Today's Wildlife Encounter

[luverlyjuberly]

The slaughter goes on: two more dead badgers, a few hundred metres apart on the same road (a busy rural road just outside Loughborough, about two miles from where I saw a dead badger yesterday). Who needs the DEFRA badger cull when we have the great British motorist? Or is there something more sinister going on?

Yeah we have two dead on a dual carriageway near Penrith. Plenty of dead hedgehogs about now also.

[Derby Tup]

Tawny owl t' witting like mad -in Ilkley at 10am today

[IanDarkpeak]

Woodcock at last nights race

[sore legs]

Not sure how true it is but I was once told that some land owners will a kill a badger then leave it by the roadside to be run over. I'm not into conspiracy theories but there are a lot of dead badgers on the roads.

We were told the same when we lived in Pembrokeshire by a local wildlife organisation.

[Derby Tup]

Woodcock at last nights race

I bet it flew round Ian

[IanDarkpeak]

i bet it flew round ian

:d :d

[GeoffB]

Three (yes, three!) Yellowhammers, as I was walking up the Newlands Valley towards my marshalling point at Dale Head on Saturday. I've seen them in the White Peak from time to time, but it's been quite a few years.

[luverlyjuberly]

We get them on the Coast near St. Bees and Whitehaven and flocks of them in Autumn/Winter. great little birds.

[wharfeego]

Yellowhammers...

A little bit of bread and no cheeeeeeeese

[GeoffB]

A little bit of bread and no cheeeeeeeese

That's the boys!

Also, how could I forget? There was a Barn Owl quartering the fields around Elter Water early Saturday evening (6:30pm) as we drove up towards Langdale campsite.