Seen today

[Auntie Helen]

Two storks wandering around in a field.

[Pingu]

Today must be Spring: larks, yellowhammers, peewings & lapwits, newborn lambs.


IMG_6399_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

And grey wagtails 

[Basil]

peewings & lapwits.

  

[hellymedic]

Maybe it fell off the front of a wankpanzer?

Ah yes.  I remember seeing something similar at Mordor Central.  A pheasant lying in the middle of the track at platform 10.  We figured that it must have been splatted by a train somewhere between Tamworth and MC, but only fell off when the train came to a halt in Brum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35763067

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bird-strike-leaves-huge-dent-in-passenger-jet-as-it-lands-at-heathrow-a3202101.html

Probably not a pheasant but southern birds are also well 'ard...

[jamesld8]

For most of the morning a male chaffinch was `attacking` itself in its reflection at our kitchen window ; even putting a picture of a cat in the window didn`t stop it;  he kept pecking at window, flying up to it and looking at his `challenger` . Seems though now he`s realised what it all was about and gone off with his mate somewhere 

[Pingu]

I forgot to mention the frogs croaking (singing, not dying  ) in our neighbour's pond 

[Cudzoziemiec]

A moorhen yesterday; notable because while looking at it I rode over a huge hole in the road! 

[Ruthie]

Cycling along the back alley behind my house this evening, a great big fat handsome frog.  He was lovely and shiny.  I turned round and went back for a second look and he looked at me kind of impatiently and hopped off on his long long back legs.

[red marley]

If it was big and fat (and a common frog) he was probably a she.

'Tis the season of frog cuddling at the moment. The ladies look about twice the size of the gentlemen.

[Kim]

I never realised frogs could ride bicycles.   

[Andrij]

I never realised frogs could ride bicycles.   

[Ruthie]

Yes!  That was him!

How did you know 

[Kim]

Maybe it fell off the front of a wankpanzer?

Ah yes.  I remember seeing something similar at Mordor Central.  A pheasant lying in the middle of the track at platform 10.  We figured that it must have been splatted by a train somewhere between Tamworth and MC, but only fell off when the train came to a halt in Brum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35763067

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bird-strike-leaves-huge-dent-in-passenger-jet-as-it-lands-at-heathrow-a3202101.html

Probably not a pheasant but southern birds are also well 'ard...

The bird strikes are escalating in East Angular:

http://www.ely-news.co.uk/Chaos-rail-users-King-s-Cross-King-s-Lynn-line/story-28919601-detail/story.html

(No reports of broken arms.)

[runsoncake]

Maybe it fell off the front of a wankpanzer?

Ah yes.  I remember seeing something similar at Mordor Central.  A pheasant lying in the middle of the track at platform 10.  We figured that it must have been splatted by a train somewhere between Tamworth and MC, but only fell off when the train came to a halt in Brum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35763067

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bird-strike-leaves-huge-dent-in-passenger-jet-as-it-lands-at-heathrow-a3202101.html

Probably not a pheasant but southern birds are also well 'ard...

The bird strikes are escalating in East Angular:

http://www.ely-news.co.uk/Chaos-rail-users-King-s-Cross-King-s-Lynn-line/story-28919601-detail/story.html

(No reports of broken arms.)

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Has  Her Maj been informed of the damage to her property?

[jamesld8]

with all this pheasant induced train carnage thanks goodness all our local railways got closed then !! With over 100 peasants pheasants killed on the 50yd stretch of road outside our house this year alone (@ peasant release time sounds of horns and brakes were very commonplace) no train would ever have got beyond Titley Junction

[Steph]

Weymouth








Long distance zoom



Gibraltar

[Cudzoziemiec]

Weymouth

Throw rocks at it! Leave no tern unstoned!

[Steph]

It's a Med gull...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Gulled me!

[Steph]

A friend's response to grumpeh munkeh: "It's Ron Perlman!"

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

A peacock butterfly investigating my window boxes.

[Basil]

A road kill pheasant.  In Bournville.   

https://twitter.com/BasilW/status/708675893502332929

Maybe it was this one?  https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=128.msg1957865#msg1957865

Do city people keep pet pheasants in their gardens, perhaps?

Two reports of a live pheasant between Raddlebarn Farm Drive and Sparrey Drive this weekend.  Not spotted by me.  But well after I saw the dead one.
Are they moving into the city via the canal?

[Kim]

Are they moving into the city via the canal?

They'd have to get past the geese.  Although I suppose pheasants do a good line in 'ramming speed'.

[Pingu]

Saw hunners o' geese today and some pheasants, but no carnage.

[JennyB]

Huge spiral of gulls yesterday evening.