Your day's wildlife

[growingvegetables]

A bit off-topic - but have a wee look [edited to remove an ambiguity - this is NOT me ] http://blog.wildyorkshire.co.uk/

 

[annedonnelly]

A bit off-topic - but have a wee look and I suspect you may forgive me the impertinence? http://blog.wildyorkshire.co.uk/

Those little sketches are exactly the sort of thing I'd like to be able to do. I went on a one-day drawing course last year and discovered I wasn't as useless as I expected but the next course I booked was cancelled so I was frustrated in my attempts.

But I see you're a professional artist so that explains your lovely pictures.

 

[0lonerider]

The early bird

 

[growingvegetables]

TBut I see you're a professional artist so that explains your lovely pictures.

Not me! Like you, I'd love to have Richard Bell's knack with simple colour and line. I try sometimes. But NOTHING like his.

 

[siadwell]

And guess which one has the Blue Tits in there?!! Bless them, they are so brazen, completely ignoring the girls only a few feet away as they fly too and fro feeding their young.

There's a church near us that has a cigarette butt bin like the below on the wall near the main entrance. Every year there's a blue tit nest in there. They must like human company.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I saw some of these

 

[Illaveago]

I saw this little bird hiding in the trees, being quiet and shy. I am not too sure what it is and I couldn't get any closer to it.

 

[Illaveago]

Typical Sparrowhawk tactics, high speed runs, darting around obstacles and surprising their prey. Kestrels don't tend to associate with housing / urban sprawl, they tend to hover and pounce...

I thought the same thing, but it seems as though it may be that this Kestrel has adopted new tactics. I have studied my pictures closer up and the colouring is very much like a female Kestrel with dark outer wings and the tip of the tail dipped in black.

 

[Glow worm]

I saw this little bird hiding in the trees, being quiet and shy. I am not too sure what it is and I couldn't get any closer to it. View attachment 128958

Nice pics. I'd guess female house sparrow.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I also saw this today - a white-tailed sea eagle pouncing on a Fulmar Petrel

And the moment it was lost

Pictures taken by Hebridean Whale Cruises

It was an amazing sight.

The prey landed on the water and was still alive when we left, although I reckon the eagles would have been back for it as it didnae look in the best of health...

 

[summerdays]

A trip along the Frome found this mum hissing at my for wanting to use the cycle path.

And this heron was really close and not bothered by me at all.

 

[biggs682]

@Marmion those pictures of the White tailed sea eagle are fantastic .

spotted this pair of Peacocks and other birds on our trip out today

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's a church near us that has a cigarette butt bin like the below on the wall near the main entrance. Every year there's a blue tit nest in there. They must like human company.

Same thing at the NT café near Eynsford apart from it being great tits.

 

[gbb]

Awwww, a dead fox cub at the side of the road this morning, a puppy sized ball of red fur with black ears looking for all the world like it was curled up asleep.

 

[summerdays]

Today I took another detour along the Frome, and I saw a kingfisher flying off, I did hang around for a bit but didn't see him again. How long a stretch of river bank will a kingfisher patrol?