Your day's wildlife
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
Longish bike ride up in the hills of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire today.
Lots of Skylarks. Must have heard about 50 in total. Some were singing but quite a few were flying through and calling so I suspect they were heading north to other areas
Heard my first singing Chiffchaff of the Spring too which is always lovely
Lots of Skylarks. Must have heard about 50 in total. Some were singing but quite a few were flying through and calling so I suspect they were heading north to other areas
Heard my first singing Chiffchaff of the Spring too which is always lovely
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Sat by our local lake yesterday and a cormorant flew in.
Watched it diving a few times, then wow! Up it came with an absolutely mahoosive fish in its beak, about half the size of the cormorant. "No way will it swallow that!" thinks I.
Wrong. Straight down the hatch, wriggling like mad. Cormorant looked a bit phased for a while, swimming around looking distracted like it had a huge fish flapping around inside it! Then off it flew.
Fantastic creatures.
Watched it diving a few times, then wow! Up it came with an absolutely mahoosive fish in its beak, about half the size of the cormorant. "No way will it swallow that!" thinks I.
Wrong. Straight down the hatch, wriggling like mad. Cormorant looked a bit phased for a while, swimming around looking distracted like it had a huge fish flapping around inside it! Then off it flew.
Fantastic creatures.
Andy in Germany
Guru
There's a small colony of cormorants near Stuttgart: I've seen them lurking on the huge lights above the equally massive lockk gates on the Neckar river in Esslingen, about 600k from the sea.
Andy in Germany
Guru
That's an awesome image.
A bumble bee bumbled into the dining room today and investigated some tulips on the window sill, then wandered about before exiting through the window with help from an awful "classic" paperback book Youngest Son is pretending to read for school.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
As I know nothing about hawks can someone help identify it for me? I've pencilled in sparrowhawk as a possibility but I really couldn't say. It's over woods in SE London with a second one nearby.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Looks like a buzzard to me.
matticus
Guru
I don't think so - unless it's tucked it's tail into a narrower shape than usual. (Are Sparrowhawks smaller than buzzards/kites? I've never knowingly seen one.)
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Went for our first 2021 team coffee at lunchtime from the site "Costa" franchise. Drinking them in the sun, a heron flew over. That's a bird that can't be mistaken for anything else in the UK!
Ridgeway
Veteran
yes a lot smaller, a female spar is a lot smaller than a male buzzard for example
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
What was its behaviour/ flight?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
Gliding slowly forward into the wind - as it was at the side of a hill, there would have been an updraught. No wing flapping.
