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London (Inner City) Wildlife

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  • I've searched Regents park and never seen them. I'm told that they like to coil themselves up around the centre of bushes, so they are not an easy spot.
  • Every Charlton fans fav bird.


  • Nicked from Senine magazine Facebook post, a peregrine falcon digesting a parakeet at Eltham Church.

  • I've got a big one!


    Think you should see your GP about your stools.
  • ... and that's a good day  :(
  • I was reading today that there are two small colonies of the 6 foot long Aesculapian snake in the UK.  One is around the Welsh Mountain zoo in Colwyn Bay and the other is close to London Zoo.  Non venomous, they prey on rodents which they crush to death - no danger to humans - although they may borrow your loft.

     
    Yes, they live along the Regent's Canal. Picking off pleasure boats, which they digest whole  :)
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  • It's the Big Garden Bird Watch this weekend which really helps to understand how our birds are doing:


    https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch
  • Walking out of the Brocklebank Retail Park off Bugsby's Way yesterday after the match I saw this...


  • Walking out of the Brocklebank Retail Park off Bugsby's Way yesterday after the match I saw this...


    You can’t park there Dave 
  • Walking out of the Brocklebank Retail Park off Bugsby's Way yesterday after the match I saw this...


    the programme didn't mention that Lyle Taylor was coming to the match!
  • Having trouble with the scale, @Stig. I guess those guys are quite small?
  • Yes, they're small. Adult body lengths range from 4.2mm (small male) to 5.4mm (large female), the nymphs are obviously smaller.
  • Last week someone posted a picture of these insects on the Kent Wildlife Trust Facebook forum. I have never seen these before. They must now be in quite large numbers in the south east.
  • Just checked and the bugs on the site were European Fire Bugs, Pyrrhocoris apparently. 
  • Ahh, that's the European Firebug. That's what I thought I'd seen at first.
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  • Just seen a real live bat under the roof of the Covered End. It flew off over the East Stand. I guess if it's roosting in the roof, it didn't like all the noise. 
  • Stig said:
    Just seen a real live bat under the roof of the Covered End. It flew off over the East Stand. I guess if it's roosting in the roof, it didn't like all the noise. 
    A step up from the usual pigeons we see at the game.
  • edited May 4
    Are they ring necked necked parakeets? Can't see the ring.

    Good resolution on that photo 👍

    It's pretty good for a phone.  Google 6 Pro.  Decent camera.

    Anyone any tips on food/feeders I could use to attract smaller birds and woodpeckers?  We get loads of parakeets, collared doves and magpies but only a handful of robins, starlings and blue tits.  Not seen a blackbird, chaffinch, sparrow, bullfinch, thrush, wren etc or woodpecker (used to get them a few years back when we last fed the birds) since we started putting the food out about 3 months back.

    Get a licence, shoot the parakeets and you’ll start getting other birds.
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