What have you seen
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Plenty of Swallows over the stubble fields here in the Vale of Pewsey this afternoon, after the rain, when I guess the flies were up and about.
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Had a stroll around the bird reserve at Cley-next-the-Sea today. Lovely day for it, little wind, a bit of warm autumn sun, calm sea. Nothing out of the ordinary seen but plenty of birds and dragonflies to keep us amused.
Lovely Kingfisher that was a doppelgänger of Greylags photo from a few days ago on here. Sat on a post for ages. 2 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Red Throated Divers, one with a juvenile, half a dozen Common Scoters, Bearded Reedlings being very active, a Yellow Browed Warbler at the NOA reserve adjacent, lovely pair of Blackcaps. All in all a day to enjoy.
No Swallows though.
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Nothing to compare with your sightings, WN, but we have had a Tawny Owl calling each evening and last night Fox barking away for over 5 minute. There are plenty of Buzzards, Kestrel and Red Kites about and saw this chap this evening on our walk along the canal.
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As long as there's some nature around to admire it doesn't really matter what it is.👍
Walking back from Holkham Pinewoods to Wells alongside an ebbing tide we saw 3 Red Throated Divers, one of them a juvenile, and wondered if they were the same ones seen at Cley yesterday as they were heading west. Also a flying Kingfisher along the edge.
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Walking along by the canal this afternoon there was another, or perhaps the same, Heron stood in a similar pose to the one yesterday, but at a different place and getting dripped upon rather than taking in the sunshine. On the Downs earlier we saw Wheatears, Corn Buntings and Stonechats and overhead another Red Kite.
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Today the Heron was back to close to where I took the photo the other day, so there must be a plentiful supply of food for it in this stretch of the canal.
Saw this little fellow today on my afternoon walk, the caterpillar of the Pale Tussock Moth.
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Walking off track today through Moors Valley CP and spotted a Goldcrest, first I've seen this year. Then on my afternoon walk saw these, which I believe to be White Fobrecaps, unless anyone knows otherwise.
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Edit, it should have read as White Fibrecaps.
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I was on my own with Flyte, and she refused to look at the photo!😁
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Certainly is, we saw lots of different varieties today in the Ferndown and Holt Woods.
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Birds certainly do strange things I was returning from the bin run and just came around a slight corner and in front was a Heron flying low along the road and so I moved car to the side nobody else about thankfully and it flew pass me and all I could see was its head and neck and gave me a quick look as it flew by then landed on the road behind me about 6ft away and as I passed a small local Lavoir there was another Heron already there hence the other wanting to get closer they certainly look big with their wingspan flying close to you.
We had friends here late afternoon and they said that their neighbour had left a outside door ajar and when he came back in there was a female deer sat on his floor near the fireplace and not bothered as he walked around it even said he could stoke it and thought a bit strange and then he had a friend from the village arrive and said it needs to go outside and the deer decided to try and get behind the log burner thankfully not in use so they manage to make it go outside it then sat down again and within a couple of minutes it died both men quite shocked and surprised at this never seen anything like it before.
Did have a Treecreeper going along the trunk of our large Oak tree and looked like it was taking small acorns and pushing them into the nooks of the tree and quite noisey, but have see Nuthatches do this but not Treecreepers.
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Oh that's sad about the deer had it been shot? Hope not just ill perhaps?
We were looking at the Glastonbury Abbey ponds yesterday. The fish rushed straight to the surface when they saw us.
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Today's selection of a few of Fungi seen on our walks, on Holt Heath and the local woods.
Fly Agaric and a Grisette.
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Beautiful, Nellie 👍🏻
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Thanks TW. We saw lots more fungi today at Moore Valley CP, with some huge Fly Agaric, but many others too but unfortunately not as photogenic.
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Best of luck Pliers. Must admit that we were exceptionally lucky when we were in the Netherlands in the summer seeing these birds on at least 5 occasions I can think of, in different areas, it would still have been a thrill to see them in Norfolk. Hope you have some better fortune.
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We were walking round Abborsbury Subtropical Gardens today and spotted these.
One is obvious, but the other a bit unusual. The Fungi is, I believe, a variety of Hericium called Coral Tooth Fungus, unless anyone knows otherwise. It measured about 30 cm across.
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There were a pair of them, but they were rather difficult to photo as they wouldn't pose nicely for me. Perhaps Flyte being there had something to do with that!!😁 They were beautifully coloured birds!!
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Perhaps that was the reason we didn't get up there on our last visit, Brue, and no we didn't hear the Kookaburras this time.
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