Your Wildlife Sightings!

Magic mate.Bet you miss the Bluebell woods! I grew up with a cracking bluebell wood near Drumchapel.Halcyon days.

 

On the beach today with Jasmine my Boxer Dog daughter and a loud calling bird flew above and torwards and past me,it was a cool female Peregrine with a Jackdaw in her talons,mobbed by several Herring Gulls.

Also watching us were a male and female Grey Seal really close in.The wind is a strong south south west going south west,by Tuesday it looks set to be a strong North West Wind,so hopefully some quality sea watching will take place,Skua and petrel time!

Lately Autumn here in North Wales is in full swing,numerous Jays collecting acorns,Sparrowhawks busy hunting the novice small birds born this year and you can hear cool migrating Redwings overhead at night.

6 weeks tomorrow sees old Cidermaster and Jasmine begin our 2 week Winter Highland assault!

 

Watch out for those pigeons.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2014/10/08/chinese-officials-probe-anuses-10000-pigeons-bombs/

 

I've been trying to catch a * squirrel in my loft for the last 2 days,that my wildlife story.

 

Just saw a massive rat,the woman across the road really ought to shut her blinds :icon_mrgreen:

 

While walking my boxer dog daughter Jasmine to the old bookies,i caught sight of 3 Swans flying at medium height,they were Whooper Swans,they circled my local patch for a few minutes,cool birds!

 

Quite tasty are swans,wouldn't let the queen catch you eating one though.

 

Is there a place near you they winter?

 

No mygirlmaria the nearest winter populations of any note are 30 miles away or more,but in Autumn and winter we get small numbers visiting.
Mind you in just over 5 weeks time i will be near Kingussie in the Highlands where there are scores of these cool Swans on the Marshes.Also there is a tleast 1 Snowy Owl on the tops at the moment.

 

Going out to my truck this morning and looked up, there were about 6 crows having a go at a bald eagle. The crows here are pretty big but this thing dwarfed them

 

Dibt kniw u got bald wagles i india

 

I've noticed 2 random pigs and a goat near my local hospital, don't know why they're there, or whos behind it

 

Fellow I work with bought a new car a month ago, and, when he'd only had it a couple of days, as he was driving it home from work ran into three kangaroos who raced across the road in front of him and buckled the front of his car. The kangaroos hopped away, harmed but still mobile. It happens all the time. You don't even see them coming, they just dash out of the grass in front of you. All over Australia, away from the cities, the sides of the roads are usually littered with kangaroo carcasses, particularly when there's a drought and the only green grass is in the table drains besides the roads. Wombats are even worse. They're dark coloured and nocturnal, and you can't see them at night. The best ones are goannas; they're big lizards that look gigantic when they cross the road in front of your car, but they move slowly, and people generally have time to slow down and swerve out of their way. HH

 

Are bald eagles still rare? It wasn't so long ago they were almost extinct. Where did this happen, USA or Canada? HH

 

just went for a * and saw this thing on the bathroom floor









decided to keep it , anyone know what they eat.

 

Climbed Schiehalion on Saturday and saw a flock of around a dozen ptarmigan nearly into their winter plummage just off the summit. Had only ever seen a couple before that.

 

Microscopic *......and wood id guess!

 

Im embarrassed to admit i had never heard of Schiehalion .Had to google it there!

 

Shoot the *

 

.....is exactly what id have done to * that advocate and participate in that particular "pastime"!