What wildlife did you spot today?

[Woody girl]

While sat by the river eating my lunch, I spied a flash of bright blue streaking at lightning speed downstream, under the bridge and away.
A fleeting glimpse of a kingfisher.
Lots of tiddlers in the river, some quite a good size. Lots of food for the kingfisher. I shall have to spend a bit more time down there now the weather is better and try to see where the nest is.
Boy are they quick.! Seen and gone before a chip had time to leave the box and enter my mouth!
Right now, I have two buzzards spiraling over my garden being mobbed by crows. Noisy blighter, quite a din.
Interesting how they out manouver them and don't seem at all perturbed by the crows.

 

[forrestdweller]

just after setting up a trail camera in the spot where i filmed the poachers mentioned in my previous post i encountered a female tolomuco (tayra) with two young ones; crazy rainfall earlier this week means animals moving around in search for dry shelter...

 

[Broch]

Sitting out, in the early morning sun, eating our breakfast, a hare just casually wandered through and around the garden (well, what passes as a garden in our wilderness).

It's always a good day when it starts with a sighting of a hare

 

[Falstaff]

Aw nuts, I wanted to cut back the huge ivy growth covering the back fence but shall have to leave it now.
At the weekend the robins were taking my log store repair waste and leaves to build a nest right in the middle of the ivy. Very bold, taking stuff from virtually under my feet while I was still working.
I gather they can have up to three broods per season, so when can I cut it back?

 

[William_Montgomery]

Aw nuts, I wanted to cut back the huge ivy growth covering the back fence but shall have to leave it now.
At the weekend the robins were taking my log store repair waste and leaves to build a nest right in the middle of the ivy. Very bold, taking stuff from virtually under my feet while I was still working.
I gather they can have up to three broods per season, so when can I cut it back?

Best to cut it back late winter for minimal impact on wildlife.

 

[Falstaff]

Best to cut it back late winter for minimal impact on wildlife.

Well at least that would get me warm and mobile, but it's bugging me now. In winter I'm either a hibernating sloth or working flat out. Autumn maybe?

 

[Broch]

Recommended hedge cutting period is September to February inclusive. But the law applicable to nesting birds still applies whatever time of year it is.