What Wildlife do you see Every Day?

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I live (at the moment) in a static so many big windows to look out of. Indeed really I have no choice but to look around.

Swallows
Pheasant
Red Legged partridge
Sparrows
Wood pigeon
Crows
Chaffinch
Pied Wagtail.

And if its a work day

Mallards.
 
Pair of hares in their usual field. Today we'd obviously disturbed them at something intimate to judge from the dirty looks they gave us. They are used to us and clearly realised we were not a threat and ambled into the copse from the field edge. They didn't see our local red kite circling over head on it's regular patrol. Rooks and jackdaws live in the wood opposite and we mostly ignore on another. They are useful to clear away the bodies of the mice we trap.
 
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Great tits
Blue tits
Barn swallows
Sparrows
Wood pigeons
Turtle doves
Crows
Chaffinches
Jackdaws
Magpies
Jays
Ants
Woodlice
Bumblebees
Solitary bees
Wasps
Hornets
Flies of various species
European firebug
Zebra spiders
House spiders

No wild mammals (I might see some bats a bit later in the year), fish or reptiles. I occasionally see toads and frogs.

As for plants... To many to count!

ETA:
Walking into town this morning to get the train, I remembered a couple more that I see every day: starlings and ravens. And one that I sometimes see a dozen times in a day and then won't see for a week: parrakeets.
Then there are blackbirds that I might not see everyday but at this time of year I definitely hear them every day.
There's a robin who follows me around in the garden whenever he sees me raking up leaves or digging.
There are woodpeckers, both lesser spotted and green, that I see in the garden or flying around on my way to and from town, a nuthatch that runs up and down the cedar in the garden, and a red squirrel that tried to get into the winter garden a couple of weeks ago.red_squirrel.jpg
 
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I live (at the moment) in a static so many big windows to look out of. Indeed really I have no choice but to look around.

Swallows
Pheasant
Red Legged partridge
Sparrows
Wood pigeon
Crows
Chaffinch
Pied Wagtail.

And if its a work day

Mallards.
flies.everywhere. tons of em x
 
Great tits
Blue tits
Barn swallows
Sparrows
Wood pigeons
Turtle doves
Crows
Chaffinches
Jackdaws
Magpies
Jays
Ants
Woodlice
Bumblebees
Solitary bees
Wasps
Hornets
Flies of various species
European firebug
Zebra spiders
House spiders

No wild mammals (I might see some bats a bit later in the year), fish or reptiles. I occasionally see toads and frogs.

As for plants... To many to count!
No hornets in ireland or nuthatch, tawny owl, moles and as we all know thank to st patrick snakes . x
 
At this time of year it's a plethora of birds and insects, with the occasional sighting of the foxes and badgers. Himself sees deer quite often too, and the otters down the river. The bats ...the flittermice.... fly along the tree line and around the gable wall of our house every evening just now. Lots of those big furry moths around.
We live with a lot of woodland around us, and the garden is full of birds. There are newts in the garden ponds, and occasionally we spot the frogs and toads.

Wrens
Robins,
Sparrows,
Starlings,
Magpies,
Woodpeckers,
Great tits
Blue tits
Coal tits
Long tailed tits
Rooks (huge rookery at the end of the street. They've roosted there for over a hundred years)
Crows
Jackdaws
Heron on neighbour's roof today too
Seagulls :sigh:
Woodpigeons
Blackbirds
Thrushes
Chaffinches
Bullfinches
Nuthatches
Buzzards
Pigeons (another :sigh: )
 
Robins (a nest just fledged from the camellia)
Blue tits
Coal tits
Sparrows
Grey squirrel (there’s a drey nearby)
Foxes
Red kites, 3 airborne at a time
 
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Not going to list all the common ones. But since early spring, ive been seeing a lot of Roe Deer... Buzzards are pretty common, and lately, Red Kites too. Badgers are making an appearance again... i'll see more of them once the blackberries develop. I'm not in a rural area either. Outskirts of a couple of busy towns.. great to see them.
 
Recently moved back to my home county of Herefordshire.
A lovely place in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by wildlife now, so happy.
Everyday visitors.

Fallow deer
Muntjac deer
Badgers
Foxes
At least 3 species of bat (need to get an identifier)
Red kites
Buzzards
Goshawk
Woodpeckers (greater and green)
Marsh tits
Nuthatch
Jay
Magpie
Crow
Raven
Plus a multitude of regular garden birds.
Can't believe how luck we are now. Although I do miss the hedgehogs we had in Coventry (especially the one who kept trying to move in behind the sofa)
 
I’ve still got that torch bracket in a postal packet for you in case you might need it. Want me to pop a few hornets in? :D
I went the post office today and holder hadnt come. The torch came from china and it was crud so i sent of for the dekron one on ebay which shoulkd be good for the job., How you doing Rich ? x
 
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I'm sitting here laughing at the antics of a very young woodpecker. It's trying to imitate it's parents and get at the fat block feeder thing, but instead of clinging onto that, it's gripping itself onto the main pole and well, woodpecker feet don't work so well on that metal pole.
It looks totally discombobulated as it slides closer and closer to the ground :D Flapping frantically trying to gain height or at least stop sliding.

Very amusing.

Flocks of young sparrows are joyfully charging around the garden. Step round the gable wall corner and you have to duck the flight of kamikaze speughs that seems to find it a sport to terrorise humans :rolleyes2:
 

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