Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018250 times)

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4450 on:** 12 April, 2016, 12:54:53 pm »

Lots of skylarks on our walk yesterday afternoon. This morning it was grey and overcast and all we saw was bunnies.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4451 on:** 12 April, 2016, 03:58:17 pm »

On Saturday, a crow pecking at the entrails of a dead badger on the lane from Pipley Bottom to Upton Cheyney. The badger had a definite squashed shape, in contrast to most dead badgers.

cycleman · « **Reply #4452 on:** 12 April, 2016, 09:03:48 pm »

While riding by the Thames this morning a kingfisher the

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4453 on:** 13 April, 2016, 02:47:29 pm »

Half a dead rabbit in Tillys mouth this morning. Mixie is going round again here and there are loads of easily caught ones.

jamesld8 · « **Reply #4454 on:** 13 April, 2016, 05:25:25 pm »

several swallows now around, twittering away on phone lines across the road

Peter · « **Reply #4455 on:** 13 April, 2016, 07:07:01 pm »

Not fauna, unless you count the name! Half a sun dog!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

Redlight · « **Reply #4456 on:** 14 April, 2016, 08:56:15 am »

A large pheasant, on the deck outside our garden doors. No idea from where it would have escaped given that I live in Lewisham and even getting from the nearest park involves crossing a busy road.

It certainly freaked the cats out

rafletcher · « **Reply #4457 on:** 14 April, 2016, 08:13:38 pm »

A lesser spotted woodpecker. First on the peanut feeder, then Dow the garden on the crab apple trunk looking for bugs, and finally on a fat block feeder.

davelodwig · « **Reply #4458 on:** 14 April, 2016, 10:29:33 pm »

3 muncjac deer, many bunnies, and a small harem of female pheasants looking after a single male.

I have seen a pair of hare's racing across a field while on my way to morris dancing but that was a week or so back.

David Martin · « **Reply #4459 on:** 15 April, 2016, 08:43:06 pm »

Red-billed chough. Very pleased (chuffed igmc) to get that one, and some reasonable pics of it. Meadow pipit , wheatear and a few other common things.

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Bledlow · « **Reply #4460 on:** 16 April, 2016, 09:06:04 pm »

Two buzzards, circling high above Cemetery Junction. The real one, in Reading.

Steph · « **Reply #4461 on:** 17 April, 2016, 04:20:29 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 15 April, 2016, 08:43:06 pm

Red-billed chough. Very pleased (chuffed igmc) to get that one, and some reasonable pics of it. Meadow pipit , wheatear and a few other common things.

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Where at, David? I used to love sitting on the cliffs by Stackpole, watching auks and chough.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4462 on:** 17 April, 2016, 01:06:54 pm »

A hawk that flew out of a hedge and darted along a ditch in front of us. I thought it was a sparrowhawk, my companion thought it was a hobby. Blue-grey back, very agile, bigger than a kestrel, smaller than a buzzard. It was beautiful to watch its nimble dartiness, whatever it was.

Also lots of bluebells.

Ruthie · « **Reply #4463 on:** 17 April, 2016, 04:58:29 pm »

Seen: Lapwings dancing.

Heard: a cuckoo and some curlews.

Marvellous.

David Martin · « **Reply #4464 on:** 17 April, 2016, 06:41:22 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 17 April, 2016, 04:20:29 am

Quote from: David Martin on 15 April, 2016, 08:43:06 pm
Red-billed chough. Very pleased (chuffed igmc) to get that one, and some reasonable pics of it. Meadow pipit , wheatear and a few other common things.

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Where at, David? I used to love sitting on the cliffs by Stackpole, watching auks and chough.

Cable bay, Colonsay.

And just so you can correct my LBJ identification

DSC_4222 by David Martin, on Flickr

DSC_4210 by David Martin, on Flickr

DSC_4178 by David Martin, on Flickr

DSC_4120 by David Martin, on Flickr

I do need a better lens than the 40+ year old Nikkor 500mm mirror lens.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4465 on:** 17 April, 2016, 07:04:51 pm »

First sighting of a frog in our little garden pond.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #4466 on:** 17 April, 2016, 07:23:37 pm »

Saw two swallows today. In German they are Schwalbe, like the tyres

Pingu · « **Reply #4467 on:** 17 April, 2016, 07:39:43 pm »

They do make marathon journeys.

What's German for "I'll get my coat"?

JonBuoy · « **Reply #4468 on:** 17 April, 2016, 08:11:44 pm »

A red kite about 30' above me at Wilbarston (just west of Corby) working really hard to use an early morning thermal.

Pingu · « **Reply #4469 on:** 17 April, 2016, 10:25:23 pm »

Surrounded by larks singing at one point today

David Martin · « **Reply #4470 on:** 17 April, 2016, 10:40:49 pm »

And some shags a long way below on the rocks. Judging by the colour of the rocks, that must be a favourite spot.

DSC_4030 by David Martin, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #4471 on:** 18 April, 2016, 06:13:52 pm »

A coal tit collecting cat hair.

Basil · « **Reply #4472 on:** 19 April, 2016, 12:15:23 pm »

I finally spotted swallows today. Three of them.

bumper · « **Reply #4473 on:** 19 April, 2016, 08:43:04 pm »

Male ring ouzel at my local country park, taking the camera tomorrow!!

Pingu · « **Reply #4474 on:** 19 April, 2016, 08:45:21 pm »

Terns.