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Tourist Tony · « **Reply #625 on:** 07 June, 2009, 12:47:48 am »

There were two Bufos, but only one Livingstone

Moloko · « **Reply #626 on:** 07 June, 2009, 11:09:32 am »

Newt mostly comes out at night, mostly.

Pingu · « **Reply #627 on:** 08 June, 2009, 09:59:17 pm »

On the Dunning Done In:

Red squirrel, oystercatcher chicks, deer, ubiquitous buzzards & small goats on a caprine activity centre.

TimO · « **Reply #628 on:** 08 June, 2009, 10:35:37 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 06 June, 2009, 09:50:12 pm

We saw a peacock today...

That reminded me, we saw a couple of peacocks on the chimney's of a house as we cycled past on Saturday morning, I can't remember where we were exactly, but it must have been in the second half of the ride to be in daylight.

Rather bizarrely I had to think a bit about peacocks flying, since I've only ever seen them wandering about the estates of large houses (National Trust etc).

alan · « **Reply #629 on:** 11 June, 2009, 11:42:17 am »

A Red Kite over the High Street in the village

Apparently there is a pair nesting in the Dove Valley between here & Uttoxeter.

FatBloke · « **Reply #630 on:** 11 June, 2009, 06:23:31 pm »

Just heard a very voluble cuckoo here. Possibly already reported by Wowbagger. And loads of wabbits!

Chris S · « **Reply #631 on:** 11 June, 2009, 09:47:57 pm »

Someone's been sleeping in my garden...

Bambi for dinner darling...

Chris S · « **Reply #632 on:** 13 June, 2009, 08:06:27 pm »

Greenfly

.

Many Many of them - same as yesterday. I returned from a bike ride yesterday, literally coated in them - arms, torso and shorts. I inhaled them, swallowed them and had to stop on occasions to extract them from my nose and ears.

There is a large cloud of them in my front garden right now.

This can only mean one thing.

~~DDT~~

It's only a week or two before the...

*shudders*

thunderflies appear.

toekneep · « **Reply #633 on:** 13 June, 2009, 10:22:46 pm »

A Barn Owl hunting in broad daylight at 8.30 this evening.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #634 on:** 17 June, 2009, 10:28:35 pm »

A heron. Nothing new there, but I was on the fifth floor of the delightful Premier Lodge, West Bromwich, and it was flying across the town, way below me. Looked dead good, so it did.

alan · « **Reply #635 on:** 17 June, 2009, 10:49:32 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 17 June, 2009, 10:28:35 pm

A heron. Nothing new there, but I was on the fifth floor of the delightful Premier Lodge, West Bromwich, and it was flying across the town, way below me. Looked dead good, so it did.

There is quite a lot of Wetland just up the motorway from there,near the M6/M5 intersection

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #636 on:** 18 June, 2009, 11:08:00 pm »

Road kill 200 yards from my front door. Glove in for scale

She was pregnant.

TimO · « **Reply #637 on:** 19 June, 2009, 03:12:41 am »

Eight separate urban foxes on the way home, about ²/₃rds of them nowhere near parks, presumably foraging in rubbish bins. Certainly the one I almost ran over when I surprised him, was going through rubbish bags put out by a shop on the A23.

That's a record for foxes on the way home, although I've seen six on previous occasions.

hellymedic · « **Reply #638 on:** 19 June, 2009, 10:13:32 am »

I watched 'our' vixen for nearly an hour last night as I did the washing up etc..
She's darker brown than you average fox.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #639 on:** 20 June, 2009, 08:53:55 am »

Buzzard, over Coulsdon, yesterday. Rather unusual over this side!

Fi · « **Reply #640 on:** 20 June, 2009, 03:28:22 pm »

Cockatiel. At the suggestion of a couple who might be the owners, I've spent half the morning standing in the garden waving a bit of cucumber and calling Jonjo. It looks interested, but doesn't come near. Now waiting for them to turn and up and entice it, if indeed it's their Jonjo.

border-rider · « **Reply #641 on:** 20 June, 2009, 03:55:51 pm »

2 marmots, whistling loudly and not noticing me

Zoidburg · « **Reply #642 on:** 20 June, 2009, 04:21:21 pm »

Yesterday morning I was awoken at dawn

By a small bird that had perched on the window sill and then couldn't figure out how to get back out from underneath the partly open window which hinges from the top

It was bloody loud bird song follwed by a frantic flapping of wings between the curtains and the window.

Bledlow · « **Reply #643 on:** 21 June, 2009, 05:39:43 pm »

A dozen kites over Nuffield, wheeling around shrieking at each other. Someone must be feeding them.

A bloody blackbird which had dug up two of my lobelia plants in its search for worms. That bed is full of compost (my own manufacture), & is therefore also full of worms - which makes it blackbird heaven. I don't mind them rooting around for worms, but digging up my flowers is taking the piss. I am annoyed.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #644 on:** 21 June, 2009, 09:39:15 pm »

Treecreeper, part timing as a wall creeper, just by Salter's Steamers in Oxford.

Terns, doing their thing yesterday, at Hardwick Park campsite.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #645 on:** 22 June, 2009, 01:23:02 pm »

Today: saw, and heard, a late cuckoo ("late" not as in dead, but approaching the unseasonal). It cuckooed whilst on the wing, which is fairly unusual. Also a green woodpecker and two brace of shelduck.

Saturday: buzzard, hobby (over Glastonbury tor), barn owl, and several badgers, one encounter being so close that the bugger knocked me off my bike!

Chris S · « **Reply #646 on:** 23 June, 2009, 09:51:35 am »

I'll see your Duck, young master MV and raise you one Pheasant:

They have a very evocative call on a crisp Autumn morning, echoing through a foggy wood as the suns rays shine through golden leaves in misty shafts of light. It starts to grate a bit when it's right outside your back door for two bleedin' hours

.

* resists temptation to grab air rifle *

Wowbagger · « **Reply #647 on:** 23 June, 2009, 09:58:24 am »

Quote from: Chris S on 23 June, 2009, 09:51:35 am

* resists temptation to grab air rifle *

Why?

Chris S · « **Reply #648 on:** 23 June, 2009, 10:04:09 am »

Quote from: wowbagger on 23 June, 2009, 09:58:24 am

Quote from: Chris S on 23 June, 2009, 09:51:35 am
* resists temptation to grab air rifle *

Why?

I'm not a terribly good shot...

toekneep · « **Reply #649 on:** 24 June, 2009, 12:22:34 pm »

A fly/beetle. The front half was vivid green and the back half iridescent ruby red. Quite spectacular. It was about a centimetre long. Any ideas what it was?

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