I've always wanted to see one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/nuthatch
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I've always wanted to see one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/nuthatch
Nuthatch are very active and vocal atm. Learn the call, go into woods or parkland and you'll fine one
Sorry, I meant great grey shrike. I was initially pasting the nuthatch link in to see if it could have been one of these instead. But if some birders said shrike, I'll believe them.
Last week's wildlife encounter: deer. About ten of them. Quite near to the house - about 100 yards away in a field. None had antlers.
And yesterday's wildlife encounter: tree-creeper on our sycamore. Spotted by my eagle-eyed daughter.
And today's wildlife encounter: Dying chaffinch in my cats mouth, in the kitchen. I took it off her but it was already on the way out - shame.
I heard noel that you can bring chaffinch back to life a lot easier than you may think as they are tough a bit like the woody woodpecker
A dozen or so snow buntings flying over Striding Edge this morning.
Nice spot Nav. We saw sanderling, turnstone and oystercatcher today at Cleveley beach
Dead fox on Ripponden bank (TDF 2014 route)
I hope that's true. I put it outside on the top of a wall, without my cat looking.Quote:
Originally Posted by vespa
Heard and saw a great spotted woodpecker on first ascent of Herod Farm race route. On checking book at home I see it was a female as no red on nape/head
Golden plovers up on Birks Fell, upper wharfedale. A haunting kind of sound, lovely.
over 15 mountain hares today...they are every where...
2 golden plovers and I heard but didn't see a curlew
In the garden the Woodpecker keeps eating all my fat balls...ooer...
HPM recce yesterday between Bleaklow Head & Bleaklow Stones, I was pretty sure I heard a Curlew a couple of times, but thought it might be a bit early for them. Maybe not...
Badger crossing the high street in Marple, in broad daylight up by the canal, good way of getting flattened!
Did Curbar and Froggatt edge in the dark the other week and saw deer, dozens of them - I've run that route in daylight for years and never seen a single deer before. Are they hiding deep in big moor by day?
Quite common round there ,there's a few herds off the back (east)of White edge...possibly 60+ total....It's also good spot for adders so be warned...Quote:
Originally Posted by RunUpWhere
Barn Owl hunting voles in the Ribble Valley
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8582/...225ef965_c.jpg
Voling by Andy Holden, on Flickr
About 30 curlews in a flooded field near Newgale beach, Pembrokeshire at 0715.
I saw a long tailed tit yielding a nest whilst a couple of others (females?) looked on yesterday.
At Kettlewell, just where the road goes over the bridge - I'm there a fair bit so I'll be watching with interest.
There's a pair of Mandarin ducks in my garden.
A herd (?) of llamas whilst out running across the pampas of Worcestershire.
Had some wallabys round here a while ago but this is a new one on me.....
Yes: a herdQuote:
Originally Posted by PeteS
Your bunch of wallabies was a mob - so an online collective noun list tells me; http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...uns_by_subject
Although it says "Don't trust this list; many of these entries are fanciful and never found outside of word lists." and later includes a helix of geneticists!
We used to get wild wallabies near us, but they died out in the 90s, due to inbreeding so I read somewhere.
Seen my first bits of frogspawn today.
Pretty sure I did gone see a Golden Plover on't North York Moors yesterday amongst bits and bobs of other stuff!!
3 hares,a tree creeper and frogspawn
A kingfisher along the Aire near the boat club at Saltaire. Then a mink swimming about further on towards Saltaire. Hopefully the otters will kill them off soon.
no but the sharks are on there way
In Kettlewell at the weekend instructing on the FRA nav course...I had the pleasure of waiting at a nav course check point for a good half hour before runners started coming through and was entertained by a pair of curlews. I love their song!!
then as I was walking to my next CP I spotted a man+dog...and then saw he was holding a Harris Hawk....needless to say I went over and had a closer look. the hawk too flight, but returned for some treat! amazing bird
Stonechat (I think) just above Aberglaslyn, then lots of frogspawn in a frozen pool below Moel Hebog on Saturday. Curlew flew over our house yesterday, heading for Kinder.
Still no Chiffchaffs though.
Spring's coming fast. Today's dog walk included lapwings, a pair of great crested grebes, a little grebe, linnets & peregrines, & a there was grey wagtail the other day. Two robins were involved in what could have turned out to be a fight to the death in the back garden this morning. No chiffchaffs here either yet. Now where's that lawnmower?
[QUOTE=cyclops;605874]In Kettlewell at the weekend instructing on the FRA nav course...I had the pleasure of waiting at a nav course check point for a good half hour before runners started coming through and was entertained by a pair of curlews. I love their song!!
then as I was walking to my next CP I spotted a man+dog...and then saw he was holding a Harris Hawk....needless to say I went over and had a closer look. the hawk too flight, but returned for some treat! amazing bird[/QUOTE
Aye, its a good spot for bird life Cyclops. We also had a couple of black grouse and a stonechat.
First sand martins of the year over Pine Lake, Carnforth today. Spring is on its way!
Great spot NavQuote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
Great spot NavQuote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
Had a great run out today that didn't disappoint. A 6.40am start over a wild moor has certain advantages..At one point I counted over 30 Mountain hares visible at the same time. I reckon the full count from the day was over a hundred!
The usual Curlew, Lap wing and plover were out in force at last. A (Soon to be?)nesting peregrine by laddow Rocks.
Probably a lot more but I haven't the skill of Kev or Andy to identify them.
If you're on the moors & hear a bird that sounds like a bike wheel that needs oiling, that's a golden plover.
A "whiteness" of Whooper Swans flying up the Ribble Valley near Settle, I guess on their return to Northern breeding grounds in Iceland.
I was digging the veg. garden on Saturday, when I heard a bit of a noise down by the house. Went to have a look and there was a Sparrowhawk plucking away at Feral Pigeon. She seemed quite happy, so I left her to it. Made quite a mess on the patio though.
There was also a peacock butterfly sunning itself in the garden.
Sunday - first skylarks of the year serenading us around the Heptonstall Fell Race.