Your day's wildlife

[deptfordmarmoset]

As kids of the 70s who spent thier lives in the countryside, added with the fact we had a dad who always loved sharing his love of birdlife...I never saw a magpie as a kid, ever, they were birds you read about, thieving magpies in storybooks..
Maybe in the 80s they started appearing alongside the main roads in tree belts around Peterborough, notable because id never seen them before.
Now they're everywhere, in the estates, chack chack chacking in the mornings, often in family groups, they're so commonplace they simply must have an effect on surrounding birdlife at nesting time . Corvids are quite brutal, intelligent and brutal in fact. I have no love for magpies myself.

Living in Leeds in the 60s, my own experience of magpies was also only through books. I didn't think they were to be found in the UK but then we moved to London. I think they're actually rather attractive birds, though.

 

[biggs682]

Locally we regularly see up to 20 magpies on our daily walk of about 35 minutes .

 

[BoldonLad]

Encountered this Heron today, while walking along the banks of the River Welland

 

[biggs682]

Just had this sparrow hawk pop in for lunch

 

[Dave 123]

Snakelocks anemone, Wembury beach rock pool.

 

[Dave 123]

Wheatear, Roos Tor, Dartmoor

 

[Dave 123]

From my moth trap last night

Waved Umber

Willow Beauty

Nut Tree Tussock

 

[slowmotion]

The magpies and ring-necked parakeets have invaded our garden, driving our usual small birds away. It's a sorry situation. I've been investigating 0.177 air rifles. About £800 should enable me to put out a group of 6 rounds that can be covered by a 5 pence piece at a distance of 30 metres. Airgun technology has improved a fair bit since my childhood.

 

[matticus]

The magpies and ring-necked parakeets have invaded our garden, driving our usual small birds away. It's a sorry situation

Just be grateful they're not Wood Pigeons. Awful creatures.

Good luck resolving the situation.

 

[rockyroller]

saw this little fella at the beach today

 

[biggs682]

saw this little fella at the beach today
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I would let him pinch my chips

 

[sevenfourate]

I would let him nibble on my Sausage

Me too.....

 

[Dave 123]

Pebble prominent

 

[biggs682]

For those who want to know what a hedgehogs tail looks like here you go

And one of the hog getting ready to go out last night

 

[Dave 123]

An early morning trip to Emsworthy Mire on Dartmoor today.

Plenty of cuckoos about, but very camera shy.

Redstart

Wren

Meadow Pipit

Linnet