What animals/wildlife have you seen today?

[Callie]

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

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These are the correct ones for transportation

 

[oryx]

on their hind legs having a handbag fight (without handbags)

Sorry to laugh as it was probably really bloody annoying for you to be woken up, but the image of that is hilarious!

 

[StoneRoad]

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.

Shouldn't laugh, but we've just had similar - the two of 'em seemed to be arguing right under the bedroom window. In reality they were probably in the "wildwood" [it is very quiet up here at night, and sound travels !]

ION - walked up the garden [with Bella] to put out some wildlife food, only to almost tread on a pheasant, which flew up at me in fright - whilst squawking very loudly. I went one way and Bella the other, it took a bit to coax her to come back indoors ! [and almost as long for my pulse rate to normalise !]

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Saw a pied wagtail earlier. Such busy liitle birds , one of my favourite birds

 

[Saunders]

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.

Dog was just out barking at noisy foxes, they are So loud

 

[campanula]

A fucking ferret in my allotment. I admit, I almost shat myself. Suspect it is an escapee.

 

[BoatieBird]

This toad (?) in the greenhouse

 

[Puddy_Tat]

not very well focussed picture of red kite on tree in next door garden, taken from the kitchen window - they were there long enough for me to fetch a camera, but flew away before i could have a second try

 

[Saunders]

Saw my first Weasel earlier today. I’m guessing it was a weasel because it definitely wasn’t a stoat

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Saw my first Weasel earlier today. I’m guessing it was a weasel because it definitely wasn’t a stoat

are you stoatally sure about that?

 

[Saunders]

are you stoatally sure about that?

They’re pretty weasily distinguished one from the other

 

[StoneRoad]

groan !!!

 

[Callie]

I heard an owl screeching last night. Unsure what type of owl. Are any specifically screechy rather than hooty?

 

[StoneRoad]

I heard an owl screeching last night. Unsure what type of owl. Are any specifically screechy rather than hooty?

Yes. Barn Owls ...
aka Screech Owls.

Noisy, aren't they ?
We've got a couple that yell at each other some nights. If not expecting them to shriek, it is most disconcerting !
Also have Tawny [the twit-to-you or hoooooo calls] and Little owls

 

[WouldBe]

I heard an owl screeching last night. Unsure what type of owl. Are any specifically screechy rather than hooty?

Screech owl.

 

[Callie]

Was just reading about the different owl noises:
Boo-boo-boo-boo
ree-yow
A rarely-heard repeated ‘hoo, hoo, hoo‘ call uttered only in the breeding season
a plaintive ‘kiew kiew’
a ‘wherrow wherrow’ (reminiscent of a small dog barking)
females ‘kewick’
and males ‘hoohoo’

Owls are great! This does feel like good barn owl territory TBF Romney Marshes area on the south coat. Lots of flat, ditchy fields with barns and old buildings.

 

[Saunders]

Yes. Barn Owls ...
aka Screech Owls.

Noisy, aren't they ?
We've got a couple that yell at each other some nights. If not expecting them to shriek, it is most disconcerting !
Also have Tawny [the twit-to-you or hoooooo calls] and Little owls

All the endless owl calls here are more of the twhoo sounding ones
They literally start the moment the light goes down

 

[SpookyFrank]

I heard an owl screeching last night. Unsure what type of owl. Are any specifically screechy rather than hooty?

Tawny owl. They screech as well as hoot.

 

[SpookyFrank]

For more information, please re-read.

 

[dessiato]

4 roe deer ran across the road in front of me this afternoon.

 

[WouldBe]

4 roe deer ran across the road in front of me this afternoon.

So more of a road deer then.

 

[dessiato]

So more of a road deer then.

 

[Epona]

I think someone told me once that the only owls in the UK that make what we think of as classic owl twit twoo sounds, are tawny owls.

 

[StoneRoad]

I think someone told me once that the only owls in the UK that make what we think of as classic owl twit twoo sounds, are tawny owls.

yeah, usually a pair communicating / marking territory.
so normally quiet up here that the sounds often carry a long way.
mate of mine taught me how to hoot a bit like a tawny owl, so I have been known to hoot back at them.
It doesn't take them long to work out it's that hippy again, just ignore them !
and I only do it a couple of times, anyway. more to confirm that I heard them, iykwim

 

[the button]

Robin vs suet pellet

 

[mx wcfc]

Young roe deer. Not unusual around here, but I was surprised to see it so close to housing at three in the afternoon.
My guess is that is got lost early morning and hadn’t found its way out

 

[seeformiles]

I was dropping off Mrs SFM at the hairdressers yesterday morning and as I pulled into the kerb, we saw a squirrel on a garden wall clutching an entire bar of chocolate that was almost as big as itself. We surprised it when we pulled up and it dropped the chocolate. Even though its first instinct was to run away, it wasn’t going to give up its lucky find so it jumped to the pavement and dragged the bar along the street and managed to get away through a garden gate. Moved too quickly for Mrs SFM to get a photo.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I was dropping off Mrs SFM at the hairdressers yesterday morning and as I pulled into the kerb, we saw a squirrel on a garden wall clutching an entire bar of chocolate that was almost as big as itself. We surprised it when we pulled up and it dropped the chocolate. Even though its first instinct was to run away, it wasn’t going to give up its lucky find so it jumped to the pavement and dragged the bar along the street and managed to get away through a garden gate. Moved too quickly for Mrs SFM to get a photo.

Hope it was a chocolate bar with nuts in it.

 

[StoneRoad]

Loads of birds this morning at Chez StoneRoad.

High energy foods and a birdbath in which the ice has been melted once already

 

[seeformiles]

Hope it was a chocolate bar with nuts in it.

Looked like a big bar of Dairy Milk. I’m sure it’s set up that squirrel (& its family) for this cold snap anyway.