What wildlife did you spot today?

[Keith_Beef]

No pictures, but this afternoon:
springbok, gemsbok, Cape fur seal, Cape cormorant, white chested cormorant, both lesser and greater flamingo, Namib web-footed gecko, helmeted guineafowl, some kind of as-yet unidentified plover, ditto gull very similar to a herring gull, Franklin's gull.

This morning, several birds including the Damara red-billed hornbill, but also ostrich, springbok, gemsbok, baboon.

 

[Broch]

No pictures, but this afternoon:
springbok, gemsbok, Cape fur seal, Cape cormorant, white chested cormorant, both lesser and greater flamingo, Namib web-footed gecko, helmeted guineafowl, some kind of as-yet unidentified plover, ditto gull very similar to a herring gull, Franklin's gull.

This morning, several birds including the Damara red-billed hornbill, but also ostrich, springbok, gemsbok, baboon.

You're in Namibia!

 

[Keith_Beef]

You're in Namibia!

I suppose the white chested cormorant was a dead give-away...

 

[Broch]

I suppose the white chested cormorant was a dead give-away...

No, it was almost an identical day's species list from my trip
Fantastic wildlife everywhere you look!

OK, so this one is a Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

 

[Tengu]

No Wellwitchia?

 

[Broch]

No Wellwitchia?

Of course!

 

[forrestdweller]

yesterday we had another crazy thunderstorm passing through and when i returned to the farm in the afternoon i encountered a mess of branches and vines on the path -- and a two-toed sloth in the middle.... .closer inspection revealed it to be unable to move due to a hind leg trapped under a 4" branch, requiring me to get to the house to fetch a saw; fortunately it was a straight forward rescue and the sloth unharmed despite a 10m fall and rough landing

 

[forrestdweller]

nothing spectacular (this time): yesterday i encountered a ca. 3" long turtle rather high in the mountains with a large tick attached to it's back shell -- it's the first time i've seen that...

 

[Keith_Beef]

No Wellwitchia?

Not that day, but the following day, yes, dozens of them; from youngsters of a mere sixty to eighty years old to those in their prime at a hundred or two hundred.
No phone pictures, though; I'll try to post one or two from the proper camera once I get home.

 

[William_Montgomery]

Every year we get a hummingbird hawk-moth visiting the front garden. Managed to snap a couple of pictures of it this year.

 

[C_Claycomb]

Yesterday on the edge of Market Harborough we heard piercing cry and looked up to see two peregrine falcons, probably a parent chasing off it’s offspring.

Also seen the hummingbird hawk moths.

 

[Broch]

Today - Golden Eagle, swallow, house martin, curlew, oystercatcher, red deer ... needless to say I'm not in Mid Wales at the moment

 

[William_Montgomery]

Nice sighting today. I wandered up to my temporary base camp and startled this fella. Went back to retrieve my camera and waited for him to return. He'd taken a collared dove.

 

[CrispyDuck]

Lots of huge Roman snails out in the rain today. A first for me.

 

[forrestdweller]

i was hauling about 25kg of supplies back from town and when i came down from the path i saw a river otter on the palm log in the middle of our moat (=the river); it was sitting there for about 20seconds before slowly getting in the water. a few seconds later i saw one of our dogs and her remaining puppy on the far side in the vegetation but i daresay the animals had no issue with each other's presence.... (sadly no pics as i'd no phone on me)

 

[demented dale]

Today - Golden Eagle, swallow, house martin, curlew, oystercatcher, red deer ... needless to say I'm not in Mid Wales at the moment

Where are you? scotland? xxx

 

[demented dale]

Lots of huge Roman snails out in the rain today. A first for me.

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amazing detail on that photo. x

 

[Tony]

there's some lovely stuff in this thread

 

[Nice65]

Not very wild, but the nicest and most friendly young bullocks down by the spring today. The ones in here last year were an unruly mob, but these guys just wanted ears and heads scratched, didn't bother the dog or me when we walked through, just tried to lick us both and wipe their noses on us

 

[GreyCat]

Earlier this week...... a newt and a load of Red Admiral butterflies (not at the same time, I saw the newt in the evening, butterfies during the day). There's been loads of the butterfiles for a few days, since the sun came out.

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