Your day's wildlife

[gbb]

Couple days off, went across town (Peterborough) to buy some carpets, spotted a Red Kite right over the old part of the city. On the way back home, saw two more, both on the verges of the city.
Nothing remarkable, they're very well established here, but 20 years ago, they hadn't even reached the verges of the city, rather better established in the Rutland area, slowly spreading inexorably East, slowly towards, now over and beyond the city.

 

[Dave 123]

This is a picture taken by my brother in his garden in Cambs- common bird’s nest fungi.

 

[the_mikey]

This Sparrowhawk spooked the pigeons and collared doves yesterday morning, it spent ten seconds or more sitting on the bird feeder before sitting in the tree as photographed for a little while longer.

 

[Jenkins]

Couple days off, went across town (Peterborough) to buy some carpets, spotted a Red Kite right over the old part of the city. On the way back home, saw two more, both on the verges of the city.
Nothing remarkable, they're very well established here, but 20 years ago, they hadn't even reached the verges of the city, rather better established in the Rutland area, slowly spreading inexorably East, slowly towards, now over and beyond the city.

There was a red kite circling over Peterborough rail station this aftermoon

 

[Illaveago]

My trailcam recorded one on 27/10/22. Poor quality stills, but unmistakably a bat on video, swooping very low over lawn, maybe catching craneflies.
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For some reason we don seem to have Craneflies. I saw 1 a month ago . I would have thought we would be plagued with them as there is a green in front of our house .

 

[Poacher]

Buzzards aren't quite an everyday bird here in suburban Nottingham - maybe one or two a week spotted flying over our garden, so whenever I hear that familiar mewing call, I stop what I'm doing and look to the skies. This morning, while removing some fox poo from the lawn (the trailcam caught her in the act!), I spent a couple of minutes fruitlessly scanning the heavens before I realised the sound was coming from one of the Starlings perched on next door's TV aerial. Brilliant mimics, aren't they!

(Temperature reading is consistently high on this trailcam for some reason - was more like 10 C)

 

[annedonnelly]

Buzzards aren't quite an everyday bird here in suburban Nottingham - maybe one or two a week spotted flying over our garden, so whenever I hear that familiar mewing call, I stop what I'm doing and look to the skies. This morning, while removing some fox poo from the lawn (the trailcam caught her in the act!), I spent a couple of minutes fruitlessly scanning the heavens before I realised the sound was coming from one of the Starlings perched on next door's TV aerial. Brilliant mimics, aren't they!

We made regular checks the other afternoon for a Curlew but it was a Starling on top of the old lighthouse.

 

[Dave 123]

I found a friend in work today

 

[biggs682]

A hungry little hog

 

[Poacher]

No pics (too distant), but a charm of at least 40 Goldfinches eating birch seeds in our garden this morning.

 

[AndreaJ]

The starlings are back on Whixall Moss for the winter.

 

[Dave 123]

From the same stretch of hedge as last year- cobalt crust fungi. It’s just such an amazing colour!

 

[Dave 123]

More fungi

 

[biggs682]

Just spotted this little hog on my parents lawn

 

[Willd]

A pesteration (may not be correct collective noun ) of ducks. Feed us