Your day's wildlife

[LeetleGreyCells]

Daffodils in Perranporth today.

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It has been unseasonably warm. The temperature has dropped today though. Let’s hope the frost doesn’t kill off the early blooming plants.

 

[annedonnelly]

I have just been fishing for an hour hoping for a pike. Nothing doing there but, we saw two ducklings. They were well past the yellow stage but we're still very small.

Unusual at this time of year?

Not doubting your id skills but could they have been Little Grebe? They are a similar size to ducklings & have fooled me more than once.

 

[gbb]

A regular sighting almost daily now alongside the A1M as I drive home, Buzzard.
As I join from the A14 theres a wide section of grass and I will often see one on the grass, searching for worms, small mammals, roadkill perhaps. Then the same a few miles further north near Peterborough.
At each location, you'll often see one sat on a fence post, light crescent patch clearly visible on their chests.

No biggie really but go back 20 years, you NEVER saw buzzards round here.

 

[albal]

A regular sighting almost daily now alongside the A1M as I drive home, Buzzard.
As I join from the A14 theres a wide section of grass and I will often see one on the grass, searching for worms, small mammals, roadkill perhaps. Then the same a few miles further north near Peterborough.
At each location, you'll often see one sat on a fence post, light crescent patch clearly visible on their chests.

No biggie really but go back 20 years, you NEVER saw buzzards round here.

I drive around France . A lot. It's a similar story. So many line the autoroute sat on posts downward looking for their next prey. Never noticed them back in the early nineties . It's a joy to see them so prevalent.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I forgot to mention my sighting on the 30th of December. I was doing a big ride. So big in fact, where I live you only get buzzards, but where I got to has red kite.

I was cycling along and a kite dropped it’s (dead) prey (rabbit) from a fair height, right infront of me on the road. Splat!

I guess it thought I needed feeding up.

 

[MikeG]

Just watched a barn owl in our garden for quarter of an hour. It caught a mouse in the adjacent ditch.

......... a kite dropped it’s (dead) prey (rabbit) from a fair height, right infront of me on the road. Splat!

I guess it thought I needed feeding up.

Softening up, I reckon.I'll bet it went back and ate it once you were out of sight.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Just had 5 long tailed tits do a flying visit..

 

[potsy]

Just had 5 long tailed tits do a flying visit..

I love it when that happens, usually hear the chatter before I see them, noisy little buggers!

 

[Alex H]

Anyone identify these please?

 

[Tight Git]

Anyone identify these please?

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Sanderling

 

[snorri]

My bird tally for a coastal walk today..Heron 3, Oystercatcher 38, Eider 1, Redshank 7, Curlew 1, Shag 8, Cormorant 7, Purple Sandpiper 33, Turnstone 9.

 

[Alex H]

Sanderling

Thanks

From Wikipedia - "runs along the sandy beaches it prefers with a characteristic "bicycling" action of its legs"

 

[Dave 123]

Anyone identify these please?

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They look very earnest and busy!

 

[Levo-Lon]

My bird tally for a coastal walk today..Heron 3, Oystercatcher 38, Eider 1, Redshank 7, Curlew 1, Shag 8, Cormorant 7, Purple Sandpiper 33, Turnstone 9.

I saw myfirst ever Curlew at Titchwell Marsh nature reserve in October.

 

[Cavalol]

Sadly the injured fox we saw at work hasn't been spotted in ages. We got a fox rescue place in who left us a cage (monitored through day and night) for a few weeks, but he/she never showed up.
Have to accept the poor thing has probably passed away now, made even more harder to deal with by the absolute and utter scum who hunted one recently then threw it into the canal after their dogs had ripped it to bits.