Today's Wildlife Encounter

[molehill]

Back at the old house mowing & strimming, a pair of peregrines above giving a buzzard a very hard time. Peregrines probably nesting in the old quarry opposite.
Swifts back in the nest boxes on rear of house, Swallows building in the garden shed (how do they manage to fly through such a small opening?). Plenty of slow worms on compost and under the corrugated. Garden a mass of colour and flowers.

I do hope that whovever buys the house is a lover of wildlife and continues to protect what we have there, but not counting on it.

[BritNick]

Slow worms? I only ever saw one fleetingly in my early childhood in the late sixties. Of course I thought it was a snake at the time. The memory has stuck with me to this day and I long to see another.

[molehill]

Here are some from the old house, we have them in the new garden as well - but never seen a snake in either area.

Hoping this attachment works, but not sure how to do it.

[BritNick]

Thanks molehill. The colour is just as I remember from ~44 years ago when my sighting was gliding along in the undergrowth on an overgrown nettle-filled railway bed in Somerset.

[Multiterrainer]

For anyone who runs around Swinsty Reservoir watch out for this little fella.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18525101

[Rob Furness]

For anyone who runs around Swinsty Reservoir watch out for this little fella.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18525101

Nice!

[dylan]

having my morning break/walk between the armouries and brewery wharf this morning.
there was a mink and 2 cubs on the riverside footpath,
no idea where they came from,she picked one cub up in her mouth and ran off,dumping it 50 yards up the path then ran back for the other.
what do you do?
report it,have it culled?
its obviously thriving but at what cost.

[molehill]

Tadpoles in my pond have consumed 21/2kilos of dog food, and a squirrel that I shot. They are making serious inroads to a rat (which I trapped and threw in there) and given them another kilo of dog food today - reckon they will finish it in 2 days max.

Has anyone ever disposed of a dead human body by feeding it to the tadpoles? Bet no crime writer has thought of that one yet.

[cyclops]

An owl flew in front of us as we drove home from Hope Wakes fell race last night...no idea what type, was on rushup edge road as you drop down towards chapel

[wharfeego]

..Has anyone ever disposed of a dead human body by feeding it to the tadpoles?

Rather than feedin' yer missus to those taddies you could try feedin' that new telly to 'em!