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29-05-2009, 04:57 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
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Originally Posted by pressld2  Rabbit again for me. Has to be my mammal of the day as it was the only mammal I saw! The first time I went to Minsmere I saw red deer and muntjac but have never seen either of them there since.
Anyway, here's the bunny... 
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29-05-2009, 05:41 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
No, Tuftie, these were normal size ones!
I'm even later with my mammal of the day which is from Tuesday.
I was thinking what would make a good plan B if the weather was too rough to get to the Farne Islands on Wednesday and decided that as I would be in Northumberland I'd try for red squirrels. Then I thought why not just leave nice and early and try for them on Tuesday afternoon anyway. So that's what I did and bingo!
Very shy to start with...   
...he eventually plucked up the courage to come out where I could see him properly...  
...and finally, there was no stopping him - he gave me his full stand-up routine! 
I've a feeling this little fella will be my mammal of the decade!
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29-05-2009, 07:09 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
I saw my mammals of the day last Saturday night/Sunday morning about 12.30 a.m. as I was driving home.
A fox ran across the road in front of my car. I drove a little further and another fox ran across the road in front of the car. Another two hundred yards and I saw a fox on the grass verge. I had never seen so many before.
I was just about to pull onto my drive and a hedgehog ran across the road in front of the car!
Think I'll stay in at night. It's too nerve racking to drive with all this wildlife using the roads! |
31-05-2009, 05:27 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
MOTD was this fox that I came across this morning.Turned a corner in the country park and there he/she was!
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02-06-2009, 05:15 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
Wow!
would love to see a fox |
05-06-2009, 08:24 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Isle of Wight
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
Mammal of the day for me was a badger in my garden in the early hours of this morning.
Used to get several individuals visiting regularly some years ago, but a new hosing estate being built nearby put paid to their visits.
Looks like they're back. |
12-06-2009, 04:59 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
My mammal of the day is a Roe Deer, which I saw at Stoke Common in South Bucks. I didn't actually know what it was (it looked too big to be a Roe Deer) but I asked a couple of dog walkers and have since searched the internet, and I'm sure that's what it was.
I am now convinced that the half-dozen or so "Roe Deer" I've seen in the northern Home Counties in recent years were actually all Chinese Water Deer! Thanks again to Camo for pointing this out earlier in this thead!
I SHOULD have got a photo of the Roe deer (a buck) - but when I pointed my camera at it, I just got an error message on the view finder! I'd somehow left the Mode dial halfway between two positions (I'm always switching between scenery and wildlife settings). Of course by the time I turned the dial to a valid setting, the deer had disappeared! |
12-06-2009, 09:40 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Still stuck in Reading!
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
There were plenty of rabbits to be seen on our walk along the Thames just outside Reading today but the one on the left seems a bit different from the others - hope it makes it out there looking so conspicuous! 
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12-06-2009, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by agrumpycow There were plenty of rabbits to be seen on our walk along the Thames just outside Reading today but the one on the left seems a bit different from the others - hope it makes it out there looking so conspicuous! | Nice shot that shows the colour difference well.It looks like it would be better in a sandy place eh?
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12-06-2009, 10:14 PM
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| | | Re: Mammal of the day
I got a mammal and a bird of the day not so long back all in one go!
A field Mouse on the squirrel feeder nibbling nuts and a Jay coming in and taking them from the ground feeder within 8ft of each other! | | | |
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