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John's Mammals 2016 (1 Viewer)

Been a while since I last posted and plenty since then, early April I spent the weekend in Dorset and the Forest of Dean with cracking otters, Sika deer, common shrew, brown rat, water vole and wild boar.


Mark
 

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Since that trip I stayed local and have had some nice sightings of Chinese Water deer, muntjac, brown hare including a group 5 boxing one morning.

Mark
 

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Burwell Fen - Cambs

This is a real Weasel hotspot I have had several good encounters of weasel there in the last 18 months and sightings on both of my last two trips. Tuesday I visited had had good views of one in a vole hole.

This is well worth a visit, other mammals include roe deer, muntjac, Chinese water deer, mice voles and shrews, stoat, fox, otter, rabbit and hares.

A few pics from Tuesdays visit

Mark
 

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Accidentally posted in the 2015. I think I did the very same thing a year ago in the 2014 thread! Dugh...

Oh well, my first confirmed photo and first confirmed sighting of a Muskrat.

It was perhaps 15 meters out at a low muddy part of a pond I frequent. It hang around a good while and I got about 100 photos of it before it came to shore and disappeared.
 

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Its a nice Muskrat.

Boars are still showing well in the Forest of Dean, I'm still chasing to catch up photos, hope to be able to do a big update over/after the Bank Holiday weekend (depending on the weather).

John
 
Was out for a walk with my wife Yesterday morning in coastal scrubland on the outskirts of town when I noticed this fella on a sidepath coming towards us about a hundred yards away. I froze and started snapping and it just kept on coming! In the end I would say it was less than fifty feet away before it turned off into the undergrowth! Certainly made my day!

Chris
 

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Was out for a walk with my wife Yesterday morning in coastal scrubland on the outskirts of town when I noticed this fella on a sidepath coming towards us about a hundred yards away. I froze and started snapping and it just kept on coming! In the end I would say it was less than fifty feet away before it turned off into the undergrowth! Certainly made my day!

Chris

Heavy moult. No sideways shots: did you think it was a male or a female? Around Farnborough females with young look very scraggy at the moment - stick tails and great hanks of fur missing. Nice view though.

John
 
Hi John,

Thanks for the comments. Some side shots:

Chris
 

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I was in Italy last week. Very limited mammal interest, but I ticked off Coypu in one of the drainage canals in the old Pontine Marshes. There were literally dozens showing over about three miles of canal (seen from the coach so no pix unfortunately) in bright sunshine mid-afternoon. So if anyone is passing that way, and fancies an invasive introduced species tick....

John
 
I have been mega busy both with work and wildlife stuff so a quick catch up to the end of April, just local stuff but still nice to see just the same.

Muntjac and Fallow deer at Fowlmere.
Soprano pipistrelle and Noctule at Huntingdon

Hares all over the place but these in my village

Mark
 

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Bowhead, Mounts Bay, Cornwall

I assume we are all up for the Bowhead should it resurface? With a side portion of plastic pelican? Let's stay in touch
 
Was trying to spot some Quail I could hear in a meadow this afternoon when this fellow popped out of a plie of vine trimmings!

Chris
 

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A cracking day in the Forest of Dean early in May, plenty of wild boar and a couple of fallow deer.

Mark
 

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Roe deer showing well at Lakenheath and Fallow deer in the New Forest earlier in the month.

Mark
 

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I dipped the Lammergeier on Monday. Best dip I've ever been on!

John
 

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Don't suppose anyone could give me a clue as to whereabouts in the Forest of Dean to go for Wild Boar. I tried many times about 10 years ago and always failed but now the wife is expressing an interest. TIA
Luv Dave
 
Don't suppose anyone could give me a clue as to whereabouts in the Forest of Dean to go for Wild Boar. I tried many times about 10 years ago and always failed but now the wife is expressing an interest. TIA
Luv Dave

Without betraying confidential information I think I am safe in saying that they are fairly frequently seen around the Nagshead RSPB reserve including from the hide, and the Cannop Ponds Forestry Commission car park at dusk (or anywhere in the surrounding woods at other times) is also a pretty hot spot.

Beyond that perhaps it will be of use if I suggest that where thick pine plantations and other dense low cover provide roosting areas near to woodland with plenty of autumn crops such as acorns and beech mast are good areas to look, and that sightings are not always limited to dusk and dawn though these are times of considerable boar activity.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

John
 
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