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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,406
    CaptainRobbo said:

    Surely that's a weeeeeeeasel?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    CaptainRobbo said:

    I'm pretty sure that's an old one. I remember seeing it before. Still a great photo though.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    https://youtu.be/Qw-OOdfogUQ?si=v4XDnHMunOw306Rm
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,873
    Huskaris said:
    A Tawny Owl in Chislehurst 


    you lucky bleeder! hear tawnies regularly but have only ever seen silhouette through branches of one taking off at dusk. seeing a tawny in the wild remains my top UK wildlife ambition
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,873
    CaptainRobbo said:

    horrible invasive disease ridden immigrants 😤😤 shame the peregrines etc didn't get a taste for these scabby tree rats during COVID
  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 610
    A jay in our garden this morning.
    I see them every so often in Lewisham, but normally I don't have time to take a picture this close.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 6,108
    I once saw a Jay swallow an acorn whole - it was in Wapping.

    Google says that Jays can cram 3-5 acorns in their expandable throats to carry off and hide for their winter food cache.  They have a reputation of being ecological super spreaders - at least when it comes to growing Oak trees.  
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 53,175

  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,740
    Addictedoldgit said:
    Forgive me, not inner city & no photo.
    Saw a GOLDEN ORIOLE a few days ago.
    In the hills above Mojacar Spain.
    A sight to make the heart swell.
    Is that a type of tit?
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,507
    edited June 1
    Being walked by poochy the other day and noticed this "Giant" snail. Its shell was about 2" long and I had never seen a snail as big before. I managed to get a piccy before it sped off -

    Looked it up when got in- apparently its a Roman snail, which were brought over by the Romans for food. They are now located in Southern England and protected.

    Also came across this large moth attempting to carry off this tree.

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,406
    edited June 9
    This beauty was on our patio earlier, haven’t seen one for yeara

  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 2,629


    Ichneumon Wasp, absolutely massive.
    Tried to fly off with the pot noodle I was having for lunch.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056

    I saw this little beauty last week. It's been on my wish list for ages, so I was more than a little jealous when my son posted me a picture of one he'd seen. A couple of days later I was out with my other son, who suddenly said, "look at that down there, dad", and the rest is history.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    CaptainRobbo said:


    Ichneumon Wasp, absolutely massive.
    Tried to fly off with the pot noodle I was having for lunch.
    That's a fantastic find, but I don't think it's an Ichneumon Wasp though, they have narrow waists (as do all wasps). This looks like a type of Sawfly called a Giant Horntail but, somewhat confusingly, also goes by the name Giant Woodwasp. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/bees-and-wasps/giant-horntail
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 9,450
    Stig said:

    I saw this little beauty last week. It's been on my wish list for ages, so I was more than a little jealous when my son posted me a picture of one he'd seen. A couple of days later I was out with my other son, who suddenly said, "look at that down there, dad", and the rest is history.
    Stig beetle 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 2,629
    edited June 18
    Stig said:
    CaptainRobbo said:


    Ichneumon Wasp, absolutely massive.
    Tried to fly off with the pot noodle I was having for lunch.
    That's a fantastic find, but I don't think it's an Ichneumon Wasp though, they have narrow waists (as do all wasps). This looks like a type of Sawfly called a Giant Horntail but, somewhat confusingly, also goes by the name Giant Woodwasp. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/bees-and-wasps/giant-horntail
    Thanks, I didn't want to get too close when I saw the size of it's stinger.
    Just seen that they don't sting.
    Never seen anything like it before.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056

    Here's my favourite ichneumon wasp, it's Britain's largest one - a Sabre Wasp.  I saw this one laying eggs into some wood bark at the Talybont Reservoir.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,455
    Further to the earlier posts about parakeets, there's a progamme available on the Channel 4 streaming service with Chris Packham. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/invasion-of-the-parakeets
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,263
    Stig said:

    I saw this little beauty last week. It's been on my wish list for ages, so I was more than a little jealous when my son posted me a picture of one he'd seen. A couple of days later I was out with my other son, who suddenly said, "look at that down there, dad", and the rest is history.
    Lovely!
    Haven't seen a Stag Beetle in 40 years or more, would love to see another
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 9,450
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    Stig said:

    I saw this little beauty last week. It's been on my wish list for ages, so I was more than a little jealous when my son posted me a picture of one he'd seen. A couple of days later I was out with my other son, who suddenly said, "look at that down there, dad", and the rest is history.
    Lovely!
    Haven't seen a Stag Beetle in 40 years or more, would love to see another
    There you go, there's another two, having some of the other -





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  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 10,004
    CaptainRobbo said:
    Stig said:
    CaptainRobbo said:


    Ichneumon Wasp, absolutely massive.
    Tried to fly off with the pot noodle I was having for lunch.
    That's a fantastic find, but I don't think it's an Ichneumon Wasp though, they have narrow waists (as do all wasps). This looks like a type of Sawfly called a Giant Horntail but, somewhat confusingly, also goes by the name Giant Woodwasp. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/bees-and-wasps/giant-horntail
    Thanks, I didn't want to get too close when I saw the size of it's stinger.
    Just seen that they don't sting.
    Never seen anything like it before.
    I was going to say, that thing looks more like a sword than a stinger!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    I got a real rarity in my moth box this morning. I thought it was a Common Emerald, but it turns out it's the rare, red-listed, Sussex Emerald. A moth named after the county of Sussex which is only usually found in... err, Kent. Well, today Essex got one.


  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 610
    A Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae) caterpillar near Lewisham station. Beautiful blue horn on its tail.


  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 5,025
    Anyone seen a hummingbird hawkmoth? There's a video of one on the Nextdoor app this week in Belvedere which i found captivating. Not sure this link will work as possibly need an account, and several other attributes to get through
    https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/Z5pGhtSkgrGL
  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 610
    swords_alive said:
    Anyone seen a hummingbird hawkmoth? There's a video of one on the Nextdoor app this week in Belvedere which i found captivating. Not sure this link will work as possibly need an account, and several other attributes to get through
    https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/Z5pGhtSkgrGL

    That's interesting: saw several last week when we stayed at a farm cottage near Hemel Hempstead. Never seen them before
    that. Couldn't get a good photo, as they move a lot.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,251
    swords_alive said:
    Anyone seen a hummingbird hawkmoth? There's a video of one on the Nextdoor app this week in Belvedere which i found captivating. Not sure this link will work as possibly need an account, and several other attributes to get through
    https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/Z5pGhtSkgrGL
    I've seen quite a few social media posts with photos this year. Perhaps they like this weather.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    swords_alive said:
    Anyone seen a hummingbird hawkmoth? There's a video of one on the Nextdoor app this week in Belvedere which i found captivating. Not sure this link will work as possibly need an account, and several other attributes to get through
    https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/Z5pGhtSkgrGL

    Yeah, I've seen a few this year. Definitely seem to be getting more common.
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 2,629

  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,406
    This was on our fridge earlier 

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,797
    DaveMehmet said:
    I’ve noticed we hardly see or hear parakeets anymore in Bexley. There used to be flocks of them all over. I know they were endangering indigenous birds, has there been a cull?
    Hope so. 

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