Your day's wildlife

[Dave 123]

@Aravis any sharper?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Common seal, in front of greys. Horsey Gap again.

 

[biggs682]

First one is a common darter and second I think is a female Ruddy darter

 

[biggs682]

A couple of weeks ago i put some shredded paper in our hog house and having keeping an eye the entrance ever since and yesterday i noticed that thredding had been pushed back from the entrance so thought i better position our trail camera on the entrance to see if we have a lodger and sure enough last night first picture was a hog exiting the house and quite a few more comings and goings over the night

 

[Proto]

Dragonfly season. Lots about at the mo. Looks like the one above posted by Biggs682, Common Darter?

 

[Aravis]

Thank you @Dave 123, definitely an improvement. I think perhaps the main problem was the angle of the light which was always going to obscure the bird's features whatever I did.

Sometimes being too close can be a curse. I'm altogether happier with some of the images from two days ago:

But the one that becomes my background for a while is this:

Now home 😥

 

[Willd]

I'm renaming 1 October National Nutter Squirrel day Must have seen at least 20 of the little gits, all except one that hopped into the verge / thought the better of it, however, the one that went for it, missed my front wheel, but not the rear bit of a bump, hopefully just a tail

 

[biggs682]

Picked up the trail camera and noticed there's a hog just in the entrance way

 

[Poacher]

Knew this was something different when it flew past me and landed in neighbour's hedge.
Box-tree moth

 

[Dave 123]

Knew this was something different when it flew past me and landed in neighbour's hedge.
Box-tree moth
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On facebook I’m a member of moths uk.

There is a certain percentage of the membership who are getting fed up with new members posting pictures of Box moth and asking what it is.
They're more intolerant than middle aged cyclists!

 

[biggs682]

Yet to check trail camera footage for last 24 hours .
But this morning our resident hog is not visible in the hog house entrance so hopefully nothing to worry about.

 

[Paulus]

Seen this lunchtime, quite close up.
St.Albans ponds, they used to be sand and gravel pits but the area is now a wildlife and fishing reserve.

 

[Dave 123]

Convolvulus hawk moth

Black rustic

Brindled green (?)

Lunar underwing

spruce carpet

 

[figbat]

 

[biggs682]

We currently have a family of 3 hogs residing in our hog house .

This one seems to be the smallest , that's a full size football on the left to get an idea of size