Your day's wildlife

[annedonnelly]

Not today, but 19/8/2108 at my brother's house in Woodhall Spa, after the bog light had been left on overnight. I'm useless at identifying butterflies, apart from about 8 unmistakable ones, so I'm not going to start on moths! Feel free to enlighten me.
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Brimstone & Bloodvein. Don't know the last one.

 

[nickyboy]

From a few days ago.....

Lying on the sunlounger by the hotel pool and a cat walked past. In its mouth was a lizard it had caught. Said lizard was limp and not moving. Probably about 8cm long.

Cat goes under another sunlounger and puts lizard on the tiled floor. Lizard comes back to life and tries to leg it. Cat catches it again. Lizard escapes and legs it under a nearby discarded towel.

Can proceeds to pounce on the towel and try to get underneath. After a couple of minutes the lizard shoots out from under the towel into the nearby grass. The cat hasn't spotted this

The cat then spends ten minutes pouncing on the towel and trying to get underneath it. After which it slinks off, wondering how the lizard managed to disappear

 

[simonali]

I'd like to see that happen with the ones in the Florida Keys.

 

[simonali]

Not from today, but one I found on my phone. A dopey swan once mistook the road I live in for a river!

Other ones on my phone from days of old:

A leopard slug. I'd never seen one before.

Some more swans on the River Wylye a few weeks ago.

 

[simonali]

Another older one. A leetle beetle I spotted whilst walking across Devon back in June.

And a flutterby on the same walk.

By the way, does anyone know what this little flower is called? Same time and place...

 

[philk56]

After the very wet weekend a lovely sunny autumnal day today and still plenty of butterflies and bees about making the most of our buddleia that is still flowering:

 

[potsy]

Horrid beasty!

Was huge!

 

[potsy]

Others on the walk..

 

[Heltor Chasca]

European Grass snake on the cycle track on the school run this afternoon. Big and Reason No. 41 to go by bike. (Library Photo Jason Steel)

 

[biggs682]

This furry caterpillar

 

[Aravis]

I went to Slimbridge this afternoon. Perhaps it's still a little early just yet. I think I saw more 8 foot lenses than autumn migrants, the owners clearly intent on making me feel inadequate with my Canon SX50.

Just a couple of single birds who were probably on their way to their winter holidays. A green sandpiper:

And a ruff:

 

[Alex H]

 

[potsy]

Not a bird that visits very often, in fact I got two on this day but only got a decent pic of this one.

 

[potsy]

On a walk at the local NT place...

 

[Cavalol]

No pictures (sorry!) but a decent count of rabbits at work again today. I took some carrots in to feed them and also put some bird food down for our pied wagtails. Across site, there’s some yellow wagtails which we see occasionally.