Homers Double
Well-Known Member
No photo but a random Badger wandered across the field behind our house at 2.30 this afternoon.
Perhaps it was sleepwalking
Perhaps it was sleepwalking
Your day's wildlife
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dicko
Guru
- Location
- Derbyshire
We have a female Blackbird busily building a nest in our Clematis, will have to keep a watch on events there.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
These are eating one of our Lilly's
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Lilly beetles? I have the same problem with one variety of lilly but not another in a different area of the garden. Frequent applications of Provanto seems to sort the affected plants out.
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
Came home this afternoon to find this fine specimen on our patio. Decent size, maybe 300mm long?
I leave a sheet of corrugated steel sheet on the grass bank behind the house and there are always slowworms under there, I’ve seen a many as six, they disappear amazingly quickly when they get a wriggle on.
I leave a sheet of corrugated steel sheet on the grass bank behind the house and there are always slowworms under there, I’ve seen a many as six, they disappear amazingly quickly when they get a wriggle on.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Horse chestnuts or conkers are coming along
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
Green woodpecker on the lawn at breakfast time
I didn't get a photo but yesterday evening after I'd been hedge cutting in garden I looked out and could see a group (parliment I believe is collective noun) of magpies which isn't unusual as we get a lot here but one was pecking at something on a grass. I went out and it was a large toad, I must have disturbed it earlier. Anyway, it was still alive and didn't look harmed so I stashed into undergrowth near hedge. Hopefully it's OK.
briantrumpet
Legendary Member
- Location
- Devon & Die
Mealtime.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
deer & juvenile around midnight
I miss having this camera mounted outside my window, instead of inside looking thru 2 panes of glass & a sheet of reflective mylar, to keep the condo police away
I miss having this camera mounted outside my window, instead of inside looking thru 2 panes of glass & a sheet of reflective mylar, to keep the condo police away
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Last few days sightings
Coming back from Thorney, a village which is bordered by a vast expanse of Fenland, fields just disappear off into the distance, we saw a Mersh Harrier i believe fly low overhead, carrying something in it's talons. It meandered along the road/tree line then back across the road (we were in slow moving traffic so had a good look at it)...across a field and at that point a buzzard approached some distance away. The (probably) Marsh Harrier jettisoned or dropped it's prey and loped off.
I say Marsh Harrier because there is or was a poulation of them at Eldernell, a SSSI maybe 10 miles away as the crow flies, perfect habitat for them and it was dark brown long broad wings, just didn't have the look of Buzzard or Red Kite.
Yesterday, walking along the river Nene, a Sparroehawk flitted across in front of us.
First (probable) Cuckoo of the year on the same walk, they're like a cross between a pigeon and a hawk, long tail.
Coming back from Thorney, a village which is bordered by a vast expanse of Fenland, fields just disappear off into the distance, we saw a Mersh Harrier i believe fly low overhead, carrying something in it's talons. It meandered along the road/tree line then back across the road (we were in slow moving traffic so had a good look at it)...across a field and at that point a buzzard approached some distance away. The (probably) Marsh Harrier jettisoned or dropped it's prey and loped off.
I say Marsh Harrier because there is or was a poulation of them at Eldernell, a SSSI maybe 10 miles away as the crow flies, perfect habitat for them and it was dark brown long broad wings, just didn't have the look of Buzzard or Red Kite.
Yesterday, walking along the river Nene, a Sparroehawk flitted across in front of us.
First (probable) Cuckoo of the year on the same walk, they're like a cross between a pigeon and a hawk, long tail.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
An hours walk into local.brickpits today.
Last week, saw an Early Purple Orchid, seen them there before..
Today..a Common Spotted Orchid...
It had blotchy leaves which differentiate it from the Heath Spotted Orchid which is more.likely to have spotty leaves (apparently..I'm no expert)
And then, further on, a Pyramidial Orchid, reasonably unmistakable i hope
Lots of either warblers or buntings in the reedbeds, nice out there, good day for a walk in the peace and quiet
Last week, saw an Early Purple Orchid, seen them there before..
Today..a Common Spotted Orchid...
It had blotchy leaves which differentiate it from the Heath Spotted Orchid which is more.likely to have spotty leaves (apparently..I'm no expert)
And then, further on, a Pyramidial Orchid, reasonably unmistakable i hope
Lots of either warblers or buntings in the reedbeds, nice out there, good day for a walk in the peace and quiet
