John's Mammals 2018 (2 Viewers)

Isurus · Jul 11, 2018

Guernsey list for the year....
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Grey Seal
- House Mouse
- Wood Mouse
- Guernsey Vole
- Greater White-toothed shrew
- Hedgehog

I've not had a ferret yet this year but they are (unfortunately) around the orchard at the moment.

Here's a video of GWTS I took earlier in the year....
https://instagram.com/p/Big94ofABlA/

We've had some researchers over looking at Guernsey vole and they tried live trapping the orchard but didn't do as well as we hoped (probably as I'd mowed it a couple of weeks prior and everything was sticking to the margins as a result) but did get some shrews....
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjcbZ1mAJZy/

MarkHows · Jul 23, 2018

Some recent sightings, Kashmir goats on the Great Orme, Red Squirrel, roe deer at Loch of the Lowes and a local fox.

MarkHows · Jul 23, 2018

And a few more from Scotland - Argyll Pine Marten, Hedgehog and Bank vole.

Not to bad considering the torrential rain during the watch.

Mark

MarkHows · Jul 23, 2018

And an excellent show from the Chanonry Point Dolphins

Mark

Farnboro John · Jul 23, 2018

MarkHows said:
And an excellent show from the Chanonry Point Dolphins

Mark

Wasn't it just! That first one is outstanding. Good stuff with the terrestrials, too - bad luck with the only rain to be found in the UK this summer....

Cheers

John

ClarkWGriswold · Jul 30, 2018

Hi all. Apologies for the BOC shot but I took this photo this morning and assumed it was a Mouflon. Am I correct? Taken in Spain on the Costa Del Sol.

Cheers,

Rich

Farnboro John · Jul 30, 2018

ClarkWGriswold said:
Hi all. Apologies for the BOC shot but I took this photo this morning and assumed it was a Mouflon. Am I correct? Taken in Spain on the Costa Del Sol.

Cheers,

Rich

The black knees are suggesting Spanish Ibex to me.

John

ClarkWGriswold · Jul 30, 2018

Cheers John.

Rich

MarkHows · Jul 30, 2018

Shetland Stuff
Some amazing stuff in Shetland the Orca are amazing and bumped into the long staying bearded seal as well.

Mark

ClarkWGriswold · Aug 6, 2018

4 more Spanish Ibex this week, and Barbary Ape and Common Dolphin on Saturday. Also saw a ruddy big Shearwater in the Straits of Gibraltar. Closest I could get with the Colin's Guide was Scopoli's. Favoured this species over Cory's due to location.

Rich

Farnboro John · Aug 6, 2018

MarkHows said:
Shetland Stuff
Some amazing stuff in Shetland the Orca are amazing and bumped into the long staying bearded seal as well.

Mark

Stunning, Mark! Did you twitch them or was it a planned trip that got lucky?

John

Farnboro John · Aug 12, 2018

Haven't done much lately but the second of a couple of trips to Titchfield Haven yielded a brief but good view of a Water Vole on the reserve. I'm aware they are also seen up at the top end from the public footpath but this one was between West Hide and Pumfrett Hide from a wooden footbridge.

Other than that the foxes continue to visit more or less nightly.

John

1&2 White Tip
3 Big Whitey
4&5 Water Vole, Titchfield Haven, Hampshire

MarkHows · Aug 17, 2018

Farnboro John said:
Stunning, Mark! Did you twitch them or was it a planned trip that got lucky?

John

A planned trip that I hoped would get lucky and came up trumps

Mark

Farnboro John · Aug 17, 2018

MarkHows said:
A planned trip that I hoped would get lucky and came up trumps

Mark

Didn't it just! Good planning. One of these days.....

John

Farnboro John · Aug 20, 2018

Had a trip down to Devon on Saturday with Maz, principally for mammals but took in Cirl Buntings at Labrador Bay RSPB in the morning: saw about 30 with no effort at all.

Then a nice pub lunch in the Kings Arms at Otterton before a long and unfortunately unsuccessful stakeout of the River Otter Beavers - admittedly we didn't stay into dusk. We did see a pair of Dippers on the shoal below the lodge pool for about half an hour and a Kingfisher that teased us for ages before eventually sitting in the open (not all that close) for a few minutes.

After that it was off to a private site the location of which is the owner's secret, for Hazel Dormice. It was gone midnight before two of them turned up on his bird feeder and gave us some very nice views while they gorged on sunflower seeds, which they husked in the feeder before scuttling up into the tree to eat them. Hazel Dormice are the cutest animals in Britain. One of the two was already as fat as butter and will have no difficulty hibernating :eek!:

On the way home I ran out of steam and kipped for a couple of hours, so we got home at 0600 Sunday and went to bed till 1030.

John

1 & 2 Hazel Dormouse

Farnboro John · Aug 23, 2018

Further to the above I had a quick look on google for info on Hazel Dormouse life cycle, and it appears that most litters are born in July and August. Silly boy me, I had assumed they would come out earlier in the season.

I therefore assume that the fat looking Dormouse on the feeder is not achieving early readiness for hibernation but is a very very pregnant female.

John

crazyfingers · Aug 24, 2018

Last week I was on the coast of Maine, USA. Off a rocky peninsula, Schoodic Point, I saw a ruckus of gulls and cormorants. I pointed my camera and zoomed. There were also common dolphins there too. I didnt' get great shots. Most of the time the dolphins had gone under again before I could click. I believe that there were three. Certaibnly two from other photos.

But a couple pictures here. On the left photo zoomed out a bit the dolphin is middle upper left. The right zoomed in more

The puzzle of course is what would attract all these critters to one spot? A school of fish? A school of squid?

Farnboro John · Aug 24, 2018

crazyfingers said:
Last week I was on the coast of Maine, USA. Off a rocky peninsula, Schoodic Point, I saw a ruckus of gulls and cormorants. I pointed my camera and zoomed. There were also common dolphins there too. I didnt' get great shots. Most of the time the dolphins had gone under again before I could click. I believe that there were three. Certaibnly two from other photos.

But a couple pictures here. On the left photo zoomed out a bit the dolphin is middle upper left. The right zoomed in more

The puzzle of course is what would attract all these critters to one spot? A school of fish? A school of squid?

Fish at the surface (perhaps driven up by the cetaceans) attracts the birds. Cetaceans find fish by sonar and trap them against the sea surface, but you knew that. If you see a cluster of seabirds fishing frenetically, its a good idea to look for cetaceans under them.

The reason I say "cetaceans" is that your photos show Harbour Porpoises, not Common Dolphins. Dorsal fins are not falcate but triangular and are proportionately quite small. Good, useful pictures!

John

crazyfingers · Aug 24, 2018

Hey thanks for correcting my ID.

Farnboro John · Aug 24, 2018

crazyfingers said:
Hey thanks for correcting my ID.

No problem. We all want the right answer every time!

Cheers

John

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