Today's Wildlife Encounter

[that_fjell_guy]

Lesser Crested Nowt!....Although I did see something I couldnt really I.D. on our newly erected bird feeder!!?

[Wheeze]

male and female green woodpecker picking ants out of our garden wall. surprisingly big birds close up.

[shaunaneto]

You been running in the 'gorms again Shaun..?

Ah yes, suprised there isn't more talk about the Grey Seal colonies out there.

Isle of May, be a good day out for twitchers and wot not. I mainly went for the renowned Anstruther chipper, the fish supper was washed down with Moet champers. Lifestyles of the rich and famous eh

[that_fjell_guy]

Found a fairly complete Crows head/skull today (..plus a few other left over bits and bobs!!), our local Peregrine must have got it, along with the pigeon whos spine and legs (...including rings!?) I found the other day. Pretty pleased I do like a nice skull, and birds ones are tricky to find! Just need to get what remains of the flesh and brain cleaned out and it'll go nice in my 'skull box'!! Our lass won't have my wee collection on the mantlepeice!!..er when I say 'wee collection' I clearly mean small skull collection!

[Hes]

Nice find! I cleaned a skull by burying it in a flower pot so that the worms could do their work. Currently got a curlew in my front flowerbed and it should be ready to dig up now. It's good to know there are a few skull collectors out there. My prize possessions are a raven's skull and reindeer antler that a friend brought me back from South Georgia. The best place ever for skulls are the beaches on the outer hebrides although I have found a few round here. Latest was a blue tit and I found a lapwing on the moor.

Found a fairly complete Crows head/skull today (..plus a few other left over bits and bobs!!), our local Peregrine must have got it, along with the pigeon whos spine and legs (...including rings!?) I found the other day. Pretty pleased I do like a nice skull, and birds ones are tricky to find! Just need to get what remains of the flesh and brain cleaned out and it'll go nice in my 'skull box'!! Our lass won't have my wee collection on the mantlepeice!!..er when I say 'wee collection' I clearly mean small skull collection!

[dominion]

Skull collecting??? :w00t:

There was a hedgehog on my garden path last night when I got home. By the time I'd got inside to grab the camera he'd gone... :thunbdown:

[that_fjell_guy]

Nice find! I cleaned a skull by burying it in a flower pot so that the worms could do their work. Currently got a curlew in my front flowerbed and it should be ready to dig up now. It's good to know there are a few skull collectors out there. My prize possessions are a raven's skull and reindeer antler that a friend brought me back from South Georgia. The best place ever for skulls are the beaches on the outer hebrides although I have found a few round here. Latest was a blue tit and I found a lapwing on the moor.

You found a Blue Tit skull!!...and a Lapwing!! Slightly jealous here now!! I mustn't be looking hard enough! My mate up near Thurso has a Gannet that I'm slightly jealous of too! I've got a Kestral, Herring Gull and bits, including the bill, of a Puffin from when we were up there in May...theyre under a plastic box in the garden hopefully getting cleaned as we speak.

[Hes]

I'm jealous of the kestrel! haven't got any raptors. I do had a puffin though My friend from the Hebrides, who also collects skulls, left it rotting on my cellar steps when he came to visit so I cleaned it up and claimed it. A gannet would be good. My mum is a zoologist and she has countless skulls including a barn owl and lots of bat skeletons (she has a bat license from when she worked as a consultant ecologist). I think she may have a gannet too. I'm off to see her in a few weeks so I'll check out her collection.
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You found a Blue Tit skull!!...and a Lapwing!! Slightly jealous here now!! I mustn't be looking hard enough! My mate up near Thurso has a Gannet that I'm slightly jealous of too! I've got a Kestral, Herring Gull and bits, including the bill, of a Puffin from when we were up there in May...theyre under a plastic box in the garden hopefully getting cleaned as we speak.

[shaunaneto]

Golden Eagle, not too far off either. Quite chuffed

[that_fjell_guy]

I'm jealous of the kestrel! haven't got any raptors. I do had a puffin though My friend from the Hebrides, who also collects skulls, left it rotting on my cellar steps when he came to visit so I cleaned it up and claimed it. A gannet would be good. My mum is a zoologist and she has countless skulls including a barn owl and lots of bat skeletons (she has a bat license from when she worked as a consultant ecologist). I think she may have a gannet too. I'm off to see her in a few weeks so I'll check out her collection.
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Yours are lovely and clean! Is the first the Puffin!? My Puffin bill still has the colours, as has my crows!