Your day's wildlife

[gbb]

A Manta type Rayfish...
Mexico, snorkelling just off the beach, there's a bit of hard and soft coral among the rocky stuff, quite a few assorted fish mostly about 3 to 4 inch or so long....then this Rayfish slowly came into sight, meandered along a few feet below me then off. Maybe 2 to 3 ft wide and a long tail ....overall may be 4 ft long.

Very triangulated fleshy wings, dark above, some white noticed but hard to put the detail all together...but an impressive sight, even though it wasn't that big.

 

[gbb]

Plenty of Great Tailed Grackles
They're like magpies, noisy, social and plentiful here ..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-tailed_grackle.
An Iguana on Isla Mujeres, about 3ft long and chunky, couldn't get my phone out to photo it before we passed
The usual Frigate birds and pelicans are plentiful.

apologies...zoom was maxes out so not much detail.

 

[Paulus]

Long tailed tits on one of my feeders this morning.

 

[gbb]

Walking a Mexican beach this morning, away a bit from the madding crowd,
a few Terns..a few more Plovers, a couple Cormorants or Shags, the ubiquitous Frigate birds and Pelicans, then as we got closer back to where there were plenty of people in the sea... a sudden explosion of fish leaping out the water, maybe 10 or 20 of them and in the same sudden leap, a larger predatory fish about 2 ft long maybe.
Lots of Garfish type here, not big but plentiful in the shallows.
Yesterday we saw a sudden load of activity several hundred metres out with birds diving into what must have been a shoal of fish, looked like someone was strafing the water with a machine gun

 

[biggs682]

Not sure even I would wear this.

 

[Cubist]

Strange sight Friday morning. On my way to and from work I pass several huge fields of barley. It was cut a week or so ago and as the field borders a wood with little public access, the stubble has been carpeted with woodpigeon and corvids. As I drove past the field I glanced across and had to stop and confirm what I thought I had seen. There were no fewer than eight Herons all standing within a few yards of each other, not moving, just standing. I presume they eat mice or other timourous wee beasties?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

My water lily has its first ever flower

Also the pond is teaming with juvenile newts - double

 

[gbb]

Driving a golf cart around Isla Mujeres...

He's about 3ft long...

Avout 2ft long..maybe a bit more.

a They don't seem particu ally bothered by me being about 5 ft away.

 

[Rezillo]

At our nature reserve open day today.

 

[biggs682]

Jimmy cricket

 

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[Low Gear Guy]

A couple of Slow-worms found yesterday

 

[Levo-Lon]

Watching a pair of hobbies feeding their just about to fledge young at rspb sandy

 

[Rezillo]

[QUOTE 4909907, member: 9609"]fantastic detail - is that a proper camera ? f so what sort of lens ?[/QUOTE]

Panasonic FZ1000. A bridge camera with a large sensor. It is a brilliant bit of kit but because it is aimed at the enthusiast, the settings take a bit of getting used to. Here's a few more from the same day - they are all at a greatly reduced resolution for posting here. They were very easy to take - just stand far enough back to avoid disturbing the insects and using the zoom to best effect. The hornet is cropped but the others are full frame.

 

[Hyslop]

Absolutely wonderful day.Sat down this morning for a coffee,2 floors up overlooking Carlisle city centre, largely a paved area but with several trees to break up the bleakness.Id finished a phone call, looked out of the window and there,not more than a foot away, clinging to the brickwork was a treecreeper.I had a good 30 minutes at close quarters with that wonderful creature and then....gone! Wonderful.This afternoon's ride brought Swallows and Swift's hurtling above and around me and then, almost home, a juvenile male Buzzard lifted off from the other side of a dyke,moving ahead of me , calling all the time.Magical.