Wildlife spotting...

[kaiser]

I saw a golden eagle once at Machrihanish. I had a buzzard cruise in front of me down the trail at Glentrool. My friend crashed at Kirroughtree and came out the bush with a frog. Regularly see deer in the morning on my commute.

 

[zigzag]

Saw an extended family of geese and fluffy goslings waddling around up the Pentlands a couple of weeks ago. Immensely cute, but couldn't get close enough for a decent photo due to scary hissing parent geese.

 

[MartinYorkshire]

Umm, around my way we have a wide variety of wildlife. I spotted this rare black and white specimen recently. I only had a brief glimpse as it darted into the kebab shop.

 

[MCsanandreas]

out for a walk a few weekends ago saw a Kestrel take a young Rabbit as lunch.
last week in the middle of the day saw two deer in a field.
yesterday saw a fox in broad daylight,but i think its one i have seen in the same place before. also had Housemartins scooting overhead doing their fly catching thing.

 

[stedlocks]

some good spots..........particularly the lesser spotted chav seen in his natural environment

I wouldn't have known what most of our spots were (well, the cow I knew) but one of the blokes i was with spent most of his youth knicking eggs from nests and he knows just about every bird there is........he doesn't nick eggs anymore, but he does cook a mean fried one

being a city boy originally, I can appreciate the wildlife

 

[Lysander]

Mate of mine who I canoed with once saw a wallaby whilst having a crap on one of the wee islands on Loch Lomond............

 

[konatime]

Seen a mink last week, eyeballed it for a good 4 mins. Animals work off the little tremours from folk walking/stomping, the birds chatter letting each other know and the rabbits then stamp with one or thier rear legs and the fox picks up the shout and is usually offmans before you've come anywhere close. Bikes mess that sequence up, i was sorry i never had my dog with me(back to the mink)...i realise well enough it's illegal (unless your a mink huntmaster general) but watching the mink unaware of us was'nt thrilling (to me at least/my oppo was having treble-takes) it had winded young and looking down the bank an array of wildlife had gotten out of the water and were no doubt fingers crossed that the unindeginous predator without a predator would not single out thier young but some other. The sad news was that the mink would wipe out everything it could find (not for food/just the kill) unapposed, i got off.

 

[bojangle]

2x bloody great dear (nearly as big as a horse!) nearly wiped a few of us out,

hundreds of red kites

rat

rabbits

squirels

moth!

owl (it was a long tues night ride)

Badgers

Fox

Wolf....................



ok it was in a wolf reservation in oxfordshire with 2 lots of 8ft fence between us, but it was in eyesight of our ride !!!!! that must count!

 

[Lysander]

2x bloody great dear (nearly as big as a horse!)
nearly wiped a few of us out,.......

I am impressed not simply that they had obtained one, but also that they were able to operate a water-cooled Vickers heavy machine gun...........

 

[MCsanandreas]

2x bloody great dear (nearly as big as a horse!)
nearly wiped a few of us out,.......

I am impressed not simply that they had obtained one, but also that they were able to operate a water-cooled Vickers heavy machine gun...........

animals have learnt to fight back? we could be in trouble now!