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Many years ago I did a bit of volunteer work on an RSPB reserve, they had a goshawk nesting in the woods there - very impressive birds although maybe not if you're a quail!
Bigfella, if you want that venison, you'll have to get a mate to drive along behind you because legally, if YOU hit it, You aren't allowed to pick it up as far as I recall! Not quite sure how they enforce that law on dark country lanes in the wee small hours, though...;)
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Other clubs might get a dog on the pitch. Not Baildon...
Dotterel on Ingleborough Summit
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The Climb Was Worth It by Andy Holden, on Flickr
A lovely shot, that one!
I've heard a few golden plover up on Ilkley moor lately, also saw a bird at a distance which I'm pretty sure was a male stonechat. What with dotterel, curlews, skylark, red kite, wheatear and so on, who says there's nowt to see on moorland?!
spent the last couple of days at bainbridge.
heard my first cuckoo,
loads of lapwings but most of all hundreds of slugs up on burtersett and countersett fells.
We had an Tawny Owl(?) sat on our telegraph pole sqwaking away it was!! Not sure why, looked a little big to be a chick, also a bit soon maybe? Got a good look, but it was dark!!
Tonight's wildlife spotting - two young badgers about ten feet away. They ignored me and the dog for about 30 seconds then snuffled towards us before changing their minds and running away. :thumbup:
Saw a heron flying around near Lindley Wood reservoir tonight. Big critters aren't they? Thought it was a pterodactyl at first (hadn't got me glasses on).
And they're extinct as well.
i once saw over a dozen sat in the trees at the trout farm there.
looked so surrreal
That never occurred to me. I believe everything I see on the telly.Quote:
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I'm sure I saw a heron just the other day. Maybe this mass extinction stuff is real after all.Quote:
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We've had my grandson staying for a few days, been out walking the dogs with him in the evenings. We've seen deer, owls, hares, bullheads, minnows and trout, he's been up to his waist in a bog - marvellous!
Inquisitive Young 'un
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Inquisitive Young 'un by Andy Holden, on Flickr
The Magpie...Love it or Loathe it?
Attack on a fledgling
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Result of attack
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Survivor 2 hours later (note injured foot)
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The natural world can be a brutal place
Had a great week up Scotland, Islay, Jura and the far North. Saw stacks!! Golden Eagle at Adbeg Distillery, Snipe...heard a Corncrake but didnt see it. Hen Harrier(s), Cuckoo, Chough (after a prelonged drive about, and at a distance...somewhat unsatisfactory), Northern and Red Throat Diver, Terns (unsure as to which!?). Puffins, Great Skua, Shag (very close up!)...and loads of little stuff too! No Otters or Dolphins tho'!! :thumbup:
...more fox cubs in the road!! There's been a few of these recently!
Just back from a breezy run along the strines road when an unusual leaf blew across the road. It was trying to get back with little sucess. turned out to be a tiny chick. Picked it up and it didn't want to get off. Managed to find some shelter in the bracken, noisey little chap.
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yellow/green breast
A Warbler? Wheatear? some sort of finch, c'mon Andy's(Warfee and DT) what was it.
not the clearest of pictures but it was one handed in a strong wind shooting blind :)
Closest I can come to is a Grasshopper Warbler.Quote:
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Looks like a young willow warbler Ian.
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I'm not very good on the small birds but they were the two options that came out favourite for me.Quote:
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100m up the path and just 4 ft off it is a curlew nest, every time I go near it(I take a wide berth) the birds put on cracking display to lead me away, however it's exactly the the same every time I pass it, a bit further on there is a Lapwing nest on the other side of a dry stone wall, the lapwings are a bit more agressive though so I keep my head down and move on.Quote:
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Navi, I think you are right.Quote:
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I'd go with that. Grasshopper Warblers have more streaked plumage.Quote:
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Dead Mole. Any idea's why/how a mole would be dead above ground with no obvious signs of attack and no 'damage'?
I'd like to know any idea about that too, saw one like tat a couple of years ago WHICH reminds me, saw a dead shrew on the path yesterday which happens a lot and I bet to lots of other people too - I have always assumed these are fresh kills which the predators have abandoned at the sound of galloping fell shoes. Oh and - saw a roe (think) deer too, near the Lad's Leap route looked at me for a bit then leaped away through the bracken. Wish I could jump like that.
BTW Geoff it wasn't one of those expensive ones...:w00t:
Moles bury their dead above ground. ;)Quote:
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Ha ha! :)Quote:
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Back at the old house mowing & strimming, a pair of peregrines above giving a buzzard a very hard time. Peregrines probably nesting in the old quarry opposite.
Swifts back in the nest boxes on rear of house, Swallows building in the garden shed (how do they manage to fly through such a small opening?). Plenty of slow worms on compost and under the corrugated. Garden a mass of colour and flowers.
I do hope that whovever buys the house is a lover of wildlife and continues to protect what we have there, but not counting on it.
Slow worms? I only ever saw one fleetingly in my early childhood in the late sixties. Of course I thought it was a snake at the time. The memory has stuck with me to this day and I long to see another.
Here are some from the old house, we have them in the new garden as well - but never seen a snake in either area.
Hoping this attachment works, but not sure how to do it.
Thanks molehill. The colour is just as I remember from ~44 years ago when my sighting was gliding along in the undergrowth on an overgrown nettle-filled railway bed in Somerset.
For anyone who runs around Swinsty Reservoir watch out for this little fella.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18525101
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having my morning break/walk between the armouries and brewery wharf this morning.
there was a mink and 2 cubs on the riverside footpath,
no idea where they came from,she picked one cub up in her mouth and ran off,dumping it 50 yards up the path then ran back for the other.
what do you do?
report it,have it culled?
its obviously thriving but at what cost.
Tadpoles in my pond have consumed 21/2kilos of dog food, and a squirrel that I shot. They are making serious inroads to a rat (which I trapped and threw in there) and given them another kilo of dog food today - reckon they will finish it in 2 days max.
Has anyone ever disposed of a dead human body by feeding it to the tadpoles? Bet no crime writer has thought of that one yet.
An owl flew in front of us as we drove home from Hope Wakes fell race last night...no idea what type, was on rushup edge road as you drop down towards chapel
Rather than feedin' yer missus to those taddies you could try feedin' that new telly to 'em!Quote:
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