Your day's wildlife

[rockyroller]

saw this guy at the beach today

 

[Ian H]

We breakfasted out this morning, and shared our table with this tiny creature.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

saw this guy at the beach today
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He should move into the city, there's more food for him. He could do with a few jettisoned takeaways!

 

[potsy]

A very infrequent visitor returned today, nice to see.

 

[midlife]

Smart pics . Just curious, what is it?

 

[potsy]

Smart pics . Just curious, what is it?

Just your common house sparrow, but I don't get them in the garden very often

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just your common house sparrow, but I don't get them in the garden very often

I'm not sure you can call them common any more. They're a rare sight in Cockney sparrow territory these days.

 

[Dave 123]

Yesterday morning in the frosty sunlight

A wren and a Chiffchaff

 

[rockyroller]

He should move into the city, there's more food for him. He could do with a few jettisoned takeaways!

hehe yeah skinny sucker. must have been a rough winter. this is way out at the tip of Cape Cod in P-town at Race Point Beach

 

[kynikos]

No picture but, in a first for me, I heard a bittern booming this morning.

 

[Dave 123]

Early purple orchid

 

[Proto]

Clearing leaves and debris on the bank behind the house in preparation for sowing some woodland grass seed (I live in hope). Disturbed a ball of woven grass nestled into the bottom a hazel, cricket ball sized. Unsure what it was,I picked it up and turned it over. Inside was this lovely little thing, but i don’t know what it is!
I’d estimate it being bigger than a mouse, but not much. It appeared to be sleeping/hibernating but did move a little bit. I covered it up as best I could in the grass ball, then lay it on on a pile of leaves in a narrow gap between some logs, then covered it up with more leaves. Hope it survives. Any idea what I might be?
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Update: meandered up the garden to the spot where I made the nest for my furry friend and was delighted to see him sitting next to it, sunning himself. He stayed still long enough for me to get a photo but I still don‘t know what it is! I’m assuming it’s a mouse of some sort, wood mouse (?), but I thought mice of all types had hairless tails? And from its previous nest (that I disturbed) I’m again guessing that it was hibernating. Do mice live long enough to hibernate. Anyway, couple of photos.

 

[rockyroller]

couple of photos.

what a cutie! nice brown color!

I looked up "brown" mouse: The most obvious difference between the two mice is in coloration. Deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus, tend to be sort of “deer-colored,” a tawny brown which can tend towards gray, while house mice are mostly gray. Brown mice are good climbers and may be found atop trees or manmade structures.

 

[Aravis]

@Proto that is a (Hazel) Dormouse, a fantastic spot. Having accidentally disturbed it, fortunately I would imagine at the end of its hibernation, it sounds as though you did exactly the right thing.

They are gorgeous creatures, and there's loads to read about them online. I did see one once, caught by my cat but once it had escaped into a tree it was well away!

 

[Proto]

I watched it for a few moments then in slipped away into a pile of stacked logs. Feeling guilty having disturbed it, I’ve left it some seeds from my bird feeder.