deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Spot's a funny name for a heron. I was expecting a dog.
Your day's wildlife
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
- Start date
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- Tags
- wildlife
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Lots of folded leaves in the pond, so I'm hoping that is the newts laying eggs.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
i was thinking beaky
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Little 'uns...
OP
OP
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
Yesterday out on my mtb in the Pentlands I heard a cuckoo but didn't see one. Today out on the mtb again I saw one but didn't hear one.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
I did a bit of cycling today (well, you know). After 20 miles I stopped at a pub. I saw a massive great bird of prey, which I suppose must have been a red kite, although I would have guessed it was a golden eagle by the size of it. It actually flew into the pub garden about a couple of yards away from where I was sitting. I also saw a much smaller bird of prey hovering by the roadside. I suppose it was a kestrel or a harrier. I don't know the difference. It's good to see these things, I never saw any when I was a boy, although I don't suppose the rodents agree.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
The hovering one was a Kestrel. Their "country" name is Wind Hover. Harriers are quite different....bigger, they don't hover and they glide along with their wingtips pointing upwards making a "V"
The one in the pub garden was probably a Red Kite. It could have been a Common Buzzard which is a similar size. Could even have been some escaped thing like a Harris Hawk (often used in falconry displays) as it sounds quite tame
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
5am, walking the dog in an urban estate....peep peep ....peep peep...and two waders zig zagging around a field in close formation, black upper wings with a very distinctive white trailing edge. Circled a couple times, low, still peeping and off....
Oystercatchers.
Oystercatchers.
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
A fox ran across the road right in front of me on Sunday morning as I left Hartington on my way to do the Peak Epic.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I couldn't post this earlier as we were contact less.
Whilst waiting for the Torbay Air show to begin I heard a strange whistling call a bit like an Oyster Catcher. I looked out to sea two black birds chasing one another. I lost them for a minute whist I scrambled for my binocs, I could see that they weren't what I thought as I couldn't see any white markings. I managed to catch sight of them again flying towards me, sooty black, Crow, Chough? Skua even crossed my mind but as they got closer I could see they were a pair of Peregrines. The colour of them totally confused me as they were very dark in colour. I saw one later on in the afternoon carrying a bird back, I'm sorry that my picture is very blurry.
Whilst waiting for the Torbay Air show to begin I heard a strange whistling call a bit like an Oyster Catcher. I looked out to sea two black birds chasing one another. I lost them for a minute whist I scrambled for my binocs, I could see that they weren't what I thought as I couldn't see any white markings. I managed to catch sight of them again flying towards me, sooty black, Crow, Chough? Skua even crossed my mind but as they got closer I could see they were a pair of Peregrines. The colour of them totally confused me as they were very dark in colour. I saw one later on in the afternoon carrying a bird back, I'm sorry that my picture is very blurry.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
It is amazing how they manage to fit all of that into a tiny space.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Juvenile blackbird? That's a guess....
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Juvenile starling
