A Red squirrel !! in a wood outside Buttermere village yesterday.
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A Red squirrel !! in a wood outside Buttermere village yesterday.
Lapwings a plenty and saw a couple of curlews being blown westwards by the wind. :rolleyes:
Lapwings here as well
Oh and i saw a deer
Little furry goslings on the Trent & Mersey Canal this evening. Went back later to take some pics but they'd gone to bed.
Took a picture of Branston Lock instead!
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_B62VCjkPoQk/Sg...ton%20Lock.jpg
A hen Goosander with several young spotted earlier this evening on the river
a blumin git rat on cliff path to robin hoods bay.didn't even run off just watched me go past.also came across some rowdy foreign students does this count.
No!:(Quote:
Originally Posted by village idiot
:D
Grouse.
Did you shoot it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Margarine
Just back from a week of wall-to-wall blue sky and sunshine in NW Scotland.
Some stunning wildlife encounters on Skye, Rum and Eigg and in Knoydart, including Sea Eagle, Golden eagle, Great Northern Diver and Dotterel.
Work was a bit of a shock to the system today!
Best place int'world...but Ssshhh! don'tell'emPike!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
You'd be a bit surprised if you encountered this wildlife!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8064473.stm
There used to be wallabies on the Roaches near Leek although last I heard was they'd not been seen for a while. Any recent sightings anyone? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
I saw what I think must have been a mink yesterday down on the riverbank. Weasely / ferrety looking thing, dark brown to black and about as long as my forearm; very agile and also very comfortable swimming in the water :eek:
Def a mink...get thi cage traps out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
two red squirrels, a dotterel, loads of ptarmigan, sunbuntings but no deer very surprising.
Apart from plenty of Canada Geese (flying overhead and on the reservoir), Curlew, Lapwings & a Merlin over Kex Gill Moor best encounter was the grass snake on one of the paths around Thruscross Reservoir.
I found a grass snake today, unfortunatley it had been flattened by a vehicle.
Sunbuntings??? Where did you see them...Australia?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Sorry I'm still sleepyQuote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
It was a typigraphical error;):o
I meant snow ...
Saw Pied, Grey and my first ever Yellow Wagtail today at the top end of Littondale, all within space of half an hour or so
We had a pigeon on the window sill at work today. It sat there for about 30 mins - could have been longer but I went home. I reckon it was a racing pigeon because it was tagged. Everyone else thought I was mad. They're probably right though...
Read in paper this week it was a 'Painted Lady' year (they're butterflies :rolleyes:). They arrived in mid Wales today, dozens of them coming up the valley and into the garden, had a walk on the hill and they were being blown over the tops. Guess there must be millions of them arrive in the UK? Anyway, great to see.
Otherwise a bloody swallow, they decided that as we leave the bedroom window open, our bedroom would be a great nesting site. Plus we would appreciate being woken at 5.00am by them twittering on the windowsill :mad:.
Swallow omelette anyone?:p
Got buzzed by curlew going over to Shelf Moor across Bleaklow then a yellow or grey wagtail in the brook - how do you tell the difference between them - I know one is quite common and the other quite rare?:confused:
Grey wagtail has a grey head and back, with yellow underneath, particularly so under the tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Yellow wagtail has a russet brown back and much more yellow underneath - on breast and belly.:)
Ponies!! Fell ponies!!!! On the carnedds just below Llewelyn! The 4 legged kind also a Buzzard and a few Curlews
Heard my 1st cuckoo of the year today :)
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Originally Posted by Grouse
Grey Wagtails are the common one - live here all year. Yellows are summer visitors - quite striking.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
I've heard lots recently due to the telegraph;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Ahh. So Grey wagtails are sort of more greyish and Yellow wagtails are a bit more err.. yellow. I think I've got it. ;)
Ta.
A family of Canada geese (two adults defending two goslings) on Turn Edge. I didn't realise there were two goslings at first so I intimidated the adults off the path. Having then avoided stepping on the goslings I turned round to see one of the adults flying straight at me. :eek:
Short-eared owl later on the same run, on Cut-thorn Hill. Among many curlews. A lovely evening run. :)
Dive bombed by irate seagulls all week, changed my route last night and was chased by an angry sounding dog. Made a nice change!
I rescued a sloworm. Driving along thru' countyside at work and saw a buzzard in the road 'gutter'. It flew off and left the lizzard there thrashing about - there were kerbstones so it couldn't climb out of the road. Stopped the car and picked it up and put it into the long grass, surprisingly it seemed unhurt. Good deed for the day. Missus counted 10 in the garden today, so they aren't exactly rare, but I like them.
What a nice guy! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Attack of the greenfly in my garden today! But I don't have a rosebush! :(
If tha leaves them greenflies too long then tha'll end up wi' a bare bush;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mountain Goatess
:D
An impressive flying V of geese just gone overhead, canada geese i think.
A family of Tawny Owls ( not sure of collective noun, but like idea of a 'hoot'! :) ) up a tree sheltering from the rain last night :cool:
a school or university ??:confused: perhapsQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I saw a stunning gold finch this morning