What have you seen
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Have not seen any Swallows yet in Herefordshire, but there doesn't appear much insect life either, so maybe a good thing. I did notice the Fieldfares and Redwings seemed late leaving the Orchards this year also and yet it hasn't been what I thought a hard winter.
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Fieldfares still about in Central Scotland last week.
Enjoyed watching a Treecreeper searching for food on an adjacent Silver Birch from the caravan window while we were have breakfast this morning.
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A pleasant surprise this morning a pair of linnets trying to get to the window feeder he looked very dapper in breeding plumage. And winter is back with a covering of light snow so the birds are busy feeding and looking to say what is this white stuff and we have started to build nests.
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Spotted Red Kites, and both Red and Roe deer when out walking today, but unfortunately no Red Squirrels, as well as Ravens and GSW about the site.
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Something emerged from our garden today. We find a lot of marine fossils as this area of Somerset was under tropical seas millions of years ago. We think it's a shark's tooth fossil?
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A size scale would help to identify, but it looks the wrong shape for a Shark's tooth, which usually have a broad base and are more pointed. Plenty of examples on line.
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Nothing spectacular, but Red Kites every day over the site, and female GSW on the feeders, Goosanders and Stonechats on our walk yesterday.
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I’m no expert Brue but I’ve never seen a Sharks tooth that shape, they’re normally triangular & flattened for cutting flesh. I’ve seen Coprolite fossils that look very much like that🤔
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I think you could be right there,R2B. What a great word Coprolite is for what the object actually is.
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It’s quite fascinating Nells🤷🏻♂️. Coprolites from a collection-
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The photo angle doesn't show the pointed shape very well and it won't be a land based fossil, this was a sea bed area. I've collected dinosaur coprolite fossils from the IOW and they are large..like elephant dung!
We think it is a "shark" or similar marine tooth, we've now compared it on web sites.
Interesting to find these things, thanks for your input. I wonder what will turn up next as we dig out a new path!?
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That’s excellent👍🏻, what type/family of ancient sharks was it from Brue?. I’ve never encountered that shape before I’d be interested to update my knowledge base with your help👏🏻👏🏻
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No idea Rocky they are common finds round here. Here's another photo with it on view. The odd one out is a Flint tool from the stone age.
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Brue, I missed this bit. . .Coprolite won’t be the size of Elephant/Mammoth unless it came from those Animals. From Humans or Wolves even Bears it’ll be species size specific👍🏻
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Ahhh I understand now-you don’t actually know if you are right or wrong you are just surmising as I am. Thanks for the input I’ll do my own research now I know their is no actual evidence.
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No, I looked up and identified what has been found Rocky although I can't identify the actual type of marine animal. Sharks tooth fossils are very common in the UK. I put photos of the IOW fossils in the story section a few years back, they were quite large obviously not from elephants (that was me being funny) but from dinosaurs.
Yes it is a good idea to do your own research if you've found something of interest.
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Loving all these finds👍 Best we get in our garden are clay pipes. So interesting though. We used to belong to the Time Team Club.
I forgot to mention we saw two very large 30+ herds of Deer in fields when we were out not far from Fotheringhay on our Ferry Meadows trip. Haven’t seen that many in one go for a long time.
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Just had a green woodpecker rummaging around outside our van on a CL on the edge of Bognor. Windy enough for the van to take flight as well.
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This morning, as we were having breakfast, there were a pair of Siskins on the feeder outside the caravan window, and they were joined by a Greenfinch. The first ones we've seen this year.
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As I've posted in another thread we went to Threave Castle today and saw the pair of Ospreys there, also one of the Peregrines on the top of the Castle, and could hear them calling too. From the Stepping Stones hide we spotted 3 pairs of Goosanders, a couple of Black Backed Gulls, an Egret and a hundred or more Pink Footed Geese. On our site there is a Charm of Goldinches who enjoy feeding on one of the other empty pitches.
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On a walk along the River Dee from Kirkcudbight today we saw yet more Goosanders, Golden Eyes, Shelduck and Teal, Curlew, Heron and an Egret.
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We had a Stoat run across our path today, so nice to spot one, also saw a couple of Roe deer feeding in the fields by the shore.
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The kingfisher is regularly reported to be seen flying over the Ribble, near Brockholes Lancs WT reserve. We go there quite often, but have never seen it, or any other kingfishers there for that matter!
A nice reserve to visit, free, but there’s a charge for parking.
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