Recent wildlife sightings (Read 658288 times)

chummer · April 27, 2009, 03:52:34 pm

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Anyone seen an irate shaven headed techno fan recently?

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I've been at church, flagellating myself and paying penance for writing an off-topic post on an internet forum

Chummer get a grip you prize scrote, it was a bit of word play humour and besides the whole area is getting more mobbed to the quarries' current trendiness. Anyway someone higher up your Off Topic Constabulary should have noticed that I posted about Red Kites in just my previous post

lagerstarfish · April 27, 2009, 04:49:21 pm

Nicely spotted there, Chummer.

Hope you kept a safe distance.

Fiend · April 27, 2009, 05:41:58 pm

Shurely that was the point?? Something is going over someone's head here, though I suspect it might be mine

. I did wonder why Lagers put techno instead of drum'n'bass....

slackline · April 27, 2009, 06:42:55 pm

Quote from: Fiend on April 27, 2009, 05:41:58 pm

I did wonder why Lagers put techno instead of drum'n'bass....

$:-\$

lagerstarfish · April 27, 2009, 07:03:43 pm

Although I didn't actually see it today, I heard the call of a Baffled Southerner earlier.

Fiend · April 27, 2009, 11:50:52 pm

john horscroft · April 28, 2009, 10:36:30 am

Cor blimey guvner, strike a light, strike a light........

That'd be a cockney sparrer then.....

jh

slackline · April 28, 2009, 10:40:28 am

Back on topic, this was being chased away from some woods by a crow/raven when I was walking down to Torver from the Old Man of Conniston last week (wasn't quick enough to get them tussling, and there was a tree in the way anyway). I'm shit at identifying birds but I'm sure someone will tell me what it is (and yes I know there's crap on the lens/sensor, will likely be cropping some of the shots anyway).

john horscroft · April 28, 2009, 10:50:34 am

Common Buzzard??

jh

magpie · April 28, 2009, 11:07:22 am

Eagle, it's an eagle!!

chummer · April 28, 2009, 12:02:39 pm

Sorry magpie but it's defo a Common Buzzard.

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chased away from some woods by a crow/raven

They often get mobbed by crows as they see the Buzzard as a threat. Heron's are also often attacted in this way too.

Johnny Brown · April 28, 2009, 12:05:43 pm

As JH sez, its a buzzard. Eagles have a smaller tail in proportion to the wings, the wings are also not held forward when soaring. Plus they are very rare in the lakes, Buzzards are very common. Ospreys have a more protruding neck and longer, kinked wings, with a gull-like action. The best tip is, if you're not sure, its a Buzzard. When you finally do see an Eagle its usually a case of 'fuck me look at the size of that!'

cofe · April 28, 2009, 12:07:13 pm

FUCK ME LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT!

magpie · April 28, 2009, 02:24:49 pm

There is a quality level of bird geekery going on on this thread.

TomP · April 29, 2009, 02:06:01 pm

When at Cuvier Rampart I saw these two beasts fighting (or having very aggressive sex):

I usually see lots of lizards in Font but I haven't been for 5 or so years and have never seen these green ones before.

Got some cool footage of them romping around which I'll put on sometime

john horscroft · April 30, 2009, 03:16:34 pm

Threw my pad down on an Adder one time at Roches de la Reine. He was most dischuffed, hissed at me in French and everything......

jh

SA Chris · May 12, 2009, 08:38:20 am

Saw a seal in the river walking to work this morning. popped his head out and watched me watching him, then swam up the river next to me.

Sloper · May 12, 2009, 09:14:27 am

I saw a fantastic brown hare yesterday when searching for some new problems.

clm · May 12, 2009, 09:24:01 pm

Saw my first wild otter in coniston at bout 5 am sunday morning.

Sloper · May 12, 2009, 09:43:04 pm

Great isn't it! The really are ultra, ultra.

jordysi · May 13, 2009, 04:55:12 pm

Red Squirrels just outside Dufton near Appleby on Sunday morning... first one ever

Andy B · May 13, 2009, 05:25:05 pm

Quote from: clm on May 12, 2009, 09:24:01 pm

Saw my first wild otter in coniston at bout 5 am sunday morning.

Saw my first wild Nigel in coniston at bout 8 am sunday morning.

Bonjoy · May 13, 2009, 07:00:58 pm

Ah, the Nigel. Often to be seen during the earlier hours, stalking around naked in the shallows of many a British lake. The sight has been known to cause blindness and seizures in the young and infirmed.

Andy B · May 13, 2009, 07:05:16 pm

Indeed, there were several people around at the time who looked like they were having seizures.

Houdini · May 13, 2009, 07:27:56 pm

Hanging out in arable central: mid-Norfolk. Fairly astonished by the wildlife here, there's baby bunnies on every verge; a few Hare's have been spotted plus! A few days ago I almost overtook (on a push bike) a very low-flying, large mottled owl as it followed the B road I was bombing down. Unsure of what type, but a very odd way to find a bird a few feet in front of you at head level.

We've also got doves nesting in the privet arch at the bottom of the garden, which so far have done well to avoid a savage ejection from their roost by my cane-wielding, evil-shit nephew, and the 3 bags of permafluff and noise that are my mothers' prize white German Shepherd's.