Spotted y'day on day off walk from Grassington:
group of approx 10 Long Tailed Tits
one deer in Grass Woods
several Goldfinches
2 female and 1 male Goosander
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Spotted y'day on day off walk from Grassington:
group of approx 10 Long Tailed Tits
one deer in Grass Woods
several Goldfinches
2 female and 1 male Goosander
A tit in a four wheel drive nearly went into me this morning.
Are Daz tablets better than Nuuns:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Met some real nice wildlife during a five mile road race the other night. Strange species, they all had black hooded heads and they're call sounded like- How far are we going mister?
Well I haven't much chance of showing Daz H a clean pair of heels tomorrow unless he gets lost...
Time to revive this thread since spring is nearly upon us... :)
Not sure but I think I've heard a skylark the past two mornings... :confused:
Out running a couple of weeks ago, a heron took off from a drainage ditch beside my track with a pretty big frog dangling by one leg from its mouth. Nature in the raw :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jodg
Not quite today, but I saw a couple of mountain hares in their winter finery near Edale Rocks on Sunday.
Green Woodpecker on Sunday 22nd Feb in Chew Plantation (just down from the Tank boulder).....
Mountain Hare in winter garb on Monday 23rd just off Howels Head Flat, the hare was close to the size of Tilly, my female Staffordshire.....:eek:
I was in Robin Hoods Bay area last week and heard around 4 or 5 skylarks whilst out running with g/f on the Tuesday :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
Going up Pen-y-Ghent on Sat there was a guy exercising a large bird of prey at Brackenbottom . Black and white plumage with a huge yellow beak . When it landed back on the handlers' fist it shrouded its food and head with its wings as it ate . Anyone know what it was?
First Curlews in the fields near Queensbury today:)Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
A flock of wild parakeets in Hyde Park...escaped from the zoo I s'pose!
Plus a lot of VERY savvy ducks, geese and swans at Round Pond. Not at all fazed by a labrador....but labrador was very fazed by 'birds with attitude'!!:D
Try googling Harris hawk for some pics , very common bird for falconers to use.dark plumage with white bits and yellow beak.Quote:
Originally Posted by duracell
darkhorse
Hi Duracell,sounds as if you've encountered "Sydney" the american bald eagle who after several years is in fact a "shiela" having produced an egg last year!Take a look at www.hawkexperience.co.uk. I've been on the handling course and also the rabbiting with Harris hawks,highly recommended.
why didn't you just ask the handler what it was...then you wouldn't need to ask the question on 'ere.Quote:
Originally Posted by duracell
Hehe, I've seen the guy with his frigging great bird a couple of times. Although the bird actually swooped low over me, the handler was over in an adjacent field and asking the handler anything would have meant oooh.... a 200 yard detour :rolleyes:.
In the lane there in Brackenbottom you'll often see (at about 9 am on a Sunday) a chap 'walking' his pet ferret - he lets it rummage around in the nooks and crannies of the dry stone walls. I've once or twice asked him about his ferret but all I've got in reply have been grunts :(
Spotted my first one of the year near home today :) I can hear them sometimes in the morning with my bedroom window open :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fnstein
Seen on this morning's run: several dozen Curlew, four or five Oystercatchers, a pair of Goosander and the first Treecreeper I've seen in a while :cool:
This morning before work (all at the same time) - 4 squirrels on the bird feeder, 2 pheasants looking on waiting for their turn, a heron flying overhead and 2 deer feeding in the vicinity of the heronry at the bottom of the field in front of the house. Beautiful.
That's no way to treat a lady.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Wildlife? Only the dogs in the office today...:p
Seen quite a bit of wild "life" :eek: around Beeston over the last few weeks. give me the open moors, with or without black panthers, any time. :D
Seriously though, heard a few Curlews Sunday while heading over to Fairholmes from Penistone, and a couple of, still very white, hares. (as in not a rabbit type).;)
I don't suppose that this truly counts as wild life but me and mudlugger saw this 'sheep' smack in the middle of the trod going up Win Hill on Sunday. The slimey brown gunk in the middle of the bones was a pool of rotting innards :eek:
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Seen a few Arsecrawlers at work today:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Nearly ran into a badger last night near Gnat Hole, Glossop!
It didn't have DazH with it did it...Quote:
Originally Posted by marko
Saw lapwings, grouse, mountains hares x 8 and a chinook again! up on Howden Edge today
An Owl inside the building at work, rang the RSPCA, they said just leave a door open and it should fly out. It sat on a sprinkler pipe for 3 hours, after we came back from our break it had gone. Searched the building but no sign of it, had to lock up at 10pm so hopefully it got out, found a dead one in the warehouse last year:(
2 buzzards at Boltby.
Presume no news is good news re your owl merry? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
No sightings today, Elvis the owl must have left the building;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I wanted to call him Dave:(
Moles
One bat, one Dipper and one Kingfisher :)
A dozen or so snow buntings between Stybarrow Dodd and Great Dodd around noon today.
Feeding the ducks......Is there a nobler past time? It's relaxing, therapeutic, and I feel as if I am making a difference......got to be careful of the gulls though, nasty little blighters. :cool:
Wild Geese, one word, B@ST@RDS!!!
Overtook a couple of cars on a lovely staight stretch of A road today, and just as I was about to pull back in a pheasant saunters out from the right, so I had to dab me brakes, and then pull into the RH lane again to avoid hitting it as it carried on its way into the bushes on the left. Oblivious them things. Still, didn't kill it.:)
Do Ladybirds Hibernate?
And if so why in the middle of a loaf of Warburton's?
I took the slice out and set it on the side with this orange thing on it.
I turned back 30 seconds later and it was marching round and round the crust - twice it went round the full slice.
Then it spread its horrible wings so I chucked it out in the corridor.
Hibernate somewhere else you little b*stard. :eek:
Warburtons :eek: :eek:
There is a world of bread out there - you chose Warburtons....wtf
be Watneys Red Barrel next - that or swimming with the very old ladies aquaexercising :D