Some highlights from today's walk as Calshot near Southampton Curlew, Little Egret, Reed Bunting, Black Tail Godwit, Ringed Plover, Shellduck, Sedge Walker, Redshank, Oystercatcher
Some highlights from today's walk as Calshot near Southampton Curlew, Little Egret, Reed Bunting, Black Tail Godwit, Ringed Plover, Shellduck, Sedge Walker, Redshank, Oystercatcher
Poacher turned game-keeper
Huggins of bats out tonight in Ripponden.
I wish I could I dentify all those, probably seen most of them at some time but wouldn't know there names....Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Some highlights from today's walk as Calshot near Southampton Curlew, Little Egret, Reed Bunting, Black Tail Godwit, Ringed Plover, Shellduck, Sedge Walker, Redshank, Oystercatcher
But a couple I could name. yesterday I saw a pair of peregrins and a Swarm ( and I use swarm advisedly) of swifts hunting on the wing along a hedge thick with flies. the air was full with them, i had to slow down in fear of one hitting the window of the car.
Just had a bat appear in the bathroom while I was in the bath. Probably a pipestrelle, there's a summer roost next door. Poor creature! Moley captured it with a landing net and released it unharmed.
Get yourself a guide book and when you see a bird when you're out running make a note of size, colour, movement etc and check it out later at home. RSPB website is good too www.rspb.org
I had a schoolteacher when I was 8 or 9 and he organised bird watching trips to Leighton Moss, Slimbridge etc and it's something I've loved ever since
Poacher turned game-keeper
A bat in the bathroom lat night, whilst Missus was in the bath :w00t:. This caused a vast amount of screeching (Missus not the bat). I chased it round the house and eventually caught it in the bedroom with my fishing net - released unharmed.
Yesterday at work visited a friend who is a keen deer stalker, he had 3 pet young fallow deer in his fenced little paddock. He had rescued one which had a hind leg caught in a fence, the vet amputated the leg and it is now fine (but 3 legs) and the other 2 were orphans following mother a road kill. He bottle reared these in the house (all now a year old). I was feeding them custard creams and stroking the one, very tame and lovely pets, but nobody can understand how someone who controls 100s of deer a year on estates can also show so much compassion.
The Missus or the Bat?????:w00t:
Boooo Just read the earlier post:sneaky:The Missus or the Bat?????
too late moley...your missus has already told us!
'aven't seen one o'them before?
sometimes described as "a scream of Swifts"...actually the collective noun for Swifts is officially "a flock of Swifts". I like the scream version.
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