Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018908 times)

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4025 on:** 22 May, 2015, 04:55:02 pm »

Housemartins building a nest under our eaves after a couple of years without any.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #4026 on:** 22 May, 2015, 10:31:44 pm »

Norman Cook and Paul Heaton?

Jaded · « **Reply #4027 on:** 22 May, 2015, 11:01:48 pm »

Quote from: asterix on 12 April, 2015, 04:40:23 pm

Possibly swallows, or maybe swifts? I am no expert..

(Not sure why there's a smudge - the lens looks clean but the camera does have a hard life.)

It looks like dust on your sensor.

Will only show up when there is an expanse of plain (like sky) and a relatively small aperture.

Snakehips · « **Reply #4028 on:** 23 May, 2015, 05:38:57 pm »

Richmond Park, female Mandarin with 14 or more young. No adult male to be seen. Several other pairs in other places with no young.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4029 on:** 23 May, 2015, 06:46:44 pm »

I've been reminded of the weasel that ran across the road in front of us somewhere on top of the Mendips. Yellow-brown with a fat tail held out straight behind it. That was about a month ago.

Pingu · « **Reply #4030 on:** 23 May, 2015, 09:23:30 pm »

Stoat!

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4031 on:** 23 May, 2015, 10:49:14 pm »

House sparrows and blackbirds both with young that are big enough to leave the nest but still to be fed by the parent.

hellymedic · « **Reply #4032 on:** 23 May, 2015, 11:44:17 pm »

Must be the house prices!

Bledlow · « **Reply #4033 on:** 24 May, 2015, 11:33:52 pm »

10 toads on the allotment today! Our next door neighbours, who we share it with, say they're growing toads - their most successful crop.

Steph · « **Reply #4034 on:** 26 May, 2015, 06:19:53 pm »

Soaring over Balcombe Road, Horley, now. Red kite.

delthebike · « **Reply #4035 on:** 27 May, 2015, 11:40:37 am »

A wild rabbit kitten with myxomatosis near B&Q's.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4036 on:** 28 May, 2015, 09:04:32 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 23 May, 2015, 11:44:17 pm

Must be the house prices!

Today it was about 15 Starlings, mix of adult and young. They stopped to enjoy a bath as well.

Snakehips · « **Reply #4037 on:** 28 May, 2015, 09:11:23 am »

Terns on the Thames at Teddington

Bledlow · « **Reply #4038 on:** 01 June, 2015, 09:51:45 am »

A green woodpecker in the Harris Garden at Reading University. Flying from tree to tree, with spells on the ground.

There was also a bird box with the entrance chewed out to make it more squirrel-friendly. Nice to see our little grey friends (?) are so enterprising.

Toads a-plenty on the allotment, as usual, & allotment fox is definitely looking much fitter & healthier than two weeks ago. That injured leg (or foot) is bothering it less, & it's lost the half-starved & knackered look, which I presume was a result of the injury. Quite perky now.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4039 on:** 02 June, 2015, 06:54:26 am »

A first for me: green lizard roadkill, some 2000 feet up a French mountain. A day or two previously I saw the squashed corpse of the biggest grass snake I have ever seen. It must have been about four feet long.

Wascally Weasel · « **Reply #4040 on:** 05 June, 2015, 01:15:20 pm »

Saw a Little Owl, sitting on a tree stump at dusk, in Richmond Park yesterday.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4041 on:** 06 June, 2015, 09:02:31 pm »

A Magpie, flying off with a Slow Worm in its beak.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4042 on:** 06 June, 2015, 11:16:47 pm »

A peregrine falcon over the Avon between Create and Gaol Ferry Bridge. It was mobbed by a crow and flew away.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4043 on:** 07 June, 2015, 11:33:08 am »

Red Kites. The silage in the field opposite our house was being collected this morning - cut yesterday, and atypically for around here, picked up in bulk by trailers. As the "scuffles" put the cut grass into rows the kites appeared. At one time we could see at least 15 quartering the field. And after the machinery was gone, I counted 13 at rest on the ground, very unusual.

fuzzy · « **Reply #4044 on:** 08 June, 2015, 01:59:48 pm »

I have seen that whilst out and about before. Between Watlington and Chinnor especially.

Ruthie · « **Reply #4045 on:** 08 June, 2015, 02:12:26 pm »

A sparrowhawk, elegantly taking a LBJ from a field beside the A167 yesterday.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4046 on:** 08 June, 2015, 03:17:37 pm »

LBJ? Little brown jug?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4047 on:** 08 June, 2015, 04:18:11 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 08 June, 2015, 03:17:37 pm

LBJ? Little brown jug?

Lyndon Bains Johnson, 36th President of the United States.

(click to show/hide)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4048 on:** 08 June, 2015, 04:27:23 pm »

Rather a good morning wandering around Rainham Marshes. There was lots of wildlife on display and I lost count of the different species seen. The best spot was a bearded tit. We saw quite a few of these, and our attention was drawn to their possible presence by a couple of blokes with massively expensive-looking cameras equipped with the most prodigious of lenses. As we approached, I asked them "Presumably there's something particularly noteworthy round here?" and the two guy turned to me and said "Bearded tit, but we've waiting here for ages without anything happening." I pointed beyond them to the area at which their cameras were directed and said "Isn't that one there now?" as what was very obviously a bearded tit was displaying itself beautifully on the reeds a few yards away. They turned and dashed for their cameras as a machine-gun salvo of shutter snaps went off in glorious stereo. We saw quite a few over the next few minutes, but sadly the only photo I managed was this one, a juvenile, grubbing around the reedbed:

They are very striking birds, almost budgerigar-like in a lovely golden colour.

A few more photos of other stuff:

Whitethroat

Marsh frogs

Heron

2.5 egrets

Juvenile moorhen

Reed warbler

cycleman · « **Reply #4049 on:** 08 June, 2015, 08:37:54 pm »

Water vole crossing the slough canal arm towpath

Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018908 times)

fuzzy