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Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4525 on:** 13 May, 2016, 09:50:45 am »

An urban fox trotting across Wood Street E17 last night. Either there's something wrong with my headlights (which seems unlikely coz the motor-car only passed its MOT on Tuesday) or he'd just come up from a shift underground coz he was a very unfoxy shade of dark grey.

SteveC · « **Reply #4526 on:** 14 May, 2016, 11:42:59 am »

Two slowworms in the greenhouse this morning.
One small one, maybe 10cm, the other the largest I've ever seen.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4527 on:** 14 May, 2016, 12:09:58 pm »

Quote from: Somnolent on 06 May, 2016, 05:14:23 pm

Batman - a very bold robin who is quite happy hopping about 6 inches in front of the dog's nose, has for some time been seen flitting in and out of the garage (whose door gapes open somewhat) We finally found out why - he's been 'recycling' an old bike helmet as the basis for a nest.
Spotted today - eggs therein:

I thought robins' eggs were spotted every day.

David Martin · « **Reply #4528 on:** 14 May, 2016, 03:36:28 pm »

Saw an Osprey languidly flapping its way across Strathmartine and a field with about 4-5 buzzards in.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #4529 on:** 14 May, 2016, 04:12:13 pm »

Just spent a happy half hour watching housemartins building a nest on my brother's house.

Vince · « **Reply #4530 on:** 14 May, 2016, 05:05:30 pm »

Yesterday, two deer crossing the road in the Forest of Dean.

Pingu · « **Reply #4531 on:** 14 May, 2016, 10:57:44 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 14 May, 2016, 04:12:13 pm

Just spent a happy half hour watching housemartins building a nest on my brother's house.

IMG_6576_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_6579_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #4532 on:** 16 May, 2016, 08:37:50 am »

Just been watching a deer swim across the harbour from the office window

Somnolent · « **Reply #4533 on:** 16 May, 2016, 01:59:21 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 May, 2016, 12:09:58 pm

Quote from: Somnolent on 06 May, 2016, 05:14:23 pm
Batman - a very bold robin who is quite happy hopping about 6 inches in front of the dog's nose, has for some time been seen flitting in and out of the garage (whose door gapes open somewhat) We finally found out why - he's been 'recycling' an old bike helmet as the basis for a nest.
Spotted today - eggs therein:

I thought robins' eggs were spotted every day.

I'd fetch your coat - but too busy keeping an eye on the young family:

rafletcher · « **Reply #4534 on:** 22 May, 2016, 01:35:50 pm »

A blue tit exiting the nest box we believed to be empty this year (we heard the chicks being fed)

Pingu · « **Reply #4535 on:** 22 May, 2016, 07:57:51 pm »

A couple of partridge yesterday.

jamesld8 · « **Reply #4536 on:** 22 May, 2016, 08:10:51 pm »

Quite surprised to see one curlew in fields down by Tewkesbury today.

At home family of greenfinches being very stressed, sadly I think it`s because our cat found their nest in a leylandii conifer

JonBuoy · « **Reply #4537 on:** 22 May, 2016, 09:14:24 pm »

This little fella was sat watching me as I got my bike out of the shed for Tuesday's commute. Possibly the same one I saved from the cat on Monday morning.

Ruthie · « **Reply #4538 on:** 23 May, 2016, 11:05:06 pm »

A squashed cinnabar moth on the pavement in town

fuzzy · « **Reply #4539 on:** 24 May, 2016, 04:25:26 pm »

Another road kill fox cub this morning $:-\$

David Martin · « **Reply #4540 on:** 25 May, 2016, 04:32:35 pm »

A deer skipping through Templeton woods. And a duck with many ducklets on the pond therein.

bumper · « **Reply #4541 on:** 25 May, 2016, 09:18:14 pm »

A few from Wales. I was working but managed to get the camera out

swallow-4 by David Bithell, on Flickr

chaffinch-3 by David Bithell, on Flickr

dipper-19 by David Bithell, on Flickr

siskin by David Bithell, on Flickr

Andrij · « **Reply #4542 on:** 26 May, 2016, 01:39:56 pm »

On Farthing Down: cows with hi-viz ankle bands.

mcshroom may have got a picture.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4543 on:** 29 May, 2016, 11:40:57 am »

The bluetits fledglings (fresh out today) from our best box, being fed caterpillars in an adjacent hazel tree.

And I've just had to rescue one from the cat

. It didn't look injured but had fallen to the ground. It's now up in the hawthorn, so hope it's found by its mum, who is making a racket a couple of trees away.

Ah well, my wife's just found a dead fledgling while she was out slugging. Guess it didn't make it.

essexian · « **Reply #4544 on:** 29 May, 2016, 02:56:37 pm »

At 8.15am this morning on the Butt Road climb near Gnosall Staffordshire, a fox cub.

It was walking along the side of the "road" on its own, although I would guess its Mum would have been nearby: well I hope she was.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4545 on:** 29 May, 2016, 05:41:55 pm »

Unsurprisingly over the M40 at Stokenchurch, a red kite. And another one flying over Dr Larrington's country pile, which is some seven miles west of Banbury and where they are less common.

orienteer · « **Reply #4546 on:** 30 May, 2016, 12:37:15 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 23 May, 2016, 11:05:06 pm

A squashed cinnabar moth on the pavement in town

Mrs O spotted and snapped one in the garden this morning, and I identified it by googling red and black butterfly.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4547 on:** 30 May, 2016, 07:57:02 pm »

Lapwing, swallow, swift, kite, heron, skylark, plus the usual garden birds.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4548 on:** 31 May, 2016, 01:02:19 pm »

It's been a good few years since I saw a chaffinch in the grounds of Fort Larrington but one rocked up there yeaterday to arse around in the bird bath for a bit.

fuzzy · « **Reply #4549 on:** 31 May, 2016, 03:43:16 pm »

A Goldfinch in the birdbath and bird table over the weekend. The first visit by one ever.

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