Today's Wildlife Encounter

[plodding bear]

I saw a long tailed tit yielding a nest whilst a couple of others (females?) looked on yesterday.
At Kettlewell, just where the road goes over the bridge - I'm there a fair bit so I'll be watching with interest.

[Splatcher]

There's a pair of Mandarin ducks in my garden.

[PeteS]

A herd (?) of llamas whilst out running across the pampas of Worcestershire.
Had some wallabys round here a while ago but this is a new one on me.....

[noel]

A herd (?) of llamas in whilst out running across the pampas of Worcestershire.
Had some wallabys round here a while ago but this is a new one on me.....

Yes: a herd
Your bunch of wallabies was a mob - so an online collective noun list tells me; http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...uns_by_subject

Although it says "Don't trust this list; many of these entries are fanciful and never found outside of word lists." and later includes a helix of geneticists!

We used to get wild wallabies near us, but they died out in the 90s, due to inbreeding so I read somewhere.

[plodding bear]

Seen my first bits of frogspawn today.

[that_fjell_guy]

Pretty sure I did gone see a Golden Plover on't North York Moors yesterday amongst bits and bobs of other stuff!!

[dylan]

3 hares,a tree creeper and frogspawn

[noel]

A kingfisher along the Aire near the boat club at Saltaire. Then a mink swimming about further on towards Saltaire. Hopefully the otters will kill them off soon.

[vespa]

no but the sharks are on there way

[cyclops]

In Kettlewell at the weekend instructing on the FRA nav course...I had the pleasure of waiting at a nav course check point for a good half hour before runners started coming through and was entertained by a pair of curlews. I love their song!!
then as I was walking to my next CP I spotted a man+dog...and then saw he was holding a Harris Hawk....needless to say I went over and had a closer look. the hawk too flight, but returned for some treat! amazing bird