Heard a cuckoo yesterday while out orienteering.
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Heard a cuckoo yesterday while out orienteering.
molehill's mating Slow Worms
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[ATTACH]Attachment 4688[/ATTACH] Here's a slightly better picture, showing his excellent technique - sink teeth into back of wife's neck, hold tight and get on with it - I've learnt a lot from slow worms :closed:. And another picture of a few under the warm slate we put down for them.
Are they edible?
Slow cookers for slow worms.
What's all the chirping coming from this hole...
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Little Tits of some sort!
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Nice one, Mr B.!
I saw golden plovers up by the 12 apostles stone circle yesterday. I'm sure there's always plenty of them about, but I've not actually noticed them and positively identified them for myself before.
I've seen golden plover on Beamsley Beacon before and there's plenty on Gt Whernside, above Hagg Dyke normallyQuote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Had a fantastic time on Mull last week, what a beautiful island! and so much wildlife. Saw my first Golden eagle, glided low over the top of the car and across a field full of sheep and lambs that scattered in all directions. A great sighting of an otter while fishing. First time I've heard Corncrake and did manage to see one. The place was alive with birdsong (so many warblers) the Grasshopper warbler has the most amazing song.
Love to be there when all the flag Iris's are in bloom. Defo another visit for me, but by bike next time.
Fantastic MM!Quote:
Originally Posted by Masham Man
mr b...they're Great Tits...not Little Tits!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I saw a long-eared (I think!) owl tonight, sat on a wall watching me and the dogs. Overall greyish looking, not quite brown and roundy-squat looking to be a tawny, and I think it had the long 'ears'...
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Originally Posted by plodding bear
Is it me or does this owl look as if he has just witnessed something 'startling'..... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
We saw a Golden Plover this morning while running across the moor behind Simon's Seat and just a few feet away a bunch of plover chicks trying their damnedest to scuttle away through the heather. My trusty photographer took this picture (spot the chick):Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
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Also a deer down by the ford below Storiths and a huge heron further along the river :)
Is that a 'Mr.' Golden Plover? the one I saw was similar, but much duller. The long-eared owl, I think that was him, he was about 30 yards away...
Just back from a week at Corrour Lodge and some cracking days out on the hills.
Wildlife encounters included loads of deer, ptarmigan, dotterel, golden plover, black grouse and a stunning view of a golden eagle as we dropped off Stob Choire Claurigh
Nobody seen owt lately?
I snapped this lovely Mute Swan on the River Ribble the other evenin'...
A rare buzzard t'other day at Harewood wharfee. Must be a bit odd surrounded by all those red kites!
Went past a heron when I was out running at lunchtime today. Makes a change from the gazzillion geese and swans I usually see.
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Snake in the toilet at the school where the Mrs. works!
Any more info biara?
Brown and green, she says, grass snake? Or crack cobra;)
Anybody seen any spotted flycatchers? I know they are usually one of the last to arrive, but seem to be getting scarcer round here. I once had them nest in my wisteria on the front of my house, so a couple of weeks ago i got hold of a open-fronted nest box and wedged it in the wisteria, hoping they would take up residence. To my surprise last night a robin has made a nest in it.
No spot fly to report but just seen and heard an oystercatcher fly past :cool:
I,ve seen a lesser spotted piecatcher near the Hollands factory at Baxingden:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Masham Man
I've got three photos from the last week. The tadpoles are coming along nicely.
I've not seen a woodpecker with tufts before. I guess it's just getting the crest of red which juveniles have. Any ideas?
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common sight in Baxenden.Quote:
Originally Posted by john doe
More likely it's just avin' a bad 'air day.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Perhaps it's a really evil woodpecker, the spawn of satan or someone similar?
Or it caould just be sporting a new style, soon to be popular amongst hip young woodpeckers everywhere...
I think they are actually little great tits (tit chicks!):sneaky:Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
'ow come you're so interested in tits when, clearly, you prefer down south;)Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
Goosanders (I think?) on the reservoir when I was out running today. They had green heads so would have been drakes and were mostly white with some black on them. It was a bit choppy on the reservoir and their landing technique was a bit on the dodgy side.
Lots of stuff over the weekend.
In scotland the usual, Deer, Buzzards, Meadow pipit, Wheetear, Curlew, Skylark, 6! Ring oezels the most I've seen for years, A pair of high flying Eagles. met an RSPB surveying one of the top for Dotterels and as if by magic one lands about 10m away, Ptarmigan....Hand fed some Chaffinches as did Shaunetto.
Found an injured Bird of Prey but it was too well to allow me to catch it as it hopped off in to some under growth, redish around its neck, will post some pics when Iget home..
Today went to Bempton Cliffs Loads of gannets razor bills, kittywakes, various guls, swifts, a swallow and some martins. well worth a visit for any one interested in our feathered friends but the smell......
I got buzzed by a buzzard on Saturday! I think Alf posted a similar thing recently. It was a bit disturbing! I felt the air from its wings on my face and it did it countless times whilst I tried to scramble up a rocky ascent on my way to High Cup Nick. I managed to get a few photos but they are rubbish so I won't post them, just interesting to see its head turned to look at me!
Brown hare, rabbits, a Heron, Curlew, peewit and a skylark.
Kestrel I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
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Gets my vote. Haven't seen one this close since I lived in Barnsley and used to keep one in the outhouse. My brother killed it and I had Brian Glover as a PE teacher and he was a right bully.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
I've got some shorts like those he made you wear for PE. Saw an otter waiting for the Jura - Islay ferry yesterday. Err - I was waiting for the ferry that is, the otter was swimming. Magic!
Ran under a woodpecker's hole this morning.
I know it was a woody's hole, as the little chap flew out of it as I was passing, and lots of chirrupings coming from within.
A couple of weeks ago, I must have got too close to an eagle's young...and got warned off by a couple of low fly-pasts....now THAT was scary!
Just about every day since we've been up here in the far north - red kites! Wonderful, graceful birds. And big too. Bigger than I remember from seeing them in mid-Wales.
Last week, in the woods by the house, a woodpecker.
Last Thursday, an otter swimming by the shoreline of Loch Linnhe at Kentallen.
Yesterday, dolphins swimming close to the windswept shore at Chanonry Point.
This morning, a fleeting glimpse of a roe deer outside our house as I took our dog for his morning walk.
Plenty of curlew (or the same one doing flybys) on Middleton moor today during the Ilkley trail race
Drove over the moors towards Kettlewell for a run and it was the kamikaze hour between 7 and 8am this morning. Billions of rabbits running out in front of the car, a hare & various sheep, lambs, cyclists and dog walkers. Missed them all except one bunny that jumped in front of the car but only received a glancing blow and ran off again...I think it was fine.
Also lots of curlews, oystercatchers and peewits flying about.
I hate it when you get dog walkers jumping out in front of the car Hes!!, you must have did well to miss em lol ;) ! you doing the ossy oiks race? I'll be there :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes