Recent wildlife sightings (Read 658267 times)

Unfortunately not... that would have been impressive!
Sat on a perch in the passenger seat, a falconer out either hunting (he mentioned hares) or at least flying his birds near to the quarry.

r-man · December 17, 2013, 02:25:43 pm

Quote from: rginns on December 16, 2013, 03:15:46 pm

It was quite nice to see a Barn Owl and a Hare at Stanworth yesterday...

Oh, and a Goshawk in a Berlingo. Bit surreal..

No, it was a Harris Hawk in the passenger seat. The Goshawk was allegedly in the back of the van, but we didn't see it.

rginns · December 17, 2013, 02:35:49 pm

Quote from: r-man on December 17, 2013, 02:25:43 pm

Quote from: rginns on December 16, 2013, 03:15:46 pm
It was quite nice to see a Barn Owl and a Hare at Stanworth yesterday...

Oh, and a Goshawk in a Berlingo. Bit surreal..
No, it was a Harris Hawk in the passenger seat. The Goshawk was allegedly in the back of the van, but we didn't see it.

Bollocks. Always get me hawks mixed up...

SA Chris · December 17, 2013, 02:38:23 pm

Cool. Just walked through shopping centre and one of the vendors has an owl perched at the side of his stall. Not sure what it was, looked like a tawny.

(I've just realised I missed a pun and should have said "prey tell me more")

rginns · December 17, 2013, 03:11:37 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on December 17, 2013, 02:38:23 pm

Cool. Just walked through shopping centre and one of the vendors has an owl perched at the side of his stall. Not sure what it was, looked like a tawny.

(I've just realised I missed a pun and should have said "prey tell me more")

you should be ashamed of that...

hongkongstuey · December 18, 2013, 12:28:19 pm

some recent ones from Sri Lanka:

Blue Whale:

Elephants:

Turtles:

SamT · January 17, 2014, 12:44:03 pm

Seen lots of migrating flocks over sheffield recently - Geese etc.

However, my dads just txt'd and it simply says '1 million starlings on Longstone Edge'

nai · January 17, 2014, 06:09:20 pm

Had a Waxwing visiting our garden for about a month. Hadn't realised how rare/uncommon they are. (Maybe should have having never seen one before though). Trying to get a picture but it's away as soon as I try to open the back door.

Johnny Brown · January 17, 2014, 06:27:48 pm

For about a month! Where do you live, Bohemia?

nai · January 17, 2014, 06:47:14 pm

You reckon it's unlikely?

Pretty sure it's a waxwing and it first appeared before Christmas. Anything I could be confusing it with?

SamT · January 17, 2014, 07:05:06 pm

Does it look like this. ..

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php?topic=11211.msg404633.msg#404633

nai · January 17, 2014, 07:18:53 pm

Yep, pretty sure that's it.

fatneck · January 17, 2014, 10:05:31 pm

Lucky barsteward...

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Johnny Brown · January 18, 2014, 09:19:33 am

Quote from: nai on January 17, 2014, 06:47:14 pm

Anything I could be confusing it with?

Depends how much you know... it's definitely not a Jay? If you get a proper look the wax blobs on the wingtip feathers are unique to the species.

SamT · January 19, 2014, 10:28:03 pm

Nice Murmaration over Cavendish mill this eve.

Photo nicked from a rob eavis's facebook page (sure he won't mind. )

SA Chris · January 20, 2014, 08:59:30 am

Is that related to your earlier post?

SamT · January 20, 2014, 09:38:03 am

SA Chris · January 20, 2014, 10:21:19 am

Cool. I've sen some smaller ones here in late summer, but usually in a bit of a rush to get home!

SamT · January 20, 2014, 12:11:53 pm

One of my fave goosebumps vids...