Well done Daz. Part time Shepherd goes with the fellrunner territory :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DazTheSlug
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Well done Daz. Part time Shepherd goes with the fellrunner territory :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DazTheSlug
I have a Bee's nest in one of the ridge tiles on my roof. Not really worried by it but should I call someone or just let nature take its course and fill up the hole when they are finished ?
Bumble Bees? If so then there's no need to take any action.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
I think they must have knocked off for the day as there's no sign of them at the moment? They are on the largish size and not that many but I didn't instantly recognise them as Bumble bees. There are half a dozen normally buzzing round the entrance to the tile with one or two leaving and arriving at a time ?Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
Several red kites, but as I now live in Aylesbury I suppose that's the new norm - they're still impressive though.
Midges. Lots.
I found a dead one under the nest and a quick search of the internet shows its a Tree Bumble Bee Bombus hypnorum. A recent newcomer to the UK (2001) that has spread northwards from the SE of England. Those half a dozen bees swarming round the nest are apparently protecting it and have "buzzed" Mrs Alf on a couple of occasions when she was gardening.Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...pse5ee30b9.jpg
You should be proud of what you've got there AlfQuote:
Originally Posted by Alf
What's this little beauty then seen fannying about in a scrape on the side of Buckden Pike today? Its coat was a light sandy colour but both it and its buddy nearby had polecat markings on their faces. Ferrets gone wild, ferret polecat crosses or just light coloured polecats?
http://imageshack.us/a/img90/7471/5syc.jpg
And what about this monster crayfish in the beck in Kettlewell. To get the scale each claw was probably an inch and a half long
http://imageshack.us/a/img802/2876/wz2s.jpg
A Ring Ouzel on William Clough. I have seen quite a few up there.
Just stepped out of my car this morning, on Ilkley Moor, to head off for a run & a blackbird dropped a smaller dead bird right at my feet. I'm sure this has some deeper, hidden meaning. Maybe it's to do with stealing a penny chew when I was younger ?
squirrel
holding a plastic lucozade bottle (one of the orange energy drink type, not sport)
saw the bottle moving on the ground
at first I thought the squirrel had it's head stuck in the wide top
but it actually had a grip of it in it's teeth and was moving about, pointing the bottle ahead of it
next thing I know, it jumps up onto a tree trunk and starts scampering up, still with the bottle pointing the way
has anybody seen this before?
can anybody imagine what it was going to DO with the bottle once it got it up the tree?
I was up on Ilkley moor yesterday - saw a big fellah, bollocky-buff except for a sunhat. Didn't seem to mind who was around either; good on him!
I think I saw him too ! He made me want to strip off, but I'm a bit too scrawny. I saw him running from the 12 Apostles on the (god awful) flags towards the tv masts.Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Is it just me, or are things getting a bit strange in the hot weather? Naked squirrels with sunhats being dropped by blackbirds in lucozade bottles.
Well, here's mine - three toads under our log pile the other night.
Seeing a lot of butterflies at the moment. Brown ones seem prevalent!! As are blue and white. Not a lot of the more standard stuff though! Its very tricky to ID the browns and blues I find! Books and sites aren't a massive help either! I did see a couple of Burnett Moths.
Oh! My Burnett Moth might be a Cinabar Moth as the stripey caterpillar I saw earlier is A Cinabar larvae!
Yes I've seen a lot of butterflies as well, mainly the brown one. Also heard, but not seen, lots of crickets.
That's where I saw him, about 5.30 pm, but I was going the other way. I didn't see him running though, thankfully; he looked a bit large...
I usually avoid those flags now, and run along the back wall.
I run at the side of them in silent protest.Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
I hope you glare at them in an annoyed manner occasionally.
Just to let them know how annoyed you are.
Ha, have you been spying on me ?Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Rumbled! I have a naked fat guy suit, which I find ideal for remaining inconspicuous on a lonely, windswept moor top...
I run on them with no clothes on as a protest. I've taken to wearing a sunhat over the last few weeks, and I go out a bit later in the day, after getting sunburnt on the bits that flap when I run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Should this be on that "was it you?" thread?
"I saw a fat naked bloke, brown and wrinkly as a walnut, wearing nowt but a sun hat - was it you?"
Come on Noel, 'fess up!
I didn't think you were close enough to describe it that well. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
Nasty image now in my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
I had my reading glasses on.
A sad day with the death of Mel Smith....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0
On my run home from work tonight.
Vapourer moth caterpillar, like this one: http://abugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/...terpillar.html
And then lots of little frogs (about the size of my little finger-nail) next to the reservoir in Macclesfield Forest.
Today's Dales Skyline Wildlife Encounter
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5494/9...ae7fa11c_z.jpg
Today's Wildlife Encounter by Andy Holden, on Flickr
Spotted this Common Hawker (not 100% certain about id) depositing its eggs, whilst running on a section of the Dales Skyline... http://www.gofar.org.uk/dalesskyline.html
In the lakes over the weekend saw a big bird of prey from a distance(buzzard sized) but a predator rather than a scavenger, we saw it dive on a bird and easily see off a couple of crows/ravens? It had distinctive white banding on it's wing tips but on checking my bird books the nearest would seem unlikely, (not wanting to pre empt a possibility)
One of the walkers was a "bit of a birdy" but he didn't know.
ideas? it was up Langstrath at the end of Borrowdale just incase any one local knows.
A bit like this?: http://wild-scotland.org.uk/wp-conte...hharrier-8.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
could be difficult to see at the distance but it certainly had white tip to its wings
Tadpole!! in August :confused: in a very small stream close to the fell gate at the bottom of the Whittle Pike fell race route. Also a dead bat close to one of the wind turbines, are they attracted by the noise and fly into the blades ?
peregrine on southern edge of Kinder yesterday
first frost this morning over the hills. I've seen lots of Mountain hares recently but today was the first in full winter coat of all white.
very eye catching against the blue sky and green billberry
Gosh thats early...full coat eh, I usually see plenty of mottled coated hares before the full on white coats are brought outQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
yes I've seen 40-50 over the last week but this was the first I've seen in full winter pelt.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyclops
saw a badger on Thursday night, on the way upto Peel Tower, 1st time I have ever seen one not dead at the side of a road..