Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018450 times)

L CC · « **Reply #4100 on:** 09 July, 2015, 09:35:01 pm »

Cockchafer infestation.
3 in the bathroom, two in the bedroom, one killing itself in the kitchen, a whole squadron just outside the windows.

Kim · « **Reply #4101 on:** 09 July, 2015, 09:43:17 pm »

Oh, that's what they're called. Who'd have thunk such an annoying insect would have such a NSFW name?

Barakta and I have a deal: She evicts the spiders and anything buzzy with 400kΩ written on it, and I have to deal with stray woodlice and crawly beetles, including these fuckers. (We take turns with slugs.)

Ghostbusting them with the hoover *and then immediately emptying the bag* is the only way to be sure. Unless you've got a Dyson, in which case you're going to be ♫ Human slaves, in an insect nation... ♫

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4102 on:** 09 July, 2015, 10:13:57 pm »

I think I had one of those inside my shorts towards the end of last week's Dunwich Dynamo.

Kim · « **Reply #4103 on:** 09 July, 2015, 10:53:33 pm »

Makes a change from earwigs...

Bledlow · « **Reply #4104 on:** 09 July, 2015, 11:01:53 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 09 July, 2015, 08:34:53 pm

Nice one Bledlow. It might not be around but for you

Mrs B insisted. But I wasn't hard to persuade.

Pingu · « **Reply #4105 on:** 10 July, 2015, 06:38:10 pm »

A sparrowhawk flew over us as we were walking into tow.

matthew · « **Reply #4106 on:** 10 July, 2015, 08:33:39 pm »

Tuesday morning climbing out of Hutton-Le-Hole towards Rosedale I disturbed an Owl out of the heather on the moor, I suspect it was a Barn Owl.
Wednesday morning I disturbed a raptor of some sort (eagle) from the hedge row and it flew low across the field causing every other bird on the ground to take flight.
Thursday some ground nesting bird with chick ran out of the road south of Osmotherly.
Then this morning a Hare ran across the camp site as I stuck my tent.

Pingu · « **Reply #4107 on:** 11 July, 2015, 12:27:52 am »

Quote from: matthew on 10 July, 2015, 08:33:39 pm

...a raptor of some sort (eagle)...

More likely to be a buzzard?

matthew · « **Reply #4108 on:** 11 July, 2015, 12:39:46 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 11 July, 2015, 12:27:52 am

Quote from: matthew on 10 July, 2015, 08:33:39 pm
...a raptor of some sort (eagle)...

More likely to be a buzzard?

Quite possibly as I only saw it from behind and level so not the tail / wing silhouette that I could identify a Buzzard from. My main guess would be sparrow hawk though because all the pidgeons / black birds took to flight as it went their way. I saw other buzzards later in the trip and am used to distinguishing them from the shite hawks in Berks.

Pingu · « **Reply #4109 on:** 13 July, 2015, 09:34:50 pm »

Yesterday: buzzards, bullfinches, kestrels, deer and a red kite.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4110 on:** 16 July, 2015, 04:12:37 pm »

An all black bunny frolicking on the verge with it's more conventionally coloured cousins. That's the second time I have see it in two weeks. I wonder how common black wild rabbits are ?

Pingu · « **Reply #4111 on:** 16 July, 2015, 08:18:15 pm »

I've seen them quite often up here. I've got a vague memory of being told that they are the offspring of domestic/wild rabbit interaction.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4112 on:** 16 July, 2015, 08:41:16 pm »

Saw a black bunrab on the verge at the end of the road leading to Fort Larrington, but that was last year and the area is popular with both rural and suburban foxes so he's probably been et by now.

Ham · « **Reply #4113 on:** 17 July, 2015, 12:14:13 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2015, 08:41:16 pm

Saw a black bunrab on the verge at the end of the road leading to Fort Larrington, but that was last year and the area is popular with both rural and suburban foxes so he's probably been et by now.

Exit pursued by bear?

a while back in Mrs Ham's school, there was much consternation when a rat was spied. The Site Supervisor sprung into action and caught the little bugger underneath a bucket, called the rodent disposal operative and that was that. He did apparently say the blighter didn't do as much in the running department as might have been expected.

It was only the next day when a neighbour put up a sign saying "pet rat missing, answers to the name of Tommy".....

Pingu · « **Reply #4114 on:** 20 July, 2015, 10:26:04 pm »

Can anyone ID this wee beastie?

IMG_2682 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #4115 on:** 21 July, 2015, 10:16:38 pm »

Facebook offered pinion streaked snout.

Calling BrianI to the mercury vapour courtesy phone.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4116 on:** 22 July, 2015, 06:41:14 am »

About 01:30 this morning, a large fox having a noisy altercation with a bush

rafletcher · « **Reply #4117 on:** 23 July, 2015, 07:19:38 pm »

Just now, 7(!) hares in the back field, all in a group

Pingu · « **Reply #4118 on:** 23 July, 2015, 10:51:14 pm »

IMG_5191 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Rescued from the resident frog-botherers (although they were very wary of it).

IMG_5186 by The Pingus, on Flickr

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #4119 on:** 24 July, 2015, 05:13:28 pm »

An elephant from the bus window.
A monitor lizard marching through town.
Monkeys doing their monkey thing.
Fruit bats going to sleep.
Gekos stuck on the walls.
A frog in the bath room (that was removed for me by someone else).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4120 on:** 24 July, 2015, 09:49:21 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 23 July, 2015, 07:19:38 pm

Just now, 7(!) hares in the back field, all in a group

Sounds like a wig.

Quite a lot of stuff in Scotland. Red squirrel, weasel, numerous bull finches, no eagles, but today what I think were two female hen harriers doing some aerobatics.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4121 on:** 25 July, 2015, 06:29:21 pm »

Quote from: αdαmsκι on 24 July, 2015, 05:13:28 pm

An elephant from the bus window.
A monitor lizard marching through town.
Monkeys doing their monkey thing.
Fruit bats going to sleep.
Gekos stuck on the walls.
A frog in the bath room (that was removed for me by someone else).

That doesn't sound like Didcot.

PaulR · « **Reply #4122 on:** 28 July, 2015, 12:07:42 pm »

The first Jersey Tiger Moth of the year, fluttering up in front of me as I wheeled my bike down the alley at the side of our house. Such a bold flash of colour.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4123 on:** 30 July, 2015, 11:13:07 am »

Yesterday when I got home, a wren vociferously (good grief they can put out a lot of noise for a small bird!) defending it's territory from our cat. Earlier, apparently, there had been 4 fledglings with it in the tree. Strangely, given that the wren is Britain's most populous (garden) bird, it was ringed.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4124 on:** 07 August, 2015, 05:00:27 pm »

While bike fettling outside yesterday, I heard a buzzing and looked up. There was a wasp in a spiders' web, being "seen to" by the spider. Within half a minute it'd gone from frantic buzzing to still.