Your day's wildlife

[gbb]

Forgot to report yesterday, woke up to a cacophony of magpie 'chack chack chacking', sounded.like two or three right outside in the garden. Blooming noisy things, I was just getting up to shoo them away but was distracted by the doorbell.
Anyway, opened the back door, birds had gone, but there on the back path sat a roasr chicken carcass...aha, somethings(cat probably) dragged the bag out the food recycling bin and the magpies were having an impromptu feast...no wonder they sounded excited.
Blooming mess, Blooming cats, Blooming magpies....

 

[briantrumpet]

More wildlife - when I heard one of my visitors saying "Would you mind getting off my toe please?", I thought he was talking to his partner, but he was talking to this specimen:

 

[briantrumpet]

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The latter is apparently the 'punaise' that crops up in everyday French speech as the toned-down version of "Oh putain!" It's some sort of shield bug.

 

[rockyroller]

mystery critter only seen on nite camera, made a daytime appearance
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anyone identify? Keep in mind it’s eastern Massachusetts

& how would we go about catching it & relocating it?

yup it's fast & the black tip tail is a dead give away. 3:49am this morning. video frames are not great but enough to tell us we still have it

thank goodness for the internet

apparently they can jump too

 

[Profpointy]

Five cormorants in a tree by the river Taff in Cardiff. Struggled to get a clear pic through the leaves so can only see three

 

[Dogtrousers]

yup it's fast & the black tip tail is a dead give away. 3:49am this morning. video frames are not great but enough to tell us we still have it
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thank goodness for the internet
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apparently they can jump too
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Because they're carnivores you might not want to trap/relocate. Unlike rats and the like it won't be going through your garbage or gnawing away at things. But it will be killing things that do.

Unless, of course, you or your neighbours keep chickens. In which case you might be less tolerant.