RMweb Gold unravelled Posted September 17, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2012 One bit of wildlife getting close to another, on the Ravensbourne in Brookmill Park, down by the DLR. Dave 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 The victim looks to have legs and a tail, Dave. Was it a rat? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I came home last night to find this one reclining in the garden. I opened a window, at which point it looked at me, yawned, and went back to sleep. I blame the next door neighbour's barbecue myself. Think I'll see if anyone from the Cambridgeshire with Enfield Chace can come and deal with it: 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2012 That looks like a well nourished fox. There are lots round here (not in my garden though) but they always look a bit bedraggled. Before we had our dog our garden was a favoured spot for foxes to sunbathe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 That looks like a well nourished fox. ... I blame it on the neighbour's barbecue. Now it'll just keep on coming back, and our garden will probably end up as its bedroom / toilet. I spent a number of seasons hunting in Ireland; three people have already asked me whether I'm going to take it in as a pet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted October 2, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 2, 2012 I spent a number of seasons hunting in Ireland; three people have already asked me whether I'm going to take it in as a pet The caretaker's wife at my old school did take in a fox cub as a pet - whenever she took it for a walk on a leash the little blighter was always trying to run away! But I cannot remember how long she kept it, I doubt it was more than a few weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted October 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2012 aaah, animals on leads that dont belong there. I remember trying to put my cat on a lead once. He was begging to get let out shortly after we moved house so I thought, put him on a lead he can have a mooch in the garden without running off and getting lost. He just twisted and twisted until he reeled the lead short enough so he could bite me! Made him wait the full 2 weeks after that! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Some will know that I had a headlight taken out by a dead pheasant last year. It was propelled at me by a Land Rover coming in the opposite direction and hit the headlight like a bazooka. The threat remains. At this time of year the flocks of young are all over the single track roads and they run about in unpredictable directions. Here's a bad pic. in bad light of some just wandering off the lane onto farmland yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Have you ever engaged in pheasant plucking, I believe it can be .......... pleasant 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Here are a few of my shots of gannets (my favourite bird, at least of the feathered variety) taken around the UK coast... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Meanwhile across the pond its autumn and we need to put on some weight for the winter... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted October 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2012 The west country version of the Angel of the North . 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted October 27, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2012 Found this cow guarding Hungerford Common one day, didn't have the heart to tell her that Hitler had invaded her homeland (Guernsey) and that the war was now over. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 The victim looks to have legs and a tail, Dave. Was it a rat? Has SHMD seen this one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 We have a flock of waxwings, in our rowan tree. gobbling berries! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Horn Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Trying a bit of bird spotting outside the shed window . . . 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Despite me asking nicely, this little sod will not go away.......bless. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldknotty Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 This little fellow was intently watching me on RMWEB , maybe he was a train buff who knows ?? He has been back many times and even comes up on the deck to scrounge for tid bits :-) Martin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I'm disappointed I have only just found this thread, I love wild-life and trying to photograph it, some stunning pictures here, Waverly West's gannet photos really hit the spot. We have lots of stuff here in SW France, plenty of different arachnids and insects in all sizes, from this tiny 2m.m. crab spider pictured on a rendered wall [those are grains of sand...] to the bigger Long Horn Beetles and Stag Beetles, even the occasional Rhino Beetle. 'Flappy' things are just as varied, from tiny blue butterflies like this little Adonis Blue Swallowtails, with a caterpillar livery which would look good on a Sprinter and Saturnis Pyri, the largest European moth with a 5" wingspan. The usual mammals, including this fellow, now more common in UK I understand, I deffo don't want these getting into my veg garden but if determined you'd need Camp Bastion type walls to keep him out.......... My favorites are Bees, sadly [for me at least] I have lost dozens of bee -related pics after a 'pooter glitch, a far better year for bees this year after some bleak summers... Honey bee Carpenter Bee Orange Tailed Bee My butterfly favourites are the Aristocrats, the Painted Lady in particular, not as showy as some of her sisters, but to my mind perfect.. I've just realised I've used up about a million trillion electrons and probably bored you all witless, but can anyone tell me what this is? Doug 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 14, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2012 Cracking piccies Last one looks like a pupa of the genus Lepidoptera to me! Was it on th eground or on a plant? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted November 14, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2012 ..a Shreddie covered in honey? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) Close, but no cigars, both of you! I found it here and it is the egg mass of one of these, a Pale Mantis Spooky! The biggest/first one to hatch eats the other hatchlings, ensuring a good first meal.....Yech. If you'd like more, I have miniature a 'crocodile' that becomes everyone's most familiar insect, a 2" jump-jet fueled on nectar, a delta-winged flying scorpion with googly eyes, a carnivorous worm-eating underground blind slug, a red octopus fungi that smells of dog-poo and came to France [and U.K.] from Australasia riding on a sheep, orchids that look like cut-out paper dollies or fantasy world creatures and a Stealth Bomber moth..............or rather Mother Nature has them, and she has been generous enough to let an oaf like me become enchanted with all of them! Doug Edited November 14, 2012 by Chubber 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Horn Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Keeping an eye on me, whilst watching him out of the shed window . . 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Yesterday, we had a pileated woodpecker visit the hydro poles near our house. Today, two of them came by. Apologies for the quality - they're at the top of this pole, the (point and shoot) camera is on maximum zoom, and I'm shooting against the brightness of the sky. Anyway, here's Woody Woodpecker and friend: They're not too common visitors now. The hydro poles are relatively new, so not many insects in/on them. Until a few years ago, we had a 55+ year old pole in front of the house, and they would be on it regularly. The amount of wood they could remove in a short time was impressive. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium QWILPEN Posted December 19, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2012 this is a case of wildlife getting TOO close. http://youtu.be/POx37iFsWrQ Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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