Your day's wildlife

[potsy]

We have a robin in the garden that feeds from my wifes hand several times a day.

I would like to get one to do that, don't spend enough time in the garden though.
What does she feed them?

 

[Mark Grant]

Robin food from petshop and dried mealworms.

 

[potsy]

'My' two earlier

 

[biggs682]

A herd of cows on this morning's ride

 

[rich p]

A herd of cows on this morning's ride

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They don't look particularly wild!

I have a pair of great tits taking nesting material into a box. Is that a bit early @nickyboy ? Or anyone else!

 

[nickyboy]

They don't look particularly wild!

I have a pair of great tits taking nesting material into a box. Is that a bit early @nickyboy ? Or anyone else!

It has been an unusually mild early Spring. The Wheatears, Chiffchaffs, Sand Martins (the traditional early migrants) have all appeared earlier than usual. So it's not unsurprising that Great Tits are starting their nest preparations. Particularly in the East Sussex riviera

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

More waxwings today, 3 of them in our garden when I got home from work this evening.

 

[biggs682]

A couple of visitors in our garden having breakfast.

 

[nickyboy]

Lots of birds on the high peaks now.....Curlew, Lapwing, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail. There was even a Meadow Pipit doing its display flight at 1,700ft on the top of Holme Moss

 

[summerdays]

First bat of the year outside my window..!

 

[Maverick Goose]

First bat of the year outside my window..!

''Like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone when the morning comes''...I've seen a few flitting around up here in the Lakes...they must have thicker coats!
Saw several Oystercatchers near Moss Eccles tarn today (of course the sea is only just over 10 miles or thereabouts away) and a Curlew near Ulverston last Tuesday.

 

[summerdays]

''Like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone when the morning comes''...I've seen a few flitting around up here in the Lakes...they must have thicker coats!
Saw several Oystercatchers near Moss Eccles tarn today (of course the sea is only just over 10 miles or thereabouts away) and a Curlew near Ulverston last Tuesday.

It has occurred to me that I've no idea when they normally first appear so I'm going to note the date this year and see when it is next year. But they like to flit along the front of our house. There is a couple of old ash trees at the back of the neighbour's, and I often wonder if they roost there. (The trees managed to cause us problems when buying the house as they were incorrectly identified as willow by the surveyor!)

 

[annedonnelly]

First bat of the year outside my window..!

I saw my first of the year too - a pair feeding over the garden.

 

[biggs682]

The horse chestnut tree's are blooming lovely.

 

[annedonnelly]

Today's sun has tempted some of the tiny tadpoles to start moving about the pond. The rest are still a black mass all huddled together.

Oh, and I saw my first Swallow of the year this morning.