Your day's wildlife

[Jenkins]

Saw what I think was a pair of curlews in a field just outside Waldringfield this afternoon, but as I stopped to get a photo the squeal from my front brake frightened them off.

 

[rockyroller]

Saw what I think was a pair of curlews in a field just outside Waldringfield this afternoon, but as I stopped to get a photo the squeal from my front brake frightened them off.

oh cool! those beaks are amazing

 

[gbb]

Not seen by me but during a bike ride with my wife this morning, a ride through our local Ferry Meadows country park, I looked at the sightings board they have there....sightings this week..
Otter...apparently they're regular sightings now on the Nene nearby. I've seen a dead one myself a few months ago.
Ring Necked Parakeets..there were a few in nearby woods in the 1980s, they disappeared (or there were no sightings) for many years...now apparently they're regularly seen all year round?
Great Northern Diver...that's a rare sight, I've never seen one. It will have been seen on one of the lakes in the park.

 

[Proto]

Rather pleased with this, first time visit from a nervous Greater Spotted Woodpecker to the feeder hanging outside our kitchen window. Plenty of Tits, Wagtails, Robins and occasionally Magpies, but first woodpecker I’ve seen on the feeder. We get green ones on the lawn, I’ll try and entice them closer.
Apologies for rubbish photo, I had about two seconds to grab my phone before he was off.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I heard a distinct "Peewit" today. Didn't see the bird but I haven't really heard "peewit" for some years. Used to be so common

 

[Proto]

Frogs, thousands of ’em! (I’m exaggerating a bit)

walked on the track in front of the house last night, spotted a small frog, just sitting there. Then another, and another. I counted ~25 of them just from that one spot, radius one meter. Fairly confident they were plenty more further along the lane.
we do see frogs and toads on occasion, but singly, never so many together. Anyone know what’s going on?

 

[Oldhippy]

Frogstock!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Frogstock!

If it was Frogstock they’d be half a million strong

 

[Oldhippy]

It's a three day gig, wait for the latecomers. 😁

 

[Proto]

Frogs are still out at night, loads of them, and they are deffo in party mood. Most just standing around but some are, how shall we put it, getting in some love action, and in a couple of cases a bit of troilism, a tangled ball of frogs, limbs all akimbo. Got to love nature!

 

[rockyroller]

a bit of troilism

had to look that one up! gonna use it the next time an opportunity presents itself. thanks!

 

[Glow worm]

Saw what I think was a pair of curlews in a field just outside Waldringfield this afternoon, but as I stopped to get a photo the squeal from my front brake frightened them off.

On the opposite shore of the Deben, I saw dozens of curlew last winter on a field next to the little lane leading to Ramsholt quay (1st field on right after the turn off) They seem to love the arable around there!

 

[Poacher]

Ghost of a butterfly? Nope, unintentional art form caused by a bird (probably Woodpigeon) voiding its bowels onto our kitchen window.

How did it make a splash form the antennae?

 

[mjr]

I was riding to market this morning, stopped to send a text, then did a double take when I spotted this in the field by the road. What the heck is this? It's like a horse wearing a Day of the Dead mask with horns! Some sort of gazelle? ETA: thanks to the person who told me it's a roan antelope.

 

[biggs682]

First sighting of Ladybirds in 2021