Hope they're a good omen:)Quote:
Originally Posted by swift
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Hope they're a good omen:)Quote:
Originally Posted by swift
classic, absolute classic:D:w00t:Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster
Would be good to video but too far south for me to travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Photo of the guilty bird taken with my phone just before it attacked.....Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
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It was clearly offended at getting 'papped' :w00t:.
Or it was a Pennine fan :thunbdown:.
Or it just objected to your 'provocative' running :wink:.
Im not a 100% but I think we saw a Merlin just south of Cockermouth - I dont know if they are / can be confirmed that they are around there. It was smaller than a kestrel and flew fast chasing something in the air - very agile.
Again not sure what it was but saw a huge f*** off bird, much larger than a buzzard, brown in colour soaring high when we were driving up Hardknott Pass. Dont know what it was but if I was in Scotland I would have said it was a Golden Eagle - any ideas on what these may have been??
There are Eagles in the lakes so it could have been if not A Kite?Quote:
Originally Posted by sore legs
Sounds like a merlin.Quote:
Originally Posted by sore legs
They generally drift off the moorlands and often hunt the shoreline in winter.
Im sure it was not a Kite - it was bloody huge and there was no 'V' in its tail - it was square, it was not like any of the Red Kites Ive seen in the past anyway - I was busy watching it and nearly drove off the road down a steep drop to our lasses horror !! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
...Makes my spotting of three Roe deer sound a little lame. Oh, and a grouse or twenty.
And some sheep:o
but did they chase you.....Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
No, although I have been chased by cows. Oh, and when I used to ride a bike, a pheasant once ran alongside for quite a way, stopped when I did, then carried on alongside for a while. I didn't want to speed up in case it suddenly turned into my wheel, they aren't very bright.
Ahh - the famouse grouse!
This is, that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Training run through Cliviger I surprised a cat carrying a young rabbit in its jaws, cat drops rabbit who makes its escape,cat bolts in the other direction.Slight adjustment of me halo,didn't miss a stride.
I saw my first Red Kite in northern England this week (Thursday)
Driving from Harrogate towards Skipton on the A59 at Beamsley Hill.
I have seen them down south but never up north.
insider, they were reintroduced at Harewood House and have done well. I commute home past Harewoood every day and have a kite pb of 18 birds. Fantastc birds :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Inov-8 Insider
I see loads of kites, they're probably my favourite bird of prey. I run round harewood fairly often so I see them regularly
They've started spreading out, too. Often see them soaring high above Bolton Abbey.
Saw a stoat on Ilkley Moor yesterday. (also more sheep. and more grouse.)
How did you know it was a stoat?
It had a stoat club vest on;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Often seen them over our house in the Roundhay area of Leeds.Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Grouse whaddya mean "how do you know it was a stoat?". it was stoat-sized, looked like a stoat, spoke in stoat, and had a t-shirt with the words "I'm a little stoat" on it...
at first I thought it might be a reindeer.
An easy mistake to make:DQuote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
It is indeed an easy mistake to make, but as I've never seen a reindeer up there I thought on balance I'd go for a stoat.
What a great Idea PB (you're not pete Bland in disguise are you?) Get all wildlife to were Tshirts stating what genus they are. Then there would never be a mistake, I see you've already run a field test on Fell ponies....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Saw a couple of grouse today at Fountains abbey near ripon. I saw a weasel the other day as well, bloody tiny it was. Came out investigating whilst I was eating my lunch in a rural layby
Before Grouse gets in "How did you know it was a weasel?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Yorkshire Rob
Because it told me so
Might have been a stoat with compulsive lying syndrome?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yorkshire Rob
Or a reindeer with an identity crisis:w00t:
Any stoat that lies to me will be anagrammed into toast :D
That made me laugh Rob, very clever:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yorkshire Rob
Heeheeheehee
That's pretty much the noise a weasel makes, Grouse! It's very similar to a stoat noise, but they've got a deeper voice.
Talkin' o'weasels...
Sheepdog commands in weasel language:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp2hgt8UTG0
Stoatally amazing!Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
Weasily the best thing I've seen all day.
That'll do weasel, that'll do;)
Think I saw a sparrowhawk below Cock Hill near Shelf Moor tonight - looked chunkier than a kestrel, didn't hover, first near a plantation then a bit further up the moor chasing a couple of grouse (no relations) which I don't think a kestrel would do, would it? Iknow there are peregrines up there too, but I've seen them a few times and don't think it was one of them.