Your day's wildlife

[Poacher]

Yet another fox / badger encounter, at 8:30 last night. This time it looked like fox was determined to stand its ground, but the slow* advance of badger tested its new-found courage. Just noticed that badger appears to have a split right ear, so probably not one to back down if it comes to physical conflict.
*~10 seconds difference between 1st and 3rd frames.

 

[Poacher]

D*ck pics from today's ~10km walk from Bakewell to Great Longstones and back via Little Longstones and Ashford in the Water.
Three young(?) Goosanders just upstream of Bakewell on the Wye, and a single Tufted Duck downstream of Ashford.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

When I threw back my curtains this morning there was a very active Chiffchaff flitting about in my hawthorn tree

 

[geocycle]

When I threw back my curtains this morning there was a very active Chiffchaff flitting about in my hawthorn tree

Interesting they are still around, lots of them migrate but some over winter here now.

 

[Profpointy]

Yet another fox / badger encounter, at 8:30 last night. This time it looked like fox was determined to stand its ground, but the slow* advance of badger tested its new-found courage. Just noticed that badger appears to have a split right ear, so probably not one to back down if it comes to physical conflict.
*~10 seconds difference between 1st and 3rd frames.
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Saw a video on youtube of a badger / fox encounter. The badger grabbed the fox by its paw and just shook it like a large dog with a fluffy toy. The badger ain't backing down and if it comes to violence it won't be a fight as such, just the fox getting a hiding.

 

[Poacher]

One of the plume family of moths, probably a Common Plume (Emmelina monodactyla) on our back gate just now. Looks headless, but that's just how they are!

 

[rockyroller]

been watching for mice, inside & out. thought I had 1 left over pest outside, then I saw 2. well I caught 2 but then saw a 3rd. time for more traps. might have to let the cat out at night

View: https://youtu.be/XOo0B1l8OzM?si=5ShPxwH65YY4ZXde

 

[Psamathe]

Today's ride a couple of red kites and a buzzard (not together). Plus vast numbers of pigeons (as always).

Red kites seem to be getting a lot more common around me (South Norfolk).

 

[AlBaker]

I ride a dead end road each morning and evening, and see armadillos grubbing in the grass verges for food. Unfortunately there are a few businesses along the road with vans in and out, and the armadillos are killed. I see two or three each year that have met their demise.

 

[FrankCrank]

I ride a dead end road each morning and evening, and see armadillos grubbing in the grass verges for food. Unfortunately there are a few businesses along the road with vans in and out, and the armadillos are killed. I see two or three each year that have met their demise.

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Nice - I've only ever seen baby ones hiding under logs

 

[geocycle]

Very autumnal now and the wildlife are changing. On yesterday’s ride I had a red admiral butterfly still visiting the remaining flowers and swallows flying over the fields. At the same time big skeins of Pink footed geese are arriving from the arctic. Definitely transitioning times.

 

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

Saw a fly on a crane last weak

 

[Willd]

As part of suicidal pheasant season, saw a completely black male one

 

[geocycle]

As part of suicidal pheasant season, saw a completely black male one

Yes there were masses of pheasants on this weekend’s ride. Do they get released or something this time of year?

 

[geocycle]

Saw a fly on a crane last weak

Huge piles of blue bottles round us, must be fly tipping…..