Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Jez Hellewell]

Just stepped out of my car this morning, on Ilkley Moor, to head off for a run & a blackbird dropped a smaller dead bird right at my feet. I'm sure this has some deeper, hidden meaning. Maybe it's to do with stealing a penny chew when I was younger ?

[DazTheSlug]

squirrel
holding a plastic lucozade bottle (one of the orange energy drink type, not sport)
saw the bottle moving on the ground
at first I thought the squirrel had it's head stuck in the wide top
but it actually had a grip of it in it's teeth and was moving about, pointing the bottle ahead of it
next thing I know, it jumps up onto a tree trunk and starts scampering up, still with the bottle pointing the way

has anybody seen this before?

can anybody imagine what it was going to DO with the bottle once it got it up the tree?

[plodding bear]

I was up on Ilkley moor yesterday - saw a big fellah, bollocky-buff except for a sunhat. Didn't seem to mind who was around either; good on him!

[Jez Hellewell]

I was up on Ilkley moor yesterday - saw a big fellah, bollocky-buff except for a sunhat. Didn't seem to mind who was around either; good on him!

I think I saw him too ! He made me want to strip off, but I'm a bit too scrawny. I saw him running from the 12 Apostles on the (god awful) flags towards the tv masts.

[noel]

Is it just me, or are things getting a bit strange in the hot weather? Naked squirrels with sunhats being dropped by blackbirds in lucozade bottles.

Well, here's mine - three toads under our log pile the other night.

[that_fjell_guy]

Seeing a lot of butterflies at the moment. Brown ones seem prevalent!! As are blue and white. Not a lot of the more standard stuff though! Its very tricky to ID the browns and blues I find! Books and sites aren't a massive help either! I did see a couple of Burnett Moths.

[that_fjell_guy]

Oh! My Burnett Moth might be a Cinabar Moth as the stripey caterpillar I saw earlier is A Cinabar larvae!

[SCharm]

Yes I've seen a lot of butterflies as well, mainly the brown one. Also heard, but not seen, lots of crickets.

[plodding bear]

That's where I saw him, about 5.30 pm, but I was going the other way. I didn't see him running though, thankfully; he looked a bit large...
I usually avoid those flags now, and run along the back wall.

[Jez Hellewell]

That's where I saw him, about 5.30 pm, but I was going the other way. I didn't see him running though, thankfully; he looked a bit large...
I usually avoid those flags now, and run along the back wall.

I run at the side of them in silent protest.