Wildlife spotting

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

A Kestrel came into the back garden, launched itself into a hedge to try and get something, and I think it did it's talon in, because it stood there on one leg for about half an hour afterwards before it flew off.

[Spoon of Ploff]

Speaking of Kestrels...



I saw three of the blighters today, flying around and getting into barnies with each other and the local crows/magpies (the inset image took place during a brief truce).

[Gurke and Hare]

Working from home's excellent.



SQUAWK!

[bgmnts]

Why is that bird shouting at a tree?

[Ferris]

Why is that bird shouting at a tree?

OI TREE ARE YOU LOOKING AT MY BIRD

[BlodwynPig]

Wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lss7-USP1k

[MiddleRabbit]

I've been taking my daily walk at about 11pm to avoid the crowd.  Lots of foxes around and about.  The other night, one was attempting to get me to chase it by taunting me, keeping a few yards ahead and prancing around on the grass verges.  Unfortunately, I'd gone out without a red jacket and twenty or thirty dickheads on horseback and fifty or so hounds.  With regret, Reynard had the last laugh.

[Unnecessary]

An egg just rolled down the street.

[bgmnts]

Actually need some advice here, are these sloeberries or laurel berries?

[Buelligan]

That's ivy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix

[BlodwynPig]

I just asked the same question yesterday

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

An egg just rolled down the street.

Ferlilised or non-fertilised?

[bgmnts]

Cheers much.

[BlodwynPig]

That's ivy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix

small white egg on ground, smooth and matte, about the size of half a thumb. What bird?

[gib]

small white egg on ground, smooth and matte, about the size of half a thumb. What bird?

pure white or some speckling?

[BlodwynPig]

pure white

[Buelligan]

How big?  Do you have ostriches in the area, if so, be gang warily.  They can be irritable.

[BlodwynPig]

How big?  Do you have ostriches in the area, if so, be gang warily.  They can be irritable.

as I said, half a thumb. I can get a picture if you like, I've put it next to the rhubarb for the slugs to have a chew on

[Buelligan]

Oh, half a thumb's quite large.  If it was my thumb, I'd say it's likely a pigeon.  But there are other less common birds that could be the culprit if I'm being honest. 

I once found a robin's egg, very beautiful.  I made it a little bag from a piece of one of my mother's stockings and wore it like a pendant for weeks hoping to hatch it.  Had to give up in the end but gave it a decent burial.  Heartbreaking.

[BlodwynPig]

Oh, half a thumb's quite large.  If it was my thumb, I'd say it's likely a pigeon.  But there are other less common birds that could be the culprit if I'm being honest. 

I once found a robin's egg, very beautiful.  I made it a little bag from a piece of one of my mother's stockings and wore it like a pendant for weeks hoping to hatch it.  Had to give up in the end but gave it a decent burial.  Heartbreaking.

You are right, Collared Dove...we have a couple of nesting pairs around the garden, loyal beasts

[the midnight watch baboon]

Sorry to break the egg chat...

Last year in Colorado. Last stop before Rocky Mountains NP. Where Stephen King stayed en route to his stay at the Stanley Hotel I believe. We went from stretching legs to spotting this lovely moose having a bit of a lay down in a lake, probably thinking about whether Dr. Sleep will fare well on its release- both commercially AND critically?!!!?











It charged us soon after I'd stopped taking the last pic, and we got told off for standing our ground rather than legging it. Luckily it decided to peg it into the woods rather than mow down a coupla gawping Brits.

"Y'all need to run when you see a big, darned moose charging at y'all," said the moose.

[BlodwynPig]

lovely - reminds me of the one I saw in Utah with its calf (the Swiss guy with me saying "it's only a cow" - he didn't mean the female moose cow either)

[the midnight watch baboon]

lovely - reminds me of the one I saw in Utah with its calf (the Swiss guy with me saying "it's only a cow" - he didn't mean the female moose cow either)

Cool :) we also saw deer, marmots, a golden eagle, bighorn sheep on this holiday. The usual chipmunks. No bears or mountain lions this time :(

[bgmnts]

"It's only a cow" as if cow's are shit.

Fucking cunt.

[bgmnts]

The local squirrel, he seems to have free reign of these flats and the trees around it. Fat cunt has probably gone through an entire loaf of bread, slice by slice. He was struggling to haul it up the tree but he managed it.

Now he's just sat there, eating away.

[BlodwynPig]

Cwmbran is really a box of delights...

1st that drunk-drug driving woman and now this!

[bgmnts]

Don't insult the squirrels.

[Brian Freeze]

small white egg on ground, smooth and matte, about the size of half a thumb. What bird?

I know you've got your answer but I can thoroughly recommend getting a copy of The Observer book of birds eggs. A lovely little book with hand painted examples to scale of the eggs of British birds.

There's plenty on that Ebay from the sixties for around a fiver and if you are lucky it may have once belonged to a genuine real life nest robber.

[Brian Freeze]

Quiz answers coming later. Please dont shoot the messenger.

[Cerys]

I should have encountered many spiders in the kitchen today.  I encountered no spiders.  At all.  Not even one.

What gives?