Wildlife Snaps

[Pan mixer]

Just in case none of ypu remember what an artificial Sand Martin nest looks like, fortunately I didn't have to pay for this.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Out for a wander the other evening and caught these couple on the mobile

 

[Richard III]

Jack Snipe in the stubble, when drilling beans this spring.

Skylark keeping an eye on my drainage works.

 

[Pan mixer]

Only on my phone however clearly an Oystercatcher - at least 3 miles from the nearest oyster laying.

 

[Peter]

Mother skunk having a good breakfast of grubs.

Little video of her. Funny pose near the end when she heard a noise, up and ready to spray. Then right back to eating.

 

[Gator]

Found this fella while walling

 

[puppet]

Various birds at our ponds

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Curlew I think

 

[Pan mixer]

Lesser Whitethroat just back from Ethiopia, weighs almost 11.5g

 

[thorpe]

are ther less migrants getting here with all these mist nets being used? swallows in abundance here seems more everyday, ive said it before they love cattle and old buildings.

 

[Pan mixer]

are ther less migrants getting here with all these mist nets being used? swallows in abundance here seems more everyday, ive said it before they love cattle and old buildings.

We have one pair of swallows nesting in the buildings this year, there used to be a dozen or more but this has dwindled especially in the last few years.

I wonder if they have all made it back yet really?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

All our buildings are post 2007. Swallows come and look every year, there were 3 in the yard 2 nights ago. Apparently they need mud so we're digging a pond to see if that helps.

 

[thorpe]

if it dries up we run the hose pipe and make a few puddles.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Oyster catcher

 

[jondear]

Saved this little chap today .Saw it's mother kept coming back to same spot while mowing .Just lucky found him .So small.

 

[puppet]

The March of the Swans to another bigger pond. 13 spectators attended so thinking of making it an annual tourist event.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

No pic but spreading a little bit of fert on some new grass thisafta, 19ac field and 15 hares in it ( that I saw) no wonder we get the poachers

 

[Av Gorritt]

On the wildlife theme , I was sitting out a couple of days back , enjoying the sun , and sitting next to a biggish clump of self seeded aquilegia . It was busy all day with a constant flow of bumble bees to-ing and fro-ing . A few different varieties, a very big one with a tan coloured hairy behind , a smaller almost black one , and another mid sized and a bit stripey . It keeps being said that there is a shortage of bumble bees , but we have plenty here . I'm told that aquilegia is particularly attractive to them , but strangely I never saw a honey bee near , and we have plenty of them too . Perhaps they don't socialise ?

 

[Pan mixer]

The hen run this evening with the remaining feathers of the 12 the fox killed last night out of the 60 who were there yesterday.

Not much sympathy for foxes. Some wildlife not welcome.

 

[upnortheast]

Seem to have the camera on a deer motorway this week