Your day's wildlife

[Dave 123]

I was working in a garden in Yealmpton today with huge conifers. There was a family of freshly fledged Goldcrests. I didn’t have my camera out for long as I was supposed to be working!

 

[biggs682]

@biggs682 the other is Ermine moth

Thanks @Dave 123 just the caterpillars to sort now

 

[nickyboy]

Thanks @Dave 123 just the caterpillars to sort now

Its a Browntail Moth caterpillar. The warm spring has resulted in huge numbers and there are stories in the news about people getting non serious rashes from the fine hairs

 

[biggs682]

Its a Browntail Moth caterpillar. The warm spring has resulted in huge numbers and there are stories in the news about people getting non serious rashes from the fine hairs

Could be

 

[Dave 123]

Its a Browntail Moth caterpillar. The warm spring has resulted in huge numbers and there are stories in the news about people getting non serious rashes from the fine hairs

As a little lad in Ellesmere Port I used to collect them from the hawthorn hedge outside our house. It took me a couple of years to learn!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Its a Browntail Moth caterpillar. The warm spring has resulted in huge numbers and there are stories in the news about people getting non serious rashes from the fine hairs

We have something similar here. Unfortunately I forgot the name but they're little white critters that travel in huge columns and whose hairs are a sort of natural asbestos. wherever they are the local authorities have to cordon the area off.

 

[BoldonLad]

We have something similar here. Unfortunately I forgot the name but they're little white critters that travel in huge columns and whose hairs are a sort of natural asbestos. wherever they are the local authorities have to cordon the area off.

They get something similar in Spain. I don’t know correct name, I have heard them called “Processional Caterpillars”. They especially a problem for dogs, apparently.

 

[biggs682]

One of our regular visitors last night was more interested in water than food last night

 

[Poacher]

Some people count sheep...
1 badger

2 badgers

3 badgers - mum followed the two well grown cubs.
This is the moment when one walked under her and she nonchalantly lifted her left back leg to avoid kicking it!

On their way home

Dad(?) arrived for a long drink from the pond, after dawn!

All in a very ordinary garden in suburban Nottingham!

 

[Oldhippy]

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Today I came across this roadkill, about twenty metres from a pheasant roadkill. I guess the buzzard had been feasting on the pheasant and been hit by a car. It was still warm. Magnificent birds, wingspan almost a metre, I'd say. Didn't think to measure it.

 

[biggs682]

@Tail End Charlie so you laid it out took a picture but forgot to get that tape measure out and measure it
I bet it will be gone tomorrow

 

[Tail End Charlie]

@Tail End Charlie so you laid it out took a picture but forgot to get that tape measure out and measure it
I bet it will be gone tomorrow

Yeah, I know, I'm a right muppet. I even had a tape measure in my van!

 

[biggs682]

Nothing more relaxing than sitting on the patio listening to a hedgehog eating

 

[potsy]

Saw this little fella on a busy path during my walk on sunday, a small crowd had gathered to see it safely into the grass...