biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A couple of pictures of today's wildlife encounters
Your day's wildlife
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GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
I saw him/her a couple of weeks ago, I assume it's the same one, he's a right poser.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
On my ride this morning I saw a deer, a fox, two pheasants and several wascally wabbits.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Not wildlife but a hopefully interesting natural history experience
Went for a ride today around Cheshire. On the narrow lanes it was like Autumn, dead leaves all over the roads.
Presumably the extremely dry weather has stressed the trees to the extent they are dropping their leaves early to reduce water loss
Went for a ride today around Cheshire. On the narrow lanes it was like Autumn, dead leaves all over the roads.
Presumably the extremely dry weather has stressed the trees to the extent they are dropping their leaves early to reduce water loss
philk56
Guru
- Location
- WAy down under
One of the results of the hot weather seems to be a lot more butterflies in our garden than I've seen for some time. Here's a beautiful peacock butterfly feeding on our buddleia:
It's a Linnet, innit?
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Not today's wildlife but yesterday's, during the TdF neutralised rollout from Arras; Tawny Owl on one of its favourite perches near the bottom of our garden again, undisturbed by mobbing birds for once. I'm still getting to grips with transferring pics from my new camera to the PC, and then needing to crop them to meet this forum's upload limit!
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Working down the garden early this afternoon, ripping out some attractive but rampant variegated ivy to give the muguets a chance, I was buzzed by a large dragonfly, which then started behaving strangely, I thought, landing on various sites and arching its body. Turned out to be a female Southern Hawker, laying eggs in dry moss, several feet from the pond. Apparently the eggs won't hatch until next Spring - they'll have quite a hike to the water! A bit like the bumble bee sized baby kangaroos having to drag themselves to the pouch unassisted.
Hugh Manatee
Veteran
Speaking of bumble bees @Poacher we just had this one on our lawn.
It wasn't flying very well. It's wings looked perfect and the rest of him looked in very good order; no mites or anything. You can just see the teaspoon with some sugary water it it. It had some and continued to make these very short hop flights.
I had to move it as I was walking up and down the garden a lot. Picked the bee up and started to relocate and soon as he had a bit of height and headwind, off he went!
It wasn't flying very well. It's wings looked perfect and the rest of him looked in very good order; no mites or anything. You can just see the teaspoon with some sugary water it it. It had some and continued to make these very short hop flights.
I had to move it as I was walking up and down the garden a lot. Picked the bee up and started to relocate and soon as he had a bit of height and headwind, off he went!
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Hugh Manatee
Veteran
She
She was a good 30mm long.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
No photo but on my ride this afternoon I found myself riding alongside two young deer for maybe 5 to 10 seconds as they run along the road looking for an opportunity to skip off into the trees. I will have been a mere 6ft away 
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Stubby noses, mottled lightly on the rear quarters, they'd have been maybe 2ft high on the shoulders...didnt notice the tail colour .
Awesome sight, so close as well.
, Stubby noses, mottled lightly on the rear quarters, they'd have been maybe 2ft high on the shoulders...didnt notice the tail colour .
Awesome sight, so close as well.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
This is a Wheatear, on today's walk in the Black Mountains, part of the Brecon Beacons:
The most easterly summit in the Black Mountains is called - Black Hill! This was the view from it today - a little hazy but quite atmospheric:
But probably the biggest highlight was a superb strongly-flowing spring just before finishing the climb up to Offa's Dyke - all bottles refilled with crystal clear deeply chilled water, straight out of the cleft in the hillside.
And home in time to see the last 30km of the Alpe d'Huez stage.
The most easterly summit in the Black Mountains is called - Black Hill! This was the view from it today - a little hazy but quite atmospheric:
But probably the biggest highlight was a superb strongly-flowing spring just before finishing the climb up to Offa's Dyke - all bottles refilled with crystal clear deeply chilled water, straight out of the cleft in the hillside.
And home in time to see the last 30km of the Alpe d'Huez stage.
