Your day's wildlife

[Hugh Manatee]

One of our hedgehogs is back. We know an adult hog drowned in a pond plus it was a pretty harsh winter that went on for a bit. sorry for the poor picture; it is the nature of the beast!

Looks like he was on his way to the small plate of food left out!

 

[potsy]

Summer has arrived in Manchester

 

[slowmotion]

Summer has arrived in Manchester

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Looks like I'm coming second this year....

 

[MartinQ]

We've got two (cute) fox cubs.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArKH5vszko

and had our first hog fight of the year.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyKc_BMDs8

 

[philk56]

Took a trip out to Cambridgeshire last week, including a boat ride on the Ouse at St Ives. Wasn't expecting to encounter a seal! A pair of seals have made this part of the river their home. Unfortunately I had the small lens on my camera at the time so you'll have to take my word the black blob is a seal...

 

[MikeG]

Don't they know they're supposed to be salt-water animals?

 

[philk56]

[QUOTE 5223331, member: 9609"]how far from the sea would that be ?
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They are about 40 miles from the sea. More info here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33865252

 

[Hugh Manatee]

@MartinQ Out of interest, what camera captured those films? The one I got just doesn't seem very good. It pleases itself what it records and just ignores whatever settings I enter into it. I'm thinking of getting a different one.

Thanks.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

My first swallow on Tuesday. Happy days.

 

[gbb]

Yesterday...
A Little Egret flew over Alconbury airfield. My first Swallows of the year. I deliberately drove down a back road I know to what I call 'Red Kite Farm'. Someone there...maybe a scrap yard next door MUST be feeding them because they'e a very regular sight there. As I pulled up, camera in hand to look over the fields....whoa, 5 or 6 of them came hurtling out of a gap in the bushes about 15 ft away, and over into an adjacent field. I looked throug the gap in the hedge and saw a couple more on the ground and they quickly loped off. I took some photos but they'e not worth posting...all done very quickly.

This afternoon, driving the A1M, a hundred yards from the same point, there were around 20 or 30 of them wheeling around in a thermal I guess over a nearby field.

One day....i will get some decent photos.

 

[gbb]

Don't they know they're supposed to be salt-water animals?

I was going to say, I've seen them at Wisbeach which is a fair way from the sea, I know they'e been seen at the Dog in a Doublet near Whittlesea (near Peterborough)....but I see one's been seen in Peterborough as well...i can't post YouTube vids for some reason but there's one of someone' dog swimming with a seal here

 

[MikeG]

I was swimming with my girls in the bay of Mont St Michel in France some years back when a seal surfaced between me and them, not a metre from any of us. It was just a little bewildering for a second. It seemed playful, and swam around us for a minute or two.

 

[MikeG]

My first swallow on Tuesday. Happy days.

Yeah, the first scouts have been here for a week. I expect the mass arrival will be very shortly now.

 

[MartinQ]

@MartinQ Out of interest, what camera captured those films? The one I got just doesn't seem very good. It pleases itself what it records and just ignores whatever settings I enter into it. I'm thinking of getting a different one.

Thanks.

Its one of the standard aldi ones ... something like
https://www.aldi.co.uk/camouflage-wildlife-camera/p/093633048774701
Its a couple of years old and was ~£60. The first one failed after a year, but I'd kept the receipt and they have a 3 year guarantee, so they replaced with no hassle. Apart from me forgetting to set the year, its good value for the money.

 

[postman]

Last week and again yesterday,found two very large bees in the conservatory,after leaving the door open for some fresh air,flicked them out as gently as i could.