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One poor chick that didn't make it, must of got pushed out of the nest and landed on our garden table.
Filmed at Kirkham, North Yorkshire on 9th April 2019, during participation in national RSPB Willow Tit Survey.
Taken ages to work out why. The BBC Web team have muffed up on a link:
At the bottom of the page there is a bit about Raft spiders. The raft spider shot is one of mine. But the link goes to my Flickr stream, and not their 'faves' or 'Spider album' if they have one.... You can scroll left and right from that image, so you can look at anything you like on my stream. Click on it and Flickr opens... It's great that I'm getting thousands of hits showing as 'No referrer' as it's coming through the BBC's LAN firewalls from the wrong side... S'pose I better let them know.
I might have to point out that the next picture down (which has nothing to do with me) and is also meant to be about Raft spiders, is linked to shots that are mostly of Nursery Web Spiders. . :@D
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Ham Wall RSPB,Somerset
I thought it was a deer at first when the reeds started moving! Then a bittern popped into view,sort of!
This might not be very exciting to a lot of folks however... We've lived here for nearly 20 years & have often heard the Tawnys but have never seen them, even when I'm peering up in the trees in the woods, nothing.
Over the past fortnight two youngsters have been calling, so I had a wander (in the dark I might add) and narrowed it down to which probable trees. Then another wander just at dusk, when I saw the glint of eyes and got Twitted at by Mum or Dad.
After work tonight I checked both trees, one is so twisty & gnarly I couldn't see, however Squeaky #1 was calling last night from there. This tree is more 'open' and Squeaky #2 was dozing quite happily in the early evening sunshine. .
There is a very silly grin at finally meeting this rather secretive but very beautiful Owl!
Went for a local patch wander today, heard a lot of agitated buzzing as I went along the edge of the field, looked up and could see masses of bees. Stood and watched for quite a while as they swarmed and then settled into a great big ball of bees up in the spruce tree.
A bit of a first as have never seen a Bee swarm before!
Made a bird hide out of a step ladder and a duvet cover but Mummy wasn't fooled...so I made a hasty retreat before they all went hungry!