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nicknack · « **Reply #950 on:** 31 December, 2009, 04:23:32 pm »

Red kite flying low over the M4 near Membury.

Pingu · « **Reply #951 on:** 31 December, 2009, 04:58:01 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 30 December, 2009, 01:24:51 pm

A first for our area (well, spotted by me anyway) - a flock of fieldfares

Back again today - counted over 30 in the flock.

border-rider · « **Reply #952 on:** 31 December, 2009, 05:01:13 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 31 December, 2009, 04:23:32 pm

Red kite flying low over the M4 near Membury.

There's a pair nesting close to there. We used to live just down the valley, and often saw them over the garden or in the fields around the village.

anth · « **Reply #953 on:** 01 January, 2010, 05:23:29 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 31 December, 2009, 04:58:01 pm

Quote from: Pingu on 30 December, 2009, 01:24:51 pm
A first for our area (well, spotted by me anyway) - a flock of fieldfares

Back again today - counted over 30 in the flock.

We've not managed a flock, but we've had a regular visitor in the last few days.

T'was an odd day for birds altogether. Apart from our usual suspects (pigeons, crows, magpies, blue tits, collared doves, spuggies, blackbirds and robins) we had a couple of bullfinches and a great spotted woodpecker...

Adrian · « **Reply #954 on:** 01 January, 2010, 07:39:17 pm »

Two deer somewhere near Shere.

SandyV · « **Reply #955 on:** 03 January, 2010, 03:37:01 am »

On the 200 yesterday it rained and rained (very welcome but not great for riding). The wallabies at the first control seemed to take it in stride though! 4 wary but not overly concerned.

Rapples · « **Reply #956 on:** 03 January, 2010, 07:48:45 am »

Quote from: SandyV on 03 January, 2010, 03:37:01 am

On the 200 yesterday it rained and rained (very welcome but not great for riding). The wallabies at the first control seemed to take it in stride though!

That's impressive, I suppose they never lose their brevet card stamps, and can keep them dry in the rain

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #957 on:** 03 January, 2010, 02:19:42 pm »

Just back from Hogmanay in Dumfries & Galloway - highlights were hen harriers (2), twite, and tree sparrows. And of course thousands of barnacle geese and the odd red squirrel.

SandyV · « **Reply #958 on:** 03 January, 2010, 10:57:36 pm »

Quote from: Rapples on 03 January, 2010, 07:48:45 am

Quote from: SandyV on 03 January, 2010, 03:37:01 am
On the 200 yesterday it rained and rained (very welcome but not great for riding). The wallabies at the first control seemed to take it in stride though!

That's impressive, I suppose they never lose their brevet card stamps, and can keep them dry in the rain
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clarion · « **Reply #959 on:** 04 January, 2010, 09:56:50 am »

Hey, Sandy, I didn't know you were riding in Derbyshire!

SandyV · « **Reply #960 on:** 04 January, 2010, 10:10:49 am »

border-rider · « **Reply #961 on:** 04 January, 2010, 02:09:02 pm »

One huge fox - easily the biggest I've ever seen. He must have been hungry cos he was hunting in clear daylight and didn't back off very quickly at all.

docsquid · « **Reply #962 on:** 04 January, 2010, 04:48:17 pm »

Bullfinches at our woods. Never been seen there before. Can't actually think why they are there as the berries have all gone from the berry-bearing trees (holly and hawthorn). Nice to see though.

TimO · « **Reply #963 on:** 04 January, 2010, 05:21:34 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 04 January, 2010, 09:56:50 am

Hey, Sandy, I didn't know you were riding in Derbyshire!

It doesn't necessarily have to have been in Derbyshire, it could have been Loch Lomond, or even further south, around Horley, possibly, although Tim may have been describing some in a Zoo.

Apparently they are sometimes seen at another location, rather a lot further south than that. $:-\$

Bledlow · « **Reply #964 on:** 04 January, 2010, 06:50:42 pm »

Visit Whipsnade Zoo, & you find wallabies roaming free. Some escaped many years ago, but it seems they had the wit to realise that the environs of the zoo were a wallaby-friendly zone, so hung around.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #965 on:** 04 January, 2010, 07:28:38 pm »

In the Pentlands today - a dipper, a buzzard, quite a few red grouse, and a woodcock

dasmoth · « **Reply #966 on:** 04 January, 2010, 07:45:51 pm »

A fox, crossing the A10 just north of town. At first, I thought it was a large cat. Then the lights of an approaching car silhouetted his brush, and there could be no mistake.

I knew there were foxes in the area, but it's the first time I've seen a live one there.

anth · « **Reply #967 on:** 04 January, 2010, 09:41:38 pm »

On a walk yesterday

Mallard

Canada Goose

Coot

Pheasant

Lapwing

Long-Tailed Tit

Juvenile Cormorant

All within Edinburgh city...

Pingu · « **Reply #968 on:** 04 January, 2010, 11:15:35 pm »

Quote from: anth on 04 January, 2010, 09:41:38 pm

On a walk yesterday

Mallard

Duck!

(Cracker of a photie, btw

)

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #969 on:** 05 January, 2010, 01:44:52 pm »

Yesterday, my first little egret of the year.
Flying over my house and seen from my armchair!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #970 on:** 05 January, 2010, 01:57:53 pm »

This morning a barn owl flying down a snow laden avenue of trees - magical. And on the way back from taking Mrs Pcolbeck to work about a thousand pigeons all in one field.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #971 on:** 07 January, 2010, 06:38:21 pm »

I will try and get some pics up, but owl traces in the snow. Rodent run......big hole and wing and tail imprints. Will try and stick some pics up.

Snakehips · « **Reply #972 on:** 07 January, 2010, 09:56:38 pm »

Looked out of my window about five minutes ago and saw two foxes motionless at the end of my lawn , rear to rear , in what must have been the post-coital configuration.

I took a couple of flash photos , opened the door , took a couple more shots and they didn't move. They only went off when I tried to get closer to them.

Unfortunately my efforts yielded nothing in the way of visual evidence.

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Wowbagger · « **Reply #973 on:** 07 January, 2010, 11:23:03 pm »

Vulpine voyeurism!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #974 on:** 08 January, 2010, 03:31:27 pm »

Parakeet as I cycled to work. And I wasn't even in Richmond Park.

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