Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Wheeze]

On a walk yesterday, the first pied flycatcher and I may have heard a cuckoo. Only one "cuckoo" and a car was going past at the time, so not sure and didn't hear it repeated.

A car???......in Rhandirmwyn????? What ever is the world coming to!

[Derby Tup]

Working at home today and I've just heard a curlew bubbling away across the road

[Hes]

I've just been cleaning my car and had to stop and listen as a curlew was calling at the back of my house...such a magical sound.

Working at home today and I've just heard a curlew bubbling away across the road

[dantodman]

Got the runaround from those pesky deer this morning, interestingly I was catching them along the path running but they just disappeared uphill and I couldn't even see which way they went.

[Hes]

Spent a good ten minutes removing toads from the road that leads to my friend's house so that I could drive home without squashing them. One got a bit over excited and started trying to shag my hand...I had to untangle him and was surprised at how strong horny toads are!:w00t:

[skennaugh]

Pheasant and Red Grouse all over the place!

[noel]

While cycling back from work along the canal in Macclefield, I passed a heron. I was on the tow path, it was on the canal side, on the same side of the canal as me. I must have been 4 feet from it when I cycled past it.

It sort of bobbed down, like it was getting ready to take off if it needed to, but it just stayed there. It was one of those moments where you think to yourself "did that really just happen"?

I often wonder if animals watch your eyes to see if you've seen them. In this instance, this may have been the case, as I was intently watching the path until I was about level with it.

[GeoffB]

While cycling back from work along the canal in Macclefield, I passed a heron. I was on the tow path, it was on the canal side, on the same side of the canal as me. I must have been 4 feet from it when I cycled past it.

It sort of bobbed down, like it was getting ready to take off if it needed to, but it just stayed there. It was one of those moments where you think to yourself "did that really just happen"?

I often wonder if animals watch your eyes to see if you've seen them. In this instance, this may have been the case, as I was intently watching the path until I was about level with it.

I've had exactly the same thing happen a number of times on the tow-path between New Mills and Marple. I wonder if they simply don't recognise a human on a bike as being a human, and therefore not a threat. However, we've often been 'escorted' by a heron when we've been on a narrowboat. They tend to wait for the boat to draw level then fly about 50m ahead, wait for you to draw level again and continue doing this until you've reached the end of their territory (presumably). Then they fly all the way back to where they came from.

[lantern rouge]

A pair of buzzards tumbling around in the sky above Teggs Nose in what I can only assume was some sort of courtship ritual.... Spectacular.

[Splatcher]

Great crested grebes with chicks on the Weaver this morning. One chick swimming & at least one on its mother's back.