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Originally Posted by wharfeego
Well spotted - yes I love his velvety antlers. I think he's quite a young one, plus I took that photo two or three weeks ago and hadn't downloaded it from the camera until yesterday. So the velvet has probably gone or nearly gone by now. He was there last night but I didn't have the camera and it was too murky to see him properly.
You are so lucky Eleanor, my friend on Bute has a couple that he thinks are living in his garden too. Wish mine was big enough for a deer. They are one of my favourite animals. Could maybe fit in a muntjac :)
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Originally Posted by Eleanor
When it eats all you plants and you want to shoot it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eleanor
A Roe buck - if he stays I'm afraid he will probably eat everything - not much you can do about it except scare him off the garden. Down in Sussex (years ago) they used to decimate the Missus garden, come right up to the windows at night and take all her roses and flowers. And when it went into the veg garden there wasn't much left. Missus would be in tears after all her hard work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eleanor
On the hill yesterday, we were sitting by some rocks and a Goshawk flew just below us, then perched on some rocks 50 metres away. Nice to see, but apparently causing devastation with the local chickens. Everyone keeping free range birds are losing them all to the hawk - which looked very well fed and was eyeing up by sisters chickens in the valley below :)
Aww, that's a real shame. She must have been really upset. I know how pissed off I was when next door's cat used my herb garden as a toilet. Perhaps its a good thing that I don't have a resident roedeer after all.
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Originally Posted by molehill
Lapwings, Skylarks and Curlews over Rishworth Moor today. Quite a few new born lambs in fields staggering on unsteady legs (a bit like me today really :rolleyes: )
Yes they do eat everything. We fence off the bits of the garden that we use for growing and that's worked okay, until the storm blew down some of the gates and fencing earlier this year, but there's not much to eat at the moment anyway. We were careful to protect the new fruit trees that we planted last year and they are thriving alongside our little friends. I don't think anyone has yet threatened to shoot him but the gardens are all on the, err, wild side up here. Not so many manicured flower beds!Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Sounds like tha's getten a cold molehill.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Saw oystercatchers, curlews, lapwings and loads of hares on my run last night and also some snipe near Hawes yesterday. Really love this time of year.
Stef and I ran on Ilkley Moor yesterday and saw curlew, lapwing, skylark, snipe, mipit, golden plover plus our first wheatear of spring. Last night we had a walk from Barden Bridge up to the Strid Woods and saw three deer, a pair of mandarin and first common sandpiper. No roding woodcock or sand martins though
Red Kite on my run up Beamsley on Saturday
2 curlews yesterday morning in the pouring rain climbing up Beacon Hill outside Llangunllo in mid Wales (my morning run while staying with friends), then later 8 buzzards and 2 red kites while out walking. Not bad!
Could see, what I initially took to be a red kite, diving down to intercept another, it was only when they clashed I could see it was a pair of osprey. Absolutely stunning, and what a show they put on, twisting, turning upside down claws clenched having a right old dingdong, eventually disappearing down the valley, only for another to glide overhead, just stood there gobsmacked.
Wow...lucky you!! That must have been quite a sight.:thumbup:
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Originally Posted by tarren
Just had a very quick blast out on my bike and had a great view of a stoat slinking across the road. It stopped to have a look at me before jumping up onto the bank and disappearing in the hedge.:)
Mountain Hare up on Glas Maol looking like he'd shed his winter colour a touch too soon
Roding Woodcock and Sand Martins at Leighton Moss last week. No Swallows or Willow Warblers for me yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Yes, sure was, just wish I'd had my headcam on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Where in Mid Wales were you? We were down there over the weekend and the Mrs went to see the breeding pair at the Dyfi Osprey Project. It may have been the same pair courting.Quote:
Originally Posted by tarren
Now now Chris old chap, I should suggest that you and your lady friend should get yourself a nice room together. Spiffing what!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris H
I'm in Tywyn, just 4 miles North of Aberdovey, which is just down the Dyfi from the observation site. I saw them at the furthest point of my run, couple of miles into the hills. Did your Mrs manage to get a glimpse of the pair? An odd bird is also glimpsed hawking the Dysynni just a mile from me but despite walking along there many times I've never been fortunate enough to get a glimpse, perhaps this year if I'm lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris H
Yes she saw them, I don't there are any eggs yet but I'm sure they'll be the stars of Springwatch again this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by tarren
A teeny weeny shrew or something dashing across the road as I drove along!
Its often worth stopping if you see a stoat. They'll often pop back out for a check. If theyre on road kill the definately will. They're warey but not always shy. I've stopped a few times if I've seen them and been rewarded with decent views. I had a family running around my feet in a woods once, they must have thought I was a tree!! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Hes
ha ha, that must have been great to see. Good tip, thanks, I'll hang about a bit next time.
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Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
I quoted the wrong quote btw!! :o
lap wings, curlews a white hare or too and a peregrine eaten racing pigeon. what would the general say to some flatcap whippet breeding pigeon fanciers pride and joy being eaten by A peregrine.... ;)
If you'd have taken the ring no I could have found out who owned it, it may well have come from a certain Mrs Windsor, although I've never seen her wearing a flat cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
They see the Ospreys most years hunting over Clywedog reservoir (Llanidloes), fairly obvious what they are doing there :D. Think they are annual visitors to the area, didn't they nest up Welshpool way about 5 years ago?
Never been lucky enough to see them myself.
Yes I took the ID number including the mob number(fancy a pigeon having a mobile??) Will let them knowQuote:
Originally Posted by tarren
Owners will appreciate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Been past Clewedog many a time Matt, but like you I've never spotted them, perhaps this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
First sighting (for me) this year of wheatears up on Ilkley moor. Quite a few of them, too.
Kingfisher, 3 oystercatcher, 2 deer, maybe half a dozen singing willow warbler and a half-hearted chiffchaff highlights of this evenings walk by the river. I stood hanging around in the gloom looking out for woodcock but decided I must look like a dogger so came home :o
Swallows! First this year :)
Later on, I disturbed a buzzard feeding on a curlew, there was a a huge pile of feathers, with one leg and a little further on the rest of the body, picked clean. Amazing to see the long curved beak close up.
[QUOTE=Derby Tup;478433]Kingfisher, 3 oystercatcher, 2 deer, maybe half a dozen singing willow warbler and a half-hearted chiffchaff highlights of this evenings walk by the river. I stood hanging around in the gloom looking out for woodcock but decided I must look like a dogger so came home :o
Haha :D.
One kingfisher:), two kites, no otters http://www.realbuzz.com/static/js/ti...iley-frown.gif
ah yes Oyster catcher saw a few to day I think, but can't recall seeing tem so high anything else it could be? in pairs striking black/white wings a tad smaller than an curlew?Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
also curlew(lots) lap wings a snipe a couple of buzards and 1000's of seagulls...! meadow pipits
Bunnies and lambs by the score
10 hours on the hill today, any guesses of where I've been?
Had a good little run of spots last couple of days. Badger, Red Squirrel, Vole, Peregrine...then usual Twite, Oyster-Catchers, Curlew, Lapwing, Buzzard. Theres even Oyster-Catcher nest right next to the roll-door of stores, and by the road on the entrance, where I work. You can see the two big specled eggs when it runs of 'shouting' at you!! Saw otter tracks the other day too on our long walk out!! Think we spotted Chiffchaff, but on getting home our lass wasnt so sure, may of been Willow Warbler. LBB's always get us!!!
First pied flycatcher of spring spotted this morning in Strid Woods. Very smart looking male checking out a nest box. Several sand martin too in one of the usual places