nectarine, my brain pictured satsuma. WTF, brain

Seasons?

Bledlow · « **Reply #3013 on:** 18 January, 2013, 10:04:53 am »

Went outside to uncover the fat-soaked bread I put down yesterday, & disturbed a blackbird with its feathers fluffed up, which had found it (or remembered its location) despite the covering of snow.

Given the choice of fat-soaked bread & nectarine, they prefer fat-soaked bread. At least, when it's freezing out.

Notsototalnewbie · « **Reply #3014 on:** 18 January, 2013, 10:41:53 am »

I have a very sweet little robin that comes every day. I've put out fatballs from the pound shop, and melted the ice in the birdbath.

tiermat · « **Reply #3015 on:** 18 January, 2013, 11:04:13 am »

Quote from: clarion on 14 January, 2013, 09:54:49 am

I saw an owl on Friday night, heading to the campsite

That'll be Mrs T's owl, coming to see you

We've not seen it in a while, so it must have been heading South!

clarion · « **Reply #3016 on:** 18 January, 2013, 11:11:13 am »

Maybe

I was very lucky to spot it. I had a headtorch on to read the map, and caught a movement in my peripheral vision. I swung my head round, and spotlit the owl, swooping silently along. Amazing.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3017 on:** 18 January, 2013, 08:58:56 pm »

The pizza-eating fox has just been round for its supper.

slowfen · « **Reply #3018 on:** 19 January, 2013, 05:42:18 pm »

Fieldfares and redwings in the garden mixing it with the blackbirds.
Also hares in the local fields

Bledlow · « **Reply #3019 on:** 20 January, 2013, 06:31:03 pm »

Not actually seen, but Mrs B & I heard this noise this morning, from woods near Mapledurham, repeated quite a few times.

http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/British-wildlife-recordings/022M-W1CDR0001444-1700V0

It sounded close. There were several deer tracks (but I thought of smaller deer) heading in that direction.

I've seen fallow deer not far (as in a mile or so away) from there.

[Edit]Mrs B was skeptical of my explanation of the noise, until I played the recording linked to. Definitely the same.

TheLurker · « **Reply #3020 on:** 21 January, 2013, 06:43:11 am »

Mid afternoon yesterday (Sunday). Solitary redwing in the back garden.

PaulF · « **Reply #3021 on:** 21 January, 2013, 06:54:37 am »

Deer tracks in our garden yesterday.

bumper · « **Reply #3022 on:** 21 January, 2013, 08:25:55 am »

Lots of Brambling on the feeders today along with a few Reed Buntings.

Peter · « **Reply #3023 on:** 21 January, 2013, 10:56:22 am »

Bumper, where are you - Scotland?

bumper · « **Reply #3024 on:** 21 January, 2013, 10:57:27 am »

Quote from: Peter on 21 January, 2013, 10:56:22 am

Bumper, where are you - Scotland?

I wish!

Staffordshire.