Today's Wildlife Encounter

[sore legs]

2 deer
1 green woodpecker
3 buzzards
2 pheasants
3 rabbits
2 hares
100s of piglets (just big enough to fit in a french stick with their snout and tail hanging out) - god I feel hungry now.

[plodding bear]

Hey DT, dippers are my fave too! Always cheer me up when I hear, then see, the little beggars skimming along the Wharfe. Dapper little chaps, what?!

[Derby Tup]

Hey DT, dippers are my fave too! Always cheer me up when I hear, then see, the little beggars skimming along the Wharfe. Dapper little chaps, what?!

I have an ever-changing top five favourite birds list pb, but the dipper is always there. Another big fave will be back soon: the swift

[molehill]

Yesterday 3 slow worms on the compost heap (1 adult + 2 teenagers), and "Stumpy" is back under the corrugated sheet. So some have made it through the winter.
Fresh Dippers nest under the little footbridge and an otter spraint as well.

[plodding bear]

The call of a curlew always works for me, too. And skylarks. Not a fan of herons though, ever since I saw a pair jobbing a moorhen's nest by the canal in Silsden. Yes I know they have to eat, but can't they stick to fish???
I'm sure there must be otters on the Wharfe, I know there's some on the Aire near Bingley, but it's years since I saw one in the wild. Now that would be a real tick on the 'Wildlife to See' list!

[IanDarkpeak]

The call of a curlew always works for me, too. And skylarks. Not a fan of herons though, ever since I saw a pair jobbing a moorhen's nest by the canal in Silsden. Yes I know they have to eat, but can't they stick to fish???
I'm sure there must be otters on the Wharfe, I know there's some on the Aire near Bingley, but it's years since I saw one in the wild. Now that would be a real tick on the 'Wildlife to See' list!

there used to be some near grassington- malham. I'm not sure if they are still about.
I saw one high on a Scottish pass in a burn. It was just so amazing to see it so high in the hills. watched it for 30 minutes or so, took lots of pics but lost the camera.

[Masham Man]

Heard a Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker calling this eve, a pretty scarce bird nowadays

[martmason]

Watched two deers running free across Ogden golf course,.then spotted a heron in the stream at the bottom of the course just below the calderdale way, both within a couple of minutes.

[Rob Furness]

Heard a Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker calling this eve, a pretty scarce bird nowadays

I've come across them several times now in Leeds, sometimes in quite unexpected areas as well. They seem to be doing ok round my way. I'm not complaining, there's something nice about the drumming of a woodpecker that always makes me smile

[stevefoster]

I keep hearing a woodpecker in the local woods but can never spot the little chap:thunbdown:

Maybe it's a Woodpecker ghost?

Remember when my lad was younger he saw a bird pecking on some flags. He said 'Is that a Stonepecker Daddy?'