Your day's wildlife

[rockyroller]

no cats but a deer

this used camera I bought on eBay has been faulty. first noticed trouble w/ date & time going off periodically. but it was also having trouble doing video + photos & kept triggering constantly until the batteries died. it can still record a photo, so it's not complete junk, but is annoying

 

[Asa Post]

Foxes don't usually take on badgers, and don't win when they do.
This vixen has cubs nearby, so she was braver and more determined than she would otherwise be.
She's lost the use of her left eye, but it doesn't hold her back


View: https://youtu.be/wAUspPQAAyo

 

[dicko]

Awaiting for the Mrs a Crow popped on my shoulder grrr

 

[laurentian]

Just watched a blackbird fledge from its nest in a honeysuckle bush in our garden. Also blue tits now paying occasional visits to the nestbox and taking nesting material in. Hopefully they start to get serious about nesting. If so, my next few weeks will be spent watching the nestbox and the various and, to me fascinating, stages of nesting, feeding and fledging.

The next box is in close proximity (c. 3m) to the blackbirds nest and, over the past couple of weeks, it appears that the blackbirds have been trying to "persuade" the blue tits not to nest there but hopefully they will . . .

 

[kynikos]

 

[geocycle]

Had a warning pass from the increasingly assertive sparrowhawk. I was reaching out to bring the feeders in and she flew between me and post,I felt the wind from her feathers! She has been taking great tits from the feeders and didn’t want me interfering.

 

[Dave7]

Just had this visitor. He seemed to like the patio furniture.

 

[Gillstay]

Had a warning pass from the increasingly assertive sparrowhawk. I was reaching out to bring the feeders in and she flew between me and post,I felt the wind from her feathers! She has been taking great tits from the feeders and didn’t want me interfering.

I think its not a warning pass, but using you as a distraction. They travel along in front of cars for this reason to have their approach masked and I have had it done on a bicycle as it went along in front of me about a foot off the road then up and over a hedge.

 

[geocycle]

I think its not a warning pass, but using you as a distraction. They travel along in front of cars for this reason to have their approach masked and I have had it done on a bicycle as it went along in front of me about a foot off the road then up and over a hedge.

That’s fascinating. They are amazing birds, I feel guilty having the feeder only for blue and great tits to become sparrowhawk food but I suppose that’s how ecosystems work.

 

[biggs682]

Looks like we had 2 hogs visiting the other night

 

[gbb]

Well this is an unusual one...
Took the kids onto Caister beach, through the dunes to come across a...dead seal, well, half a dead seal. Top half was gone, bit gruesome...

We moved on, did our thing, came back and as we looked back to the seal corpse, a Labrador sauntered up...and started rolling energetically in it
Someone's in for a surprise...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well this is an unusual one...
Took the kids onto Caister beach, through the dunes to come across a...dead seal, well, half a dead seal. Top half was gone, bit gruesome...

We moved on, did our thing, came back and as we looked back to the seal corpse, a Labrador sauntered up...and started rolling energetically in it
Someone's in for a surprise...

A few miles north of you at Horsey Gap, they also leave the dead seals for nature to take its course. Yes, it can be a bit gruesome. Though, dogs are kept on leads there so the dead seal roll around is not an option.

 

[gbb]

A few miles north of you at Horsey Gap, they also leave the dead seals for nature to take its course. Yes, it can be a bit gruesome. Though, dogs are kept on leads there so the dead seal roll around is not an option.

We had a Jack Russell years ago that seemed to love to escape, go into a nearby field and find something dead to roll in. She'd come back absolutely retchingly stinking, you couldn't get near her let alone let her back in the house. Garden hose was the only option....

 

[gbb]

A few miles north of you at Horsey Gap, they also leave the dead seals for nature to take its course. Yes, it can be a bit gruesome. Though, dogs are kept on leads there so the dead seal roll around is not an option.

We took a ride up there today, tide is in so they were really quite close to the dunes and walkway so nice close ups with them, literally hundreds of them spread along the beach...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

We took a ride up there today, tide is in so they were really quite close to the dunes and walkway so nice close ups with them, literally hundreds of them spread along the beach...
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Fabulous over there, isn't it! I believe it's one of the biggest Atlantic Grey colonies, if not the biggest. So it's a very reliable place to go to see them.