What have you seen

For the first time in 2 years I saw a Kingfisher while walking the dog along the local canal.  It was startled from its perch in some overhanging brambles and flew onto the handrail of a lock footbridge, where it stayed long enough for me to admire its magnificent plumage. 

Just had a look out of the lounge window to see 16 common cranes flying low over our field  will see if any more fly over again they are on their way south.

I cured my rat problem, but as its raining I will have to wait until tomorrow to show you how.

As I waited at my usual spot, I heard some high pitched calls and a mother and cub Otter appeared.

Great photo, greylag.

Disturbed 2 frogs and a baby newt whilst gardening today. One frog took to the pond and gave the most disgusted look as it peered at me and the gardener 😃. We'd left plenty of other hiding places for them.

Also watched a crow giving a red kite a hard hard time yesterday!

I cured my rat problem, but as its raining I will have to wait until tomorrow to show you how.

very interested to learn, my mum has rats if she feeds seeds to the birds. I really hope we don't get this is due as our birds refuse nuts!

Well its stopped raining.

I simply added a tray underneath the feeders and all of the dropped seed that the birds decide they don't like is caught by the tray.  This seed then sits there and along come's a pigeon/chaffinch and they pick up most of that which is caught by the tray.  I  occasionally clean the tray.

Also the tray keeps a lot of birds off of the lawn and away from cats.

No rats since.......

Same spot on river........Kingfisher was here for 3 or 4 seconds....lucky...

A lovely photo Greylag! Glad your rat problem has been solved too. We always have the odd rat around but have had problems in the past when they got into the roof of an outbuilding (managed to block the entrance routes in the end.)

I saw our first flock of Fieldfares this week, that distinctive sound made me look up. I'm wondering if our single early Fieldfare will return to the apple trees. The flock siting was earlier than previous years.

Have noticed that fungi are doing well this year in the warm damp conditions. When we were alongside Loch Maree not long ago all the verges had Fly Agaric in them, deadly but attractive! Our front garden this morning has a nice circle of fungus not sure of the name but they form under a big birch tree.