Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Latege]

Don't usually post here as it's not so much fun knowing no-one is going to say "One in my back garden too" or "Not reached my area yet" but this is so beautiful I thought I'd put it up anyway. Wish I had a good tele-photo lens. I think it's a pygmy kngfisher - but don't kingfishers usually live near water?
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(Wasn't quite so enthusiastic about the snake in my kitchen the following morning, not all the wildlife in Gabon is so appealing!)

[William Clough]

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How about this Latege. A Brown Hooded Kingfisher.

[GeoffB]

Don't usually post here as it's not so much fun knowing no-one is going to say "One in my back garden too" or "Not reached my area yet" but this is so beautiful I thought I'd put it up anyway. Wish I had a good tele-photo lens. I think it's a pygmy kngfisher - but don't kingfishers usually live near water?
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(Wasn't quite so enthusiastic about the snake in my kitchen the following morning, not all the wildlife in Gabon is so appealing!)

I seem to remember a question on a recent QI that had something to do with Kingfishers not necessarily living near water. I think it's just the English name that confuses us, but I can't really remember. Glad I cleared that one up, anyway!

Oh yes, I flushed a Snipe yesterday on the Kinder Trial. And another one last Sunday on the Mercia Trial, and one last Thursday night halfway down Dimpus Clough (below Mount Famine). They seem to be following me around at the moment.

[Latege]

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How about this Latege. A Brown Hooded Kingfisher.

Thank you. That looks like him.

[SCOOT]

Running along a very minor road in Castle Carrock (north pennines)when I looked up and almost stopped in my tracks. A few of seconds later I realised the Penguin was a light coloured Guinea Fowl. Had me going for a while though.

[IanDarkpeak]

On a HPM reccie saw about 15 mountain Hares, not hard to miss being snow white against the peat.

we later disturbed a buzzard which was on the ground beneath us.

[wharfeego]

This is a wildlife encounter of the wrong kind.
I do not understand the mentality of this type of human behaviour.
The smiles on some of the blokes' faces makes one wonder what we're all about?

https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wo...e-angus-glens/

[BritNick]

"We're"? I would have said "they're". Raving primitives.

I had my first ever multiple sightings of mountain hares last Saturday on a High Peak Marathon recce. Shooting them wouldn't even enter my educated mind.

[cyclops]

goldcrest in our back garden about 10days ago, saw another (same one?) about a mile from home a few days ago.

[William Clough]

This is a wildlife encounter of the wrong kind.
I do not understand the mentality of this type of human behaviour.
The smiles on some of the blokes' faces makes one wonder what we're all about?

https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wo...e-angus-glens/

I'm speechless.