Wildlife corner

[t-tony]

Wildlife can be surprising Paul. My mate Graham's young Cocker Spaniel went loopy early on Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago and on inspection of his CCTV footage he saw a pair of Foxes using his garden as their playground.

Tony.

 

[miller1098]

A great success this year been quite rigorous on fox control even though we lost 30 chickens that think it's a good idea to stay out late we've managed to keep our 2 hatches of geese alive and last year we put up an owl box and there must be something they like about it as it occupied, out of the three we've put up over the years this is the first one that has had owletts in

 

[backseateducation]

Fantastic, that's great to see

 

[Z Victor 1]

Barn Owls are such beautiful birds, but need help like this as so many country barns have just been left to fall down. Great stuff @miller1098.

 

[Paul H]

We get a lot of reds in the garden, around 30 different birds species, deer, otters in the river etc etc l. It also holds a good head of salmon and trout, with a salmon spawning bed right at the rear of the garden.

It's lovley.

Can I add video here?

 

[t-tony]

We get a lot of reds in the garden, around 30 different birds species, deer, otters in the river etc etc l. It also holds a good head of salmon and trout, with a salmon spawning bed right at the rear of the garden.

It's lovley.

Can I add video here?


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Hi Paul, sadly you can’t upload video to the forum so the only way is upload it onto YouTube (or similar) and add a link to it in your post mate.

Tony.

 

[Jack Ratt]

I've really enjoyed reading this thread again. Here's a couple of pics of a stick insect that I took a year or so ago. They are quite common in Cornwall but I've never seen one as big as this one. The first pic is inside my shed and I put the tape measure along side it as I couldn't believe the size of it.
the second pic is the most recent. I was trimming a bush to refit some fence panels and it decided to take a stroll down a wall. Our Tom put his hand there for a bit of scale. Obviously we don't know if it's the same insect but if it is, it's great to know it's survived a year or so

 

[Paul H]

Thank you Tony.

Here's my stretch of river, the salmon spawn in the gravel beds 1st pic. We've had a good bit of rain this morning so it's came up a ft in the last few hrs. It's a late salmon run, they come September on, best fished when it's 4ft higher and a raging torrent. If it looks unfishable get your rod out.



My bit is water of luce, it joins cross water of luce about 400 yards down where it becomes the river luce and discharges into the solway.

 

[backseateducation]

Paul that looks like paradise. Beautiful

 

[Paul H]

Paul that looks like paradise. Beautiful

I'll do a video for youtube, it's a lovley spot. New Luce is a tiny village, 39 houses I think. 6 miles from the a75, surrounded by farms, forests and a massive expanse of moorland towards Ayrshire.

We even had an Eagle owl here for a couple of weeks. It must have blown over from Ireland in a westerly. Flew back when the weather calmed.

 

[Paul H]

View: https://youtu.be/2bJHhsQAdu8


I made a video, my little slice of Scotland.

I bought the plot a month ago today, it was wildly overgrown, waist high. I've been busy clearing grass, trees and shrubs, cleaned out all the septic system so it's flowing great.

I'm seeing what it looks like with basic maintenance this year, what I dont like I'll remove over winter.

I may get solar to go fully off grid, does anyone here have a solar powered system?

 

[miller1098]

It's been on the agenda for years and finally my friend from the village came up and took a couple of photos he was only here for an hour but had some lovely shots

 

[pgunter]

Just been using a lens attachment for my iPhone and the results are good so far. I have a wild flower area planted which is attracting more and more insects / bees.

 

[Mint]

A few shots from our hols in Cornwall whilst walking the South West Coast Path.

 

[t-tony]

Some nice pictures there Dave. I trust that was a Grass Snake?

Tony.

 

[Mint]

Some nice pictures there Dave. I trust that was a Grass Snake?

Tony.

It was basking in the sunshine 'till we came along, then scuttled off into the grass. Came up as a slow worm on my app.

 

[mwpe]

It was basking in the sunshine 'till we came along, then scuttled off into the grass. Came up as a slow worm on my app.

Definitely a Slow worm.

 

[miller1098]

Ok first time in 62 years we have been putting rings on our owletts .3 females and one Male, the females have little spots on the underside of their wings

 

[miller1098]

Just to show the difference between Male and female owls the very small spots on the underside of the wing show it's a girl the Male is pure white

 

[Sean d]

Just to show the difference between Male and female owls the very small spots on the underside of the wing show it's a girl the Male is pure white View attachment 229811View attachment 229813

Fantastic, really well done for providing the boxes