Your day's wildlife

[Andy in Germany]

Solitary bees are fast filling all the holes up.
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Is that what it's there for?

 

[G-Zero]

I recently just missed one of the Threave (Dumfries & Galloway) ospreys fishing and it just missed its target, otherwise I’d have had an image of it carrying a fish away.

 

[G-Zero]

A kayak paddle to a remote Osprey nest on my local river, saw the return of female blue/white W4 for the second year in a row. W4 is a 2015 Osprey from Snowdonia.

 

[Dave7]

The foxes have been busy this morning.
There were 3 cubs but there might only be 2 now, we shall see.

 

[Dave7]

Does this count as wildlife? He/she comes to my patio door most days, has a nosey then wanders away.

 

[gbb]

Oof, been out about 5 hours just meandering around on the bike..

Reed Bunting, there was a pair but ...

Happened across two fairly remarkable wildlife interactions in around 50 yards. First, came face to face with a crow and its young, feeding off some rabbit remains. The youngster was calling away to be fed but the parent seemed more concerned with filling its crop, tearing lumps off the carcase.like its life depended on it...we must have watched for a full minute before they both took off...

We walked another 50 yards to watch two GC Grebe battling it out over a female. Both males started toward each other slowly, head very low and outstretched, battled away for a minute, two nearby coots seemed infuriated by the kerfuffle and joined in. Female GCG sat back watching it all kick off


Earlier...a fox, smaller than yesterday's, Muntjac, came face to face with a stock dove but it was off before I could get my gear out. Very wood pigeon like but prettier, no white on the neck like a pigeon. Very colourful.

Lots of other stuff, too much (and some too mundane) to mention

 

[Gillstay]

Is that what it's there for?

Yes I have several of them on sunny aspects which is where they get used the most.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yes I have several of them on sunny aspects which is where they get used the most.

Maybe a nice project for when I'm in the UK with Beautiful Daughter: we made an insect hotel on a previous occasion.

 

[colly]

Red kites swoop into the garden if anything looks tasty enough. The never land but grab as they come in low and fast. Too fast for a photograph and even on a video its a bit too quick to catch. But then I'm standing in a bedroom window just 8 feet away. I may try hiding and getting some shots from a better standpoint. There is always a warning though............other birds get out of the way a second or so before they come in.

 

[Gillstay]

Maybe a nice project for when I'm in the UK with Beautiful Daughter: we made an insect hotel on a previous occasion.

I find they like older pieces of wood as well, as its always useful to get a result where kids are concerned. Turf stacks attract them if in a sunny spot.

 

[biggs682]

Today is the first day of not using any bird seed and there are a few disgruntled pigeons in the garden.

The magpies found the mealworms ok .

 

[Poacher]

Turns out I was wrong about that fox cub being an only child - there's at least one other: this is where one accidentally treads in a large ceramic saucer of water, the other appreciated the input of flavour from the first washing its feet, and had a drink.

Not to be outdone, mother badger arrived last night with two well-grown and very inquisitive offspring.

She then demonstrated a mother's love by scent-marking her child, i.e. wiping her arse on it.

 

[Rezillo]

Noisy nestbox, plus an occasional visitor in the last couple of weeks.

 

[colly]

A screen shot off my phone. As you can see its not much of a pic. Red kites don't stop for much.