Your Wildlife Sightings!

You could when it's really quiet John

 

Tend to just look in here rather than post…
I tend to take photographs abd never have time to properly look at and appreciate them.

.. but here’s a few from a recent trip to far away places.

 

Last 2 days highlights up in the Highlands…. Nesting pair of Osprey, 2 Red Throated Divers, Ring Ouzel, Bullfinch male, Red Kite…,

But the one that stole the show… Sub * Marsh Harrier, i was thrilled.
Just realised I started writing last night coming in from the Pub

Off up the mountains today with Ruby Roo of course.

 

Me and Ruby were very tired after a huge walk right into a superb Glen. I got cracking views of a singing Ring Ouzel, a White Tailed Eagle, 2 Red Kites, 4 Kestrels,Sparrowhawk, Buzzards and a fine male Goshawk.

Also a fine summer plumaged Red Throated Diver, 2 Ravens, stonechats, wheatears , a common lizard and for my good friend a Peacock Butterfly

 

snapped this at the canal earlier.

 

Me and Ruby Roo could not get on some fine Moorland because of cows and their calves. We tried too different places to enter, but was far to dangerous.

So a very different walk took place and we had plenty of fun walking a long the magnificent Spey.
I got a cool Greenshank, and a cool pair of Linnets, both species new for me up here in my luxury patch. Plenty of Brown Hare about, Ruby loved that.

The highlight though was a fantastic singing Whinchat, what a handsome bird. Also the Swallows are really back in force now. A Sparrowhawk was also noted.

Ruby thoroughly deserved her sausage and egg as extras. Tomorrow we are doing a big Hill slog and Golden Eagle, Merlin and Ptarmigan are the targets.

 

Sounds like a great day Good FRiend, well, most of it

 

Great shot there paulo

 

Great shots Stevie

 

I brought my trailcam in from the woods yesterday after it being in the woods for the last few days, it triggered a few times with Mice in for a free feed being the culprits, it triggered again for a fine big Badger, (i don't know if it's the same Badger as last week) it also went off for what i was hoping to see, a big Pine Marten called for a treat.
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Thanks

just realised I didn’t add any info…

The first is (I believe) a Red Cheeked Bul-Bul - taken in Mauritius

The second is a Red Fody (like a colourful sparrow) taken in the Seychelles.

The others are a Brown Lemur in Northern Madagascar.

 

Well today is the last full day of me and Ruby Roo’s latest highland visit and we finished in brilliant style on a big Hill walk,

A trip of 3 Dotterel stole the show today, my first since 2017 and my first in the highlands since 1998!!! Superb birds.

Before that I got a cracking pair of Ptarmigan. Yes they superbly handsome birds and my first since 2019.

Also seen were plenty of Mountain Hares and a cool White Tailed Eagle. Me and Ruby Roo are both very tired.

Tomorrow we will do a 4.40-8.40am walk near a classic big marsh.

 

Had some fantastic news this morning, a good birding pal up in the highlands has confirmed the pair of Goshawk i found on Monday up there has an active nest!!

 

I saw a deer,it was dead and lying at side of the road.Do the councils not pick them up or do they just leave them there so other animals can eat them?

 

I think the council collect them, they do if there's a dead dog or Cat lying by the side of the road, i imagine it would be likewise for a big animal like a Deer.

 

Oh i forgot to mention I saw a cracking Osprey fly by my local patch mid morning yesterday with Ruby Roo of course.

 

That's a superb sighting Good Friend. One of nature's truly superb birds.

 

Saw my first Oystercatcher of the year this morning.

 

Video link

I've been trying to post some video of what i've captured on my Wildlife camera out in the woods but can't figure out how to do it yet, i uploaded the video of the Pine Marten to You tube and copied the link to here, fingers crossed it works.