The Humble Starling...NOT!
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Fight Club by Andy Holden, on Flickr
Squabbling over a few breadcrumbs in our back yard...similar to some threads on this forum:wink:
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The Humble Starling...NOT!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8356/8...4cb95f5a_c.jpg
Fight Club by Andy Holden, on Flickr
Squabbling over a few breadcrumbs in our back yard...similar to some threads on this forum:wink:
Great spotted woodpecker.
All 4 Jays on the doorstep.....at tea-time...not now...
Looking for Scarps'....
Good to hear you are on the "mend" Ian ;-)!!!
Lesser Spotted next...?
PS Great Photo Andy!
Gang Lamb Stile
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Gang Lamb Stile! by Andy Holden, on Flickr
I know it's not "wildlife" but how could I resist!
:thumbup:I like what you did there!
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Absolutely glorious snowy run today marred only by the eejits out shooting on the footpath so that I had to wade through knee deep mud, slush and snow to get past (but I digress). I later flushed out a woodcock but luckily nowhere near the shooting party and I saw a beautiful brown hare which had no idea I was there so I was able to watch it for quite some time. Was then on the moor in virgin snow...bit hard going but just fantastic! Lots of grouse, some lapwings and tracks from hares and rabbits but not much else to see.
Deer in Cleatop Wood, the picture is as clear a view as I got of them, so no identification, but definitely too big for Sika Deer.
Also a robin sat on a gatepost within touching distance in front of a snowy backdrop. It didn't have the decency to sit still long enough for me to take my gloves off and get the camera out.
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5 Red Deer on Blacka Moor, Great Spotted Woodpecker Longshaw Estate and a Fox coming off Totley Moor sadly didn't get chance to snap any of them , but great out in the snow today looking at tracks
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Originally Posted by Ze Monsta
I find it hard to believe that there are people who get excited about shooting such a wonderfully mysterious bird as the woodcock.Quote:
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See this link... http://www.woodcock-hunting.com/#&panel1-5
And if one shoots a "right-and-a-left" (2 woodcock with one double-barreled shotgun) one can send away for a "tie, port glasses, bottle of apricot brandy, badge and scrap of fame from the Bols Snippen Club, now known as the Woodcock Club and run so well by Shooting Times" as read in this link...
http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/featu...own_ghost.html
I guess shooters would say that if they weren't conserving woodland areas for shooting then woodcock wouldn't be around to shoot.
Sorry...I'm talkin' bollox...again!
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Great pic that Wharfey :thumbup: I haven't seen a starling for weeks in my garden. Time was I used to wish I didn't get them in the garden as they tended to steal all the food from the other birds but these days I would welcome them. Magpies seem to have replaced Starlings as the "gannets" of the neighbourhood.
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Its the birds they maim and don't kill or other animals they hit unintentionally with their shot that crawl away and die slowly in misery that they don't consider.
I have no major objection to country folk doing a spot of shooting for the pot or even really the artificial rearing of pheasants for other folk to prove their hunting prowess but having read these articles on the numbers of Woodcock that are taken from the shoot locations I don't see how its sustainable. No wonder they are rarely seen. Thoughts ?
I feel that shooting woodcock is not sustainable; apparently the breeding population has been falling in recent years, perhaps because of less suitable habitat as conifer plantations become too mature for woodcock to find open enough breeding areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaf
Believe it or not I actually unintentionally flushed a woodcock from some rushy grass today whilst walking to a point on a hill to take a landscape photo. The bird flew up from only a few feet away and even though I've seen woodcock on several occasions they're surprisingly much bulkier birds than I imagined them to be.
What upsets me is that there shouldn't be any hunting in Hackfall. It is managed by the Woodland Trust and yet I have seen the shooting parties sending their dogs in to collect the birds they've shot from across the river. I get really pissed off by the shooting parties that keep taking over the footpaths and acting as if they own the place when all they've done is pay a lot of money to blast the hell out of some birds that are, unfortunately, not very bright!
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Originally Posted by wharfeego
Definitely roe deer. Stolly sees them a lot there. Beautiful animals.
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Cheers both.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
day out on the Coniston massif today
hurrying back to the car as it went dark
stream between Caw and Brown Haw
Otter
huge thing
narrow stream
panicked when it saw me and started jumping in and out trying to work its way downstream
only got one pic and it's a bit blurry, but I can put it up if anyone's interested...
:thumbup:Ooo, exciting stuff! yes, put the pic up, it'd be good to see it. There's otters along the Ure where I live but I haven't seen them myself yet.
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A male chaffinch singing beautifully. Spring is coming
I was surprised at how high it could jump!
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/attac...3&d=1359761552
Absolute quality sighting Daz! Probably THE best "Wildlife Encouter" this thread has ever seen, especially as you saw it on the high fells during a fell run. Not the sharpest of pics but a very good effort under the circumstances. 10/10
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Saw a Mountain Hare for the first time in the UK today:thumbup:. Even better as I was doing the Mickleden Straddle race at the time. (some may say I wasn't racing hard enough)
:) I'm jealous! I was promised mountain hares on our High Peak Marathon recce but it got snowed off so I hope they are still white (and we see some) when we try again in two weeks time.
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Fantastic stuff Daz. What a great sighting.
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Sitting on the bog this morning, I looked up through the roof velux window to see the Goshawk circling overhead.
Offputting.
I was sitting on the bog this morning and looked down to see the Brown Trout.
I recently bought a little wearable HD camera.
Thought I'd take it out for a trial run on Saturday morning (2nd February 2013) and I happened to have an encounter with a very foxy lady.
Hope you like it!
If so, send a link to a friend. - AG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJhkpjdsrs
'sfunny... the goshawk said something similar:pQuote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Just watched the video Allan... fantastic:).
Unusual markings on the fox...what's that crossed with then?
Thanks for taking the trouble to post it.
I didn't see anything unusual about the fox's markings, have I missed something? Brilliant footage!
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A robin in the garden. Nothing unusual in that, I know, but this one literally flicked the fringe of my hair as it flew past!
First frogspawn in our woodland pond.
Also put up the 10 nestboxes in the woods. Blue tits checking them out an hour later.
I spent last night with my twin brother in Derbyshire. We spotted a little owl close to his home in the evening, and heard chaffinch singing in the garden and a nuthatch calling this morning. He saw a barn owl locally last week too; the lucky lad :thumbup:
Two male shoveller ducks on the Leeds & Liverpool in Nelson yesterday. First I've seen for a while, & I didn't expect to find them in town. About a dozen reed buntings today near the Weaver, hanging around in a hedge waiting for spring.
Perhaps it's the local ducking spot :wink:Quote:
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Two absolutely gorgeous roe deer in cleatops wood a couple of nights ago; their eyes reflected silver in my headtorch beam and they just froze and stared at me and Hazzer while we stared back :)
First Curlew of the year...flew over our 'ouse in 'ellifield...it even "curlewed" for me so I "curlewed" back as a welcome back t' Dales.
Brilliant news re curlew wharfee :)
4 snipe, a woodcock and loads of grouse on Clougha this morning.
First curlew for me yesterday too, on Bleaklow.