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Feb 2017
9:50am, 22 Feb 2017
15,256 posts
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Chrisity
Skylark giving it some wellie this morning, and a chaffinch that just couldn't get it quite right - no smooth fast bowler running in, i think it slipped in some sawdust and ended up flat on its face.
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Feb 2017
2:16pm, 22 Feb 2017
1,568 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Found myself walking past an uninspiring and slightly scummy looking pond stuck between the motorway and a load of fast food places and, along with a couple of mallards and coots, I saw a little grebe.
I stopped and watched it for a little while, I'm sure the folks in the KFC were wondering what on earth was so interesting about that pond.
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Feb 2017
3:08pm, 22 Feb 2017
22,596 posts
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Derby Tup
Nature is amazing isn't it? The stoat I saw yesterday was in the most graffiti strewn concrete urban environment imaginable
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Feb 2017
6:50pm, 22 Feb 2017
182 posts
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bonners
Agree with some of the comments above, nature is amazing. Due to dodgy back, multiple fractures and dislocations in right hand, and torn muscles in leg, I am currently reduced to watching wildlife on our feeders on our little patch of concrete.
Despite our longer term efforts (first trees planted last year and bits ripped up to create wildlife habitats), that is all it is. Yet, I have spent the whole day fascinated by the interaction between the various birds.
Some highlights today, mr and mrs blackbird. Definite courtship going on, but it mainly consists of him chasing her around in a repeatable circle.
The goldfinches, not sure if courtship, but watching a pair on the roof opposite almost 'nuzzling' each other.
Sad bit was watching the doves build their regular nest on the house opposite, behind their satellite dish, happens every year.
Unfortunately not this year, as the woman has leant out her bathroom with a broom and destroyed it 
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Feb 2017
7:12pm, 22 Feb 2017
22,600 posts
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Derby Tup
My mum used to love the expression 'billing and cooing' to describe young lovers making a fuss of each-other. Id never thought of the meaning or origin of the expression until very recently when I saw a pair of loved up jackdaw perched together on a lamppost 
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Feb 2017
9:46am, 25 Feb 2017
1,496 posts
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steve45
What have you done bonners? Have I missed a post? Hope those injuries mend quickly.
Watching little patches/gardens is often as rewarding as chasing around. What a bummer the doves have been ousted; some strange people out there. Same around here--not far from me the only pair of House Martins had their nest "removed" by the house owners last year. Ah...but they can watch all the wildlife on the telly!
Seven Moorhen together and ten Cormorants together this morning on my running route.
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Feb 2017
2:37pm, 25 Feb 2017
1,772 posts
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jacdaw
Curlew are back up here this week. Hanging out in gangs on the fields below the moor. Lovely to see despite the rain.
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Feb 2017
3:24pm, 25 Feb 2017
7,057 posts
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Watford Wobble
Blue tits investigating two boxes.
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Feb 2017
7:43pm, 25 Feb 2017
729 posts
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Heinzster
White egg shell today, hatched, probably a pigeon going by size.
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Feb 2017
12:37pm, 26 Feb 2017
1,500 posts
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steve45
Nice male Bullfinch in the garden was the first one since July last year. Nipping the early buds which are just squeezing out on the hawthorn.
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