Your day's wildlife

[gbb]

No big deal in a grey squirrel...but the one i saw went into stealth mode as it approached the road it was going to cross
It was quite bizarre, it approached and once it got about 4ft away from the road, it hugged down to the grass almost commando crawl style crawled forward.
Never seen one behave like that, possibly quite normal but it did look bizarre

 

[Illaveago]

Just seen 3 Swifts flying low .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Sunday evening, around 10.30pm I was driving along and saw what I at first thought was a pheasant road kill. As I drew nearer, I saw it was standing up and recognised it as an owl (Tawny I think). It was just to one side of the central white line (it was an A road, single lane in each direction). I stopped and it was standing up and didn't appear hurt. Luckily there wasn't a lot of traffic about, I had a torch and warned one car which passed safely and then I saw a large lorry coming up, but it turned out to be an ambulance who kindly blocked the road. I put on some thick gardening gloves and picked it up, (it was a bit disconcerting when I approached from the rear and it swivelled its head round to look at me, as if to say "what do you think you're doing?"!) but it didn't struggle, just grabbing my finger with a claw (thank goodness for the gloves) and I carried it to the side of the road, where there was a wide verge. After a few minutes it flew off, apparently unharmed. I presume it may have had a near miss, or been blinded by headlights or something and it was confused.
My wife's phone has the crappest of crap cameras so crap picture coming up.

 

[steveindenmark]

Not a good photo but shooting through glass with a camera is never easy. A deer outside my office window.

 

[Dave 123]

From the garden of our villa this morning

4 black vultures
1 booted eagle
1 Woodchat shrike
And a flock of 30 bee eaters

 

[biggs682]

A sparrow feeding from my hand

At Brampton shut Macdonald's this afternoon .

 

[potsy]

 

[Poacher]

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Love that first one; what is it? Baby Starling? Great photo of a bird on tippy-toes!

 

[midlife]

Some sort of thrush?

 

[derrick]

In the garden today.

 

[nickyboy]

Some sort of thrush?

@Poacher was right, juvenile Starling. The short pointy wings give the best clue
Great photo @potsy

 

[siadwell]

Found this little chap in the middle of a country lane whilst on a ride this morning. He couldn’t fly but could move along the ground so I encouraged him off the road where hopefully he won’t come to any harm.

 

[steveindenmark]

Blackbird chicks in the honeysuckle.

 

[Grant Fondo]

A herd of goldfinches Brynteg Anglesey....no chance of a photo.

 

[derrick]

Had lunch with this guy today.