Warixenjalka
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Maybe a Wild Boar? Or even Bear? Did you see any tracks?
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Garden / Yard List 2015 (1 Viewer)
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Maybe a Wild Boar? Or even Bear? Did you see any tracks?
KenM
Well-known member
You mean attracted by a "domestic" one :eek!:
joannec
Well-known member
Gosh.....I guess you spent the day shovelling up 50kg!
Possible candidates are:
Roe Deer - regular at this feeder, but I am pretty sure they couldn't knock the feeder over, let alone bend a nearby metal pole.
Moose - odds on favourite, presumably strong enough, plus present on my land at present (hanging out in a hazel grove jutting into marsh a few hundred metres from the feeder) - female and calf a couple of weeks ago, single female today.
Wild Boar - close runner to favourite, also presumably strong enough, rooted up turf about 50 metres from the feeder today.
Brown Bear - outsider, would be my preferred choice. Style of disturbance fits bear, but bear is not regular in Lithuania - there was one about 100 km further north earlier in the summer.
Left a camera overlooking the box for the last and predictably nothing returned, bar dozens and dozens of Jays ...and a major surprize - visiting both in the day and night, one Woodcock strutting about in front of the camera and probing the soil around the grain box!
126. Woodcock.
Also, three Lesser Spotted Eagles migrating south together today. Mammals seen today, one Red Squirrel near the peanut feeders (plus a possibly guilty Moose).
Whatever it was ate most of the grain! About 30 kg of grain vanished in the single week. Now replenished
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Good idea H, I've done just that this morning, well one feeder for now. No rampaging bears or moose yet, though I did encounter a very bold young Fox on my short walk around the patch, it just kept trotting towards me (short-sighted perhaps?). An exciting but frustrating (for the Garden List) morning as two species showed for the first time this year just 50metres from the house - a Meadow Pipit, but more amazingly, my first ever Bluethroat up here, Patch tick no. 124 and no.99 for the year.Both would have been visible from the garden:eek!: The Bluethroat was chased by an aggressive Chiffchaff and has been hiding ever since. A male Linnet(a garden rare) paused to have a little sing-song, 2 Firecrests bathed in the stream and the Jays have taken a leaf out of the Nutcrackers' book, but they've started coming down from the forest for acorns rather than hazelnuts (see greedy individual in pic). I'm still seeing quite a few Nutcrackers early in the mornings, they fly over quite high, heading down to the lowland, they've had two in the middle of Geneva recently, so they clearly go quite a way for a decent 'noisette'!
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Not top quality video, but top quality bird - CLICK HERE for a clip of the Woodcock during the day and night.
The grain feeder that was trashed is in the background.
The grain feeder that was trashed is in the background.
Grain feeder raided again, Wild Boar now odds on favourite - amongst Roe Deer tracks, obscured larger tracks looked good for this Wild Boar. Camera replaced to check the action over the next nights.
Southbound migration, flights of Cranes today - about 205 birds in all, three flocks drifted over in short succession, 38 birds in the first group, 95 in the second and about 70 in the last.
Southbound migration, flights of Cranes today - about 205 birds in all, three flocks drifted over in short succession, 38 birds in the first group, 95 in the second and about 70 in the last.
joannec
Well-known member
Sounds like you will have to build a serious fence!
Na, quite happy for them to use the feeder, but preferably without destroying or removing the roof each time - will see if it continues, then change the roof fastenings to make them not possible to lift.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
And both posed very obligingly for you too, they never sit still for me.:C
Still, we've done a synchronised jaw-drop this morning (perhaps a future Olympic event?) as I couldn't believe my ears on turning off the hedge-cutter, a Red-billed Chough was calling quite close! Unfortunately we're in the cloud again today so visibility around 50metres. I legged it up the road to where it was calling, only to hear it behind me, back towards the house - it must have flown directly over my head in the mist. It's not in with the cows, but the farmer is muck spreading which might tempt it to hang around.
So, another garden tick, the second 'heard only' of the year
93 Red-billed Chough
Still, we've done a synchronised jaw-drop this morning (perhaps a future Olympic event?) as I couldn't believe my ears on turning off the hedge-cutter, a Red-billed Chough was calling quite close! Unfortunately we're in the cloud again today so visibility around 50metres. I legged it up the road to where it was calling, only to hear it behind me, back towards the house - it must have flown directly over my head in the mist. It's not in with the cows, but the farmer is muck spreading which might tempt it to hang around.
So, another garden tick, the second 'heard only' of the year
93 Red-billed Chough
KenM
Well-known member
You must be well "Chuffed" there Richard, certainly not one that I shall see or hear "In these there parts".
I can only assume that the "posing".....is a direct result of me being "birthday-suited". :-O
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
So you were (in the) 'buffed' rather than chuffed, that explains the bird's startled (or horrified) expression!
