Your day's wildlife

[deptfordmarmoset]

Another small Dragon from the Welsh forests. The head-crest (which is shed each autumn and regrows the following spring) identifies this individual as a male. Approximately 20cm long and very elusive.

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(This is a great account to follow on Twitter. Just in case you suspect otherwise, I am not the artist)

Are you trying to make us believe Wales is a real country?

 

[Glow worm]

Another crap owl photo. This time a barn owl on Burwell Fen, in Cambs, near Newmarket - just down the road from me.
I'd just fixed yet another another bloomin' puncture and was cursing coming out for a ride, but an owl always makes everything worth the effort. She/ he flew right over me.

I'll bring a proper camera out with me one day!

 

[Illaveago]

I saw these birds in the garden yesterday and was wondering if they might be Ring Ouzels. Sorry about the poor pictures as they were very skittish.

There have been some strange Fieldfare sounds coming from neighbouring gardens.

 

[annedonnelly]

I saw these birds in the garden yesterday and was wondering if they might be Ring Ouzels. Sorry about the poor pictures as they were very skittish.

There have been some strange Fieldfare sounds coming from neighbouring gardens.

I think they're just female Blackbirds. I think a Ring Ouzel would have edge patterns on its breast feathers - it makes the feathers look like scales.

 

[Dave 123]

Every ride I've done over the Christmas period I've seen at least one Bullfinch. That's always a pleasure.

 

[Illaveago]

I think they're just female Blackbirds. I think a Ring Ouzel would have edge patterns on its breast feathers - it makes the feathers look like scales.

Thanks, I wasn't sure.

 

[Poacher]

From a few days ago; Mrs Poacher making friends with a splendid male Chaffinch in Madeira. From previous visits to this site (Balcoes, near Ribeiro Frio), I knew they were very tame, so took a few slices of wholemeal bread, and ended up handing out pieces to several other tourists so they could get similar shots. Also saw a male Firecrest, but failed to photograph it - sorry!

Bonus pic of a basking lizard, slightly out of focus:

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Here’s what I’ve seen today on my trip to and around Clumber Park:

Water hens
Coots
Greenfinches
Coal tits
Blue tits
Heron
Goldeneye
Mute swans
Black tipped gulls (I think that’s what they’re called)
Great crested grebe

...and several grey squirrels including one kamikaze fellow who nearly ended up under my front wheel!

 

[furball]

No pics but every evening squadrons of geese fly over my house towards the estuary mudflats. I see them flying back inland when I go to work in the morning. There must be at least a couple of thousand of them. The sight and sounds are spectacular.

 

[rich p]

I often see a flash of a white rumped songbird disappearing into the hedgerow when I'm cycling the lanes in the winter. I think they're probably bullfinches but I'm not sure as I haven't spotted any pink breast colour.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I often see a flash of a white rumped songbird disappearing into the hedgerow when I'm cycling the lanes in the winter. I think they're probably bullfinches but I'm not sure as I haven't spotted any pink breast colour.

More likely a chaffhinch.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I was with my cat in the backgarden and we have loads of brambles, weeds, holly etc at the bottom of the garden. Anyway the birds in the bushes started going ballistic squawking and the bushes were shaking with all the noise.
I looked around and guess what I saw sat on the fence?

Sparrowhawk?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I often see a flash of a white rumped songbird disappearing into the hedgerow when I'm cycling the lanes in the winter. I think they're probably bullfinches but I'm not sure as I haven't spotted any pink breast colour.

More likely a chaffhinch.

Female bullfinch doesn't have the bright pink/red breast. Chaffinch has a greenish rump IIRC - certainly not white.

 

[Dave 123]

I was with my cat in the backgarden and we have loads of brambles, weeds, holly etc at the bottom of the garden. Anyway the birds in the bushes started going ballistic squawking and the bushes were shaking with all the noise.
I looked around and guess what I saw sat on the fence?

Nigel Farage?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Female bullfinch doesn't have the bright pink/red breast. Chaffinch has a greenish rump IIRC - certainly not white.

Sure. You may we’ll be right. My thoughts go to the height bullfinches tend to work. Normally at this time of year they are trimming buds from tree tops. Don’t find them flavoursome myself. Buds or bullfinches