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The gardening inspector is back, casting a critical eye over my sloppy work
Your day's wildlife
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
Forest of Dean earlier today. Also saw what I assume was a muntjac and we were chatting to a chap who'd come across some wild boar
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Spotted Nr Tesco 🤣 (And the Woods). Not rare in the UK. Just rarely seen - seeing (sic) as they are so shy. **Blue Jay
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
When I went into the kitchen this morning, female Great Tit was hovering at the window, waiting for me! As was Robin, more sensibly perched on the end of the gutter, as usual.
Nearly all the birds are feeding youngsters now, although where live mealworms are concerned the Blackbirds are mainly stuffing themselves, greedy beggars, so I've made a small cage of 50mm metal mesh to deter them, but they still manage to squeeze through. To give the Great Tits first dibs, I occasionally offer them food from the hand. The female is much bolder than the male, who normally waits until the food is in the cage, as does the Robin, who will come to hand but is rather reluctant. Here's the female Great Tit:
She's looking much less dapper than she did at the start of nesting season...
Nearly all the birds are feeding youngsters now, although where live mealworms are concerned the Blackbirds are mainly stuffing themselves, greedy beggars, so I've made a small cage of 50mm metal mesh to deter them, but they still manage to squeeze through. To give the Great Tits first dibs, I occasionally offer them food from the hand. The female is much bolder than the male, who normally waits until the food is in the cage, as does the Robin, who will come to hand but is rather reluctant. Here's the female Great Tit:
She's looking much less dapper than she did at the start of nesting season...
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
- Location
- Stowmarket
I think that most birds are territorial. There are two places I see jays, not on every ride, perhaps once in a couple of dozen. They are shy. Green woodpeckers are a bit the same. If I see them, they are usually within a few yards of the last sighting.
Gillstay
Veteran
I think the Blue Jay refers to the USA one.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/birds/jay/
Might well be an American term 🤷♂️ 👍
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Didnt feel too great today and tbh, it was a long slow walk back to the car 
I think we all have a cold virus just sitting there, not bad but...
Anyway, a walk out to the usual, not much showing itself and sometimes i really could do with a longer lens,
Garden Warbler (cropped photo) EDITED...more likely a Willow Warbler or a Chiffchaff. Apparently Garden Warblers are highly unlikely to be high and exposed
Elusive little things, very long lasting melodic song but its almost always in undergrowth.
I'd been watching some bushes for maybe 5 minutes, song bursting out from within, then two minutes after i gave up, this appeared up in the tree..
Who doesnt like a duckling, very obligingly sat about 10ft from me, not a care in the world..
Its got a dandelion seed on its beak
It would have been such a better photo had the light been behind me but beggars cant be choosers
I think we all have a cold virus just sitting there, not bad but...
Anyway, a walk out to the usual, not much showing itself and sometimes i really could do with a longer lens,
Garden Warbler (cropped photo) EDITED...more likely a Willow Warbler or a Chiffchaff. Apparently Garden Warblers are highly unlikely to be high and exposed
Elusive little things, very long lasting melodic song but its almost always in undergrowth.
I'd been watching some bushes for maybe 5 minutes, song bursting out from within, then two minutes after i gave up, this appeared up in the tree..
Who doesnt like a duckling, very obligingly sat about 10ft from me, not a care in the world..
Its got a dandelion seed on its beak
It would have been such a better photo had the light been behind me but beggars cant be choosers
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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Foxes nearly always stay clear of badgers, unless they see a chance to nip a badger's tail and run away. This was different, a fox chasing a badger at high speed.
Here's the reason - vixen was almost certainly defending her only cub, which she accompanied later this morning.
Either badger didn't learn the lesson, or, more likely, another badger was in need of a good chasing, not much later.
Here's the reason - vixen was almost certainly defending her only cub, which she accompanied later this morning.
Either badger didn't learn the lesson, or, more likely, another badger was in need of a good chasing, not much later.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I really need a bigger lens for my camera, currently using a 300mm so getting small creatures is 'difficult' even as close as around 30ft away
But today...
Common Whitethroat
Also, a fabulous though fleeting chance to photograph a cuckoo in a nearby tree... argg its gone.
Then later around 2 miles away...another cuckoo, it had been calling incessantly for 5 minutes, eventually saw it in branches but only with binos,no chance of a photo with that distance.
Two actual cuckoo sightings in one day
Other creatures around..
A very big fox skulking round the perimeter of the scapes in local country park
A rat, seemingly unconcerned by my presence.
A mouse type creature scurried down a hole .
Three Dunnock adopt a bush, not sure if they were 'courting"...all excitedly fluttering around.
Merlin app picked up a possible Golden Plover somewhere, didnt hear or see anything and it identifies it as an only possible id.
Lots of birdlife out, warblers galore
Cettis, ,Garden, Reed, Sedge, Whitethroat, Blackcaps bit seeing them is easier than hearing them. I must have been within 4 or 5 ft from a Sedge singing away for all its worth...hidden by reeds, completely invisible.
Camera taken, bit of a waste of time, everything hidden from view.
But today...
Common Whitethroat
Also, a fabulous though fleeting chance to photograph a cuckoo in a nearby tree... argg its gone.
Then later around 2 miles away...another cuckoo, it had been calling incessantly for 5 minutes, eventually saw it in branches but only with binos,no chance of a photo with that distance.
Two actual cuckoo sightings in one day
Other creatures around..
A very big fox skulking round the perimeter of the scapes in local country park
A rat, seemingly unconcerned by my presence.
A mouse type creature scurried down a hole .
Three Dunnock adopt a bush, not sure if they were 'courting"...all excitedly fluttering around.
Merlin app picked up a possible Golden Plover somewhere, didnt hear or see anything and it identifies it as an only possible id.
Lots of birdlife out, warblers galore
Cettis, ,Garden, Reed, Sedge, Whitethroat, Blackcaps bit seeing them is easier than hearing them. I must have been within 4 or 5 ft from a Sedge singing away for all its worth...hidden by reeds, completely invisible.
Camera taken, bit of a waste of time, everything hidden from view.
