Today's Wildlife Encounter

Early morning today a vixen with her 3 cubs in the street outside our house. 2 of her 3 cubs then decided to have a robust game of chase jumping in and out our front & side garden before continuing the game around and under a neighbour's car.

I love foxes.

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A swan sitting on no less than nine eggs in the middle of a disused section of the Bury-Bolton-Manchester canal - actually, I suppose it was standing on the edge of the nest, otherwise I wouldn't have seen the eggs.

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They've hatched! :thumbup: All nine cygnets sitting happily with the parents in a reed bed near the nest.

Deer crossing the road in Curbar this morning, just missed hitting it with the car, will try harder next time, quite facncy a bit of venison.

Surprised and pleased to see a couple of oyster catchers near a res in Glossop, a buzzard on the same run and (heard but not seen) a woodpecker a couple of days back, oh and a deer near Longdendale reser. I see the hares have got their summer outfits pretty much.

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They've hatched! :thumbup: All nine cygnets sitting happily with the parents in a reed bed near the nest.

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Great news!

Today's Lapwing

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Today's Lapwing by Andy Holden, on Flickr

I got a bit too close to a couple of Canada Geese on the Naden middle reservoir today when I was running along a narrow path. They had 3 goslings who looked to be recently hatched. One of the geese gave me a right old hiss.

This morning I was having breakfast and a Goshawk flew past my window and landed on the bank - think it swooped on my pen of Quail :w00t:. We've only had the Quail a week and they are securely penned in, luckily. Was about 10m away from the window for a couple of minutes whilst we watched it through the binocululars - sitting on my plank bridge over the steam.

Enough excitement for one day, this place will take some getting used to.

I'm pretty sure I got 'stalked' by a Goshawk once!! It was pretty scary, it wouldnt let it lie!!!! I had just dropped down to a farm below The Calf in the Howgills and I could hear what i think were their chicks in the woods! Mr Goshawk sat on a fence watching Mrs Goshawk give me a very hard time!

Ptarmigan toyed with me on the Sron nam Forsairean ridge on my way up Ben More, tried again on the way back down but couldn't get any closer.

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