What animals/wildlife have you seen today?

[polly]

Looks a bit like a caterpillar.

When I saw you'd replied I just knew it would be something useful like this

 

[JimW]

Kids returned from a fossil hunt with a load of grasshoppers and two mantises. Mantises already released, will try and persuade Stan to let the grasshoppers go tomorrow.

 

[mx wcfc]

Spotted a lizard this afternoon.

 

[Saffy]

A little shrew who was so fast I had a job to take a photo.

 

[blairsh]

Action Shrew

 

[Saffy]

I only wish I had my proper camera to take a photo of this beauty.
Instead I had to make do with my mobile zoomed in and hanging out a moving van window.

 

[May Kasahara]

Yesterday, walking home, I saw a shitload of herons up close. Sorry marty21

Here's one posing on the wall of the Catholic school.

 

[the button]

Egret and some teal, Thames Path earlier this afternoon. Not seen many egret before, pleased to get a photo of this one.


.... or to put it another way: egrets, I've seen a few. But then again, too few to mention.

 

[cesare]

Egret and some teal, Thames Path earlier this afternoon. Not seen many egret before, pleased to get a photo of this one.
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.... or to put it another way: egrets, I've seen a few. But then again, too few to mention.

I wasn't with you so je egret rien.

 

[the button]

Disclaimer: We don't work this stuff out in advance.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Chickens running about on the Greek island of Hydra





Also cats, because they’re everywhere

 

[seeformiles]

Lots of red kites - they circle around here daily. A joy to see them do their thing.

 

[Saffy]

 

[StoneRoad]

Yesterday, up on the moors north of Weardale we saw red and black grouse, possibly some partridge.

At home this morning, I saw a goldcrest - so tiny yet that gold stripe on the head really pops out at you.
Also, we have acquired more pheasants [male & female] as it would seem the house martins have migrated.

I could hear what I think was a fox yipping earlier.

 

[TopCat]

My neighbours constantly feed squirrels with monkey nuts. The pigeons eats the dropped bits. Now parakeets have shown up, told their mates and all I can hear is squawking.

 

[weepiper]

Saturday

(The spoiler contains spiders)

Spoiler

 

[the button]

Another visit to the kitchen

 

[iona]

An Orkney Voley in the Stromness museum


Also a couple of frogs who live on my plot and have to be relocated every time I move the chickens, to stop them getting eaten

 

[the button]

Another visit to the kitchen

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He's been in twice today already. Aka I have been in the kitchen twice so far this morning.

 

[Elpenor]

Yesterday a very small mouse on the Reading uni campus - I couldn’t get all of mousey in the picture though

 

[the button]

The robin's been in three or four times. Also seen eight swans (seven juvenile and one adult), a great crested grebe, two herons, two pink-footed geese, and many coots and Canada geese on a walk around the lake, plus plenty of wren action in the garden.

 

[Epona]

The robin's been in three or four times. Also seen eight swans (seven juvenile and one adult), a great crested grebe, two herons, two pink-footed geese, and many coots and Canada geese on a walk around the lake, plus plenty of wren action in the garden.

Brilliant!
Coots are all over the place on the canals and rivers near here, but they're still one of my favourite birds - they sound like those squeaky dog toys and their feet are just brilliant
Fighty little shits too, love them

 

[iona]

New Zealand flatworms (they're a known problem on the site my plot is on)

Trying to convince the chickens that they're food.

 

[jontz01]

No idea what flavour it is but the gold markings are pretty cool.

Oh and my lad pulled this out of the river on a piece of string with a bag of meat attached.

 

[heinous seamus]

I found this impressive pellet full of rowan berries today. The internet suggests it probably came from a raven.

 

[Idaho]

On the lower slopes of Blencathra last Monday:

 

[Epona]

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No idea what flavour it is but the gold markings are pretty cool.

Oh and my lad pulled this out of the river on a piece of string with a bag of meat attached.

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That looks nearly as big as your lad, lucky it wasn't that the eel caught the boy instead

How chuffed was he?

 

[frogwoman]

Yesterday I flushed the toilet and a spider fell into it. I rescued it but it was a bit of a shock.

 

[danski]

On Tuesday we saw a couple of bats while out walking,, so clearly.
It was dusk but quite misty. We were by the rugby club who had the pitch lights on and it created a really flat kind of light with the mist. It made it really easy to see the bats.
They were constantly in view. I’ve never seen them like this. Normally they just flit in and out of view.

 

[Elpenor]

The bats sometimes set my security light off. Quite incredible creatures really