Green Woodpeckers....
Yaffling with young....
Up, down & over......
The Clough......
Sublime...
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Green Woodpeckers....
Yaffling with young....
Up, down & over......
The Clough......
Sublime...
1 x Barn owl.
2 x unidentified birds of prey - Kestrel in size, but looked brown all over and the wings turned back at quite an angle midway along the front edge with a very fast 'flap rate'. Took off from the ground together in a corn field and flew off in separate directions - some sort of hawk possibly - any clues anyone?? :confused:
Could be a merlin (Falco columbarius). They fly low over the land looking for food.Quote:
Originally Posted by sore legs
Or possibly cuckoo - they can look very falcon-like in flight.
The swifts in the back birdbox will soon fledge, parents are feeding them hard with plenty of squeeking, and can hear the young starting to scrabble about and stretch their wings in the box, shouldn't be long now. Hopefully the ones in the front of house birdbox are also not far off.
Baby Swallows on our roof yesterday evenin'...
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Lovely. What song are they singing?Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
Saw a kingfisher early this morning, while walking the dogs. Leeds -liverpool canal, just near silsden.
Fantastic pics wharfee!
A sparrow hawk - apparently one has just dived into my pond at home and lifted either a frog or fish onto a
fence post and ate it !!! Nice to see but not when it eats my fish !!
Weasel running across Manchester Road just outside Buxton last night. It was holding its head quite high, so it might have been carrying a small mouse or something - we weren't close enough to see.
Oh yeah, I've just remembered. And a red deer near Flash Bottom.
Where ? Flash Bottom? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by noel
There are some funny place names round us. It's just a shame there isn't a place between Flash and Wincle called Flash Wincle. :eek: :oQuote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Flash Wincle. Noel, you've just inadvertently provided the name of the lead character in the book I must now write... ' The Adventures of Flash Wincle '.
Village near Hathersage called 'Shatton' which I always have a good giggle about.
Anyway, saw a very large and very injured Hare last night on a trog. Looked like it had been attacked by a dog or fox and escaped. That's the second one in about six weeks. Went back with a box with the intention of taking it to the wild animal rescue place but it had beggared off by then...
Hee hee! Shatton!
Running today above Merens la Vals and we stumbled across a couple of naked people lounging in a natural sulphur pool next to the GR10 path.
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Photo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
We asked but they declined!
Our run over the fells around the head of Mardale last night was enriched by spotting a fox between Wet Sleddale and Haweswater on the journey there and a gorgeous red deer hind by the roadside near the dam. It remained quite unconcerned by our presence and continued grazing just 5 or 6 metres away. Splendid sight.
Some highlights from today's walk as Calshot near Southampton Curlew, Little Egret, Reed Bunting, Black Tail Godwit, Ringed Plover, Shellduck, Sedge Walker, Redshank, Oystercatcher :cool:
Huggins of bats out tonight in Ripponden.
I wish I could I dentify all those, probably seen most of them at some time but wouldn't know there names....Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
But a couple I could name. yesterday I saw a pair of peregrins and a Swarm ( and I use swarm advisedly) of swifts hunting on the wing along a hedge thick with flies. the air was full with them, i had to slow down in fear of one hitting the window of the car.
Just had a bat appear in the bathroom while I was in the bath. Probably a pipestrelle, there's a summer roost next door. Poor creature! Moley captured it with a landing net and released it unharmed.
Get yourself a guide book and when you see a bird when you're out running make a note of size, colour, movement etc and check it out later at home. RSPB website is good too www.rspb.orgQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
I had a schoolteacher when I was 8 or 9 and he organised bird watching trips to Leighton Moss, Slimbridge etc and it's something I've loved ever since
A bat in the bathroom lat night, whilst Missus was in the bath :w00t:. This caused a vast amount of screeching (Missus not the bat). I chased it round the house and eventually caught it in the bedroom with my fishing net - released unharmed.
Yesterday at work visited a friend who is a keen deer stalker, he had 3 pet young fallow deer in his fenced little paddock. He had rescued one which had a hind leg caught in a fence, the vet amputated the leg and it is now fine (but 3 legs) and the other 2 were orphans following mother a road kill. He bottle reared these in the house (all now a year old). I was feeding them custard creams and stroking the one, very tame and lovely pets, but nobody can understand how someone who controls 100s of deer a year on estates can also show so much compassion.
The Missus or the Bat?????:w00t::DQuote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Boooo Just read the earlier post:sneaky::o:)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
too late moley...your missus has already told us!Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
'aven't seen one o'them before?Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
sometimes described as "a scream of Swifts"...actually the collective noun for Swifts is officially "a flock of Swifts". I like the scream version.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
damn! tha beat me to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Actually on reflection a "Dog fight" might be a betterQuote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
A short Eared Owl, sat on a fence post at 8am this morning, just five minutes down from the summit of Shining Tor.
I've got a week's worth of encounters to report on.
Peregrine falcon doing stoop dives at Combe Martin, North Devon coast
Five red deer on Ilkerton ridge, Exmoor. The dog and I followed them for about 3/4 of a mile, with them staying about 200 yards ahead of us. There was one with full antlers, two with small antlers and two without antlers.
Lots of crabs, anemones, and one starfish on various Cornish beaches. We were hoping for a basking shark sighting, but no luck.
Its a regular Disney film around here in Bowland on my way to work :)
Deer , Buzzard, Squirrel Hare,Pheasant, Partridge, Grouse, and suicidel baby Rabbit stuck in my tire treads!
An owl in the middle of the road at 10pm near Llandegla, N Wales, hopefully it will have moved on now.
Black Grouse and a possible Kite.
Where?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Heading up Pike low (langsett) SK 2199 9670 Took off about 5 meters infront of us and flew down to the Shelter of Ewden BeckQuote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
I know I wasn't running at the time but I saw a Scarce Swallowtail butterfly sat on my washing line this afternoon, turns out they aren't scarce at all but quite common. It was truly beautiful though.
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com