Thats the Badger. (figuratively speaking)
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Thats the Badger. (figuratively speaking)
mink in back garden
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just catching up, 2 seperate short eared owls last week over 2 races and a chamois today scrambleing up a very steep slope, aslo heard some marmottes but they remained hidden.
just looking at 4-5 goldcrests! in the trees oposite the chalet :)
There were lots of hares this evening and a poor squashed stoat on the road.:-(
More Goldcrests, a Black Kite! and a buzzard whilst climbing and then on the decking balcony whilst having a BBQ a Black Redstart.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
It's a good job I'm on holiday with a keen ornithologist as I wouldn't have known what it was!
A poor squashed Tawny Owl on the road this mornin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
On a more +ve note...a few pics of a recent trip to Leighton Moss area...
The Stalk
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/667...uly2011064.jpg
The Catch
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/327...uly2011072.jpg
Supper
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/503...uly2011077.jpg
On The Boardwalk...Evading Predation!
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2877/commonlizard.jpg
Fantastic pictures as usual Wharfee.
I was at a client’s house the other afternoon, a lovely old couple, and they’d just sprayed and killed what they thought to be half a dozen wasps in their porch and, while standing well back, gave me all sorts of warnings and be carefuls as I trapsed through the 'wasp' corpses and into the house. And then this morning even my very bestest of best friends commented on how lovely all the 'bees' were in the honeysuckle over the porch.
In both cases they weren’t wasps or bees, they were hoverflies which I absolutely adore and are completely harmless. They also look nothing like wasps or honey bees. For the sake of the gormless:
A wasp:
http://www.irishhealth.com/content/i...2/waspjpeg.jpg
A bee:
http://brsr.org/wp-content/gallery/b...e/honeybee.jpg
A hoverfly:
http://dereila.ca/dereilaimages/Bee3a.jpg
:)
they are all in my conservatory at the moment!
william,we think the mink has taken the grebe and moorhens as not seen here or any of the local waterways for a while.
we have set a trap but think its gone.
the trap remains.
saw a newt in the garden today.
Three peacock butterflies with clouds of small whites on a big patch of thistles in flower near Eccup Reservoir. Must have been freshly hatched - their wings quite perfect with the most beautiful, dazzling "eyes".