Your day's wildlife

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Saw a bit of roadkill recently whilst travelling back from Llangollen to Chester. Anyone know what it is? It was around a foot long.

My first instinct was mink as well.

 

[nickyboy]

My first instinct was mink as well.

Deffo mink. Keep it, skin it, it'd make a nice pair of glove linings

 

[Dave 123]

Sat in friends garden this evening about half a mile from the river Cam when 2 common terns flew just over our heads very noisily!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Sat in friends garden this evening about half a mile from the river Cam when 2 common terns flew just over our heads very noisily!

That seems a fair way from open sea but, then again, they get a fair way up the Thames.

 

[Dave 123]

That seems a fair way from open sea but, then again, they get a fair way up the Thames.

They're up and down the cam all summer, there are lakes round here with shingle islands and floating platforms that they nest on.

 

[biggs682]

nearly mint sauce ready

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Thanks @User9609 , @SatNavSaysStraightOn , @nickyboy I'll go with mink as well. I would have got a close up but it was beginning to hum a bit.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

First cygnets of the season spotted this morning, 7 of the little things. Every year there seems to be one pair of swans in Abbey Park that have a huge brood (guessing it is the same pair as I'm pretty sure swans mate for life), normally only see a couple of cygnets per pair of swans.

Then spotted a pair of geese with 11 goslings, breed like rabbits do the geese around here.

 

[Mo1959]

First cygnets of the season spotted this morning, 7 of the little things. Every year there seems to be one pair of swans in Abbey Park that have a huge brood (guessing it is the same pair as I'm pretty sure swans mate for life), normally only see a couple of cygnets per pair of swans.

Then spotted a pair of geese with 11 goslings, breed like rabbits do the geese around here.

Better than my ride..............I saw a dead beaver

 

[Cubist]

Earlier in the week, enjoying a bit of dove in my back garden

 

[MartinQ]

The great tit which is nesting on the side of our house has been busy feeding its chicks

Meanwhile stevehog has been busy feeding himself

 

[Mrs M]

My "magic beans" are doing nothing
So, I just bought a mini Palm instead hardy to -10, so ok for,up here.

 

[Twinks]

Snake Pass is roadkill heaven

Today's carnage;

Rabbit x 1
Mountain Hare x 1
Pheasant x 1
Red Grouse x 2

The more flat pheasants I see the safer I feel. I had two of the stupid things come flying out at me from the bracken behind the safety barrier on the bends coming down there the other Saturday evening.

 

[nickyboy]

The more flat pheasants I see the safer I feel. I had two of the stupid things come flying out at me from the bracken behind the safety barrier on the bends coming down there the other Saturday evening.

Yes it seems certain birds have a particularly stupid way about them. Woodpigeons I find are quite similar, forever flying straight up at me. You never get a Jackdaw flying into you, they're clever

 

[Twinks]

Yes it seems certain birds have a particularly stupid way about them. Woodpigeons I find are quite similar, forever flying straight up at me. You never get a Jackdaw flying into you, they're clever

Nope they just poop from above