annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Oh, and I forgot the Mallard eating a frog!
Your day's wildlife
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
One Little Egret, two oystercatchers, one hoofing great heron, four strange ones, maybe thrush sized on a ploughed field, yellowish undersides visible as they took off. A flock of maybe 100 waders, loads of cormorants, waterfowl everywhere, Lots and lots of birdlife out there....
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I do wonder If they were Redwing now you mention it. I thought yellowish but they were reasonably distant. The red / orange underwing could be what I saw. Right size, right kind of location....
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
A lapwing last night whilst walking the dog. Even the dog spotted to listen to it. Both my husband and I said the same thing. First one of the season for us.
Hugh Manatee
Veteran
I need your help! My daughter and I went for a late walk on Cannock Chase last night. It was very dark but in the beam of my Volt 1200, a mystery beastie was spotted.
It was flying amongst trees with what looked like a rapid fluttery wing beat. It was quite light in colour. Hard to define in the harsh light but I would describe it as a sort of tan colour.
It looked to be the size of a small bird. I don't think it was a bat due to the colour and the fact it wasn't going very fast. I'm thinking some sort of (beho)moth? Any ideas?
It was flying amongst trees with what looked like a rapid fluttery wing beat. It was quite light in colour. Hard to define in the harsh light but I would describe it as a sort of tan colour.
It looked to be the size of a small bird. I don't think it was a bat due to the colour and the fact it wasn't going very fast. I'm thinking some sort of (beho)moth? Any ideas?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Has anybody got blue tits nesting in South East England? Last year, a pair moved into the nest box about a month ago (I think). This year, no sign of anybody at all.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
Frogs and newts galore the last 2 nights on our evening walks! At times hard to see them and not stand on them!
Plus there is a flock of starlings in some pine trees locally which make the most wonderful noises as I walk past them everyday.
Plus there is a flock of starlings in some pine trees locally which make the most wonderful noises as I walk past them everyday.
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Found him/her today at work
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
I forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago. Last year, we had regular Snowy Owl sightings, this year we got one closer - a friend of mine found a young owl with a broken wing and managed to catch it and bundle it up to take it to the local wildlife rescue centre. Here they are on the ferry over to the mainland...
Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Lovely pictureI forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago. Last year, we had regular Snowy Owl sightings, this year we got one closer - a friend of mine found a young owl with a broken wing and managed to catch it and bundle it up to take it to the local wildlife rescue centre. Here they are on the ferry over to the mainland...
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
A pair of Mallard turned up a couple of days ago and took a liking to my scruffy little pond. I tried to discourage them on the grounds that the pond is too small, too far away from a usable watercourse when the time comes to march any surviving ducklings out to meet the world, and there's a real and present danger from local cats and foxes to the parents and any offspring they might produce. They've flown away two or three times when I've gone out and waved my arms at them, but always return, so now I'll leave them to it. Their decision, their problem (so long as they don't start trashing the garden), but they seem able to handle themselves and have seen off curious Magpies - if they can see them off permanently it'll give the Long-tailed tits a chance of nesting successfully for once.
As an aside, the central Nottingham Peregrines look to have started incubating already - live webcams here.
As an aside, the central Nottingham Peregrines look to have started incubating already - live webcams here.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
This morning at about 6.45 an owl flew parallel with me for about a minute. It was looking for a fence post to stop on but each time it did, it saw me coming alongside on the bike, and flew off again. Just for a moment we were looking straight at each other. I don't know much about owls but it was a smallish pale browny-yellowy one, on the edge of the downs on the Oxfordshire-Wiltshire borders.
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Very regular sightings of Buzzrds on the way to and from work in the fens. Usually perched in a tree or stood in a field.
Nothing too remarkable in that...but as a kid brought up in Lincs, Cambs and Notts with a dad who was always showing us the beauty of the country and wildlife....we never saw Buzzards. Ridiculously common in Somerset etc but not where we lived and yet they're a common sight nowadays.
Nothing too remarkable in that...but as a kid brought up in Lincs, Cambs and Notts with a dad who was always showing us the beauty of the country and wildlife....we never saw Buzzards. Ridiculously common in Somerset etc but not where we lived and yet they're a common sight nowadays.
