Your day's wildlife

[biggs682]

Lots to read about them here and I bet they'd like to hear about your visitors.

I will have to have a look at that , thanks

 

[biggs682]

4 hogs left our garden last night and 2 came in

 

[biggs682]

Hog count for Thursday night was 4 left the garden and 5 cam into the garden
And last night 6 came in and 4 left

 

[Proto]

Walking in the woods behind our house with the dog this afternoon, I spotted this snail on a beech leaf. Probably not that unusual but at 5ft from the ground I wondered how it got there. It's a big climb up the tree trunk, along several gradually diminishing branches and onto a leaf. Or did it get there some other way? Thoughts?

 

[biggs682]

Do you reckon it might have jumped ??

 

[Proto]

Do you reckon it might have jumped ??

No. I won't have jumped, it hasn't got any legs. So it must have climbed, but why so far, why this particular leaf? Or could it have been dropped by a bird. I just thought it a bit strange.

 

[potsy]

 

[Poacher]

Not quite as camouflaged as it imagined!

 

[biggs682]

Last night's results
6 in and 6 out

 

[Gillstay]

No. I won't have jumped, it hasn't got any legs. So it must have climbed, but why so far, why this particular leaf? Or could it have been dropped by a bird. I just thought it a bit strange.

I think it is to get away from the drought conditions as at ground level its much warmer. You would expect a Thrush to get them easier when they are up a tree though.

 

[Dave 123]

A Comma caterpillar

 

[annedonnelly]

I think it is to get away from the drought conditions as at ground level its much warmer. You would expect a Thrush to get them easier when they are up a tree though.

They climb all the way up the gable end of my house. You can see their slime trails on the brick. No leaves up there but I expect they hide away in nooks and crannies.

 

[biggs682]

Another busy night on gog front with 6 coming in and 6 going out.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sparrowhawk in my Scots Pine today. Lovely male. I didn't find my camera quickly enough to get a pic.

 

[nickyboy]

Red kites are extremely rare where I live. Just completed a MTB multi day ride around Wessex

It was lovely to see them so common and ubiquitous, presumably filling an ecological niche previously unfilled