Your day's wildlife

[Poacher]

Badgers are hard to sex in the field, but this one's almost certainly a nursing mother.
Hope she brings her cubs round when they're old enough - last year's were very entertaining!

 

[Poacher]

Wood (?) Mouse is getting bolder - out in daylight yesterday evening.

 

[Rezillo]

We have an ornamental crab apple tree that at the moment is attracting more than our usual garden wildlife. This blackcap is there this morning (taken through glass).

 

[Andy in Germany]

Badgers are hard to sex in the field, but this one's almost certainly a nursing mother.
Hope she brings her cubs round when they're old enough - last year's were very entertaining!
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I find badgers fascinating: I always feel they focus on first impressions but ran out of colour for the rest.

 

[cyberknight]

its that time of year again !
suicidal rabbits who like to run across the cyclepath right in front of you and you cant see them till the last second as its still dark

 

[Dave 123]

Dark sword grass

Hebrew character

Muslin moth (male)

Brimstone

 

[sevenfourate]

Me as the wife cycled to our local park this Morning to get some fresh air. And an ice cream…😉

As we took a walk around: the squirrel’s were literally bounding up to us - I’m guessing expecting to be fed. I’m sure you could of hand fed them - presuming you had nuts etc with you of course - and not a double strawberry cone with extra strawberry sauce 🤣

 

[Proto]

its that time of year again !
suicidal rabbits who like to run across the cyclepath right in front of you and you cant see them till the last second as its still dark

It’s not suicidal rabbits you want to worry about, it’s roe deer. Out cycling near Chard couple of weeks back, narrow country lane, commotion in the high hedgerow and a roe deer launches itself across the lane, missed me by maybe 2 metres! Second deer stayed other side of the hedge and we just kept going.

 

[cyberknight]

It’s not suicidal rabbits you want to worry about, it’s roe deer. Out cycling near Chard couple of weeks back, narrow country lane, commotion in the high hedgerow and a roe deer launches itself across the lane, missed me by maybe 2 metres! Second deer stayed other side of the hedge and we just kept going.

we get cows and sheep do that

 

[Proto]

We recently (Warm Showers) hosted a French family of cyclo tourists travelling from Tangiers to the north of Norway, a seriously epic journey with 3 young children. An observation from the mother when chatting away over dinner was that they had seen much more wildlife than they had expected in England, much more than in Spain, and France, and she was asking if much hunting went on. By hunting she meant La Chasse, hunting on foot with guns and dogs, and was surprised that its pretty well unheard of here apart from farmers for pest control and toffs on big estates shooting for sport.

Just in our garden we get rabbits, deer, foxes, moles, badgers, squirrels, snakes, mice, rats and a huge variety of birds. Never crossed my mind to murder any of them, although the deer push their luck when they eat the newly planted shrubs. My wife not happy!

PS a link to Warm Showers in case anyone thinks it’s a bit dodgy 😄

Warm Showers

 

[gbb]

Yesterday, a reminder if what was 20 years ago unthinkable, yet now is almost mundane.
Red Kite, sat in my garden, urban estate on the edge if Peterborough (I see them above the city centre as well), one come 'peeeoo,ing' swooping in below the rooftops, inbetween houses.
In the same vein, you'll regularly see corvids mobbing them, last week walking the dog, I heard a kerfuffle to see a crow jinking full speed around some trees, closely followed by a Kite. I suspect Crow got too close and Kite had had enough. All quite acrobatic from the pair of them.
They're so commonplace now...

 

[Red17]

Today's companion at the allotment

 

[rockyroller]

Wood (?) Mouse is getting bolder - out in daylight yesterday evening.

guessing you don't have cats?

 

[rockyroller]

the videos are more compelling. but our bunnies better watch out

because we have another visitor

 

[albal]

Returned from my tour recently. So much wildlife .
Spain , huge numbers of raptors. Black/red kite hen Harriers hobby buzzard rough legged buzzard griffon vulture, Montague's harrier ( I think) marsh harrier . You MUST look up.
Also surprised to see so many yellow wagtails. Crested larks too. A long list anyway.