Your day's wildlife

[Dave 123]

And today too...

 

[biggs682]

Looks like our rose's need a bird visit

 

[figbat]

Over the last few days we have suddenly started seeing pure white pigeon/dove things - three or four together. We've never seen them before but now see them several times a day. They are pure white, you'd call them doves but they are more the size of a pigeon. They tend to hang around with other, normal-coloured birds of a similar type (see picture).

I wonder if they are from one of these trite "bird releases" that signify peace and love (and genetic engineering through selective breeding)?

 

[newfhouse]

Looks like our blue tits have hatched. How are yours doing @slowmotion ?

 

[Jenkins]

A group of about 20 adult deer sitting in the middle of a field while I was out on a walk this afternoon. Typically I'd left the camera at home.

 

[slowmotion]

Looks like our blue tits have hatched. How are yours doing @slowmotion ?
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That's wonderful! Congratulations. I love their eager open mouths. My lady's eleven eggs are still being incubated. From what I've read, that process lasts 13 days from the penultimate egg being laid which puts hatching at about May 10th.
Wishing yours all the best.

 

[Hicky]

Can anyone shed any like on why the birds don’t like the green feeder but happily empty the black one? As a control we’ve had the feeders in the same positions with the same food and the green one goes untouched. It’s empty in the pic as I’ve stopped using it. We use these so the songbirds and sparrows get some good rather than jackdaws and pigeons.

 

[Zimbob]

More my night's wildlife, as opposed to my day's, awoke on Wednesday night's bivvy to find I was being watched :

Did try for a better pic, but unfortunately the movement spooked him :

And off he flew...

 

[ren531]

Saw a deer this morning cycling to work near Lancaster I had just crested a hill and it was in the middle of the road about 50 yards away ,I stopped and the deer just looked at me for a few seconds before disappearing into some trees beside the railway line ,great moment on a sunny and very quiet morning .

 

[biggs682]

This spider was hiding in our watering can

 

[slowmotion]

Looks like our blue tits have hatched. How are yours doing @slowmotion ?
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It looks my timing was a bit out. Nine of the eleven eggs hatched yesterday morning. The parents are both going in to feed them, but they are just tiny scraps of pink flesh and flailing wings, so I can't get a remotely decent picture of eager open mouths.

 

[philk56]

I had to stop on my bike ride today to watch this feeding frenzy on the river (Swan River, Perth). Unfortunately I only had my phone with me, which doesn't have a great camera. Mainly Little Black Cormorants, with help from gulls and pelicans. These events occur fairly frequently, particularly in the cooler months in my experience, but this was the largest I have seen - there must have been over a thousand cormorants zig-zagging across the river. Quite a sight!

 

[newfhouse]

Pretty busy in and out of the box at the moment.

 

[slowmotion]

Same here.

 

[Dave 123]

A bit of assistance this evening.....