Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018503 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3775 on:** 24 August, 2014, 02:46:59 pm »

Rabbitses lolloping around the hotel car park, something I'd only previously seen in Scunthorpe.

delthebike · « **Reply #3776 on:** 24 August, 2014, 03:15:08 pm »

Three buzzards at Flambirds, Stow Maries.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3777 on:** 24 August, 2014, 03:18:28 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 August, 2014, 02:46:59 pm

Rabbitses lolloping around the hotel car park, something I'd only previously seen in Scunthorpe.

Partner & I went to Heriot-Watt University for a weekend bunfight and the campus was covered with bunnies.

Peter · « **Reply #3778 on:** 24 August, 2014, 07:14:26 pm »

bunnyfight?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #3779 on:** 24 August, 2014, 09:20:03 pm »

Some Marmottes. A distant Chamois. Some unidentified Big Raptors (one was a buzzard I think, but the wings on the other weren't buzzard shaped).

Been to the Alps, innit.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3780 on:** 25 August, 2014, 12:14:24 am »

Mummy Majestic Møøse and Junior having lunch, Rocky Mountain National Park

Tim Hall · « **Reply #3781 on:** 25 August, 2014, 10:52:41 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 24 August, 2014, 09:20:03 pm

Some Marmottes. A distant Chamois. Some unidentified Big Raptors (one was a buzzard I think, but the wings on the other weren't buzzard shaped).

Been to the Alps, innit.

So, Big Raptors, badly photographed are below:

I think this first one is a buzzard.

While I think the second isn't. Wing shape is different (or are they just held differently?). It's about the same size as the first, and seen only a few seconds apart, in the Alps near Morzine, about 1800m up. Can anyone shed any light?

Riggers · « **Reply #3782 on:** 26 August, 2014, 09:50:32 am »

Drove back from The Gower last night, and climbing a hill with steep banks and hedges, being mesmerized by ten bats swooping and flapping like bits of wind-blown plastic in the headlights.

"Please don't go into the headlights" I was murmuring.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3783 on:** 27 August, 2014, 01:54:37 am »

I for one welcome...

Shame he's only 2/3 the length of my hand, otherwise he'd be Master of the Universe by now.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3784 on:** 28 August, 2014, 04:15:29 am »

These two chancers might look as though they're just perching innocently on the Mudstang, but they're actually robbing my rucksack on the front passenger seat. They'd already got one of the compartments open and had extracted the bag in which my headphones and iPod cable live, and were making a good ~~fist~~ beak of opening another. Cheeky fuckers...

Riggers · « **Reply #3785 on:** 28 August, 2014, 08:58:41 am »

Was their call: "Car, car!" rather than "Caw, caw!"?

Morrisette · « **Reply #3786 on:** 28 August, 2014, 09:49:57 am »

Swallows flitting around at near ground level as it was so damp, actually rode through a flock of them. All twittering away. Reckon they are getting ready to leave, yesterday I saw some lined up on a telegraph wire.

Where did they do this lining-up-to-go-to-Africa thing before we invented the telephone??

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3787 on:** 28 August, 2014, 10:02:03 am »

A spider, species unknown, on the bathroom floor. Dead. At first I thought it was just a sloughed skin, but when I picked it up it was definitely a whole, dead, spider body. I mention this because although we have a house full of spiders (rather them than flies!) I don't remember seeing a dead one before. I guess they get cannibalised or something?

Quote from: Morrisette on 28 August, 2014, 09:49:57 am

Swallows flitting around at near ground level as it was so damp, actually rode through a flock of them. All twittering away. Reckon they are getting ready to leave, yesterday I saw some lined up on a telegraph wire.

Where did they do this lining-up-to-go-to-Africa thing before we invented the telephone??

They were the telephone! Didn't you read Dr Doolittle when you were small?

Salvatore · « **Reply #3788 on:** 28 August, 2014, 01:38:09 pm »

Not strictly speaking today, but this is one of several encounters I had in Lapland this summer

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3789 on:** 29 August, 2014, 12:11:19 am »

Actually it was on Wednesday....

SmallestCub's foot (size c13) for scale!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3790 on:** 29 August, 2014, 12:40:30 am »

OK, this one's cheating...

Bledlow · « **Reply #3791 on:** 29 August, 2014, 06:26:03 pm »

Quote from: Morrisette on 28 August, 2014, 09:49:57 am

Swallows flitting around at near ground level as it was so damp, actually rode through a flock of them. All twittering away. Reckon they are getting ready to leave, yesterday I saw some lined up on a telegraph wire.

Where did they do this lining-up-to-go-to-Africa thing before we invented the telephone??

Trees?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3792 on:** 30 August, 2014, 01:46:10 am »

Duck. Lake Havasu, Arizona. I iz jealous.

Also a small lizard has just scampered past my toes

I'm inside...

Edit: He's back...

He changed his mind about going behind the bedside table and is now under the bed...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3793 on:** 06 September, 2014, 01:11:50 am »

Some kind of ground squirl, I suppose. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Pingu · « **Reply #3794 on:** 06 September, 2014, 10:33:42 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 25 August, 2014, 10:52:41 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 24 August, 2014, 09:20:03 pm
Some Marmottes. A distant Chamois. Some unidentified Big Raptors (one was a buzzard I think, but the wings on the other weren't buzzard shaped).

Been to the Alps, innit.

So, Big Raptors, badly photographed are below:

I think this first one is a buzzard.

While I think the second isn't. Wing shape is different (or are they just held differently?). It's about the same size as the first, and seen only a few seconds apart, in the Alps near Morzine, about 1800m up. Can anyone shed any light?

My guess is golden eagle. Steph would know better.

JennyB · « **Reply #3795 on:** 06 September, 2014, 11:00:49 pm »

Something light brown and furry on the road. It popped a head up and I saw it was a baby rabbit. Then it started moving. 'Sfunny, I thought, it's not hopping. For a moment I thought it was a mechanical toy that had got wrapped up in something. It seemed to be dragging its back legs. That's an odd leg, more like a tail.

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bumper · « **Reply #3796 on:** 06 September, 2014, 11:07:44 pm »

A small hedgehog licking dog wee off a telegraph pole

TimO · « **Reply #3797 on:** 07 September, 2014, 09:29:42 pm »

Caught be Zev yesterday, and let lose in the bedroom in the early hours. I managed to evict it at around 4am. Kai caught something very similar a few years ago, so it's obviously common around here.

Both of them were very small mice, this one had a body which was at most 3cm long, although with surprisingly large ears for its size. It wasn't that bright, and only managed to evade capture because I either had nothing around to trap it with, or it wasn't on a flat enough surface to entirely cover, so managed to scamper free. It was only exceeded in stupidity by Zev, who failed to find it, and got bored to the extent that she went to sleep, leaving me to capture it!

It's been previously suggested that it's a wood mouse, which seems plausible, in comparison to the pictures in the Wikipedia article.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3798 on:** 07 September, 2014, 09:32:54 pm »

Does this count?

Does it remind anyone else of Michael Gove, or is it just me?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #3799 on:** 09 September, 2014, 03:35:41 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2014, 09:32:54 pm

Does this count?

separated at birth