wildlife

[angie]

Sorry to hear your back is troubling you again , Angela - weather is so grotty oyu' ve probably been as well keeping inside in the warm.

That field of yours is a lovely quiet spot for the roe deer to have a snooze.

There are so many deer in the field in front of the house it's a bit worrying.  I also nearly disappeared down a hole, think it's a badger, saying this I haven't seen them doing this in the field its always at the edges. Just thinking ,no the whole wasn't big enough for me to disappear down there 

Angie 

[johnw]

Friends in Niagara-on-the Lake awoke to this fellow in their yard  last Wednesday, a lovely Cooper's Hawk.

johnw

[angie]

Had a wee bit of help today. I have a big problem with mice so hopefully I have one less now.

John that Coopers Hawk could be helpful here as well 

Angie 

[johnstephen29]

Hi Angie great photos, I wish the foxes around me would only go after mice instead of trying to get my poultry

[Maggi Young]

I do sympathise, John - but I must admit that given the choice between a mouse and a chicken for dinner, I know which one I'm going for!

[johnstephen29]

They try Maggi but they don't get anywhere, it's like Fort Knox around here, electric fence and all.

[Maggi Young]

They try Maggi but they don't get anywhere, it's like Fort Knox around here, electric fence and all.

     

[Peter Maguire]

I thought I'd brighten up a dull day by posting a couple of pictures taken at Loch of the Lowes last week, the day after the AGM.

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female, gaudy)
Chaffinch (female, nosey)

Both taken through the glazed window of the vistor centre in poor light, so they didn't turn out too bad considering...

[David Shaw]

Very nice, Peter. After a couple of seconds thought I have decided not to comment on your descriptions ;-(((((

[Carol Shaw]

Great photos Peter

[angie]

Peter really lovely photos. I have done something to my camera, things are just out of focus nearly all the time.

Angie 

[TC]

A couple of our winter visitors taken a a few weeks back. A Whooper swan and Barnacle geese.

Today we had unseasonal visitors in the shape of a Swallow and House Martin feeding  over the seaweed on Troon beach

[mark smyth]

Photos doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter of 2000 dead moles on barbed wired in a Scottish shooting estate. Maybe the lack of moles could be why harriers are targeting precious pheasants.

Game estates are also dumping 100s of shot pheasants on their grounds which attract scavengers, corvids, mammals and birds of prey, which are then get the blame for attacking pheasants ...

[johnstephen29]

I will never understand why people shoot birds and other animals for there own enjoyment, the local bigwig, walks around with his snout in the air, he and his cronies had a shoot a few weekends ago, makes me sick to my stomach.

[Jupiter]

I agree, people who shoot animals for "fun" worry me. There's something a bit scary about the personality type I think.