Your day's wildlife

[matticus]

birds must think of gutters as a bit of Heaven, eh?
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If heaven is a cold wet bum, maybe ...

 

[Poacher]

Mind where you tread! Fox on our lawn early this morning, parking a log.
Apologies to anyone reading this during a meal, but you should be concentrating on your food, not your screen.

 

[rockyroller]

Mind where you tread! Fox on our lawn early this morning, parking a log.
Apologies to anyone reading this during a meal, but you should be concentrating on your food, not your screen.

hysterical

my cat sleeps all day & looks out the window & the back door all night. some morning he does not want to go out. I wonder what he sees. I must get one of those cameras!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Popped round to a friends house and the tortoises are coming out of hibernation.

 

[newfhouse]

Monster blue tit investigates camera.

 

[Dave 123]

Someone bumped my van the other day. They are paying for the damage. So yesterday I dropped it at the garage and took a wander along the river Erme at Ivybridge tennis club.

 

[Poacher]

Someone bumped my van the other day. They are paying for the damage. So yesterday I dropped it at the garage and took a wander along the river Erme at Ivybridge tennis club. View attachment 638275 View attachment 638276
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Brilliant photos!
I suspect I may be having a(nother) senior moment, but I simply don't recognise that first bird.
Can you put me out of my misery and identify it?

 

[Dave 123]

Brilliant photos!
I suspect I may be having a(nother) senior moment, but I simply don't recognise that first bird.
Can you put me out of my misery and identify it?

As soon as I saw it I had a WTF moment. It took a few more seconds to work out that it’s a robin. It was kicking around with a couple of normally marked robins.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I've seen a hare the last two days around my house. Very dark coat, presumably winter colouring.

 

[Poacher]

As soon as I saw it I had a WTF moment. It took a few more seconds to work out that it’s a robin. It was kicking around with a couple of normally marked robins.

Thanks for that; my first thought was Wheatear, but rapidly discarded that and thought chat, but which one? Robins are chats, of course, but I just didn't connect!
Worth sending pics to your local bird group or county recorder!

Edit: just showed it to Mrs Poacher, and she named it in about 2 seconds!
I'm not only humbled, but also committed to cooking tomorrow's dinner!

 

[Andy in Germany]

I was in a car that ran over a coypu/ragondin in the Massif Central, over west from you a few years ago... ...They were astonished to find one so far from a major river, and so far from an estuary, which apparently is where they were first introduced to France, on the Atlantic coast. They'd have been just as astonished to learn that they've got so far east.

If Coypu were not amphibious they'd all be rushing back into France today...

 

[biggs682]

Even with sub zero temps we had hog activity last night

 

[Dave 123]

My above robin ^^^^^^

It is a dilution mutation apparently.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Shhhh, do not disturb, fast asleep.

 

[AndreaJ]

One of the resident cormorants on the Llangollen canal in Whixall.