Your day's wildlife

[PeteXXX]

I set a motion detection going on a camera last night.. Loads of hedgehog action going on!

 

[derrick]

 

[Dave 123]

A murky day in Devon....

rock pipit

Small copper

Stonechat

Linnet

As I was sat on the rocks quietly watching the rock pipits.....

 

[steveindenmark]

I had a close encounter yesterday. On my 5am commute. I also saw lots of hares and rabbits, a few more deer and a couple of fox cubs.

 

[biggs682]

Our pea's under attack

 

[slowmotion]

An hour ago, I was flagged down by three young people staring at a bush...…"Look, it's a hummingbird…"
It had a body about 25-30 mm long and a long thin downward-curving proboscis thingy. It was quite a sight as it hovered next to some flowering plant. I just looked them up on Google. I think it was a Hummingbird hawk-moth from southern Europe.

 

[Jenkins]

A Brimstone Moth resting on the kitchen tiles a few days ago

 

[Glow worm]

A pyramidal orchid and marbled white butterfly from my ride earlier today.

 

[nickyboy]

I've got to the age of 67 and I've never seen a woodpecker. I've heard plenty of them whilst wandering around the Chilterns but I've never seen one, and I had tried. Moved to East Devon/Dorset three weeks ago and not long after I saw what I think was a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker sitting in one of my oak trees. Quite small, and pattern not right for a Greater Spotted (I'm no expert!). But I digress. Today, look out the window and there's a Green Woodpecker sitting on my lawn.

Excuse the phone camera photo quality. It was a fair way away. I've now dug my Olympus DSLR and tripod out of storage and I'm on a mission to get some decent photos!

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The best way to tell Lesser and Greater Spotted Woodpeckers apart is size. Greater are about the size of a Starling (if you can imagine that). Lesser are really tiny. They're about the size of a Sparrow

 

[AndreaJ]

The hedge has just started to flower and there are lots of butterflies and bees here now, especially Small tortoiseshell.

 

[Proto]

The best way to tell Lesser and Greater Spotted Woodpeckers apart is size. Greater are about the size of a Starling (if you can imagine that). Lesser are really tiny. They're about the size of a Sparrow

In that case it was a Greater. Deffo bigger than a sparrow.

 

[Glow worm]

I find taking photos with a phone camera of glow worms incredibly difficult. The light levels are an obvoius hurdle, then it only takes a tiny bit of grass or a leaf for the camera to focus on leaving the glow worm blurred. I’ve yet to take a decent one, but here’s a couple of blurry images from last night‘s sublime night ride around Wicken Fen, Cambs. My first glowing female of the season.

Also 3 barn owls, no end of deer and a curious bat who joined me on the ride for a few hundred yards at just above head height on Burwell Fen! All to the backdrop sound of reeling grasshopper warblers.

 

[Dave 123]

More coast path wandering

stonechat Cirl Bunting and Goldfinch

 

[potsy]

A few visitors to the garden, some are greedier than others.

 

[nickyboy]

Going to bed last night with the window open due to warm weather. Heard the "begging" call of a young Tawny Owl in the oak tree in the garden. Sounds a bit like the "to-whit" of the adult but like it needs oiling

Often hear adults in the nearby trees but in all the years at the house, never seen one