What animals/wildlife have you seen today?

[gentlegreen]

and a dead squirrel



was it a full moon last night or something

Ditto on my commuting route in Bristol / South Glos.
It's a bumper year for acorns, but that can't explain all the crazy activity ... perhaps it's partly the relative absence of homo sapiens ... one shot out and hit my front bicycle wheel when I was doing about 15MPH.

 

[Badgers]

Ladybirds
Toad
Geese flying over
A lone (limping sadly) Muntjac Deer
Loads of birds

 

[bimble]

Not today but a few days back I saw a tawny owl flying low overhead, heavy and plump and slow and lit from underneath by the light from my kitchen window. That was good.

 

[kebabking]

The dragonfly was about the length of my index finger. Lovely find, he/she buzzed about, then sat down to sunbathe for 10 minutes and let me get to within a few inches of it.

Saw a dozen or so Fallow running through the bracken as well. Lovely, gorgeous day...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Back to the morning dog walks being conducted during the hours of darkness, but this morning a badger and I startled each other. Most other wildlife fucks off as soon as it sees the dog, they know death when they see it.

Bird feeder in the garden is mostly nut hatches, jays and coal tits this week.

 

[gentlegreen]

I reckon squirrels must have taken to being bin-raiders as I spotted one this morning not very far from woodland in an area of garden-less "mews"-style houses - some are now student multioccupancy and the bins are often overflowing ...

 

[telbert]

I walk through my local park every morning & evening to / from work, its full of wildlife. Ducks, geese , heron on the lakes. Greys, magpies corvids& pigeon in the small woods. Even saw a snapping turtle or massive terrapin a couple of weeks ago , slowy making his way across the grass from one lake to the other week.
I'm going shooting this evening and normally see pheasants, geese and ducks there ( as well as the rabbits ill be targeting ).

 

[weltweit]

Pheasant & pigeon put to flight by Larry who missed catching them on the ground by about a mile!

 

[platinumsage]

Best seeing wildlife day for a long time.

A barn owl and a water vole!

 

[The39thStep]

Lizards when I went to clean behind a window shutter

 

[Leafster]

Lizards when I went to clean behind a window shutter

I had a slow worm in my lounge last week.

 

[planetgeli]

I had a slow worm in my lounge last week.

I had a baby one in mine a few weeks ago!

 

[Saunders]

Saw a polecat this morning. I think it was a polecat. It was good to see it in daylight and with a clear look as I’ve seen similar briefly at night and from a didstance and wondered what it was. It was crossing the lane in front of me so I didn’t get a look at its face and see if it looked like a bandit, but it was stockier and bigger than a stoat and had a tapered rather than fluffy tail so I’m pretty sure it was a polecat. Very excited to have seen it. Spect my friends with chickens will be less excited but luckily it’s teeming with rabbits here at the moment so hopefully it’ll stick to them.

 

[twistedAM]

Butterfly. Just occurred to me I hadn't seen one in London for ages.

 

[UrbaneFox]

It has rained for most of the day but at one point I saw a basic white butterfly go past the kitchen window.

 

[danski]

Ah, the Basic White! Blanco rudementis, to give its Latin name

 

[dessiato]

There's a flock of geese on the local lake. They wander around on the road generally pissing people off. There's two ducks nestling in the garden every couple of days.

There's an abundance of all sorts of birds here. I'm going to get an app to be able to identify them.

 

[tonysingh]

That's life

That's what all the people say.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There's a pair of great crested grebes on the river near me. They lost their clutch of eggs to a flood this year but ma grebe still sits on her nest most of the time. Very sad. Still, at least Colin and Dorothy (those are their names) have stayed together even despite their grief.

 

[Cloo]

Waiting outside Royal Albert Hall for a late Prom greatest yesterday and this vixen pops out of the balustrade and runs around the steps for while having a good look at passers by! Sorry for blurriness, but phone camera not great at night.

 

[ice-is-forming]

There's a lot of building happening atm, every cunt & their dog wants to live here and it's spring.. so lots of misplaced roos & joeys around atm

 

[tonysingh]

There's a lot of building happening atm, every cunt & their dog wants to live here and it's spring.. so lots of misplaced roos & joeys around atm

If you come across any misplaced scorpions or snakes, you know what to do....

 

[ice-is-forming]

pm me your address

this is when they all start waking up!

 

[tonysingh]

pm me your address

this is when they all start waking up!

You say that like you think I wouldn't welcome the the spiciest of creatures....

 

[Elpenor]

I was driving tonight and I saw some young deer grazing next on the verge next to the road as I passed them less than a meter away

Photos most welcome if you have them

 

[weepiper]

Saw a sparrowhawk hunting over the tramline at the back of mine out the window while I was washing the dishes.

 

[WouldBe]

I had a kestrel sat outside my window earlier.

 

[danski]

Saw a sparrowhawk hunting over the tramline at the back of mine out the window while I was washing the dishes.

Got amazing photos?
Or better still, did it land on your shoulder?!!

 

[weepiper]

Got amazing photos?
Or better still, did it land on your shoulder?!!

No, I went to get my camera and it fucked off while I was out of the room

 

[danski]

To be clear, I am in awe of weepiper ‘s photos