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.

 

[Tengu]

Not exactly wildlife as such but the geese residents of Annandale water service station were fast asleep on the garage forecourt last night.

 

[WeedAndCoffee]

I live in a farming region in Atlantic Canada and the woods and a beaver pond are across the road. We see a lot of stuff here.
It's a 3 minute drive to a roadside pool with sea run brook trout almost at your feet, a couple metres out.

I saw a turkey run up the road from the living room (me, not the turkey - just saying...). White-tail deer in the yard when I get home now and then. Loads of deer on the fields and the occasional moose around the woods, but at least there's deer fences along the highway.

Back pre-2000 I lived in Newfoundland and saw moose in the middle of town multiple times, and as you get farther from the edge of town you see caribou too. an occasional bear to be seen no matter where you are. And being from an island, just living in the same region on the mainland still offers new things for me to see. And my degree in environmental science allows me to more fully appreciate it, from a number of angles and orders of magnitude.

Cool thread, cheers from over this way... Al.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I live in a farming region in Atlantic Canada and the woods and a beaver pond are across the road. We see a lot of stuff here.
It's a 3 minute drive to a roadside pool with sea run brook trout almost at your feet, a couple metres out.

I saw a turkey run up the road from the living room (me, not the turkey - just saying...). White-tail deer in the yard when I get home now and then. Loads of deer on the fields and the occasional moose around the woods, but at least there's deer fences along the highway.

Back pre-2000 I lived in Newfoundland and saw moose in the middle of town multiple times, and as you get farther from the edge of town you see caribou too. an occasional bear to be seen no matter where you are. And being from an island, just living in the same region on the mainland still offers new things for me to see. And my degree in environmental science allows me to more fully appreciate it, from a number of angles and orders of magnitude.

Cool thread, cheers from over this way... Al.

From 2005 to 2012 I lived in north New Jersey. On my drive to work I used to see white tailed dear browsing in people's front gardens in my town and in the two others that I drove through to get to State Route 9W.

I often saw groups of wild turkeys along the roadside, but more often between the early afternoon and early evening.

There was a woodchuck living under next door's deck until he was evicted by a skunk,. We had chipmunks living in the garden and I got them tame enough to come and take broken hazelnuts from my hand.

In the summer black bears used to come down into town when their water sources dried up; they came to drink from garden ponds. I never saw one, but a friend was out walking her dog one night after dark and a police officer in his cruiser pulled up alongside to advise her to get her dog indoors because there had been several sightings that night.

There were coyotes and porcupines, but I only saw them a couple of times.

 

[WeedAndCoffee]

OK, you were across the St. Croix River border and an upper-medium length drive down what, the I-95, if I'm correct? Beautiful area; worked in Bingham, Maine for a couple week-long stretches here and there while I worked with Salmon. If you want to see a salmon fry born as conjoined triplets - I kid you not - my Proton cloud link is https://drive.proton.me/urls/T5Q1CWQNB4#tRjRUzNm6Uan. Doubles are a dime a dozen but this thing blew peoples' minds when I found it.

Farthest I've been was Salem, MA. THEY get my commendations for the most beautifully laid-out town I've ever seen! It's amazingly traditional, and I'm saying that as a Newfoundlander now living near the Bay of Fundy. Whereas I'm accustomed to the boreal forest region, the temperate forest of your area took my breath away every time. The Kennebec valley and Allegheny Mountains in the fall has much more colour because we have more evergreens averaging it out or something. Where I'm from people flip out over all the different shades of green.

 

[Keith_Beef]

No, no, that's a good few hours' drive south of where we lived.

We were not far from the right bank of the Hudson, within 35km of Central Park (Mannahata).