Spotted this evenin'...
The Great Rhino In The Sky!
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/3...nointhesky.jpg
a few more sunset specials... http://www.flickr.com/photos/wharfee...7625876858028/
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Spotted this evenin'...
The Great Rhino In The Sky!
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/3...nointhesky.jpg
a few more sunset specials... http://www.flickr.com/photos/wharfee...7625876858028/
Nice shot, Andy very nice.
Nice!! it was an amazing sky this evening. I like your other sunset pics too especially the reflections ones and the one with the backlit grasses.
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Originally Posted by wharfeego
Brilliant pictures Wharfee, that 'gold bars of dusk' shot is an absolute belter, also like your pics of the birds congregating on the wires.
As for my own wildlife encounter today, a huge wood wasp buzzing slowly round me as I painted a door, scary looking critter but harmless. Had to shoo it away from the wet gloss, as I remembered seeing one 'bout 18 years ago stuck flat on its back on a threshold I'd just painted, with its wings stuck down perfectly like a specimen.
It's not a rhino it's a dragon.
obviously a unicorn.
I just accidentally disturbed a massive amount of wagtails roosting in some small trees. I've never noticed them in big flocks before - are they preparing to bugger off somewhere warm?
Cool, bet that was a great site:) roughly how many were there? they won't be going anywhere warm, may be just having a big party or something!!!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Andy.
It's normal for Pied Wags to roost in large numbers...see image... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ankehuber/4233742741/Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Some will migrate as far south as France but most stay put.
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Originally Posted by wharfeego
Wow, excellent photo's, some as far as France eh? I stand corrected.
this morning at 04.30 in the car park(riverside, beside leeds train station and the river aire) i heard a right racket.
I thought it was a couple of young owls,so started looking up and about.
something caught the corner of my eye,
on the floor were 2 minks having a right set too.
they looked at me in the eye,and just caried on scrapping.
I was reading recently that otters have been spotted round there as well. AmazingQuote:
Originally Posted by dylan
I saw the colony of black rabbits at the side of the Wessenden valley nearly Butterley res tonight. It seems that pet rabbits escaped for a bit of country rough and have breed like.... rabbits.
Whilst I was running in Hackfall Woods this evening, a roe deer leapt across my path. She was the most beautiful colour in the low sun. I went to see where she'd gone and couldn't hear any crashing in the wood. It took a few moments for me to spot her looking back at me from the trees. She stared right at me then tilted her head and turned and jogged off into the trees...magical! :)
cant believe just how much berries the trees are holding at the moment.
The holly bushes are teeming ,
was the old fable that a lot of berries means a bad winter?
not just berries, all fruiting trees have had a bumper yearQuote:
Originally Posted by dylan
Yup, a fair bit of it's bottled and in my cupboard.
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What we believe to be a golden eagle hanging around our back garden. I'll try to get a better picture later.
out for an early run this morning and saw about 40 canadian geese doing low passes over shirebrook, glossop. love how you can hear their wings beating.
Their wings must be tired.
Lots to catch up on! :) I almost charged into a roe deer on my run this evening. It was bounding across my path as I was running downhill. Also saw a flock of long tailed tits in the garden next door, a little owl on the road the other evening, a dipper on the Ure and a weasel near the Bowder Stone in the lakes at the weekend. Not to mention the gorgeous red deer stag on my recce of the Langdale Horseshoe two weeks ago.
I saw a weasel / stoat dashing around at the N end of Eccup reservoir embankment last Friday. Googling to try and find out which it was, I found out they are extremely similar, and also found this joke:
Q. What's the difference between a stoat and weasel?
A. A Weasel is weasily wecognised and a stoat is stoataly different
Stoat has a black tip on tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandra
http://www.wildlifebritain.com/stoatorweasel.php
Not quite as scary as this way round:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15265569
Crikey!!! That looked a bit unnerving. :w00t:
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Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
That's a great joke. I will tell Margarine.
Must be the season for them. This afternoon I saw one (weasel or stoat - sorry, Rodders it disappeared into the undergrowth before I spotted the colour of the tail-tip) running into the undergrowth off the side road to Belmont reservoir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandra
Crumbs, I'll maybe think an extra time or two before I go for my long runs across similar terrain next time I'm back home in Gabon!Quote:
Originally Posted by Multiterrainer
Saw flocks of Redwing and fieldfares on my run this morn.
Dead Pine Martin at the southern end of the Kessock Bridge (Inverness). Always wanted to see one but would have prefered if it had been alive.
Despite the Wharfe being high, two dippers, Mrs goosander, two heron and a flock of long tailed tits spotted this evening. On Wednesday it was a raging torrent and no sign of any dippers, but I did spot a mandarin duck paddling away close to the shore.
Earlier in the week I saw my first stoat also by the Wharfe. It was almost upon us when it realised we were there, did a double take, then shot off in the direction it came from stopping for a better look from the safety of a tree root. A nice treat :)
I bumped into this bunch of characters when I was out on my bike today. Guinea fowl ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE6OYr7Sb5k
Ha ha...I like that! I think you're right Alf, guinea fowl. Hope you had a nice ride.:)
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Originally Posted by Alf
Lovely badgers on BBC badger watch:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/uk/webcams/
Last week during some walks on Pembrokeshire coastal path (St Davids area), saw usual peregrins and choughs etc. but highlights were a Merlin sitting on a fence post, let us approach quite close. A bay with some seals and their pups, suckling, and then an adult seal had caught a bloody great (looked big from the top of the cliff :w00t:) Conger eel. We watched as it actually skinned the whole eel using it's teeth and flippers, and then ate it all - without chips :thunbdown:. Fascinating to see how it managed this feat.
Out with my camera (nowt fresh there!) I was looking for wildlife subjects in a woodland high up on Settle tops when I "squeaked-up" this cat which was hunting amongst the limestone rocks. It was a long way from any dwellings so I will class it as "wildlife" in this case. Like cats or not, it was a beautiful animal...
Went fishing today, Kingfisher, pair Peregrines and an otter a couple of times, very close to us - nice, very big one too.
Sounds a cracking day Moley. Any fish?!Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Been seeing tawny and little owls quite a bit lately but mainly the wildlife has been some absolutely huge spiders in my house (which I don't have the heart to turf out into the cold), silverfish in my bathroom and a big wasp on my curtains. I am not sure if this is a comment on the cleanliness of my abode.:o
A lovely mixed flock (perhaps 200 birds in total) of lapwing and golden plover up near Draughton Moor this afternoon. The golden plover looked amazing in their winter plumage in the sunshine :cool: