Your day's wildlife

[slowmotion]

This probably doesn't count because Curly and Wurly are hardly wild animals. They live a gentle existence in a field right next to

a tiny house in the Wye Valley. They have been very good company for the last two days.

 

[Glow worm]

This is a question... I've googled a bit and considered a couple of possibilities, and I have no picture...
I was cycling yesterday on road with farmland on one side (just grass in the fields) and moorland (rising higher) on the other. A bird flew over towards the moor, very fast, no call that I heard, and it was silhouetted.
Best description is that it looked like a very large swift (i.e. it wasn't, but it was swift-shaped, but much bigger).
Any ideas? My googling suggests hobby or nightjar, but I'm not sure the shape of either was what I saw. It was early afternoon, too.

Hobby sounds likely as they are quite swift shaped, but bigger as you say. Any lakes nearby? They mainly eat dragonflies, or at least they do down here, with the occasional house martin.

 

[Glow worm]

Found this fellow earlier hunkered down underneath some corrugated iron down on the allotment.

 

[annedonnelly]

One of my favourite little chums I saw on a night ride last night at Wicken Fen, Cambs.

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I went on a walk last night to look for them at Thrislington, County Durham. We found 34. Fantastic night out

 

[Fnaar]

I'm thinking hobby, though the pics I've seen of them in flight don't seem quite right tbh. There are lakes and a river not too far away.

Was it too big to have been a Merlin?

Hobby sounds likely as they are quite swift shaped, but bigger as you say. Any lakes nearby? They mainly eat dragonflies, or at least they do down here, with the occasional house martin.

 

[Glow worm]

I went on a walk last night to look for them at Thrislington, County Durham. We found 34. Fantastic night out

Great to hear that. Sounds like a lovely night and it's good to know they are doing really well there.
I do find them v. hard to photograph, as you can see from the above pic! The camera always focuses on a leaf or some grass rather than the glow worm. I'll have another go next time.

 

[slowmotion]

One more of Curly, aged fourteen.

 

[Fnaar]

The humble snail. In the dark, under a streetlight.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

this won't sound very exciting to many but since moving out here...

a common blackbird! Male with a lovely orange beak. I miss them no longer! I've got one at my temporary residence.

 

[Illaveago]

My daughter found this beetle on the garden path yesterday. My wife said that there seems to be a colony of them in the garden.

 

[summerdays]

No photo of my wildlife today.... I think it was cat poo... or sick... But there was a birds head in it, (I had to move it off the path before the kids walked in it so I had a closer look than I would have preferred.) Probably a young bluetit based on size and beak.

 

[steveindenmark]

My daughter found this beetle on the garden path yesterday. My wife said that there seems to be a colony of them in the garden. View attachment 134100

Its a Stag beetle.

 

[coffeejo]

My landlords say we've got a roe deer who visits most days though I'm yet to see her.

I saw a buck yesterday. Small but incredibly muscular and powerful.

 

[dickyknees]

On our garden wall yesterday.

 

[rich p]

Saw this green lizard in Spain recently. It may be David Icke.