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Garden wildlife
by Glesga_Steve » Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:15 pm
Bought a new bird feeder yesterday as I thought our feathered friends could do with a decent meal in this weather.
Some of our first visitors...
and a sneak thief...
Some of our first visitors...
and a sneak thief...
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Re: Garden wildlife
by penguinmonkey » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:14 pm
cumbo wrote:Good shout steve
this wee robin is a star
Quite tasty pickled as well I've heard
It's always funny 'til someone gets hurt and then it's just hilarious
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Re: Garden wildlife
by Glesga_Steve » Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:42 pm
First of all, apologies for the extremely poor quality of this photo.
Caught sight of this about an hour ago when I glanced out of the window into the back garden - I'm pretty sure it is a stoat. I'm not sure if it was eating the bird seed or was trying to catch a bird (I couldn't see any about but it may have scared them off I suppose). It's only about the third time in my life I've seen one so I thought it was worth posting up despite the poor photo quality.
I tried to grab some more photos but the bloody thing was so quick (especially when it was back on the ground) I wasn't able to
The poor photo quality was down to it being a very rushed grab-the-camera-and-click sort of thing. Also, I took it looking through my window (didn't want to risk making a noise by opening it and thereby scaring it off) and forgot to turn the flash off first so there was a fair bit of glare
I tried to improve the photo quality using Roxio but it didn't make much difference (though I'm far from an expert when it comes to using editing software so I was just trying random things really).
Caught sight of this about an hour ago when I glanced out of the window into the back garden - I'm pretty sure it is a stoat. I'm not sure if it was eating the bird seed or was trying to catch a bird (I couldn't see any about but it may have scared them off I suppose). It's only about the third time in my life I've seen one so I thought it was worth posting up despite the poor photo quality.
I tried to grab some more photos but the bloody thing was so quick (especially when it was back on the ground) I wasn't able to
The poor photo quality was down to it being a very rushed grab-the-camera-and-click sort of thing. Also, I took it looking through my window (didn't want to risk making a noise by opening it and thereby scaring it off) and forgot to turn the flash off first so there was a fair bit of glare
I tried to improve the photo quality using Roxio but it didn't make much difference (though I'm far from an expert when it comes to using editing software so I was just trying random things really).
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Re: Garden wildlife
by Boxer6 » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:51 pm
Can't tell from that if it has a black tip to it's tail or not. If so, it's definitely a stoat, if not probably a weasel, although I don't think they're all that common up here by comparison to stoats.
Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.
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Re: Garden wildlife
by Glesga_Steve » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:36 pm
I didn't know that stoats have a black tip to their tail until I read the Wikipedia page so it wasn't something I looked for.
It's appearance was as per the description in every other way though.
It's appearance was as per the description in every other way though.
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Re: Garden wildlife
by BenCooper » Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:19 pm
We've got an unusual regular visitor - a parrot:
Well, actually a ring-necked parakeet
This picture is from two years ago, but he's still about...
Well, actually a ring-necked parakeet
This picture is from two years ago, but he's still about...www.transientplaces.co.uk
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