Your day's wildlife

[nickyboy]

Cuppa in the garden this morning and witnessed two woodpigeons, scrapping, proper going at it

Rubbish photo...mobile phone, into sun etc etc

 

[Dave 123]

I was up behind Burrator at 6am this morning, looking for cuckoos.
Not a sausage.
All was not lost....

Willow warbler, skylark, rock pipit, great tit and wheatear.

saw dippers and ravens, but no pics.

 

[newfhouse]

This clutch of eggs appeared overnight

 

[biggs682]

This clutch of eggs appeared overnight

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That's a busy night then

 

[newts]

We had a white tailed bumblebee wandering around the garden yesterday, sunning itself & drying it's wings out

 

[stoatsngroats]

Auntie.

 

[biggs682]

Another shot to confirm that we have 2 hedgehog visitors to our garden

 

[gbb]

No pictures I'm afraid but on this late afternoons local ride...
A buzzard, a big one, loping away from a tree I was passing. No drama, big and healthy but one thing always occurs to me, 25 years ago, I never ever saw them here, you had to go south west to see them, now they're a regular sight here.
A hare.
A couple of gold finches
Three crows in a tree, squarking and threatening a kestrel sat in the same tree, they all flapped off noisily with a screech from the kestrel.
2 peacock butterflies sat in the sun, mating perhaps.
Pigeons everywhere, skittling across the sky, they always exhibit a purposeful flight, like somethings always chasing them

 

[potsy]

Little bugger on my newly planted tree! 😬

 

[roley poley]

Watched a thin tower of midges in an up and down dance being picked out of formation by a hover fly...such skill at hunting on the small scale right next to our garden's bird feeder

 

[AndreaJ]

Heard the first cuckoo of the year this afternoon while walking the dogs by the canal between Whixall and Bettisfield Moss, didn’t manage to see it although it was quite loud so couldn’t have been too far away.

 

[Randomnerd]

So lucky to have a dormouse!

My swallows arrived this morning at dawn. One of the outriders has done a recce the other day. Now around six birds are here, busily talking and clearing the old nests.

It's a momentous day in my year, and.gives me great faith that the world still turns.

The highest number was forty eight birds in the late nineties, being those that leave for Africa . Now I'm lucky if I get twenty to go.

Out at dusk to count and watch and listen

 

[rockyroller]

got to watch this guy again, hunt, pounce on & carry off his lunch. it seems to like them head first, yuk

 

[biggs682]

Moved the camera and food around the garden last night and hey presto our Hedgehog still came visiting

 

[potsy]