Just now a barn owl screeching away on the telegraph pole just outside our garden.
Yesterday, on a bridlepath near Alfriston, a small sidewinding snake, which was too quick for me to rescue my phone from my pack. He was no more than 5 inches long, a very dark green with a cream-coloured band just behind his head.
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
That sounds like a newly-hatched grass snake. I've never seen one side-winding but then I've never seen one so small. Maybe they change their means of locomotion as they get older?
Quote from: pcolbeck on 26 August, 2010, 09:25:02 pmJust now a barn owl screeching away on the telegraph pole just outside our garden. We had a little owl in our plum tree yesterday morning, in broad daylightIt seemed quite happy
[frantically searches for collective name] of ducks
On Saturday a kestrel flew over our house
Loads over the last few days: buzzards, red deer, oystercatchers, rock pipits, grey seals, kestrels, a red squirrel and a golden eagle.
In the Ashby de la Zouch area?
Kim, you are very bad!
An absolutely terrifyingly enormous hairy spider, which barakta allowed to escape, and is now keeping the now legendary low profile somewhere in the tangle of dusty cables behind her desk. It's biding its time and is going to kill us and eat us when we go to bed.