Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1019528 times)

Peter · « **Reply #3025 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:25:25 am »

Thanks - maybe there are some here in Lancashire, then. I'll keep my eyes peeled!

bumper · « **Reply #3026 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:35:11 am »

Hopefully you will!

They are still here in a large mixed flock. My garden has been a feed station for them for years now. There's a large nature reserve about 100 yards from my house that has some nice rarities that frequent, I also think its a stop off for flocks on their way to Cannock Chase. If the weather continues like it is today (snowing again!) I will pop over onto the reserve tomorrow with the bins and camera because I won't be able to work!!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #3027 on:** 21 January, 2013, 01:23:32 pm »

A treecreeper on the tree in front of our kitchen window. Have seen all sorts of birds on this little tree before including a long eared owl but that's the first treecreepr.

nicknack · « **Reply #3028 on:** 21 January, 2013, 07:47:05 pm »

Down at the Creek country park.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3029 on:** 25 January, 2013, 02:31:01 pm »

A greenfinch singing loudly at the top of a tree in a neighbour's garden.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3030 on:** 25 January, 2013, 10:34:52 pm »

What is that corpse, Nicknack? It's not your common-or-garden rattus norvegicus, is it?

nicknack · « **Reply #3031 on:** 25 January, 2013, 10:37:00 pm »

No. I should have put something in the pic to give an idea of scale. It's a shrew.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3032 on:** 25 January, 2013, 10:38:32 pm »

Ta. I thought it looked rat-size but shrew-like. I was struggling to find something that fitted.

L CC · « **Reply #3033 on:** 26 January, 2013, 07:42:21 am »

rattus norvegicus are keeping well in this weather, I keep seeing them scurrying around near the pigs. Inevitable I suppose, with the food waste.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3034 on:** 26 January, 2013, 08:40:59 am »

I had a very good view of a greater spotted woodpecker yesterday, trying to chisel noisily into the wood of a false acacia. When they are drumming the remind me of limpets clinging to rock. It's the way they spread their wings.

cycleman · « **Reply #3035 on:** 26 January, 2013, 07:35:59 pm »

ducks a swan ,a green woodpecker, 2 jays and a red kite as i rode a short section of ncn61 jubilee river slough

Ian123 · « **Reply #3036 on:** 26 January, 2013, 09:52:23 pm »

Ducks on a frozen pond just as u turn into Blackmore before the tearooms

Pingu · « **Reply #3037 on:** 27 January, 2013, 12:05:38 pm »

Waxwings

023 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #3038 on:** 27 January, 2013, 12:30:15 pm »

And what we think was a snipe in a ginger cat's mouth (it got away

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bumper · « **Reply #3039 on:** 27 January, 2013, 12:30:56 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 27 January, 2013, 12:05:38 pm

Waxwings

023 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Brilliant aren't they!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #3040 on:** 27 January, 2013, 05:37:33 pm »

Thursday night, something called an Owl Hawk. It had a white face, black "side burns". Hawk like wings but short neck, flying at low level across a field. I phoned the BBC about it and we tried to work out where I'd seen it by using BING maps.

Ah. Did I mention this all took place in a dream?

Then on Saturday, a rhinoceros. Closer inspection through dirty glasses revealed it to be two sheep standing near each other.

clarion · « **Reply #3041 on:** 27 January, 2013, 09:52:25 pm »

Yesterday, in the dunes between Seahouses and Bamburgh, I saw a puffin. I got wildly excited about it, till I realised that the Farne Islands, just out to sea, are thronged with them.

But then I decided to get excited about it anyway. I haven't seen one for many years.

Not far away from there, there was a kestrel hovering over the side of the road, unconcerned by the approaching cyclists. Unfortunately, a car scared it off.

PaulR · « **Reply #3042 on:** 28 January, 2013, 02:17:03 pm »

Walking through Mayow Park in SE26 on Saturday, carrying a 5lb chicken, some very tasty sausages, a pound of minced beef, two bottles of shampoo, two bottles of red wine, a bottle of gin, two bottles of tonic, two bottles of handwash, some double cream, some bananas, some coffee, a jar of local honey, some St Agur and some stinky Brie, I spied a pair of mistle thrushes, a single song thrush, a solitary fieldfare and a flock of redwings. And I heard a GSW drumming.

clarion · « **Reply #3043 on:** 28 January, 2013, 02:50:45 pm »

Sat eating lunch, we saw a couple of long-tailed tits land on the bush just outside. There are very few small birds in and around our garden, and birdfood can often remain unclaimed, so this pair was a joy to see.

LindaG · « **Reply #3044 on:** 28 January, 2013, 02:55:31 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 27 January, 2013, 09:52:25 pm

Yesterday, in the dunes between Seahouses and Bamburgh, I saw a puffin. I got wildly excited about it, till I realised that the Farne Islands, just out to sea, are thronged with them.

But then I decided to get excited about it anyway. I haven't seen one for many years.

Get excited again. It should've been in Morocco at this time of year. Lazy puffin.

clarion · « **Reply #3045 on:** 28 January, 2013, 03:01:57 pm »

Oh dear. That probably means it was a poorly one which had been unable to migrate

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3046 on:** 28 January, 2013, 07:06:43 pm »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 28 January, 2013, 02:55:31 pm

Quote from: clarion on 27 January, 2013, 09:52:25 pm
Yesterday, in the dunes between Seahouses and Bamburgh, I saw a puffin. I got wildly excited about it, till I realised that the Farne Islands, just out to sea, are thronged with them.

But then I decided to get excited about it anyway. I haven't seen one for many years.

Get excited again. It should've been in Morocco at this time of year. Lazy puffin.

I've never sen a puffin and I want to.

Who's going to take my puffing cherry?

Bledlow · « **Reply #3047 on:** 28 January, 2013, 08:42:11 pm »

A dead rat. Very wet, drowned-looking (but not near water) on the allotment. Council workmen had been round earlier slashing the hedge (& littering my plot, the messy bastards - Ginster's wrappings as well as privet trimmings), but I can't work out any connection.

Fox turds on a vegetable bed.

David Martin · « **Reply #3048 on:** 28 January, 2013, 09:47:48 pm »

Hopefully I will get the chance to play with one of these http://www.bushnell.com/all-products/trail-cameras/trophy-cam/trophy-cam-hd-brown when the students have finished with them.. I have some cunning plans

tiermat · « **Reply #3049 on:** 29 January, 2013, 03:20:29 pm »

At the weekend, whilst in Chathill for the camping weekend, I sawed a Barn Owl.

Yesterday and today, be virtue of the factI took the riverside route to the office rather than the boring street route, I saw a swan (both days) on the River Aire in central Leeds.

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