Your day's wildlife

[PeteXXX]

@rockyroller


I posted this here a while ago. 'hogs are typically nocturnal. Do you have them your side of the pond? 🤔

 

[nickyboy]

My bird I.D. app thinks it's a dunnock, I'm not so sure

Actually that's a good call. If you accept it's dunnock-sized it looks like a very threadbare adult dunnock with somewhat bleached out plumage.

 

[potsy]

Actually that's a good call. If you accept it's dunnock-sized it looks like a very threadbare adult dunnock with somewhat bleached out plumage.

Maybe, just not like any young dunnock I've had in the garden, always been more rounded and fluffy...

 

[rockyroller]

I posted this here a while ago. 'hogs are typically nocturnal. Do you have them your side of the pond?

hehe nice! never seen one in person, maybe in a zoo when I was a kid, but no memory of it. according to wiki: " There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas (the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America). "

 

[rockyroller]

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reminds me of Wifey asking, for the 7th time, if I vacuumed the upstairs carpet ...

 

[stoatsngroats]

Vermin to some, but nevertheless, wildlife, in the garden.
Shame it’s a little cutoff, but still a nice capture I think.

 

[rockyroller]

wildlife, in the garden, a nice capture I think.

absolutely! birds in flight, are so difficult to capture

 

[Ripple]

At work.

 

[PeteXXX]

Question: Are those Swifts or Swallow flying overhead catching bugs?

 

[biggs682]

We had a pair of hogs in the garden last night

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Question: Are those Swifts or Swallow flying overhead catching bugs?

A birder once demonstrated to me, pointing level - swallows, pointing at 45 degrees - house martins, pointing up - swifts. Seems to be a good rule from my observations.

 

[gbb]

Rather grimly, anyone who cycles out of Peterborough toward Wansford will see a rather large deer in an increasingly skeletal state, looking like something a lion ate
On the same ride, several red kite, buzzard, yellowhammers and as I rode past a field gate, a muntjac on the other side not far away at all, my sudden appearance spooked it and off it charged.

 

[PeteXXX]

A birder once demonstrated to me, pointing level - swallows, pointing at 45 degrees - house martins, pointing up - swifts. Seems to be a good rule from my observations.

I'll go with Swift, then, thanks 👍

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Maybe, just not like any young dunnock I've had in the garden, always been more rounded and fluffy...
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That middle picture is adorable.

 

[biggs682]

Just found this spider having a munch