Your day's wildlife

[Poacher]

Similarnto the other day, antrip to our local country park.
Before that, i shot over town to trear myself to some new binoculars..Hawkes Nature Treks 4x42, mid range I guess , really nice clear.optics compared.to ny old ones..

8x42, shirley?

 

[Dave7]

My house backs onto a country park. I have used/walked much of it but today I extended my walk and was glad I did.
There were just a couple of patches of Grape Hyathinth (according to my phone) but they were really colourful.

 

[rockyroller]

I think this is the same bird of prey that we saw take a chipmunk. in Massachusetts, U.S. it might be a Cooper's Hawk? or Northern Goshawk?

 

[blackrat]

I think this is the same bird of prey that we saw take a chipmunk. in Massachusetts, U.S. it might be a Cooper's Hawk? or Northern Goshawk?
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Male Coopers hawk (14 - 20") or a Sharp-shinned (10 - 14") , I believe. The cap looks Coopers. Picture is a bit blurry to be sure. Does it have yellow legs?

 

[biggs682]

My house backs onto a country park. I have used/walked much of it but today I extended my walk and was glad I did.
There were just a couple of patches of Grape Hyathinth (according to my phone) but they were really colourful.
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We have loads of them and they can spread like wildfire

 

[gbb]

8x42, shirley?

Yep, heaven knows what I was thinking, edited to correct now.

 

[Dave7]

We have loads of them and they can spread like wildfire

Really. I know next to nothing about different plants/flowers. From what i saw there were just 2 small clumps of them. Seeds dropped by birds maybe ?

 

[rockyroller]

Does it have yellow legs?

just looked at the video clip. yes, appears so

 

[rockyroller]

Bobcat just came by

View: https://youtu.be/-Sh1xcfY5MY


View: https://youtu.be/PiY_Nj4ngh0

 

[biggs682]

Our local green area has a nice spread of cowslips and wild Primula I think growing

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bobcat just came by
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View: https://youtu.be/-Sh1xcfY5MY

How do you know his name is Bob?

 

[dicko]

Today we spotted a Jay in our park, never seen one before. About the size of a Pigeon with Magpie tail markings.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Today we spotted a Jay in our park, never seen one before. About the size of a Pigeon with Magpie tail markings.

We used to have a jay, (or a pair of jays) living somewhere nearby because they were frequent visitors to our garden. Not seen them for a while now.

 

[Gillstay]

Today we spotted a Jay in our park, never seen one before. About the size of a Pigeon with Magpie tail markings.

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Lot more about since Chris Packham highlighted that there was no reason for people to be shooting them.

 

[blackrat]

Today we spotted a Jay in our park, never seen one before. About the size of a Pigeon with Magpie tail markings.

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I thought it might have been an Eurasian Jay, but there are some differences in the marking: