ps i have seen little owls here a couple of times, one eating a sammison the other trying to stand on a slack washing line which was rather funny,
they seem to hang out on the ings
the tawny ones were quite common in urban/suburban york
it seems that butterfly counts have a similar trend to bird counts journo report
oh well, bryophytes and tardigrades will probably be ok somewhere, they have practised this sort of thing a few times
in good news there is a resident male blackbird, which probably means a female has set up home
im not sure of the location, it may be the brack's old homestead, probably the ones i spotted a little while back
the local(one km radius from here)rough blackbird census gives maybe 10% numbers compared to before the heat event, some of them are colonists rather than survivors
We saw white admirals and possibly wood whites last year, but I wouldn't know a grayling if I saw one, so not sure about them. We have silver washed fritillaries but not pearl bordered. One problem with woodland butterflies is lack of management. Because we manage our wood including coppice there are open areas with flowers so the butterflies have somewhere to feed. Deep dark woods are not much use for them. I don't think we saw so many fritillaries last year, but they vary year by year.
I think tawny owls are the most common Dpack. We have seen a few over the last couple of years, but hear them very regularly.
the eagle owl through a night sight was surprising
i was watching the little, tawny and barn owls, there were quite a few hunting voles etc and the thing just loomed huge, wow, at times 4x in IR was rather disturbing
the eagle owl through a night sight was surprising
i was watching the little, tawny and barn owls, there were quite a few hunting voles etc and the thing just loomed huge, wow, at times 4x in IR was rather disturbing
just with eyeball silhouette it was very big, big enough to be a danger if it was minded to give a human or mutt a try
small and far away etc but a bit smaller than golden eagles, bigger than owt else i have been close to
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9510 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 23 1:58 pm Post subject:
we have plenty of tawny and barn owls here. Never seen an eagle owl in the wild Once a tawny got caught in the hen netting, and we had to tuck it away in a dark place and release at dusk, so got a close up look at it. Alls well that ended well
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9510 Location: Devon, uk
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9510 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 23 3:44 pm Post subject:
I've been recording first sightings of frogspawn in my garden pond for a couple of decades ish. The earliest was last year on 24 Jan, and the latest was 13 March, so there is a lot of variation and today's sighting fits in. I think there might be a trend towards earlier sightings.. but difficult to tell. I should make a graph...
I've been recording first sightings of frogspawn in my garden pond for a couple of decades ish. The earliest was last year on 24 Jan, and the latest was 13 March, so there is a lot of variation and today's sighting fits in. I think there might be a trend towards earlier sightings.. but difficult to tell. I should make a graph...
have you seen the cherry blossom graph from japan?
CBDay is a rather good marker for climate over many centuries
that was built from lots of local, historical observations, the frogmen might be building a historic/contemporary data base, if not why not start one?
Once a tawny got caught in the hen netting, and we had to tuck it away in a dark place and release at dusk, so got a close up look at it. Alls well that ended well
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