Your day's wildlife

[laurentian]

Local black cat was playing with this little mouse when I went out in the garden but he ran off leaving this behind him and it was still breathing.

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This is why cats should be controlled!

 

[rockyroller]

loose dog

loose owner

I wouldn't mind so much except it trotted right up on the old trail (now closed) where I've been trying to repair the damaged lawn

 

[Gillstay]

For such a tiny bird, goldcrests are incredibly gregarious things . . . you seem to be able to get very close to them.

Oddly as well, if your up a tree they will come very close. Which when your struggling to balance and they just absently hop by is quite annoying.

 

[Emanresu]

Ibis clearing the tables in Brisbane. They clean streets too.

 

[Chris S]

Two deer in the centre of Lichfield (not my photo)

 

[biggs682]

On this morning's ride halfway up a gentle slope I spooked a tawny owl from the verge it carried on alongside the hedgerow before disappearing as I got level to where I thought it disappeared I looked left into the hedgerow and there it was sat just in the hedge looking back at me , no picture as didn't expect it to be sat there.
That's another reason why I love early morning rides

 

[gbb]

In Peterborough thus morning with the grandkids, doing the usual tour round the cathedral...spotted an almost certain Pereguine falcon gliding high over the cathedral itself. Crescent wings, bit bigger than a sparrowhawk white throat.
Desperately rummaged for my phone to get a photo, inevitably gone by the time I'd got myself sorted....

 

[Andy in Germany]

There are Storks in the hills to the south. This makes me quite ridiculously happy, as the arrival of the Storks was one of the things I missed this year having left Freiburg.

 

[blackrat]

This is why cats should be controlled!

Probably. But considering how much more damage humans do, any idea how to control them?

 

[Mike_P]

Probably. But considering how much more damage humans do, any idea how to control them?

The one theory I have seen on that which seems have a degree of sense is to allow domestic cats to reproduce before being having the requisite op. That way over time the need to hunt will diminish as their genes will evolve to depend on humans for their food.

 

[VinSumRox]

Pine Marten roadkill today, does that count?