Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Heaning Hobbler]

Swallow in the back room yesterday.

[Daletownrunner]

Not wildlife as such, but a bunch of inquisitive Bullocks, the main man was sucking rainwater out of a hollow in the limestone while he checked me out, brilliant, always have to stop and let them have a stare

[Lemmy]

Last night there must have been at least 100 Swifts (they're not easy to count, you know...

I'm intrigued - how do you count swifts and knowing you haven't counted the same one twice??

[that_fjell_guy]

Nuthatch, two greater Spotted Woodpeckers, loads of Blue and Great Tits with fledglings, Blackbird with fledglings, Jacdaws....and a Squirrel(Grey). Our bird feeder is ace just now!!

[Derby Tup]

I'm intrigued - how do you count swifts and knowing you haven't counted the same one twice??

Take a photo and count them

[GeoffB]

I'm intrigued - how do you count swifts and knowing you haven't counted the same one twice??

...very quickly.

But then on Saturday, before setting off on a day's walk from Capel Curig there was exactly one Nuthatch in the trees behind the car-park. On returning from the walk there was at least one Pied Flycatcher. It could have been the same one three times or maybe three different ones.

Oh yes, and on top of Pen yr Ole Wen there was lots of Dwarf Willow, which I've never knowingly seen before.

[luverlyjuberly]

A black mink carying a baby mink along a riverside wall. I was viewing it from above. It disappeared into the undergrowth. This was at Cleator Moor.

[wharfeego]

Swallow that Mr Cameron!



Swallow that Mr Cameron! by Andy Holden, on Flickr

[that_fjell_guy]

Still no Swallows in Ingleton! :/

[Derby Tup]

Loads of swifts tonight in village airspace plus a high flying calling curlew