gnipper 5,945 Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 7 hours ago, South hams hunter said: Ivomech on the neck deals with em easy enough I'm told I heard voltarol but then someone else said it didn't work. Never really bothered me locally either since their nest site was demolished and they moved a bit further into town. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomburras 2,721 Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 Watch this, amazing. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,837 Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 hour ago, gnipper said: I heard voltarol but then someone else said it didn't work. Never really bothered me locally either since their nest site was demolished and they moved a bit further into town. Ivomech definitely works mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted January 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 8 hours ago, South hams hunter said: Ivomech definitely works mate Slow down, your now moving into very dangerous ground, not worth it for likes 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,784 Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 10 hours ago, Bush Rummager said: Looks like the Sea Eagle reintroduction at Norfolk could actually happen. Farmers and landowners blocked the last attempt 10 years back. Early plans to reintroduce White-tailed Eagles to Norfolk - BirdGuides WWW.BIRDGUIDES.COM A consultation to release numbers of the raptor in East Anglia has been launched by farmers. I've been been keeping half an eye on the wanderings on the Sea Eagles released on the Isle of White back in 2019. Apparently, as juveniles, they do move away from the release site for a period of time, stretching their wings as it were, but normally do return to back to where they came from to settle down. Loads of tracking information here from the Isle of White birds... i followed the updates as they were released over the last year or so. Some very detailed GPS information and it's surprising how much of England those 4 birds covered. One had a trip straight over the centre of London!! Scroll down for the GPS tracking.... Isle of Wight Sea Eagles Archives - Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation WWW.ROYDENNIS.ORG I saw something about these on the tv about a week ago. I think it was on South Today. Didn't one of them go up to Scotland and then return? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted January 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Neal said: I saw something about these on the tv about a week ago. I think it was on South Today. Didn't one of them go up to Scotland and then return? Think they have been released on the isle of white possibly why you saw it on south today, Scotland has had them for some time I believe 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,784 Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 51 minutes ago, Greyman said: Think they have been released on the isle of white possibly why you saw it on south today, Scotland has had them for some time I believe Yeah, I've heard of them being in Scotland (i.e. their own ones) but I'm sure this report said that one of the Isle of Wight ones had been tracked there and back too. I knew a chap once who, while on holiday in Scotland, was offered a job (with a cottage I think too) "overseeing" the local wildlife, which included keeping an eye on the local white tails. He turned the job down! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bush Rummager 3,752 Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 4 hours ago, Neal said: I saw something about these on the tv about a week ago. I think it was on South Today. Didn't one of them go up to Scotland and then return? Sure did mate. Just grabbed a couple of screen shots from the link i put up... 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted February 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 Saw my first deer on my morning walk this morning, been on the boat almost a month now, walking between 2/5K twice a day, on the outskirts of Bristol I very rarely take the dogs out without one or two deer encounters per walk, the urban ones also seem a lot more stupid or are just used to seeing people, todays deer never broke cover until the last second after being worked almost 200yards along a hedge were as locally I have to put a huge bell on my dog and fire a couple of stones into cover as I’m approaching it or I will catch one most outings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,536 Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 Its great to spot stuff, whatever the species. Cheers, D. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted February 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, dytkos said: Its great to spot stuff, whatever the species. Cheers, D. Lots of woodpeckers about at the moment mate saw 3 greens and a lesser spotted this morning on my walk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
foxdropper 17,092 Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 I get out at night a fair bit ,love it ,walk miles .At the moment the owls are rampant calling .Frosty full moons are the time to hear them .Little owls sounding like a chicken ,barn owls screeching .The tawny has the loudest furthest carrying call with the short eared a very non owl like mewing . Curlews fly at night with the haunting noise only they make . Magpies chatter at night in mass roosts .We have one here ,a winter roost on a nature reserve in a huge tangle of thorns .To sit by it you’d think you’d been rumbled but they ain’t going nowhere . Not seen the starling roosts I used to as a kid where the air was black for two hours as they wheeled about then dived in ,their wittering stopping all of a sudden as if a switch were flicked . Heard an otter pair on the Avon near us while back whistling ,never saw them in the thermal but knew what is was . The white egrets breed here now in a heronry that’s been there decades in tall lime trees .Used to be a talking point but not any more . Cormorants and ravens are the new avian pests ,ravens everywhere here now as common as carrion crows and ten times as deadly . Sheep farmers justifiably worried about the numbers . As for urban settings you can keep them ,give me fields and woods anytime . 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 9 hours ago, foxdropper said: I get out at night a fair bit ,love it ,walk miles .At the moment the owls are rampant calling .Frosty full moons are the time to hear them .Little owls sounding like a chicken ,barn owls screeching .The tawny has the loudest furthest carrying call with the short eared a very non owl like mewing . Curlews fly at night with the haunting noise only they make . Magpies chatter at night in mass roosts .We have one here ,a winter roost on a nature reserve in a huge tangle of thorns .To sit by it you’d think you’d been rumbled but they ain’t going nowhere . Not seen the starling roosts I used to as a kid where the air was black for two hours as they wheeled about then dived in ,their wittering stopping all of a sudden as if a switch were flicked . Heard an otter pair on the Avon near us while back whistling ,never saw them in the thermal but knew what is was . The white egrets breed here now in a heronry that’s been there decades in tall lime trees .Used to be a talking point but not any more . Cormorants and ravens are the new avian pests ,ravens everywhere here now as common as carrion crows and ten times as deadly . Sheep farmers justifiably worried about the numbers . As for urban settings you can keep them ,give me fields and woods anytime . Like that mate,trouble is a lot of The urban ground near me used to be rural, old farms are now being eaten up by warehouses and all the swamps and flood plains along the estuary have been drained and built on, sadly moving out to Gloucestershire I can see the seeds of development spreading there as well, though years behind it’s happening, this photo was around 40 years ago and this is now astra Zeneca, used to be a derelict farm you could always pop a fox out of Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,784 Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Greyman said: Like that mate,trouble is a lot of The urban ground near me used to be rural, old farms are now being eaten up by warehouses and all the swamps and flood plains along the estuary have been drained and built on, sadly moving out to Gloucestershire I can see the seeds of development spreading there as well, though years behind it’s happening, this photo was around 40 years ago and this is now astra Zeneca, used to be a derelict farm you could always pop a fox out of It's the same around here: just north of Portsmouth. It's almost solid houses all the way from Southsea to Clanfield. I can see a time when Portsmouth and Southampton will be one continuous conurbation. Actually, I'm sure I remember my geography teacher predicting that back in the early 80s in Bridgemary...he said they call it a megalopolis I think. I can remember my Mum, who was born in Gosport town saying that going to Rowner was like going to the next village when she was a girl. Sad. What price progress? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,236 Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 14 minutes ago, Neal said: It's the same around here: just north of Portsmouth. It's almost solid houses all the way from Southsea to Clanfield. I can see a time when Portsmouth and Southampton will be one continuous conurbation. Actually, I'm sure I remember my geography teacher predicting that back in the early 80s in Bridgemary...he said they call it a megalopolis I think. I can remember my Mum, who was born in Gosport town saying that going to Rowner was like going to the next village when she was a girl. Sad. What price progress? Half of the villages from my youth are now suburbs mate, that’s why I bought a mobile house no point trying to stop it the ££££ always wins so I,ll just keep on moving away from it while I can 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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