Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1019005 times)

clarion · « **Reply #3175 on:** 14 April, 2013, 10:50:17 pm »

There was a coot standing in the middle of the road at Carshalton Ponds this morning. Paid no attention to my passing by. I hope the self-preservation instinct kicked in before a car got there.

longers · « **Reply #3176 on:** 15 April, 2013, 09:00:29 am »

I saw the local Dipper yesterday and a big plump of frogspawn, which was a nice start to the day.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3177 on:** 20 April, 2013, 10:40:36 pm »

A stiff badger, a fairly fresh-looking dead hare, & a partridge scuttling into the hedgerow as I cycled past.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3178 on:** 21 April, 2013, 12:32:25 am »

A buzzard, a kestrel and another hawk - I think it was a sparrowhawk - as well as a little black rabbit and a hare. Unusually spotiferous day!

cycleman · « **Reply #3179 on:** 21 April, 2013, 08:42:43 pm »

a deer on ncn5 just north of reading last night

Tim Hall · « **Reply #3180 on:** 21 April, 2013, 08:49:26 pm »

Goldfinches x 2, on the niger seed feeder thing. At last they've got the message.

clarion · « **Reply #3181 on:** 21 April, 2013, 09:31:11 pm »

Huge humble bee on the floor at work. I took some photos.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3182 on:** 26 April, 2013, 12:06:18 pm »

A couple of days ago, a seagull flying off with what appeared to be a nest in its beak, while chased/mobbed by a smaller bird - presumably the (ex-)owner of the nest.

Pingu · « **Reply #3183 on:** 27 April, 2013, 06:24:21 pm »

Typical Aberdeenshire wildlife:

IMG_1420 by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_1422 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Juan Martín · « **Reply #3184 on:** 27 April, 2013, 06:34:36 pm »

A Swallow. Just the one, which doesn't make a summer. This is a shame because my boiler has just packed up.

David Martin · « **Reply #3185 on:** 27 April, 2013, 09:31:58 pm »

The usual LBJ birdy things. I took the microphone for a walk. Haven't yet worked out how to get a decent level out of it into the recorder so I still have too much background hiss.

https://soundcloud.com/david-martin-113/miley-birdsong1
https://soundcloud.com/david-martin-113/miley-birdsong2

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3186 on:** 27 April, 2013, 11:12:54 pm »

Quote from: David Martin on 27 April, 2013, 09:31:58 pm

The usual LBJ birdy things. I took the microphone for a walk. Haven't yet worked out how to get a decent level out of it into the recorder so I still have too much background hiss.

https://soundcloud.com/david-martin-113/miley-birdsong1
https://soundcloud.com/david-martin-113/miley-birdsong2

Both robins, by the sound of it.

delthebike · « **Reply #3187 on:** 28 April, 2013, 04:40:36 pm »

On the way to 11ses this morning we saw a small white pony and trap. The small white pony was shedding hair in a snowstorm of flying folicleness!

David Martin · « **Reply #3188 on:** 28 April, 2013, 05:38:48 pm »

There is rather a lot more than just robins there. I hadn't actually seen the robins, saw wrens ('ack ack ack ack'), blue tits, collared doves, a tern ('pepp peep peep') and blackbirds. And probably plenty of others that were heard but not seen. A wagtail or two as well.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3189 on:** 28 April, 2013, 06:22:21 pm »

The quick & the dead -
Flattened fauna: a polecat, near Mapledurham. This is my second recent polecat sighting round here, the other one being alive, at night.
Alive: some kites low & close, a sparrowhawk dashing overhead, a huge crow - or was it a raven wandering out of its normal range? Young rabbits, & a lot of rabbit holes which have obviously had recent digging.

Oh, & water beetles & mosquito larvae in the new pond. Fished out the latter.

Pingu · « **Reply #3190 on:** 28 April, 2013, 10:06:23 pm »

Larks, lambs, swallows, loadsa eiders, shelduck, curlew, trio of bananananana harbour seals, a pair of sandwich terns catching small silvery fish, a kestrel and an osprey

All at Sands of Forvie

RJ · « **Reply #3191 on:** 29 April, 2013, 01:04:01 pm »

Nice naked-eye view of a singing blackcap, just off Minto St, on the way to school with FirstBorn this morning. We agreed it was a "complicated" song ...

spesh · « **Reply #3192 on:** 29 April, 2013, 04:20:49 pm »

A sparrowhawk hen picking feathers off the pigeon it had recently killed in my parents' back garden.

BrianI · « **Reply #3193 on:** 30 April, 2013, 08:36:07 pm »

Need an ID book for Larva:

Found this evening.

cycleman · « **Reply #3194 on:** 30 April, 2013, 09:04:13 pm »

saw both daffodils and bluebells whilst out riding today

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3195 on:** 30 April, 2013, 09:22:42 pm »

Three herons.

Peter · « **Reply #3196 on:** 01 May, 2013, 12:09:58 am »

Quote from: BrianI on 30 April, 2013, 08:36:07 pm

Need an ID book for Larva:

Found this evening.

Anywhere near a forest, Brian? I think that's a pine sawfly.

PaulR · « **Reply #3197 on:** 01 May, 2013, 10:35:10 am »

Sparrowhawk circling over the railway line between Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park this morning.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3198 on:** 02 May, 2013, 10:33:50 am »

Bats last night! Lots 'n lots of 'em.

Pingu · « **Reply #3199 on:** 02 May, 2013, 10:43:45 am »

Quote from: Bledlow on 02 May, 2013, 10:33:50 am

Bats last night! Lots 'n lots of 'em.

Used the bat detector for the first time this year last night. Got a couple of chirps but didn't see any bats.