Your day's wildlife

[coffeejo]

A couple of pictures of a home grown tomato, got to love how it's only home grown food that has such irregular shapes View attachment 100291 View attachment 100292

Given the thread, I'm wondering if they're free-range tomatoes?

 

[biggs682]

Given the thread, I'm wondering if they're free-range tomatoes?

fresh out of my parents green house

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

At one point I lived near some land that was about to be cleared for housing in Bristol. Each day someone went around the land to various places where they had placed corrugated iron, and would collect up a few every day over a number of weeks. He would show the slow worms to anyone who showed a bit of interest in them.

And in the creek at Deptford they use corrugated iron offcuts to collect crabs - not commercially, simply to show to primary school children doing riverbed walks. Chinese Mitten crabs, to be precise: one of those invasive species that is also highly edible.

 

[Lullabelle]

 

[gbb]

Part drive/part cycle commute this morning..one fox, one probably muntjac deer, one raptor, probably buzzard sat atop a haybale and all the usual suspects...poor old woodpidgeon, never get a mention do they...

 

[coffeejo]

Part drive/part cycle commute this morning..one fox, one probably muntjac deer, one raptor, probably buzzard sat atop a haybale and all the usual suspects...poor old woodpidgeon, never get a mention do they...

Whenever I hear a wood pigeon, I'm instantly transported back to my childhood as I spent hours and hours playing in the woods. The memory/feeling is one of freedom and independence: "nobody knows where I am and that's just the way I want it".

 

[annedonnelly]

There were 8 Little Egret on the Wansbeck this morning. It's only a couple of years ago that they first arrived in Northumberland and last year was the first time they bred in the county. Looks like they've settled in ok!

 

[biggs682]

Had company in the shower this morning

 

[biggs682]

Early morning stroll to the prom and back this morning and we saw these

 

[biggs682]

Todays walk found this stranded jelly fish

 

[Surlydave]

Had company in the shower this morning
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According to my lepidopterist friend it's a willow beauty.

 

[Mattonsea]

A Barn Owl in the barn!!!!!!!

 

[biggs682]

Treat of the day and beyond was to sit and watch the sea lions and penguins swim by

 

[gavgav]

The wildlife in Tenby has taken on a prehistoric tendency

 

[biggs682]

This morning's stroll along the pier was more a case of jelly fish spotting we counted at least 20 of them