Your wildlife encounters....

[nappadang]

Trek update incase anyone is interested. He now weighs 488g and is doing really well. If he carries on like this, we'll look to put him in a pen in the garden so he can hibernate while we monitor him. We're probably 70 or 80grams away from this but he could gain that in less than a week.
I'm really pleased with his progress and his will to live.

 

[biggs682]

today on our various journeys that have taken us no further than 6 miles from home we have seen 6 red tailed kite, 4 little egrets , a curlew and loadfs of other what we class a normal birds

 

[andy nulty]

ive swallowed about a million flies...

 

[Spinney]

ive swallowed about a million flies...

otherwise known as flying protein supplements...

Most of the wildlife I see at the moment is squashed
But in the past I have had a couple of those encounters where a buzzard or similar flies along parallel or just in front for hundreds of yards - lovely!

Best sightings, although not cycling at the time, were sea otters in Scotland - once on the shore, and once when we were kayaking in a sea loch and came across a family of them playing - magical!

 

[Poacher]

Thread resurrection!

The Glossy Ibis (or one just like it) has returned, now looking slightly prettier than before!
It's somewhere in that field behind my old tourer:

Need a bit more zoom; now got the correct setting on the camera, still not particularly well-focussed, but at least you can see some glossiness in its newly acquired adult plumage.

(Photos taken this afternoon in Gonalston, Notts)

 

[nappadang]

Thread resurrection!

The Glossy Ibis (or one just like it) has returned, now looking slightly prettier than before!
It's somewhere in that field behind my old tourer:
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Need a bit more zoom; now got the correct setting on the camera, still not particularly well-focussed, but at least you can see some glossiness in its newly acquired adult plumage.
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(Photos taken this afternoon in Gonalston, Notts)

Nice one, is that pic digiscoped?

we had a couple of Glossy Ibis knocking around South Tyneside earlier in the winter, they really are a magnificent bird.

 

[Poacher]

Nice one, is that pic digiscoped?

we had a couple of Glossy Ibis knocking around South Tyneside earlier in the winter, they really are a magnificent bird.

Thanks, @nappadang.
Digiscoped with Opticron HR66 scope fitted with 28x WW lens and a Nikon Coolpix 4500.
Had this setup for a few years now, but never really got the hang of using it properly, hence the fuzzy focus!
I'd never seen one of these birds until last November, about a km from where I saw this one - quite probably the same bird. They're quietly spectacular when seen in good light. Quite a confident creature; just goes about its feeding and doesn't seem to be bothered by anything, even being nearly knocked over by courting Mallards!

 

[steveindenmark]

I live in the Danish countryside and leave for work at 4.30am. Our area is alive with foxes, deer and badgers. There are 100s of geese around just now.

I don't want to tangle with these guys because they are massive. There are lots of them where we live.

 

[nappadang]

[quwife "Poacher, post: 2973004, member: 893"]Thanks, @nappadang.
Digiscoped with Opticron HR66 scope fitted with 28x WW lens and a Nikon Coolpix 4500.
Had this setup for a few years now, but never really got the hang of using it properly, hence the fuzzy focus!
I'd never seen one of these birds until last November, about a km from where I saw this one - quite probably the same bird. They're quietly spectacular when seen in good light. Quite a confident creature; just goes about its feeding and doesn't seem to be bothered by anything, even being nearly knocked over by courting Mallards![/quote]
My wife and I had a digiscope set up a while back. Similar results to what you are getting. I just gave up and bought some nice binoculars. My wife has spent a King's ransom on DSLR kit.