Post your random nature photographs.

[sh1kar]

Just back from 3 days here. An excellent trip although roads a bit tricky on the way home yesterday. 15 Sika hinds in the end
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[John Gryphon]

A pair of hinds from last night on dark.

 

[John Gryphon]

Wet feet.

 

[John Gryphon]

Aussies Galah`s,one chomping its way into a nest hole spitting chips all over,the other watching.

Circa 20 metres off the deck.

 

[John Gryphon]

The Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo`s (YTB`S) landed in a tree as I drove down my driveway..i threw the camera up and had a millisecond to play hence the ordinary pic.

 

[Cheviot]

 

[T.eddie]

Some slots from a walk on the weekend, muntjac roe and fallow slots seen

 

[Ratel]

Just sat waiting for a Munty.

 

[John Gryphon]

A Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo chomping on a green walnut.

 

[willowbank]

The little white chap is either ‘Fearless Fred’ or ‘Silly Sid’ he’s always about and doesn’t run off.

 

[willie_gunn]

Don't know about anywhere else, but the Snowdrops have been amazing round here this year:

 

[Cheviot]

Greenfinch


siskins

 

[John Gryphon]

Four deer quite happy feeding, then they saw the glow imo.
Pic 4


Flag is up!

Then the dash!

 

[Number8]

What makes you think I have a random nature?

 

[opticron1]

Greenfinch
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siskins
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Always nice to see Siskins and Greenfinches, usually have one or two pairs of Greenfinches around here and just started seeing some Siskins in the run up to pairing off/nesting.

 

[Alantoo]

Some ugly ones today...

An ill wind that blows no-one good...tidying up a storm blown Ash tree from Sunday that has been suffering for the last couple of years I found these fellers (sorry) when splitting the bits from around ground level.

What are they? And could they have contributed to the poor structural condition of the tree or do they target dead wood?

Alan

 

[sh1kar]

 

[deerstalker.308]

Some ugly ones today...

An ill wind that blows no-one good...tidying up a storm blown Ash tree from Sunday that has been suffering for the last couple of years I found these fellers (sorry) when splitting the bits from around ground level.

What are they? And could they have contributed to the poor structural condition of the tree or do they target dead wood?

Alan

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Hard to say what species they are from, how big are they? Any manner of large beetle grub (hoping not stag beetle) could be the culprit, most feed on dead wood rather than cause it to die, so probably capitalising on dieback rather than being the cause.

 

[Alantoo]

Hard to say what species they are from, how big are they? Any manner of large beetle grub (hoping not stag beetle) could be the culprit, most feed on dead wood rather than cause it to die, so probably capitalising on dieback rather than being the cause.

Largest one must be around 40mm long straightened out. The black goo they seem to exude when disturbed, is that an anti predator defence? When I took them out in to the sun to photograph they started to wriggle a bit.

We have tucked them back into a hole in a lump of the same wood and covered them with the rotted wood/grub chewed sawdust and a slab to stop others getting at them.

Alan

 

[Cheviot]

Always nice to see Siskins and Greenfinches, usually have one or two pairs of Greenfinches around here and just started seeing some Siskins in the run up to pairing off/nesting.

got 3 pairs of greenfinches and over 40 siskins , they can eat more sunflower harts then a pig
been putting out about 2lb extra for them each day plus the food for the other birds