biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
They have been coming into our garden for at least 10 years
Your day's wildlife
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They have been coming into our garden for at least 10 years
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
My Hertfordshire Hedgehogs must have migrated North.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Just watched a hog trundle across the patio
matticus
Guru
Small deer are not very rare in the fields by my commute (at least if I'm riding near dawn/dusk, anyways) Occasionally muntjac, I think the main family are Roe?
Rarer are deer crossing the cycle-track ahead of me. Probably once a month.
Today? A first: sopping wet dark deer-shaped object crosses the track, no doubt having been in the stream/ditch that is a couple of metres to my left.
I have to assume that they normally jump straight over that ditch, I hadn't thought about it before!
Rarer are deer crossing the cycle-track ahead of me. Probably once a month.
Today? A first: sopping wet dark deer-shaped object crosses the track, no doubt having been in the stream/ditch that is a couple of metres to my left.
I have to assume that they normally jump straight over that ditch, I hadn't thought about it before!
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I was overtaken by a green woodpecker today. The colour looks even more stunning at speed.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
I hesitated before deciding to post this, as it really deserves video, but here's a few stills to tell the story.
Two badgers visited, walking quickly in close contact. Probably this year's cubs.
The one on the left separated for a drink from the pond, while the other went to inspect the wrecked "badger-resistant" hedgehog feeding station.
While one was still drinking and generally minding its own business, the other decided to take the opportunity to scent-mark it with its sub-caudal gland. Not so very different from wiping its arris on its unsuspecting companion.
It then ran off, pursued by its outraged victim.
It's a great shame this isn't a vid, because I've never heard a badger make such a loud noise, as it fled past the other trailcam - I can only render it as something like "urr-urr-urr!", and I can't decide whether it was fear of rightful retribution or badger laughter.
The insulted party in hot pursuit.
Two badgers visited, walking quickly in close contact. Probably this year's cubs.
The one on the left separated for a drink from the pond, while the other went to inspect the wrecked "badger-resistant" hedgehog feeding station.
While one was still drinking and generally minding its own business, the other decided to take the opportunity to scent-mark it with its sub-caudal gland. Not so very different from wiping its arris on its unsuspecting companion.
It then ran off, pursued by its outraged victim.
It's a great shame this isn't a vid, because I've never heard a badger make such a loud noise, as it fled past the other trailcam - I can only render it as something like "urr-urr-urr!", and I can't decide whether it was fear of rightful retribution or badger laughter.
The insulted party in hot pursuit.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
You should try to get a better photo. Stood in the middle of a field is more likely habitat for the much rarer Cattle Egret rather than the relatively common Little Egret. Unfortunately the white dot could be either
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
This one has been a regular visitor last week or so. Lovely.
I only take a rubbish camera when out on the bike, so it doesn't matter if it gets shook to bits / dropped. It does zoom, but has no image stabilization, so anything would be bigger, but fuzzy
He/she was in the river, but flew up the field a short distance when I approached. Probably, just a common one, which I've seen in about 5 places locally, including the brook outside my office window on the edge of town
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I only take a rubbish camera when out on the bike, so it doesn't matter if it gets shook to bits / dropped. It does zoom, but has no image stabilization, so anything would be bigger, but fuzzy
Aha the common Fuzzy Egret; Egreta Instabilius.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A tortoise shell butterfly refueling on a lavender bush
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
No photo - but a water vole scurrying across the guild wheel cycle track very near the canal and beside a small stream which is culverted underneath it. I do so hope no-one who sees it mistakes it for a rat; if you only get a glimpse of a tail disappearing into the undergrowth it's a very easy mistake to make. But seen as a whole they are a very different body shape from that of a rat, and run in a very different style too.
