What have you seen
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Beautiful photo, B2. Can't say I've ever seen one either.
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Passing a derelict barn this morning, I spotted a pair of Little Owl on what was left of an end wall. Inside were 2 juveniles hunting around on the floor. I stopped for a while to enjoy my first sighting of this charming little bird.
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Thanks Brue and NTH
It was a pleasure to share time with the Owls and the photo with you.
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We had a very poorly looking Magpie on our patio the other day. I went to see if it had gone a couple of days later and found it under the barbie tangled in the cord that ties the bottom of the cover. The poor thing must have been twisting round umpteen times trying to get free, it was really badly tangled in the cord and the gas pipe. It’s leg and tail feathers were tightly caught.
It took me a good half hour but I managed to free it in the end without having to cut anything. I don’t know why but I found myself talking to it all the while. It didn’t seem to help, it still tried to peck me!
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Spotted a "spotted" longhorn beetle....it seems to be a good year for insects, more grasses left to grow locally.
Glad you managed to free the magpie Papgeno.
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We sat in Wetherby services a few days ago watching a Red Kite wheeling round and round above us, quite low at times and for about twenty minutes. Are the services a good area for easy pickings? I knew that they were spreading north but hadn't realised they were so far north yet.
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Harewood House had a reintroduction programme of Kites and is very close to Wetherby so it may well still be a local bird. We have not long returned from a cottage about 10 minutes drive from Harewood and the area had a couple of resident Kites.
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Question to the birding experts..... Walking round one of our local reservoirs today, and among the Canada and Greylag Geese was another goose, slightly smaller than a Greylag and with similar colourings except it was unmarked down both sides of it's neck and it had bright yellow legs and feet compared to the pink of the Greylags. I might pop back tomorrow and try and get a photo of it if it is still about.
Also saw a Raven while there and later a Charm of Goldfinches.
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We have a brown hen blackbird (the French have a single word Merlette instead of our three). which has taken a liking for fat balls. Being unable to perch and hang on to a dangling bird feeder it has developed the humming bird technique of fluttering furiously to feed from them while hovering stationary in mid air, and after a week’s practice is getting better at it as each day goes by.
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Visited the WWT at Slimbridge yesterday. Last time I visited was 65 years ago! It's changed a bit. The cycle ride along the canal from our CL could have done with either a pair of secateurs or Boudicca's chariot to deal with the encroaching growth.
Note to self: check E-bike battery before going off in the moho.
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This morning we had one of these small, wooden ground feeding tables in our garden.
Back from an afternoon stroll to find 5 magpies tearing it to pieces 😱.
Beyond repair, so it’s been binned. Never seen this sort of behaviour from corvids before. And don’t want to see it again!
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Don't think so, Pliers. Returned today and tha goose was on the water. Took a couple of snaps with my phone, but the bird was a way from the shore so not too clear.
Also spotted something else in the water. This is an even worse photo, but can anyone guess what it is?
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Don't know who got the biggest shock this morning.
Quite a decent size and has stayed all day, I've just topped the food up again as it had all been eaten.
Could it be a mummy to be?
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No hedgehog surprise this morning. All food gone, couple of ticks left behind so good clean out and freshen up before refilling the food bowl.
Nelliethehooker I couldn't decide on the 'goose'. The unknown object could be a plastic bottle 🤣
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I'll miss all our wildlife, hedgehogs, squirrels foxes and a huge variety of birds that dine and nest in our garden. Not bad for a garden 20 minutes from the city centre.
If and when we move, it will happen when the time is right, I'll do all I can to encourage wildlife. If the one we have an offer in on comes off there's lots of birds 🐦 so that's a good start!
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I would say that it wasn't a Shelduck, as it's legs were bright orange/yellow, not pink. The bill was jet black with a white band over the top where it meets the head.
Looking on the Slimbridge web site it appears to be a Swan Goose, as suggested by brue, and, on another forum, Oneputt. It certainly looked like the large photo on the left.
http://www.slim-bridge.co.uk/swan%20goose.html
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I know the other photo is rubbish, but thought someone might have come up with a guess.
In fact it is of a turtle. Seemingly there are at least two living in the reservoir and have been there for a couple of years at least. Guess someone had them as pets and eventually couldn't be bothered with them and got rid into the rezza. At least they seem to be surviving well there as they have overwintered at least once.
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I've blown the photo up now on my Mac and agree it is a Swan Goose, so it will be an escapee from one of the Wildfowl centres, maybe Martinmere. Highly unlikely to be a wild bird but still an unusual spot and worthwhile seeing it. Any idea of whatever else is in photo 3? Can't get any definition on any machine I'm using.
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See above...it's a turtle!! Don't often find them in our local waterways.
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OH found this on a dog walk, we often find fossil remains in our fields. Millions of years ago our area was under tropical seas.
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An interesting find brue have found a couple of bits on a Dorset beach and on Salisbury Plain quite a few years ago.
Have been out and about this afternoon and on our way back called on our friends for a cuppa but before we got there in a village about 5 miles from them I really could not believe what I saw was a lady talking to another lady with a dog but the other lady had a lead and collar on not fully grown wild boar she just smiled as we went past not something you see everyday, only here in France we wondered whether it will remain a pet come the Autumn hunting season.
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An ammonite, goniatite, or ceratite. It's difficult to tell the difference from a photo. Great for all the same.
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