RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2020 Is it a stonechat? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) I have just witnessed an amazing sight. I was out walking my dog and in one the fields there were a few hundred geese feeding away. Then all of a sudden they all took off blackening the sky and making a lot of noise until they had got themselves in the massive V formation heading off to the nearby marshes for the night. I am sure all that noise as they took off was them arguing whose turn it was to be in the front. "It isn't my turn" "It is Charlie's" "Charlie stop hiding at the back" "I done it last Wednesday" "Tough luck you are doing it again " "And this time go the right way" Edited October 26, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Barry Ten said: Is it a stonechat? Yes it is, sorry I should have said, that's a male the female was too far away. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 12 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: I have just witnessed an amazing sight. I was out walking my dog and in one the fields there were a few hundred geese feeding away. Then all of a sudden they all took off blackening the sky and making a lot of noise until they had got themselves in the massive V formation heading off to the nearby marshes for the night. I am sure all that noise as they took off was them arguing whose turn it was to be in the front. "It isn't my turn" "It is Charlie's" "Charlie stop hiding at the back" "I done it last Wednesday" "Tough luck you are doing it again " "And this time go the right way" The geese at Eastleigh Lakeside Country Park (where the miniature railway is) daily fly to the tidal mudflats on the Itchen to feed when the tide goes out. They usually fly over our road. Most are in a Vee but one pair fly together, quite low, apart from the others, and they honk at each other continually. I like to think they are an old couple whose only reason to stay together is to argue. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ressaldar Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 We have a number of squirrels that frequent the garden and make use of the three peanut feeders and generally ignore the fat ball feeder which is the domain of the small birds. The feeders are located opposite the dining room and kitchen windows so that we get the full picture of the feeding activities. Whenever the squirrels are feeding we make a point of opening the French doors and talk to them and they are now used to this intrusion on their feeding. However, a younger squirrel has recently joined the feeding party and being low down in the pecking order had to wait for his turn on the nut feeders so made his way to the fat ball feeder.................. and I caught him in the act through the open door. Regards Mike 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 We had a red squirrel inside one of our feeders yesterday. It's quite a regular visitor. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2020 Our blue tit's almost certainly a gonner unfortunately. Yesterday the bird in the box was a great tit, and once it had departed there were signs of a kerfuffle with lots of feathers everywhere: So it looks like the great tit "evicted" the blue tit. Update: my wife's just found the corpse, still in the box - seems the psychotic great tit used it as a mattress overnight. Nice! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2020 Update 2: we buried the poor little blue tit in a flower bed. Very sad! 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2020 Couldn't you add another box, with a smaller hole, so that only Blue Tits could safely be ensconced inside? Leave the current box as it is - that way you could have a pair of..... Kev. (sorry) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 The squirrel was back again today. The birds seemed happy to share. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrowroad Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Has it got the key to the door of the birdfeeder then John - clever little chap!!! Robin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 It amazes me that he can squeeze between the bars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Lambton58 Posted October 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 13/10/2020 at 13:56, Flying Pig said: There's a slug on the window of my first floor flat. Mrs Lambton58 says "Euurrgh!!!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted October 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2020 52 minutes ago, Lambton58 said: Mrs Lambton58 says "Euurrgh!!!" It's all right - it's gone now. Mostly. 2 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Lambton58 Posted October 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2020 12 hours ago, Flying Pig said: It's all right - it's gone now. Mostly. Just the memory of the trail... but where did it go??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) Forfar Loch this morning, a female Mallard Edited October 30, 2020 by tigerburnie 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 A Curlew flies past 9 1 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 A Rock Pipit on the shore near Montrose(that's as far north as we are allowed to go) 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted November 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 19, 2020 Lovely! I've tried taking pics of the meadow pipits up near us but never got as nice a shot as that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Thanks Barry, this time of year they are less active, so it's sit down low, lots of patience and a big lens........... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 A Jay in the dark corner of the forest 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 03060 Posted November 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2020 A cold, grey day in Leeds today but noticed my little patch of Snowdrops out in the front garden, for some reason they always flower early from Oct whereas all of my others flower in Spring as normal. (Apologies for not exactly being 'Wildlife' but brought a smile to my face on an otherwise dismal day.) 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 3 hours ago, 03060 said: A cold, grey day in Leeds today but noticed my little patch of Snowdrops out in the front garden, for some reason they always flower early from Oct whereas all of my others flower in Spring as normal. Very pretty. Have you enquired from Galanthus specialists. Some can bring very high prices. As you mention they do this regularly it is possible that late autumn flowering is in their genetics and a valuable trait. These people may be helpful https://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/galanthus/ And I wouldn't advertise them too much as stealing Galanthus of unusual cultivars is not unknown! Paul 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 On 26/10/2020 at 17:19, Clive Mortimore said: I have just witnessed an amazing sight. I was out walking my dog and in one the fields there were a few hundred geese feeding away. Then all of a sudden they all took off blackening the sky and making a lot of noise until they had got themselves in the massive V formation heading off to the nearby marshes for the night. Mention of geese prompts me to post this. A few weeks ago i had a walk around some of the Essex marshes. These are home to several thousand geese in winter. mainly Brent but in recent years more and more Canada. A storm was brewing and suddenly they started to fly from the estuary to the coastal area, not all at once but in several formations. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2020 Ah, the Mighty Eighth on its way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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