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Oh wow, what a beautiful photo Wharfee! Look at the colour of its eyes!! I'm going to do another fox print this autumn. I've got an idea for one in the snow.
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I don't know if its the foggy weather that is showing all the spiders webs up at the moment but there were loads in my garden this morning including a single filament extending some 15' between the back door and the fence :cool:
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Went hunting for Herons at lunchtime,
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That's a stunning photo wharfee!Quote:
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Stunning indeed. I've just sat open-mouthed through the whole 'nature' slideshow.
Agreed, you have some awesome pictures there WharfeeQuote:
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Yesterday. Spotted a common lizard on the road from Bowden Bridge towards Kinder Reservoir. NotVeryMiniMarvin almost ran it over on his bike. Then later as we drove home, what I think was a weasel running across the road in front of the car. That was the second lizard I've seen this year, the first being on the Kinder Plateau. Are they becoming more common, of have I just been lucky.
You see a few up on Kinder and on Howden regularly, I think they are as you say common, they are just quick at getting away. on a summer morning with good eyesight you should detect some on south facing slopes warming up.(Not in a running sense;) )Quote:
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Plenty of those huge black flies on Kinder this morning, I could hardly see or breath for them, huge swarms of the blighters, ended up cutting the run short because of it.
A couple of racing pigeons apparently walking home on the Pennine Bridleway :confused: I offered them a lift on my handlebars but they were going in the other direction. I am not a pigeon fancier but they looked in beautiful condition not iike your manky feral ones, slim, shiny, rings on both legs, probably somebody's pride and joy so hope they keep away from the foxes!
Spotted a roe deer and at least two bats this evening - probably more of the latter but combination of darkness and fast movement made it difficult to count (them not me!)
Hey Alf: PHWOAARRR!!!!!
Did a 10km run (plus lots of walking) up Lightside, Yellowslacks then over to Glossop Low and Cock Hill yesterday - I too had loads of big black flies....what's with em? They were mostly congregating on the heather section which at knee depth and quite a few hidden holes made for difficult running for me.Quote:
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Anyone heading up/coming down Cock Hill from Old Glossop - there's a couple of horses with ponies in the unfenced section of field below the lower tree section - they didn't seem pleased to see me as I appeared so I stuck to the path between the 2 walls.
@ Grouse - I have your PD Wildlife book to return - are you at Chunal on Wed? Barrel - Tues after? or Shelf Moor?
Current houseguest :D
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I've got one of those too Alf. Its current residence is in a box of my printing plates and it like a little perambulation round my living room at dusk. I think it is more the size of a chihuahua though! :w00t:
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I do that stretch.
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Its not moved since so must have been post running stretching. Probably been doing a few wall reps when we were all asleep.
Suicidal Grouse
Daft bugger was too busy flapping and making alarm calls to look where it was going, flew into a tree and broke for it's neck.
Hard not to feel a sense of sadness watching it's final fading twitches!
Loads of bats, a badger, a fox and a large deer last night. Oh, and some youfs ;)
Attachment 5047 Last week some riggers cane and stuck up a substantial new transmitter mast up next to the slender old mast that's been a feature of the view out of my bathroom.
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A sparrowhawk was hunting some little birds by our road end this morning. Maybe they all flew off to your mast ZM. Saw about four deer in the field next to the A65 between Settle roundabout and Runley Bridge last week too.
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Driving along the Strines road in the dark you often catch various wildlife in the head lamps but tonight was the best for a while. Whilst driving and watching bats flit around I thought I could see a fox running along the road but it looked a bit stocky and the colours weren't right then it turned looked at me and ran in to the undergrowth BADGER! really chuffed to see this but then a mile further along this white ghost of bird flew straight at me down the middle of the road. Pretty certain it was a barn Owl, glad I didn't hit it.
Chiffchaff (I think), haven't identified one before but had a good look and the book seems to agree. Could have been a willow warbler. Won't sleep tonight...
Plenty around our-way at the mo' (Chiffchaff that is!)...Quote:
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Frank (our friendly Heron) in the "garden" again this morn/eve..
Hunting & Fishing for Frogs, Toads & Small Fry...
Staying (mostly) of the Grouse :wink:!
(+ massive flock/flocks of Canada Geese up Tunstead Fields - noisy blighters!)
I went for a slow trot around Bolton Abbey yesterday, testing my leg to see how it's recovering. (ok, by the way, thanx for asking!)
Anyhoo, without even trying, I saw a stoat, heron, two kingfishers, dippers, a nuthatch, coal tits and all the usual birds and ducks. I'll have to have a slow walk around there early one morning, and have a good look, I bet there's loads. I've seen deer there on lots of occasions, red kites flying around, mandarin ducks, goosander...
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Lammergeier (saw four in total) over Gingilos, Crete. Bit of a cheat really as it was over a month ago. Had to put the photo up as I was very exited to see them.
Pipistrelle bats, loads of them tonight
A tiny tawny owl sitting on a post this afternoon!!!:), anyone ever see any otters? I'd love to see one:thumbup:.
There certainly used to be some up between malham and grassington, I've seen them in Scotland and one or two rivers in northern england.Quote:
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Training / recce with my brother round the Three Shires yesterday in beautiful late summer sunshine. Dragonflies, flying ants (and walking ants), a frog croaking as we climbed Wetherlam, and a larger chorus as we headed down to Blea Tarn.
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Badger skull found the other day near Stockdale Lane. Looked clean, so stuck it in a plastic bag and popped it in bumbag. Forgot about it for a day or two and nearly retched when I opened the bumbag to get my waterproof out, everything stank like DEATH!
(Bleached and safe now though)
Saw a stoat on my run on Wednesday and a huge hedgehog pottering across the road last night.
I saw about 8 deer in effectively a small herd in a field to one side of High Hill Lane above Settle on the way back from work tonight. It makes me wonder whether they were actually being farmed but deer can easily get over the dry stone walls up there, so that's probably not likel. They were a beautiful sandy brown and about half had the full antler kit on top :)
That reminds me, saw a deer and the funniest shaped llama in the world near Wildboarclough on saturday.
Ay'up Stolly...there used to be a herd of Red Deer in the Hellifield Moor area, they were introduced by a land owner many years ago. Eventually the herd dispersed into the surrounding area and for the last 10 years the deer have resided in the Langber Lane/Scaleber area. I have some film footage from last year of a 20 plus strong herd in a field near to the Wildshare Plantation adjacent to Langber Lane. They're always in the area but are quite elusive. I have an ambition to photograph the herd one of these days.Quote:
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Cheers Andy. Thats exactly the area I saw them and I figured you'd know something about it. I've seen quite a few single sightings and the odd pair but this is the first time I've seen such a large group.Quote:
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Nee Bother and I had to hurdle a few giant rats on our club run down by the riverside the other night! :-O