Your day's wildlife

[Heltor Chasca]

View attachment 417095 This moth is in the garden this evening . I am not good on moths but is quite large 2 inches across.

Lime hawk moth. Fantastic in Hendrick’s gin.

 

[Aravis]

At Llanddona beach today, Anglesey. The grasshopper warblers were singing nicely; I did get one reasonable view but I was nowhere near putting a lens on it.

Mr and Mrs Stonechat were far more obliging, so I came home with something!

 

[Jenkins]

No photo unfortunately, but on the ride tto work this morrning there was a small owl sitting on top of a Bridleway finger post. Having just done a quick image search, it appears to have been a Little Owl

 

[Lullabelle]

A busy bee on our hanging basket

 

[biggs682]

A swan family having an early morning swim

 

[MikeG]

At Llanddona beach today, Anglesey. The grasshopper warblers were singing nicely; I did get one reasonable view but I was nowhere near putting a lens on it.

Mr and Mrs Stonechat were far more obliging, so I came home with something!
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Oooh, lucky you. I've not seen either of those.

 

[MikeG]

I was walking the pooch earlier, alongside a hedge, when a barn owl flew directly over my head from the other side of the hedge, no more than 6 feet above me! How about that!!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I wandered up to St James' Park this afternoon. There was a trio of these pelicans

I watched them doing some repeated synchronised dipping until I got the camera out, whereupon they stopped....

Pigeon wasn't bothered, just happy to feel the sun on its wings...

And a rather stunning heron up on the branch tops...

 

[13 rider]

Today's ride on the country lanes near home a fox and a hundred yards later a monkjac deer which had me braking as it was in the middle of the road deciding which way to run . Made it past safely

 

[Andy in Germany]

I was paced by a Red Kite as I approached the village. It got bored after a bit and peeled off, which knowing what they eat was quite a relief...

 

[Poacher]

I was paced by a Red Kite as I approached the village. It got bored after a bit and peeled off, which knowing what they eat was quite a relief...

No need to worry if it was anything like the ones at Watlington campsite. They seem to subsist mainly on bread, and prefer white bread at that. We were there for a Sunday evening to Friday morning stay a few years back, and the kites were so tame they'd take food off the ground within about 4 metres. One day I offered them a whole freshly dead baby rabbit I'd found at the roadside. No interest at all. I gutted, skinned and jointed the corpse (not a pleasant task, especially for a piscatarian). Still they preferred the bread, and only when that was finished did they deign to pick up the rabbit portions as a last resort. They're also wimpish birds, easily frightened off by a (much) smaller buzzard. Still great to watch them - possibly the most aerobatic raptor.

 

[philk56]

[QUOTE 5291733, member: 9609"]down at st abbs head tonight, just spectacular
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Great photos!

 

[philk56]

I saw this Osprey just south of Perth (WA) a couple of weeks ago but didn't get a chance to post any photos at the time. Can't resist posting them now. It wasn't at all bothered about me getting amazingly close!

 

[philk56]

Just before I returned back to the UK, on Wednesday a group of rainbow lorikeets had taken over a local tree. Despite their looks they are classified as a pest in Western Australia. They are native to the East but 10 of them were accidentally released from an aviary in the 1960's and it is estimated that there are now approximately 40,000 of them in and around Perth! They damage crops as well as displacing native parrots - probably bit like the parakeets we have in London. But they do make for some great colourful photos

 

[Alex H]