Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018516 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3750 on:** 27 July, 2014, 08:43:07 pm »

A hare, lolloping along a lane near Grittleton. I would have won the race, of course, obviously, stands to reason, but it jumped through a hedge into a field.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3751 on:** 28 July, 2014, 11:11:49 pm »

This visitor to the 371km control on the National 400 didn't want his card stamping...

Pingu · « **Reply #3752 on:** 29 July, 2014, 06:39:19 pm »

A kestrel near work

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3753 on:** 29 July, 2014, 06:46:25 pm »

A beautiful, large, green dragonfly. Which flew right into the revolving spokes of my front wheel.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3754 on:** 31 July, 2014, 04:53:00 pm »

A red kite this morning and a siege, or even sedge, of herons standing in a field. There were four of them, anyway.

SteveC · « **Reply #3755 on:** 31 July, 2014, 08:35:38 pm »

Dragonfly on my run at lunchtime. Very close.
And swallows on telegraph wires. Don't go. Not yet!

Basil · « **Reply #3756 on:** 02 August, 2014, 12:04:00 pm »

It's raining so hard in Brum that everyone is making for higher ground.

rafletcher · « **Reply #3757 on:** 06 August, 2014, 02:02:42 pm »

Yesterday evening a Green Woodpecker - been hearing them for ages, but only spotted one from the back bedroom window last evening as it headed for the woods.

And on Saturday, a raptor which had an unusual flight pattern - gliding and then what I think is "stooping" - folding the wigs back and heading earthwards. Did this three times on the trot without as far as we could see actually getting to earth. Research suggests it may be the offspring of a pair of Peregrine Falcons that have nested on Aylesbury's council offices for the past 3 or so years. A first for me.

Pingu · « **Reply #3758 on:** 10 August, 2014, 01:06:52 pm »

Seals, kestrels & buzzards.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3759 on:** 10 August, 2014, 06:37:05 pm »

Given the nature of today's weather it might be thought entirely normal to see a frog. A brown one about the size of the top joint of my thumb. However, it appeared to be sheltering from the rain halfway down an indoor flight of steps leading to a school gymnasium

Kim · « **Reply #3760 on:** 10 August, 2014, 10:42:54 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 10 August, 2014, 06:37:05 pm

Given the nature of today's weather it might be thought entirely normal to see a frog. A brown one about the size of the top joint of my thumb. However, it appeared to be sheltering from the rain halfway down an indoor flight of steps leading to a school gymnasium

Probably came from the lost property box...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3761 on:** 12 August, 2014, 09:52:30 pm »

I was just putting my key in the door after a bit of shopping today when I heard a whistling noise. Then I heard it again. I thought it was kids across the road. On the third time of hearing it I looked up and right overhead was a sparrowhawk doing tis stuff.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3762 on:** 13 August, 2014, 04:33:48 pm »

Toads, toads, toads. And maybe a frog. On the allotment. If we look in the right places, we can pretty easily tally double figures. All sizes, though numbers diminish with size.

Several of them (including one impressively big fat toad) have found a formic food dispenser under a plastic sheet put down for weed clearance, & just sit beside it all day.

Riggers · « **Reply #3763 on:** 14 August, 2014, 02:20:23 pm »

4 blinking baby foxes in the back garden. Two had the temerity to be sitting on our garden table. Needless to say … I chased them off!

Moose57 · « **Reply #3764 on:** 14 August, 2014, 11:55:23 pm »

Driving down the M26 to pick up the M20 at about 2.45pm this afternoon.
Heading south 2 Lancasters with what looked like a Spitfire astern but much higher.
Incredible sight but couldn't take a picture, driving damn!! and eating a sandwich, texting, talking on the phone.......

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3765 on:** 15 August, 2014, 08:06:27 am »

Quote from: Moose57 on 14 August, 2014, 11:55:23 pm

Driving down the M26 to pick up the M20 at about 2.45pm this afternoon.
Heading south 2 Lancasters with what looked like a Spitfire astern but much higher.
Incredible sight but couldn't take a picture, driving damn!! and eating a sandwich, texting, talking on the phone.......

They're currently at Biggin Hill and flying at Eastbourne, but I don't think Lancs qualify as animals, wild or otherwise

cycleman · « **Reply #3766 on:** 15 August, 2014, 09:02:18 pm »

A kingfisher flying along a backwater of the Thames near bray

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #3767 on:** 15 August, 2014, 10:51:00 pm »

Klaus my German cycling companion got within a whisker of running over a Bisamratte. It looked like a beaver to me but the tail was wrong - a huge rodenty thing with a dead animal in its mouth. Reference to the dictionary tells me that Bisamratte is a muskrat.

Moose57 · « **Reply #3768 on:** 20 August, 2014, 11:14:22 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2014, 08:06:27 am

Quote from: Moose57 on 14 August, 2014, 11:55:23 pm
Driving down the M26 to pick up the M20 at about 2.45pm this afternoon.
Heading south 2 Lancasters with what looked like a Spitfire astern but much higher.
Incredible sight but couldn't take a picture, driving damn!! and eating a sandwich, texting, talking on the phone.......

They're currently at Biggin Hill and flying at Eastbourne, but I don't think Lancs qualify as animals, wild or otherwise

Ooops

andrewc · « **Reply #3769 on:** 21 August, 2014, 09:34:26 am »

Walked out of the flat this morning & saw a heron on the ground. Sheltering against the wall of a neighbors house. There was a lot of seagull activity overhead and they were coming in at 3 ft off the ground to dive bomb the poor thing.

I was late for work so had to dash. Asked the caretaker to keep an eye on it, but other than trying to catch it & release away from the flats (seagull colony on the roof

) I'm unsure what else could be done.

cycleman · « **Reply #3770 on:** 21 August, 2014, 10:44:07 am »

A heron near Cambridge this morning

rafletcher · « **Reply #3771 on:** 21 August, 2014, 01:57:38 pm »

A Banded Demoiselle. We don't usually get many dragonflies, but we've had quite a few this year. This was a first though.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3772 on:** 23 August, 2014, 04:45:08 pm »

About 9 pm last night, a bloody enormous toad at the side of the road. It retreated into undergrowth when we stopped to look at it. Two metres further on, there was another, smaller, one.

This was on the upper, unpaved, section of Bulmershe Road, Reading.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3773 on:** 23 August, 2014, 04:55:16 pm »

When Dez and I were out driving on Wednesday we saw a little owl.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3774 on:** 24 August, 2014, 04:37:58 am »

Lots of ground squirls or similar rodentiform critters, and a pair of rather magnificent deer at the top of the La Poudre Pass. Alas they did a runner before I could get the camera out of its case (it was raining).