Author Topic: Seen today (Read 1018181 times)

nicknack · « **Reply #1350 on:** 14 July, 2010, 06:30:12 pm »

Also found in the pond was this. Antone any idea which dragonfly it's from? I've googled around but haven't found an exact match yet. It's about 5cm long.

nicknack · « **Reply #1351 on:** 14 July, 2010, 08:50:39 pm »

Ta. Yup there's plenty of stuff lives in there. But a bit less foliage now and a bit more room to swim.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1352 on:** 14 July, 2010, 09:06:59 pm »

I've seen either a few of these, or the same one several times, recently, in my garden.

Scarlet tiger moth

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1353 on:** 17 July, 2010, 08:32:01 pm »

I saw a red kite today, which I spotted all by myself. I was embarrasingly excited about that.

Pingu · « **Reply #1354 on:** 17 July, 2010, 08:56:41 pm »

And a stoat - first one I've seen for ages

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1355 on:** 19 July, 2010, 09:31:14 am »

Two buzzards (two separate occasions, may have been the same individual twice) flying just about 3 metres in front of me at head height. Very impressive.

clarion · « **Reply #1356 on:** 19 July, 2010, 10:09:49 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2010, 08:32:01 pm

I saw a red kite today, which I spotted all by myself. I was embarrasingly excited about that.

We saw loads of red kites this weekend. It was wonderful. We were near the Chilterns, so there is a large group of them living there, and its entirly unsurprising to spot several, but they are still magnificent every time.

I spent a lot of time watching a pied wagtail, which is probably my favourite bird. And I was observing a load of ants. Fascinating things.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1357 on:** 19 July, 2010, 12:18:05 pm »

Mrs. Wow and I were treated to the amusing sight of two moorhens, both with their beaks stuffed with soggy bread, pootling across the park lake in convoy to deliver the swag to their chicks. It turned out they were not mates, as one was intercepted by its brood whilst the other continued for another 30 yards or so before being welcomed by four small black balls of fluff.

clarion · « **Reply #1358 on:** 19 July, 2010, 12:23:43 pm »

Oh yes. TGL spotted a moorhen chick - so tiny it was standing on a bent reed - in a village pond. Moorhen feet are disproportionately big.

andygates · « **Reply #1359 on:** 19 July, 2010, 01:19:44 pm »

A headless thing that unspooled a snakey neck to reveal a grumpy cormorant.

Also menacing swans and jumping salmons!

Paddley paddley good.

CountrySickness · « **Reply #1360 on:** 19 July, 2010, 08:14:08 pm »

A pair of peregrine, one redstart and lots of ravens&spotted orchids in the sunshine between Abergavenny and Blaenavon. The local hobbies appeared to bug'd off to somewhere with more dragonflies though.

Adrian · « **Reply #1361 on:** 19 July, 2010, 10:25:25 pm »

Yesterday afternoon near sharpthorne, first a doe and fawn crossing a forest track and then a group of about 1/2 doz, which may have included the first two, in the trees.

mike · « **Reply #1362 on:** 21 July, 2010, 11:20:32 am »

does seeing something in the newspaper count?
Forty-ton whale lands on yacht during Cape Town sailing trip - Telegraph

probably be time for a new pair of shorts!

David Martin · « **Reply #1363 on:** 21 July, 2010, 09:50:55 pm »

Quote from: mike on 21 July, 2010, 11:20:32 am

does seeing something in the newspaper count?
Forty-ton whale lands on yacht during Cape Town sailing trip - Telegraph

probably be time for a new pair of shorts!

Did you see the advert next to the story for a cheap pot of petunias?

..d

David Martin · « **Reply #1364 on:** 21 July, 2010, 09:51:53 pm »

OK, seen on holiday. Took me a while to identify it having never seen one quite like this before.

RJ · « **Reply #1365 on:** 21 July, 2010, 09:53:10 pm »

They don't show them like that very often in the books ...

David Martin · « **Reply #1366 on:** 21 July, 2010, 10:25:43 pm »

Quote from: RJ on 21 July, 2010, 09:53:10 pm

They don't show them like that very often in the books ...

.. or on the christmas cards..

RJ · « **Reply #1367 on:** 21 July, 2010, 10:27:24 pm »

Quote from: David Martin on 21 July, 2010, 10:25:43 pm

Quote from: RJ on 21 July, 2010, 09:53:10 pm
They don't show them like that very often in the books ...

.. or on the christmas cards..

Well, they don't look like that at Christmas

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1368 on:** 21 July, 2010, 10:58:25 pm »

While cycling from Turners Hill towards East Grinstead, the car driver in front slowed as a young deer wandered into the lane.

It was either not too bright, or scared of what was in the fields, as it kept trotting along the lane. The car driver put his hazards and we built up quite a tail back.

After about 400m a car came the other way. Faced with motors from both directions Bambi decided the fields weren't that frightening after all and scuttled off.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1369 on:** 22 July, 2010, 12:28:09 am »

A snake. Don't know what species. I only saw its black body/tail slithering away from me into the long grass at the roadside.

Riggers · « **Reply #1370 on:** 22 July, 2010, 10:54:49 am »

Wind-blown inner tube maybe?

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1371 on:** 22 July, 2010, 11:58:19 am »

The other side of the river to Düsseldorf:

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1372 on:** 24 July, 2010, 12:47:39 pm »

Bleedin' terrapin! in Priory Park!!

clarion · « **Reply #1373 on:** 30 July, 2010, 09:13:55 am »

Yellowhammer, I want to go for walks with you. You spot such fascinating things.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1374 on:** 30 July, 2010, 11:30:53 am »

Two young blackbirds have been skulking under my blackcurrant bush for the last few days. It's a good hiding place, shielded by other plants at the front, wall at the back & one side, & the compost bin on the other side. A couple of adults turn up sometimes, usually one at a time, to help them feed.