That's just what the wife said:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
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That's just what the wife said:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
For any wildlife enthusiasts this programme on urban foxes is interesting...
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...ty/4od#3329356
Three dotterel on Dove Crag last night on our trot round the Fairfield Horseshoe.
Swifts arrived here the day after you saw yours Navigator
I'm hoping to see and hear one of my favourite birds this weekend in the Strid Woods - the wood warbler
We also spotted a group of three Dotterel on High Street lasy week! Very handsome the male was too!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
Today on my walk around site I saw a little stoat...then the usual buzzards, twite, oystercatchers etc.
How did you know it wasn't a weasel?
Good point!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
They are Stoately different!
Black tip to the tail!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
...or possibly not, having 'googled' it!! You've got me now!! I think Stoats are bigger with shorter tail, according to Wiki, they also have the black tail end! But now not sure wether weasels have a black tip! I'm sticking with Stoat after 'extensive' research!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
Weasels just look like long mice...
Saw one crossing the road t'other day, looked just like a racked mouse.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatcher
Stoats have wider, more triangly heads if you see them face on as well. Quite a bit bigger, not as gingery as a weasel. I saw a lesser spotted woodpecker near Addingham last night on my way home from work.
Weasels are weasily wecognisableQuote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
from stoats which are stoatally different.
Remember that and you'll always get it right :rolleyes:.
Asthe others say, weasels are really very small, the "elongated mouse" is a pretty good description. Stoats have the black tip and actually look big enough to kill something for dinner!
Got there in the end! :w00t:
Thank you people!!! stoat it was...clearly I've never ever seen a weasel!! :)
Tho' out on my run today I saw a pair of foxes fighting in a copse!!! Noisy buggers, very close to me they were too. Also A buzzard by the road flew off about 10' from me!!
I saw some hawfinches today, never clapped eyes on them before. Also a goldcrest.
And a miserable bugger of a farmer.
There's a lot of them Lesser-Humoured Farmers about!Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Yeah, fat bloke with a nissan navara. I've met other farmers round there before - real ones with collies and land rovers! - and never had a problem with them, but this guy - what a c**k!
Hawfinches are a reet good spot!! I tried to see them down south lakes last April but didnt manage! Jealous I am!!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Saw a clutch (?) of freshly hatched moorhen chicks the other day at a private fishing lake in starbeck, can't have been more than a couple of weeks old. Cute little things
Yeah, the male hawfinch was extremely orangey, moreso than I'd have expected given the pictures in the guidebook. Females pretty much as shown, though. I was chuffed, I don't mind admitting!
Just saw two fox cubs crossing the road, no parents to be seen! I suspect they were waiting until we drove on!
They shouldn't really let the cubs out on their own. Bad parenting - have you informed the Child Welfare bods?
Found 2 slowworms at the new house - just like the old home. We put a sheet of old corrugated down on a sunny bank about 6 weeks ago hoping there may be some, there are and they've found it :thumbup:. Pair of Bullfinches still around, destroying all the buds, hope they nest in the thorn bushes. Missus keeps finding new plants coming up in the wood, I'm no good on wild flowers but she finds something new all the time, have a little patch of orchids just showing through.
Missus has "acquired" 8 jumbo quail and brought them home yesterday morning, I knocked up a rather posh pen for them outside - 11 eggs so far and there's males in there too :w00t:.
Here's a few photos from a recent visit to the Rhinogs in Wales...including one mystery creature that needs identifying please...4th photo down
http://runningdelights.blogspot.co.u...ur-recent.html
Molehill, sounds like you have a nice place to live. I saw a little owl yesterday but haven't seen the hawfinches again yet, although I've only been to that spot the once since I last saw them.
Perhaps that farmer shot them, miserable bugger that he was!
Red Squirrel crossing a cattle grid.
A newly fledged family or Long Tailed Tits in our wood. I suddenly noticed I was surrounded by them in the thorn hedges, like little bumble bees flitting about, they can only just have come off the nest as they were very weak flyers! Accompanied by several adult birds, all tweeting and feeding them - apparently this is normal for others adults to help when they fledge. Lovely sight, but blowed if I can find the nest, it can't be far away and we know what we are looking for.
I'm always amazed how those tiny birds manage to carry their iphones whilst flying and feeding:DQuote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Woodpecker! nearly flew in to the car on the Strines and stopped on a birch just 10ft from me, we couldn't stop but that brief glimpse was a real treat.
Early morning today a vixen with her 3 cubs in the street outside our house. 2 of her 3 cubs then decided to have a robust game of chase jumping in and out our front & side garden before continuing the game around and under a neighbour's car.
I love foxes.
They've hatched! :thumbup: All nine cygnets sitting happily with the parents in a reed bed near the nest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Latege
Deer crossing the road in Curbar this morning, just missed hitting it with the car, will try harder next time, quite facncy a bit of venison.
Surprised and pleased to see a couple of oyster catchers near a res in Glossop, a buzzard on the same run and (heard but not seen) a woodpecker a couple of days back, oh and a deer near Longdendale reser. I see the hares have got their summer outfits pretty much.
Great news!Quote:
Originally Posted by Latege
Today's Lapwing
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7240/7...13c2f6d7_o.jpg
Today's Lapwing by Andy Holden, on Flickr
I got a bit too close to a couple of Canada Geese on the Naden middle reservoir today when I was running along a narrow path. They had 3 goslings who looked to be recently hatched. One of the geese gave me a right old hiss.
This morning I was having breakfast and a Goshawk flew past my window and landed on the bank - think it swooped on my pen of Quail :w00t:. We've only had the Quail a week and they are securely penned in, luckily. Was about 10m away from the window for a couple of minutes whilst we watched it through the binocululars - sitting on my plank bridge over the steam.
Enough excitement for one day, this place will take some getting used to.
I'm pretty sure I got 'stalked' by a Goshawk once!! It was pretty scary, it wouldnt let it lie!!!! I had just dropped down to a farm below The Calf in the Howgills and I could hear what i think were their chicks in the woods! Mr Goshawk sat on a fence watching Mrs Goshawk give me a very hard time!
Ptarmigan toyed with me on the Sron nam Forsairean ridge on my way up Ben More, tried again on the way back down but couldn't get any closer.
https://picasaweb.google.com/114631442543115387892/BenMoreSat19thMay2012#5744337161122028210