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So was it grey or white 😉?Quote:
Originally Posted by MattPo
Look good stuffed, excellent conversation starter over dinner. I mean stuffed in a glass case on the mantle piece, not with sage and onion on a plate. Though maybe either are acceptable.
That would upset my aged mother!Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
For people like me who aren't very observant, it is helpful to have advance warning of wildlife encounters. On the road from Santon Bridge to Eskdale Green, there was a sign, "Caution: red squirrels". A few hundred yards along the road, there was a rustling in a roadside tree, and there was the squirrel!
Felt very privileged to have a good sighting of an otter in the River Wharfe at Otley yesterday morning. There are plenty of fish in the river - regularly see them jumping. They get fat on all the high class sewerage coming down river from Ilkley.
I do love an otter. We camped by the coast on Arran a couple of weeks ago and were entertained by pair each morning and evening as the tide came in. Lovely to watch out of the campervan window whilst eating your breakfast of Stornoway black pudding. Life doesn't get much better! :)
It probably drinks in the Rose and Crown, it'll be made of stern stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattPo
As seen from a footpath in the Peak District this afternoon.
A nuthatch is not a particularly rare bird, but it's still a thing of beauty
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And it does indeed look like it is hatching nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Quite an elusive bird around these parts but the only nuthatch I have ever seen is on the feeder in our garden. Just the once and probably 4-5 years ago now but a lovely sight to behold.
Sitting in a room at the front of the house this afternoon, there was a loud thud from somewhere outside. I looked out of the window, couldn't see anything. I soon forgot about it.
Two hours later, my wife went into the lounge at the back of the house, where there are patio doors: large sheets of glass. On one was a white imprint of two rather large wings (with even some detail of feathers), either side of a denser white imprint where the bird's body must have hit the window. No sign of a dead bird outside, so it presumably survived.