Today's Wildlife Encounter

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Originally Posted by tarren

If you'd have taken the ring no I could have found out who owned it, it may well have come from a certain Mrs Windsor, although I've never seen her wearing a flat cap.

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Yes I took the ID number including the mob number(fancy a pigeon having a mobile??) Will let them know

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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak

Yes I took the ID number including the mob number(fancy a pigeon having a mobile??) Will let them know

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Owners will appreciate that.

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Originally Posted by molehill

They see the Ospreys most years hunting over Clywedog reservoir (Llanidloes), fairly obvious what they are doing there :D. Think they are annual visitors to the area, didn't they nest up Welshpool way about 5 years ago?
Never been lucky enough to see them myself.

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Been past Clewedog many a time Matt, but like you I've never spotted them, perhaps this year.

First sighting (for me) this year of wheatears up on Ilkley moor. Quite a few of them, too.

Kingfisher, 3 oystercatcher, 2 deer, maybe half a dozen singing willow warbler and a half-hearted chiffchaff highlights of this evenings walk by the river. I stood hanging around in the gloom looking out for woodcock but decided I must look like a dogger so came home :o

Swallows! First this year :)

Later on, I disturbed a buzzard feeding on a curlew, there was a a huge pile of feathers, with one leg and a little further on the rest of the body, picked clean. Amazing to see the long curved beak close up.

[QUOTE=Derby Tup;478433]Kingfisher, 3 oystercatcher, 2 deer, maybe half a dozen singing willow warbler and a half-hearted chiffchaff highlights of this evenings walk by the river. I stood hanging around in the gloom looking out for woodcock but decided I must look like a dogger so came home :o


Haha :D.

One kingfisher:), two kites, no otters http://www.realbuzz.com/static/js/ti...iley-frown.gif

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Kingfisher, 3 oystercatcher, 2 deer, maybe half a dozen singing willow warbler and a half-hearted chiffchaff highlights of this evenings walk by the river. I stood hanging around in the gloom looking out for woodcock but decided I must look like a dogger so came home :o

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ah yes Oyster catcher saw a few to day I think, but can't recall seeing tem so high anything else it could be? in pairs striking black/white wings a tad smaller than an curlew?

also curlew(lots) lap wings a snipe a couple of buzards and 1000's of seagulls...! meadow pipits

Bunnies and lambs by the score

10 hours on the hill today, any guesses of where I've been?

Had a good little run of spots last couple of days. Badger, Red Squirrel, Vole, Peregrine...then usual Twite, Oyster-Catchers, Curlew, Lapwing, Buzzard. Theres even Oyster-Catcher nest right next to the roll-door of stores, and by the road on the entrance, where I work. You can see the two big specled eggs when it runs of 'shouting' at you!! Saw otter tracks the other day too on our long walk out!! Think we spotted Chiffchaff, but on getting home our lass wasnt so sure, may of been Willow Warbler. LBB's always get us!!!

First pied flycatcher of spring spotted this morning in Strid Woods. Very smart looking male checking out a nest box. Several sand martin too in one of the usual places