Your day's wildlife

[rockyroller]

The brave foxes in my garden took on and killed a snake last night.

In fact I think there was a bit of overkill as the snake not only had its head bitten off but the rest of its body was badly mauled and chewed, and has lots of holes in it.

The dead snake:
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maybe they did it because they were thirsty

 

[rockyroller]

Similar thing over this way, only it was a squirrel taking the garden hose to task, and leaving it with a few more 'sprinkler' holes

so yours has holes for irrigation?

 

[Dogtrousers]

maybe they did it because they were thirsty

They just love chewing things. Any shoes or gloves, or just anything that makes a good toy, left outside will get chewed. One time a few years ago I was in the garden and my strimmer was lying only 4 or 5 metres away and a very bold fox snuck up to it, eyes on me all the time, so it could have a quick chew at the strap.

 

[FrankCrank]

Some sizeable creepy-crawlies round here

 

[rockyroller]

red bellied wood pecker at the feeder today

 

[avecReynolds531]

 

[Poacher]

Goldcrest in the garden today; sorry for the poor quality pics. They're very active little birds, it was raining, so low light, and taken through our dining room window. Just about recognisable! I may post some stills from last night's videos later, some interaction between two foxes, probably both vixens, and fox / badger encounter.

 

[laurentian]

Goldcrest in the garden today; sorry for the poor quality pics. They're very active little birds, it was raining, so low light, and taken through our dining room window. Just about recognisable! I may post some stills from last night's videos later, some interaction between two foxes, probably both vixens, and fox / badger encounter.
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If you see it again, you might want to go out of the house and get close to it to take a photo. Goldcrests are surprisingly gregarious birds considering their size and you may be surprised just how close you can get to it. I have walked to within a couple of feet of a goldcrest a few times

 

[Poacher]

If you see it again, you might want to go out of the house and get close to it to take a photo. Goldcrests are surprisingly gregarious birds considering their size and you may be surprised just how close you can get to it. I have walked to within a couple of feet of a goldcrest a few times

Yes, they're often approachable, or will approach humans, but it was raining and I'm wimpish!
I much prefer warm and dry, when I've been close to one, but never with a camera to hand, and even so, they're never still for more than a split second:
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-days-wildlife.174739/page-272#post-6511783

 

[Poacher]

Complicated social life of two foxes, which I think are both vixens.
Smaller of the two hurtles in from stage left as if launching an attack,

but circles round the back,

whining, and grovelling on its back in a subservient display,

edging closer to the dominant one, which appears to yawn

before losing patience and pinning the other down, accompanied by the most extraordinary noises, like the noisiest ever freewheel or a fishing reel with the ratchet engaged

and three times bending to bite the other's face (but only pretending!)

dominant fox seems distracted

and subservient fox escapes

only to return seconds later, startling dominant one, but whining and grovelling again

 

[Gillstay]

If you see it again, you might want to go out of the house and get close to it to take a photo. Goldcrests are surprisingly gregarious birds considering their size and you may be surprised just how close you can get to it. I have walked to within a couple of feet of a goldcrest a few times

If you are up a tree they come even closer. I was once on a work site and saw a few coming in my direction, catching on quick I ran across a cleared area to where we had left a lone Yew tree with branches down to the ground. I ducked under and scrabbled to the trunk where I sat upright and waited. The plan worked very well as it was not a small flock and I had about thirty working the tree over and all around me.
It was fantastic.

 

[Poacher]

Later that same night... fox watches badger warily

manoeuvres around to a favoured position

crouches and feints a pounce

before wisely reconsidering

and evading those fearsome jaws

then thinking of a counter attack from a standing position

before again deciding that "discretion is the better part of valour"

and running away

but not very far...

 

[Poacher]

… just a few seconds later, fox emerges from its hiding place

while badger is doing its obligatory scent marking and enjoying a celebratory scratch,

has a surreptitious sniff of badger's bum

then smells where badger has scent marked

and finds it so enticing that it applies some first to left cheek

then to right cheek. Mmmm, Chanel never produced a finer aroma!

Fox and badger then co-existed in harmony, all previous animosity forgotten!

 

[FrankCrank]

An unusual sighting yesterday of a nightjar

And the location - a high-end shopping mall in BKK called Icon Siam.
Here's a file photo of the mall, with arrow showing the bird's chosen roost, a cluster of trees in a rooftop garden

I would have expected to see one of these in open countryside, so how it ended up in this 'urban jungle' is a mystery.

 

[rockyroller]

Complicated social life of two foxes, which I think are both vixens.
Smaller of the two hurtles in from stage left as if launching an attack,
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but circles round the back,
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whining, and grovelling on its back in a subservient display,

edging closer to the dominant one, which appears to yawn

before losing patience and pinning the other down, accompanied by the most extraordinary noises, like the noisiest ever freewheel or a fishing reel with the ratchet engaged

and three times bending to bite the other's face (but only pretending!)




dominant fox seems distracted

and subservient fox escapes

only to return seconds later, startling dominant one, but whining and grovelling again

how they occupy their time until a male shows up?