Your day's wildlife

[matticus]

... of deer in a field, in the middle of which was a white one (albino?)

I would have doubted your albino claim ... until quite recently. There was a white (red?) deer filmed* on Mull, shown in the Autumn I think.

*by Gordon Buchanan? He used to live on Mull, hadn't seen one before.

 

[newfhouse]

It won’t be long before they start gathering serious amounts of nest material.

 

[Dave 123]

Counting crows

 

[HarryTheDog]

I had a significant Birthday on Tuesday and my missus and family bought me a Nikon DSLR between them as I had mentioned I had not owned a real camera for over 30 years. Me and my partner did a 8 mile coastal walk from Swanpool to Helford Passage and I tried it out.
I got really lucky with the Seal, the robin was really friendly and I got within a foot of it.

 

[craigwend]

We can see you -gathering the fluff off the Bulrush

 

[Dave 123]

@HarryTheDog happy significant birthday!

Enjoy your camera.

 

[gbb]

Forgot to post, Tues afternoon on the way home, a Little Egret in the edge of a field.
Ages since i saw one (mind i'm hardly cycling at the moment so not really 'out there' to see much anyway)

Edited to add...
Colleague just showed me a photo, his daughter has a small farm and fitted an owl box a week ago, one week later, a barn owl seems to have taken up residence.

 

[roley poley]

started to pull the dandelions out of the borders but stopped when the first butterfly I have seen this year came down to feed (tortoise shell I think)

 

[annedonnelly]

started to pull the dandelions out of the borders but stopped when the first butterfly I have seen this year came down to feed (tortoise shell I think)

Dandelions are an important source of nectar at this time of yera. Well done for leaving them.

 

[biggs682]

Rhubarb coming on

 

[nickyboy]

Walked up the Snake Pass today. Red Grouse, Curlews, Pied Wagtails, Meadow Pipits. Great to see life returning to the high ground

 

[numbnuts]

03:30 this morning

 

[slowmotion]

About 35 yards from the window of my tiny office is a flat-roofed two storey rear extension on the house opposite. There's a rainwater hopper that channels the water from the roof into a downpipe. About five weeks ago I noticed a pair of fairly manky urban pigeons regularly disappearing into the hole in the brickwork that feeds the hopper, presumably to build some kind of nest.
Yesterday, I gazed out and saw a large crow sitting on the edge of the hopper, reach into the brickwork, and come out with a tiny flapping bit of pigeonkind in its beak. It then flew to another flat roof nearby and started pecking enthusiastically. Magpies followed.
An hour later, one of the victim's parents was sitting nearby the nest waiting. It stayed virtually immobile for well over an hour, seemingly not noticing the crow returning to the adjacent roof and flying off with a tiny, lifeless, limp dead pigeon in its beak. I know that a crow's gotta do what a crow's gotta do, but the body language of the waiting adult pigeon was utterly pitiful.
Red in tooth and claw.

 

[annedonnelly]

My neighbour feeds a flock of feral pigeons which then roost on my roof. They obviously trying to breed at the minute as something is depositing eggs on my patio. Either the pigeons are so stupid they don't lay them in a safe place or something like a crow is nicking them and dropping them.

Much as I like birds & other wildlife I don't really want a flock of pigeons living on my roof.

 

[matticus]

Much as I like birds & other wildlife I don't really want a flock of pigeons living on my roof.

I have no love for wood pigeons (it's not "cooing", it's a nasty off-key drone). You have my permission to deploy all measures necessary.