Today's Wildlife Encounter

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Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy

Found a fairly complete Crows head/skull today...

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Originally Posted by Hes

...I cleaned a skull by burying it in a flower pot...

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Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy

You found a Blue Tit skull!!...

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Originally Posted by Hes

...My mum is a zoologist and she has countless skulls...

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Seems like there's a fair bit of skullduggery goin' on 'ere ;)

yes, the first one is the puffin and unfortunately I lost the colourful sheath that goes over the bill. I think it went a bit soft because I bleached that skull due to it smelling rank because my mate left it in my cellar and didn't tell me it was there! The others have been bleached by the sun or were clean when I found them.

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Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy

Yours are lovely and clean! Is the first the Puffin!? My Puffin bill still has the colours, as has my crows!

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:thumbup: ha ha, nice one!

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Originally Posted by wharfeego

Seems like there's a fair bit of skullduggery goin' on 'ere ;)

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A common lizard on my way up to Loadpot Hill in Howtown yesterday.

not clued up on birds but saw a hawk size bird this morning brown wing tips with a black n white fan like tail
any twitchers out there?

out on a navigation course over the weekend we saw a stoat. then tonight there's been an big Owl perched on the neigbours roof. not a barn owl, brownish but big. no prominant ears? My guess would be a tawny.

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Originally Posted by Woodzy

not clued up on birds but saw a hawk size bird this morning brown wing tips with a black n white fan like tail
any twitchers out there?

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Sounds like a kestrel Was it hovering?

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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak

...we saw a stoat...

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How do you know it was a stoat? (Can't believe I beat Grouse to that one!)

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Originally Posted by GeoffB

How do know it was a stoat? (Can't believe I beat Grouse to that one!)

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Black Tip to it's tail.....I'm sure that how you identify them. if not it could have been a weasel...:p

Stoatally correct. Weasily done when you know how. :w00t: