Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted August 17, 2022 On 12/08/2022 at 11:11, horsefly said: I have several dotted around. Absolutely crucial for a wildlife focused garden. I also created a watering hole at ground level in a shady corner (see pics) which gets the most use of all the birdbaths in the garden. It's also accessible and safe for hedgehogs etc. Very much worth the small amount of effort required to construct. I very much like this idea 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted August 17, 2022 On 12/08/2022 at 11:11, horsefly said: I have several dotted around. Absolutely crucial for a wildlife focused garden. I also created a watering hole at ground level in a shady corner (see pics) which gets the most use of all the birdbaths in the garden. It's also accessible and safe for hedgehogs etc. Very much worth the small amount of effort required to construct. I very much like this idea 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted August 17, 2022 18 minutes ago, Wings of a Sparrow said: Jumping out from behind pots to scare you 🤣 👍😂 Clearing out the greenhouse during the wet parts of the day and they were nicely camouflaged. Big old lads too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted August 20, 2022 On 17/08/2022 at 18:48, Wings of a Sparrow said: Jumping out from behind pots to scare you 🤣 Another one this morning. I'm not sure who jumped the most.😀 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dylanisabaddog 4,903 Posted August 21, 2022 https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/astonishing-hummingbird-hawk-moth-looks-set-become-regular-fixture-british-gardens-200348 My neighbour has just had one of these in her garden. I am insanely jealous 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Raptor 1,205 Posted September 2, 2022 I appreciate they're like blurry UFO pictures you see in the papers but I got as close as I could. Alot of deer on the Holkham estate today. Easily saw 100+ Also a big bird of prey. (No pic) didn't look like a kite or a buzzard but it probably was. Also a mammoth!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keelansgrandad 6,679 Posted September 3, 2022 At last, some proper rain. Need a few periods of this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted September 3, 2022 12 hours ago, The Raptor said: I appreciate they're like blurry UFO pictures you see in the papers but I got as close as I could. Alot of deer on the Holkham estate today. Easily saw 100+ Also a big bird of prey. (No pic) didn't look like a kite or a buzzard but it probably was. Also a mammoth!! Marsh Harrier territory up there too 👍 Oh, and the occasional white tailed sea eagle fly by. But you'd know if it was one of them 🦅😁 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sonyc 5,508 Posted September 5, 2022 The cows showed a lot of interest today on my walk. Quite sociable at times. And the black one was a real sweetie posing for this photo.🙂 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wcorkcanary 4,334 Posted September 11, 2022 Last night I was lure angling in the dark , full moon but with good cloud cover, so I was able to move around without even red headtorch. The Bass were just coming on at about 8-45 and I'd landed a couple of schoolies and released them to come back bigger, then it all went quiet, not a touch for 10 mins. All of a sudden, the cloud cover broke and the pool was bathed in light, just emerging from the water in the far Bank a pair of Otters squabbling over a large Mullet one of them had just caught. I sat on a rock watching them for 15 mins before they trundled off down the estuary . Within minutes it was normal service resumed but now a better stamp of fish, one of which accompanied me home and will be bathed in ginger , spring onion etc this evening. I tried taking a photo of the otters but at the range and level of light my phone just wasn't up to it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Raptor 1,205 Posted September 11, 2022 Saw a load of dinosaurs obviously up to no good earlier. There was me thinking they were extinct! 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted September 30, 2022 A multi-headed hydra. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted October 1, 2022 12 hours ago, Herman said: A multi-headed hydra. That's quite impressive 👍 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted October 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Wings of a Sparrow said: That's quite impressive 👍 Someone has been feeding the birds with sunflower seeds and we keep finding them dotted around work. I've never seen a multi flowered one though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
horsefly 4,296 Posted October 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Herman said: Someone has been feeding the birds with sunflower seeds and we keep finding them dotted around work. I've never seen a multi flowered one though. Not a very good pic, but this multi-headed specimen self-seeded in my garden this year too (reached about 6ft). 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Angry 1,554 Posted October 2, 2022 Oh dear Badger, what have you been up to? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-essex-63090432 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Raptor 1,205 Posted October 6, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63125242 Fat bear week is back!! 🐻 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted October 6, 2022 Very good 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Richard 186 Posted October 10, 2022 Mrs Richard found this little sod crawling up one of the curtains late last night! Sorry for rubbish photo but pretty sure it's a false Black Widow. Live in a big old house in the sticks where we have endless spindly cellar spiders (who tend to eat most of the big hairy house spiders) but first one of these in the five years we've been here. Anyone else had one in the house out of interest. Ours got put in a jar and chucked well away from the house! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dylanisabaddog 4,903 Posted October 11, 2022 13 hours ago, Richard Richard said: Mrs Richard found this little sod crawling up one of the curtains late last night! Sorry for rubbish photo but pretty sure it's a false Black Widow. Live in a big old house in the sticks where we have endless spindly cellar spiders (who tend to eat most of the big hairy house spiders) but first one of these in the five years we've been here. Anyone else had one in the house out of interest. Ours got put in a jar and chucked well away from the house! We get a lot of those in Mulbarton. They have a nasty nip. Also had this European spider indoors recently 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benchwarmer 624 Posted October 13, 2022 There's a report in today's EDP that swans (and other wild birds) are dying in the bird flu epidemic. Several dead swans have been found at Potter Heigham and Horning. The report also contains guidelines on what to do if you find one. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted October 13, 2022 Whitefly, blowing through the sky. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benchwarmer 624 Posted October 13, 2022 If you get a chance, have a look at the entries for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year on the BBC website, and pick your favourite. Being a sentimental old thing, the death in the arms of her keeper of an old mountain gorilla rescued as a baby from poachers just about tops it for me. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,746 Posted October 13, 2022 Love the bat-snatcher too. Perfectly timed.👍 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted October 14, 2022 Some good photos there 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
horsefly 4,296 Posted October 14, 2022 15 hours ago, Herman said: Whitefly, blowing through the sky. Are you sure it's not the ripped-up shreds of Kami-Kwasi's "fiscal event" policy paper? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benchwarmer 624 Posted October 14, 2022 14 hours ago, Herman said: Love the bat-snatcher too. Perfectly timed.👍 I also liked the polar bears making themselves at home in a deserted Siberian village. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
How I Wrote Elastic Man 1,186 Posted October 14, 2022 Another species facing extinction due to their habitat being destroyed by humans When will we ever learn? 😔 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wings of a Sparrow 1,413 Posted October 15, 2022 21 hours ago, How I Wrote Elastic Man said: Another species facing extinction due to their habitat being destroyed by humans When will we ever learn? 😔 I clicked on that prepared to be outraged and blaming the Chinese 😂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
How I Wrote Elastic Man 1,186 Posted October 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Wings of a Sparrow said: I clicked on that prepared to be outraged and blaming the Chinese 😂 Blame the Brazilians instead .... 😉 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
