Your day's wildlife

[geocycle]

A group of woodland dor beetles moving a pile of poo. Symonds Yat. There were thousands of them out today on our walk.

 

[PeteXXX]

First hedgehog of the year pottering around the garden at about 18:00 yesterday evening.. I put a few bits of hog food down for it in the corner it was heading for and it finished the lot.

 

[Donger]

Woke up on the first morning of a short break in North Yorkshire to find this fine fella on the lawn. This shot was just after he heard the shutter clicking from the previous shot and just before he engaged warp drive:

 

[blackrat]

I took a phone photo of a coven of vultures yesterday close by the river next to the trail. There must have been fifty of them. I thought I might post here, but found someone had left a finger across much of it, so it was spoiled.

 

[albal]

Wheatear at holes bay today.

 

[Way-Out-West]

A bee going about his business.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I went up to see the seals at Horsey Gap today.

 

[biggs682]

Sat and watched a heron fly up to and take a perch atop of a tree for a few minutes then watching it fly away again , no doubt it had raided a couple of local garden ponds

 

[biggs682]

Been a severe shortage of hogs visiting our rear garden this year but last night we had one wandering around and helping itself to a snack, certainly got some easy identification markings on its rear end

 

[dicko]

Our days wildlife

 

[briantrumpet]

Apologies for the rubbish photo, on full zoom and cropped, but delighted to see red kites spreading more widely in Devon. I know they are common elsewhere, but it's been a bit of a desert in Devon, for whatever reason. This one was at Lympstone.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Apologies for the rubbish photo, on full zoom and cropped, but delighted to see red kites spreading more widely in Devon. I know they are common elsewhere, but it's been a bit of a desert in Devon, for whatever reason. This one was at Lympstone.

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They may be common as muck now but it's not so long ago that I remember seeing my first red kite. Ok it was probably over 25 years ago.

I was doing some work out in the M4 corridor - Reading or Newbury way - standing on a station platform wondering what that forked tailed bird was.

 

[briantrumpet]

They may be common as muck now but it's not so long ago that I remember seeing my first red kite. Ok it was probably over 25 years ago.

I was doing some work out in the M4 corridor - Reading or Newbury way - standing on a station platform wondering what that forked tailed bird was.

It's a real success story. They are so beautiful too.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

They may be common as muck now but it's not so long ago that I remember seeing my first red kite. Ok it was probably over 25 years ago.

I was doing some work out in the M4 corridor - Reading or Newbury way - standing on a station platform wondering what that forked tailed bird was.

I remember a pocket of them in Oxfordshire about 20 years ago and ever since I've seen them in ever more distant locations. Last I saw was in Cambridgeshire about a week ago but I have seen them in Norfolk too.

 

[Donger]

We drove right past the red kite feeding area at Rhayader a couple of weeks ago and there must have been over 50 of them circling at feeding time. You could see some of the youngsters having food passed to them mid flight by their parents. I'd only pulled over to take my coat off, but we ended up staying for 15 minutes watching the frenzy.