Wildlife Snaps

[Pan mixer]

It's like this - juist for for crops:

Of Livestock, Predators, & Guardians

This summer, our sheep have been grazing a series of private pastures in the foothills of the southern Wind River Mountains – pastures that ...

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Interesting.

We actually have a guardian dog - a Bulgarian Mountain (Karakachan) Dog which should do the same thing but she prefers to chase and possibly consume small sheep. We haven't given her a chance to try. She is in the garden beside the sheep and goes wild when a fox comes in.

Sadly she is a spayed female who had a terrible life before we rescued her being imported as a pup stuffed full of drugs, drugs removed and then she was abandoned.

 

[puppet]

Saw this 2 days running near a pond.
Chiffchaff?

Woodpecker at the feeder

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Saw this 2 days running near a pond.
Chiffchaff?View attachment 961367
Woodpecker at the feeder
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Looks more like wheatear. Does it have a white patch at the base of its tail when flying?

 

[puppet]

Meant to say 2 days in a row. I suspect it nesting in the dyke. Never seen it flying or running.
Not like RSPB wheatear photos.
Maybe has still to change plumage?

 

[puppet]

Award yourself a prize. Other pictures and a birdwatching pal says northern wheatear. He hasn't seen one for years but apparently quite common.

 

[Pan mixer]

Interesting.

We actually have a guardian dog - a Bulgarian Mountain (Karakachan) Dog which should do the same thing but she prefers to chase and possibly consume small sheep. We haven't given her a chance to try. She is in the garden beside the sheep and goes wild when a fox comes in.

Sadly she is a spayed female who had a terrible life before we rescued her being imported as a pup stuffed full of drugs, drugs removed and then she was abandoned.

Took a picture of her today.

 

[RushesToo]

Docked tail and clipped ears looks like she was dressed up to be a working dog even if she never did.

 

[RushesToo]

@Pan mixer the photo makes her look border collie size - but I'm gussing an optical illusion?

 

[Pan mixer]

@Pan mixer the photo makes her look border collie size - but I'm gussing an optical illusion?

Yes she is much bigger, more biggish alsation size

 

[Pan mixer]

Classic; 3 drakes following a duck.

2 of them having a major fight for several miutes, the other getting his wicked way round the corner - no photos of that, this is a family thread.

 

[upnortheast]

A well nourished looking fox trots past our camera yesterday

 

[thorpe]

sorry cant put photos up but we had a roe dear walk up the lawn the other evening , what a joy. 2nd time couple of years ago it was doe and fawn. often see muntjacs.

 

[Jerry]

sorry cant put photos up but we had a roe dear walk up the lawn the other evening , what a joy. 2nd time couple of years ago it was doe and fawn. often see muntjacs.

Was it this one after they made babies??



Taken couple years ago.

 

[Pan mixer]

In our artificial sand martin bank, after 5 years, at last a nest - of a pied wagtail

 

[Cowmansam]

In our artificial sand martin bank, after 5 years, at last a nest - of a pied wagtail

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Would that be a second brood or just late do you think there’s 5 wagtail fledged here in last 2 days

 

[Pan mixer]

Would that be a second brood or just late do you think there’s 5 wagtail fledged here in last 2 days

no idea but I reckon that the pied wagtail is our commonest bird at present and has been for the last 5 years or so.

 

[Cowmansam]

no idea but I reckon that the pied wagtail is our commonest bird at present and has been for the last 5 years or so.

We have 4 pairs just round the cow yards get those funny yellow ones turn up now and again too they never stay more than a month though

 

[Pan mixer]

We have 4 pairs just round the cow yards get those funny yellow ones turn up now and again too they never stay more than a month though

We get quite a number of the yellow wagtails too, not very common everywhere a chap in an anorak told me.

 

[Cowmansam]

Aye I’m told all sorts of things are rare they just don’t know where to look was fishing recently was 3 twitchers with the cameras watching a grebe as a osprey flew over head and none of them clocked it

 

[Cowmansam]