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Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6425 on:** 01 April, 2023, 06:38:14 pm »

https://www.iwradio.co.uk/news/isle-of-wight-news/bear-spotted-on-brading-marshes-first-isle-of-wight-grizzly-sighting-since-1966/

hellymedic · « **Reply #6426 on:** 04 April, 2023, 03:51:02 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 March, 2023, 12:58:51 am

A healthy-looking Rattus norvegicus scampering along the bike path under the Crooked Billet roundabout on Monday.

I was remarking to a friend how the sliding safety doors on the Jubilee Line extension prevented us being entertained by rodents, just the other day...

hellymedic · « **Reply #6427 on:** 04 April, 2023, 04:00:03 pm »

Mme Fx is not nocturnal.
I observed her in the garden at 13.10 BST today. She seemed to startle the cats, who were sunning themselves on the other side of a shrub.
Mme Fox LOVES playing with next-door neighbours' foam balls but they have thwarted her movements but blocking off a hole in the fence.

Basil · « **Reply #6428 on:** 04 April, 2023, 04:51:11 pm »

Juvenile cormorant in the river this morning. Confused me somewhat when it went up into a tree and displayed its white under parts. Checked the book on return which confirmed that's what juveniles look like.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #6429 on:** 04 April, 2023, 05:57:38 pm »

I visited my cousin in Emberton yesterday and we had a stroll around the country park. The river Great Ouse ouses past a reasonnable-sized lake, which is probably a flooded gravel pit.

There are otters there - a mother and two kitts. Cousin showed me a video she took of two of them, waliking across the ice late last November. Naturally, we didn's see any, other than on her video. Exciting stuff! I've never seen otters outside the Scottish islands (Mull, Benbecula and Scalpay).

Basil · « **Reply #6430 on:** 04 April, 2023, 06:35:36 pm »

Others report seeing them here, but I've not.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #6431 on:** 05 April, 2023, 05:16:26 pm »

On a 10 mile bike ride (Barling mini-loop) from home:

buzzard being mobbed by herring gull and carrion crow - this was over urban/suburban Southend
numerous chiffchaffs
five swallows (huzzah!) near Bolts Farm, my usual go-to spot for swallow sightings, but much earlier than usual this year
another chiffchaff near the chalk pit behind Barling Church
grey heron flying over the lake
Cetti's warbler making noise briefly. I saw what may well have been it emerging from the bushes from which the noise emanated, but it remained silent after it disappeared into an adjacent hawthorn thicket
song thrush singing near the Barling Road - I didn't see that one.

Not a bad haul for an hour out.

rafletcher · « **Reply #6432 on:** 05 April, 2023, 08:02:55 pm »

I saw a couple (literally) of swallows on Saturday. Most surprising!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #6433 on:** 06 April, 2023, 12:10:37 am »

As mentioned in the commuting thread, Tuesday I saw a flash of colour that was a kingfisher over a flooded roadside ditch near Rusper.

Snakehips · « **Reply #6434 on:** 06 April, 2023, 09:14:34 am »

A pair of Egyptian Geese with nine young by the Thames

T42 · « **Reply #6435 on:** 07 April, 2023, 10:52:45 am »

Boar's foot by the path to the next village.

Someone's tapping birch sap.

cycleman · « **Reply #6436 on:** 07 April, 2023, 07:26:20 pm »

Two brimstone butterflies

and a bumblebee

rafletcher · « **Reply #6437 on:** 09 April, 2023, 01:35:19 pm »

A pair of Jackdaws with nesting material, and half a dozen swallows.

cycleman · « **Reply #6438 on:** 09 April, 2023, 06:43:25 pm »

I saw this birb on a post in the Thames at bray and wondered what it is. Anyone have any ideas?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PSEdwKn31y7rGU5Y8

Sorry for the poor picture

Basil · « **Reply #6439 on:** 09 April, 2023, 06:50:24 pm »

Quote from: cycleman on 09 April, 2023, 06:43:25 pm

I saw this birb on a post in the Thames at bray and wondered what it is. Anyone have any ideas?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PSEdwKn31y7rGU5Y8

Sorry for the poor picture

It's a juvenile cormorant.

Peter · « **Reply #6440 on:** 10 April, 2023, 10:23:36 am »

And judging by it's attitude, a Brexit supporter.

cycleman · « **Reply #6441 on:** 10 April, 2023, 06:19:09 pm »

,it looked to me like it had a down curved beek .Good to know what it is thanks

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #6442 on:** 10 April, 2023, 09:31:01 pm »

(yesterday actually) - a flock of Avocets on the Bracklesham side of Medmerry. They seemed happily roosting on a little ring-fenced island and then decided to take off in an aerial display. There was also a black-backed gull mobbing an oystercatcher that had strayed onto land I presume it had earmarked for its nest.

rafletcher · « **Reply #6443 on:** 14 April, 2023, 04:13:50 pm »

This afternoon, at some bird seed we put on our lawn - we got the seed from our neighbour, and the small birds didn’t like it in the feeders - a magpie and three jackdaws, the latter looking magnificent.

Duckfoot1606 · « **Reply #6444 on:** 14 April, 2023, 04:26:33 pm »

My first sighting of a green woodpecker on an early morning ride at Bradgate park today, I’ve been hearing them for several weeks now.

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Wowbagger · « **Reply #6445 on:** 15 April, 2023, 09:52:16 pm »

I continue to hear a green woodpecker from our garden. I heard what I assume to be the same bird in the churchyard this afternoon. Whilst I was in the park I saw and heard a blackcap - the first this spring for me.

Pingu · « **Reply #6446 on:** 15 April, 2023, 10:17:57 pm »

Remember kids, violence never solved anything.

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T42 · « **Reply #6447 on:** 16 April, 2023, 10:33:22 am »

Robins are thugs.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #6448 on:** 16 April, 2023, 07:31:51 pm »

Robin Hood-lum?

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #6449 on:** 16 April, 2023, 08:09:41 pm »

A short-eared owl south of Lechlade. Initially thought it was a barn owl, but it was slightly darker and its flight pattern was not a barn owl's smooth glide. Researched YouTube footage of both species flying to be certain. First time I have ever confirmed a sighting of a short-eared owl.