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Thread: Today's Wildlife Encounter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    A female Southern Hawker dragonfly above my mum's very small pond. Wouldn't settle long, or let you get close, but I managed to get the following poor quality photo on my phone of her flying - without falling in the pond

    Nice one.

    Is this year an exceptionally good one for dragonflies? I seem to have seen so many more than usual, but perhaps I've just 'tuned-in' to their presence more than usual.
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    My first froglet encounter of this year. A few hopping across the road in front of my bike as I cycled very slowly up the hill home from the station today.

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    Pair of peregrines I think. Making that characteristic shrieking noise - I guess one of them was a recent fledgling. Up Long Dale, near Hartington.

    Also, yesterday's wildlife encounter - a young buzzard sitting on the path in the garden. Again, must be a young one.

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    My mate has been catching signal crayfish at Burnsall, he says there's so many of them you just lift a rock up and there they are. He was on about barbecueing them as i left.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    My first froglet encounter of this year. A few hopping across the road in front of my bike as I cycled very slowly up the hill home from the station today.
    I nearly hit a family of ducklings/duck cycling towards Addingham today. Why do they walk about on the roads?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
    I nearly hit a family of ducklings/duck cycling towards Addingham today. Why do they walk about on the roads?
    For the same reason that you ride on the smooth velvet textured roads of Addingham?
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    Hedgehog in our garden last night. We spotted it when I went to the far back of the garden to throw the kitchen waste. Wow, the guy was really super cute.

    Trying to upload a pic but it's not working...

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    Is your lawnmower broken Gambatte?
    Visibility good except in Hill Fog

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    Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
    Is your lawnmower broken Gambatte?
    No, he's just leaving it to grow so that he can have even more wildlife encounters. https://plantlife.love-wildflowers.o...arden/mynomow/
    In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
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