Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Macavity would be the usual suspect, but just try proving it!
Your day's wildlife
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
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rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
oh haha had to look that up, never saw the show
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Show? What show? I was referring to T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
oh I googled it & briefly aw a pic from the Broadway stage show "Cats"
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Oh deer. From alongside the A10 cycleway opposite Andel Lodge. The fence in the foreground is the edge of the cycleway.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I saw a couple of cranes in the snow today.
First of the new year, and probably wondering why the heck they left nice warm Morocco.
First of the new year, and probably wondering why the heck they left nice warm Morocco.
Nigeyy
Legendary Member
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
Bald eagle, this morning. Not bad since I'm in the burbs. Bad photo I know, but as soon as I realized what it was, I had a mad scramble to get my phone.... By the time I got it, it was flying away, chased by crows.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Great excitement in the figbat household this morning. We were all preparing to make a start on various working and schooling form home activities when Master figbat runs into our home office (spare room) shouting "look at the trampoline!". For context, both his bedroom and the home office overlook the rear garden from the first floor, where a trampoline sits replete with safety net held up by a number of vertical poles.
The family figbat duly gathered in the office and looked at the trampoline - sat majestically atop one of the poles was a buzzard. Where we live they are not exactly rare, but the skies are normally filled with red kites meaning you don't see many buzzards around - this is the first we've seen perched in the garden. Happenstance would have it that the home office also doubles as my camera storage vault, so I reached for my best DSLR and grabbed the longest lens I have, removing the resident 50mm f/1.8 and snicking the 100-300mm f/4 into place with practiced ease. And as is often the way, the 'camera-being-lifted-into-position' sensor of the buzzard clearly went off and just as I raised the eyepiece to my eye it took off and disappeared.
Still, it was nice that the kids still get excited about wildlife and a pleasure to see this bird at close-ish quarters.
The family figbat duly gathered in the office and looked at the trampoline - sat majestically atop one of the poles was a buzzard. Where we live they are not exactly rare, but the skies are normally filled with red kites meaning you don't see many buzzards around - this is the first we've seen perched in the garden. Happenstance would have it that the home office also doubles as my camera storage vault, so I reached for my best DSLR and grabbed the longest lens I have, removing the resident 50mm f/1.8 and snicking the 100-300mm f/4 into place with practiced ease. And as is often the way, the 'camera-being-lifted-into-position' sensor of the buzzard clearly went off and just as I raised the eyepiece to my eye it took off and disappeared.
Still, it was nice that the kids still get excited about wildlife and a pleasure to see this bird at close-ish quarters.
Spotted a peregrine out of the office window. Was checking out the field behind the house. To be honest I probably wouldn’t have been able to ID it except the local birdwatchers posted its picture on Twitter. Also had egrets flying over today. In the garden it’s blackbird and robins getting territorial. Eight long tailed tits arrived, oh and the goldcres. Quite like this WFH malarkey!
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
The wren could have done with a faster shutter speed....
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
We are 600ft ASL so not typical goldcrest wintering territory but for the first time I can remember there is one wintering in the garden. It could have picked a milder winter!
However, it is still going strong and I see it most days flitting around looking for insects and spiders and must be finding enough to keep it going. Mild weather arriving Monday so it's only got one more tough day to survive
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Suet balls were a good investment this winter...
