Your day's wildlife

[Flick of the Elbow]

Happy New Year everyone ! What was your first bird of 2017 ?

A blue tit for me.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Happy New Year everyone ! What was your first bird of 2017 ?

A blue tit for me.

A mallard in the creek.

 

[keithmac]

Not really wild but Daisy our cockatiel has been sat on my knee for the past half hour..

 

[pawl]

Saw a badger yesterday on the commute to work

Where on earth do badgers work.Just had thought Brocks fireworks company

 

[gbb]

Today is a reminder that springs not far away.
I'm not very good with winter, I tend to hibernate. it's nice and sunny albeit cold but in an attempt to absorb some rays while at work I've sat myself down in a sheltered spot overlooking fen fields. Its quiet here....ooh. I can hear a skylark.
No big deal but its a reminder of nicer things to come and is very welcome as I fight the deaded virus.
One buzzard too, wheeling slowly around high above.

 

[potsy]

Some of my recent garden visitors..

 

[biggs682]

A very majestic swan

 

[Glow worm]

It really has been a waxwing winter this year. This one of a flock of 16 I saw yesterday in Cambridge (Milton Road/ Science Park area). Not brilliant shots but you get the drift!

 

[gbb]

Inevitably on the Forty Foot drain, flanked either side by fenland field that stretch into the distance....a marsh harrier, male I assume, grey quite visible on his upper wings, lazily flapped across my path(I was in my car). Often see what I assume are females in my area, a rich brown in colour but not so many males.
One wood pigeon, flying alongside my car for a good few hundred metres....50mph, it stayed with me .
Buzzard, a small one, perched in a small tree. Often see them out here too.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Saw two frogs on the GCW tonight on the way home, first one I nearly squished as it hopped across the path, second one was just sitting there, rain obviously brought them out of the undergrowth.

 

[Sara_H]

Saw two frogs on the GCW tonight on the way home, first one I nearly squished as it hopped across the path, second one was just sitting there, rain obviously brought them out of the undergrowth.

There was a frog hopping about outside my local shop when I went by today.

 

[Poacher]

It's that time of year again - a pair of Mallard checking out my totally unsuitable garden pond.
Last time, they hung about for a couple of weeks before agreeing with my opinion and seeking somewhere more amenable to raising young.

 

[nickyboy]

Siskins and Redpolls starting to appear on the bird feeder. Same every year. Never see them until March. Presumably they rely on natural food sources through the winter and then, as these are exhausted, they are forced into gardens?
They tend to hand around until about May

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

[QUOTE 4709765, member: 9609"]
We have a Fire Crest as a daily visitor to the garden at the moment[/QUOTE]
Wow, that's quite something.
From the RSPB site - red is passage, blue is winter, green is resident.

 

[nickyboy]

After months of cycling in the hills with barely any wildlife to see (maybe a few Red Grouse and Crows) there were signs of life last weekend

GS Woodpecker drumming away. Then a couple of Grey Wagtails "tic ticking" near the fast-flowing upland streams. Finally a bunch of noisy Rooks starting their communal nest building.