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Farnboro John · Feb 14, 2018

Last couple of nights Big Whitey has been taking the evening chicken (sounds like it ought to be a euphemism

) and he's definitely more accustomed to our faces on the street where we live than he was. Due to the bad weather I haven't kept him hanging about for photos but I will soon.

John

ClarkWGriswold · Feb 17, 2018

Some of the herd of Sika Deer taken in Dorset on Thursday. Sorry for the junk photo but the light was fading fast.

Rich

BimmyB · Feb 18, 2018

I was sat in a hide last week when to my surprise a Pygmy Shrew wandered along the outside window sill (the window was closed at the time) without paying any attention to my presence, before disappearing into bramble growing around the window frame. Another reason why I rarely, if ever open glass windows in hides. A stunning beast in the early morning sunlight.

Farnboro John · Feb 18, 2018

BimmyB said:
I was sat in a hide last week when to my surprise a Pygmy Shrew wandered along the outside window sill (the window was closed at the time) without paying any attention to my presence, before disappearing into bramble growing around the window frame. Another reason why I rarely, if ever open glass windows in hides. A stunning beast in the early morning sunlight.

Fantastic sighting! I struggle with shrews these days, don't seem able to hear them any more. Scuffling in leaves I can hear but if they are on bare ground, no hope. Lucky you!

John

Farnboro John · Feb 20, 2018

Just remembered that last Thursday while looking for Adders (didn't find one till Friday, don't worry, I did stop in between) I had a Bank Vole cutting green bramble leaves for a year tick. It was within a couple of yards of a regular Adder basking spot so I hope it's feeling lucky.

Last night I got a couple of indifferent shots of White Tip and reviewing them after a conversation with Clare on the same subject in relation to her foxes this morning, it strikes me that she looks enlarged about the midsection: so I reckon she must be a fair way on in her pregnancy.

John

Farnboro John · Feb 20, 2018

Pictures of White Tip this evening. Not as svelte as she was a month or two ago!

She chose to eat with us tonight, perhaps feeling safer from Big Whitey who is a shocking robber, or perhaps just making the point to us in her own way that she definitely wanted a second chicken leg (which she got).

John

snlw · Feb 23, 2018

For anyone down Southampton way at the weekend. A mother & calf Common Dolphin seen in The Solent.https://www.facebook.com/seawatchfo...190283796072/1663185410463226/?type=3&theater

Farnboro John · Feb 25, 2018

Dropped into Arne late yesterday afternoon and eventually had a bachelor herd of Sikas in the paddock before the woodland leading to the saltmarsh. The white stag was with them. Lovely late afternoon sunshine to watch them in - fantastic, even if they are introduced.

John

dantheman · Feb 25, 2018

Not done much birding (or thus incidental mammaling the past few weeks), but tree planting last week encountered plenty of healthy Field Voles and a Common Shrew which thought it would be fun to climb into the bin I was carting around with me with trees in when I wasn't looking. Also a Pygmy Shrew in the bedroom was nice!!

Farnboro John · Feb 25, 2018

dantheman said:
Also a Pygmy Shrew in the bedroom was nice!!

I assume you are single...... :eek!:

John

dantheman · Feb 25, 2018

... the girlfriend has a flat in town. ;-)

snlw · Mar 2, 2018

Those of us that made the trip up to the Shiant Islands in 2013 to see Black Rats were lucky we decided to do so as the Islands are now officially rat free. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43242141

Farnboro John · Mar 2, 2018

Some photos from the last visit to Arne: Sikas including the white stag.

John

Farnboro John · Mar 2, 2018

And some recent visits from White Tip and Big Whitey. I've been feeding foxes for several years now and this is the first chance I've had to photograph them in snow!

John

White Tip

Big Whitey X 2

White Tip X 2

MarkHows · Mar 8, 2018

Nice to see Light, dark and spotted forms of fallow deer together in the New Forest at the weekend.

Mark

MarkHows · Mar 12, 2018

Some small mammal trapping for the Wildlife Explorers at Fowlmere RSPB

Pretty good considering the season 8 from 35 just 3 species

Wood Mouse, Field Vole, Pygmy shrew

Mark

Farnboro John · Mar 18, 2018

An afternoon that got forgotten because I have been doing little except cough seemingly for ever. A few local mammals on a rare sunny day.

John

Grey Squirrel

Rabbit

Roe Deer X 3

Farnboro John · Mar 19, 2018

A couple of shots of White Tip from the weekend. She's given birth, got her figure back in short order and resumed visiting for chicken. The middle shot isn't very good but does show at least one teat. Outside the breeding season you can't see them in the fur.

John

MarkHows · Mar 20, 2018

A mammal trip to Israel

http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/2018photo/israelreport.pdf

Mark

Elmer Fudd · Mar 21, 2018

I like that Little Green Bee Eater. Very nice.

So, I am in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-qLUHfvgk

You may shut down the window after 12 seconds. There are no mammals anymore. I just didn't know how to cut the movie after the fox had vanished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ud5k1HaNCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7HDlwNwyOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76lq7o0TyoU

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