What have you seen
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Were you in The Black Forest by any chance?
Great spot...put's my sighting of a Red one into insignificance, I guess.
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I have never seen a grey squirrel in Germany, plenty of Reds. Never seen one in the Black Forest 😉 The other place we’ve seen them is the Harz Mountains where they are quite common
Got a good pic of a red running along a wall at High Cup Nick
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Farewell to the Swallows, they are gathering in huge numbers overhead and on the wires. Don't know whether they are are ours or yours but they're feeding themselves up for the long journey south. Lovely to hear and see them, it's quite a noisy get together!
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Hi Brue more swallows around here again and after coming back from shopping and meeting up with friends and once home found on the back of my car just under number plate a Jersey Tiger like you saw the other day so had to be quick with the camera as I do not use phone camera much.
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That's so interesting RedKite, to see two of the Jersey Tigers on here. We have seen a lot more butterflies this year so I'm pleased to see your photo too.
I hope the Swallows have a safe passage, they are wonderful little creatures.
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I was talking to the Site Manager at Cardoness a week or so ago and he said that the House Martins nesting under the eves of his house were feeding their second brood when the storm the previous night had completed wiped out the nests and all were lost. Such a pity, but I guess that's nature in the raw.
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On our walk today I managed to get a snap of a black squirrel which was unfortunately sitting in front of a big white flower. Can still see it’s a squirrel though.
Came across a new alpine barn which close to 40 man made nest under the eaves. The nest showed signs of use but as we didn’t spot any house martins we guessed they had all migrated
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Oneputt it's nice and clear if I expand it. Thanks for sharing.
I discovered tonight hat squirrels make a noise! I heard an 'odd' sounding magpie towards the bottom of our garden and went to investigate. Nextdoor's cat was by our pond watching a grey squirrel, it was this that was making the 'odd' magpie noise. I wasn't convinced but as it moved along the fence and up and down the trees it continued from its location.
Everyday's a school day!
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Just brought a cuppa out to drink in the garden. Heard the sparrows in their conifer tower begin to make a noise. Looked up to see yellow legs alight on a Rowan tree branch that mixes itself into the conifer. Stood up to check and the sparrowhawk silently flew away. Sparrows quietened down.
Sparrowhawk is beautiful but I've worked hard to get my sparrow numbers up in the garden this year and I'm glad I stopped a loss this morning.
Our sparrows are rarely seen individually generally in groups of 9 plus. Not seen so many in our garden for years.
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We have a group of sparrows here and the sparrowhawk does fly around but not to often usual gets a bird feeding on the bird food as we are very open here it usually makes a quick getaway.
Saw about 30 cattle egrets and 1 little egret this morning whilst going on a shopping trip, only ever see the cattle egrets in one field but today there were some about 4 miles away from the other ones again cattle in the field so nice to see so many.
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RK only ever see 1 cattle egret on the back of a cow and it was too far to get a photo, so that’s on my bucket list.
I know both you and WN have answered this question before but which sites do you use in the Brenne. We will be there in 9/10 days. Tried using the search facility but that is hopeless. Thanks
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Hi OP yes it was great to see the egrets and the 1 group are usually there all year round even when we have been that way in the winter.
As to camping sites the one I think WN went is the Municipal site called Les Millotts Nr Rosnay only website is the park one which is in the park and the one we stay at is outside the park about 25 minutes away at Obterre called Le Cormier website www.loireholidays.biz Mike and Cath Smith are the owners, I just googled campsites in La Brenne you may find a few more hope this helps, enjoy your trip, we maybe staying at Le Cormier end of October but just received an email today that they may be having major ground works around that time but they will let us know so we may have to find somewhere else or change our plans accordingly. Let us know if you see anything interesting.
Got back home to find resident lizard out the front of the house has lost its tail since yesterday so now called stumpy and we have a baby lizard outside an outbuilding about 2 inches long and moves very fast when it sees us.
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Anyone interested and around Kessingland CC site there is a Wryneck within quarter of a mile of the site. If you leave the site by the beach gate, turn right and as you get to the sluice you will probably come across people with bino’s/scopes and cameras and they will direct you to the exact location. This rare bird has become a regular visitor to the area. I photographed it last year on 8th September
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Oneputt, we've stayed at several different ones on various trips. The most central one is in the Clubs touring France book under Mezieres-en-Brenne, Camping Bellebouche, about 3-4 miles from Mezieres near a place called Vendoeuvres. Use youd facilities but ktherwise used to be ok. The we've stayed at the Rosnay one mentioned by RK. Again use it like a CL. There are 2 more, both on the edge of the Park. One at Buzancais. Facilities better but town run down, the other at Le Blanc on western edge. Again a bit run down.
The Little Bitterns were usually seen at the main reserve La Gabriere.
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Did my good deed for the day rescued a small Pipistrelle bat from a large overflow bucket next to a large water butt not much water in it ut struggling to get out so heavy waterproof gloves and moved it to a safe place and hope it dries out what a set of tiny teeth, we have see one coming out from our outside building a few nights ago so maybe the same one.
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Have seen 3 of these 'caterpillars' recently in the garden or maybe the same 1 moving around. Think it may be an Elephant Hawk Moth ‘caterpillar’. Haven’t seen the moth but did see a Red Tiger Moth (dead as caught up in spider web on poppies) & Humming Bird Moth (feeding on Buddleia) in August. Butterfly numbers seem to have been fewer this year in the garden apart from the White ones.
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Looks like you're right about the caterpillar JayOutdoors, nice photos! Some lovely butterflies and moths around this year.
We've been putting our trail camera out plus some food scraps to see who might come along. We've had photos of both our visiting badger and dog fox. I've attempted to edit the latest fox video and take a still from it, on the actual video we can hear the fox chomping the food and it's quite early in the evening too. Hope this photo works, he's a very handsome fox, I've seen him locally in the day time but obviously night is better for him.
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Fox looks good brue.
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Good day in the Brenne even though it’s not really the time of year with a lot of birds already reared their young and migrated. We saw at least 3 dozen cattle egrets just before entering the park. Several Great Egrets, lapwings, heron but not the purple one, ringed plover, 3 x Jack Snipe, and various others. We also saw 5 Coypu.
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Saw a group of about 7 egrets together yesterday along the shoreline. Unusual as they are generally fairly solitary.
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