What animals/wildlife have you seen today?

[Pickman's model]

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

their tiny hands let them do some amazing things

 

[Lazy Llama]

Wildlife/animals in the wild threads merged with slightly awkwardly phrased new title.
(eta: un-awkwarded the title)

 

[weepiper]

Spider

Spoiler

 

[gentlegreen]

On my bike ride yesterday so many squirrels dashing across the railway path I feared I would collide with one...

 

[Combustible]

I'm not very good with birds (or photography) but google tells me this is a black crowned night heron

 

[Epona]

I'm not very good with birds (or photography) but google tells me this is a black crowned night heron
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We don't get those around here, so it's good to see a photo

 

[Humberto]

I heard foxes shagging last night. But it was quite full on. It was about 4 am. The usual ecstatic jabbering. But there was also a banging sound with each thrust that went on for like ten minutes. Quite fierce and rapid. Followed by triumphant barks.

They only live for two or three years so I didn't want to disturb them.

 

[Callie]

Bats!


They're so cool. Dunno what type. They weren't that easy to see flying around the boating lake in Battersea Park south London. The path runs parallel to the edge of the lake so I stood a while and watched them. They came pretty close.

Yeah!

 

[StoneRoad]

Local village has a small starling murmuration some evenings, I can often hear them but occasionally they are on the wing.
I quite like to hear them, but close to they are very loud ...
There's a similar flock that congregate on the "crow's nest" in WhiteOrangehaven Marina.


oaw / whn - starlings & Crow's Nest par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

I gave up counting ... but that's about 3/4 of the usual crowd, they were still arriving. Latecomers have to perch on the wires. Probably discussing the best lawns to perforate for lunch tomorrow ...

 

[Saunders]

A slow worm the other day

 

[weepiper]

Kingfisher on the river (too skittish and too far into the branches for photos but I watched him catch two fish through my viewfinder) and a sparrowhawk flying over the park.

 

[iona]

Think I saw a sparrowhawk last night but it was far away and not at a good angle to be confident in an ID. Something raptor-y anyway.

Passed a raven that seemed to have an injured wing and possibly leg this morning but it was mobile enough not to be able to get close for a proper look. Was on my way to feed the chickens so I chucked a bit of food down for it and I'll keep an eye out when I'm back later.

 

[the button]

Two juvenile great crested grebes on the lake today, only managed to get a photo of one.

 

[cesare]

Stripey humbug bonce

 

[Epona]

Two juvenile great crested grebes on the lake today, only managed to get a photo of one.
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One of my favourite birds to see, they look wildly exotic for something that seems to thrive on the waterways of London

 

[the button]

One of my favourite birds to see, they look wildly exotic for something that seems to thrive on the waterways of London

I'd never seen one til I moved to London, first one from the DLR at Canary Wharf.

 

[Callie]

Today there was a fucking massive bumblebee bimbling around outside my window.


I think when I rule the world transport will be via fucking massive bumblebees. They are nice. They are furry. It will be great.

 

[Epona]

Today there was a fucking massive bumblebee bimbling around outside my window.


I think when I rule the world transport will be via fucking massive bumblebees. They are nice. They are furry. It will be great.

OOoh exciting, probably a new queen from the last brood of the summer, she'll be looking for somewhere safe to hibernate over winter.
She'll already have mated ready to find and found a new nest and lay eggs in the spring, for now she is eating as much as possible to see her through any cold weather in a burrow underground

 

[Epona]

I'd never seen one til I moved to London, first one from the DLR at Canary Wharf.

Every time I go to Canary Wharf I see a pair in the water there, have done for years (not sure whether the same pair mind you!) - it seems to be a good spot for them.
Probably quite sheltered and warm compared to other places.

 

[the button]

The tide was out a long way today, but there are many shelduck in the distance

 

[Skinny Ethel]

I would love to randomly see a platypus

 

[jontz01]

Apparently it's a monarch.

 

[blairsh]

Surprise hedgehog walking to the shop, just now

 

[krtek a houby]

Carp, several turtles and civet on our strolls yesterday

 

[Skinny Ethel]

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Surprise hedgehog walking to the shop, just now

Wonder what it needed from the shops?

 

[blairsh]

Wonder what it needed from the shops?

Marigolds, apparently

 

[the button]

A bumblebee so massive I could hear it from indoors even though the back door and windows were closed. [not pictured: the massive bumblebee]

 

[weepiper]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

no photograph as it was the middle of the bloody night

two foxes in the middle of the road outside the bedroom, on their hind legs having a handbag fight (without handbags) and screaming at each other.

 

[Callie]

I would love to randomly see a platypus

I feel this is possible but complicated.