View Full Version : What types of wildlife do you have in your area?
Ridge Runner
27-11-2004, 18:29
What types of wildlife do you have in your area? Consider a 100 mile circle around your home.
Me:
Bear
Moose
Deer
Bobcat
turkey
coyote
woodcock
partridge
pheasant
lots of sea birds
fisher
o'possum
porcupine
I have seen all of these in the last two months except the bear and bobcat. What is in your area? What have you seen? Where are you located?
:pack:
TheViking
27-11-2004, 18:31
Hares
foxes
cats
cows (though they're inside a fence)
birds
mice
moles
deer
Etc. :biggthump
I'm afraid to say that there is not as much as there once was. All of the main predators have either been shot, hunted or poisoned out of existence.
That's not to say that there aren't any interesting animals around, they're just a lot quicker to get out of our way and hide !!!
Martin
well the ones i have seen in my my immediate area (east cornwall) are:
rabbit
hare
grey squirell
weasel
fox
badger
pheasant
partridge
deer - roe and red
hedgehog
wood mouse
voles and shrews
barn and tawny owls
various raptors - buzzard, kestrel, sparrowhawk and peregrine
common birds - sparrow, robin, chaffinch, bluetit, blackbird, rook, wood pigeon
seals
there are many more animals around but these are the ones i have observed myself.
this list would be probably be similar wherever you are in England, but with some local differences, such as just up the road we have a bird called the dartford warbler, which is quite rare and only found on heath in certains areas.
We dont have any large predators but there is evidence that big cats are wild in the countryside.
cheers gb
Rabbits
Grey squirrels-not many but some,blummin pests,make good eating mind.
Various birds of prey
Grass snakes
Adders
Foxes
Crows
Green Woodpeckers
Mallards,geese,moorehens,coots ,well quite a few types of birds except song birds(blackbirds,song thrushes),their numbers have dropped alarmingly since i was running about the local fields woods and coppices as a small boy.Sparrow numbers have allso fallen along with starlings,wagtails and lots of others too.
There were great crested newts behind my house as i boy,along with seemingly endless amounts of frogs and toads,their numbers have fell too.
Come to think of it,there aint been many bees about these days either.
Sorry to sound so depressing folks.Its just that i was obsessed with animals as a boy and i find this all more than a little sad.
One species of bird whoose numbers seem to have exploaded are magpies,their numbers have gone threw the roof round here,so ive read its due to mild winters and the upsurge in fast food joints and thats subsequent rubbish/leftovers being thrown all over the place.
my list is very much similar to the previous two..
i would add
weasles/stoats
rats
Tantalus
27-11-2004, 20:40
kestrel, red kite osprey barn owl
reports of 1 wild boar but i didnt see him :(
badger otter roe deer red deer
ducks n geese
curlew peewit oystercatcher snipe
pheasant and a covey of wild partridge i was particularly pleased to see
there were back game at one point years ago though nobody has seen them for ages, maybe the partridge are a sign that we may see them soon
oh and salmon at the moment, i love watching them jump in the pools
Tant
Bushmaster
27-11-2004, 20:43
We have adders up here in Northumberland.Nearly stood on one the other day. :yikes:
Geoff
RovingArcher
27-11-2004, 21:43
Wow
We have all the little critters like moles, shrews, rats, mice of a couple varieties, cottontails, jacks, possum, squirrels of a few varieties, prarie dogs, skunks, armadillo (rare), martins, weasels, several varieties of snake, lizzard, salamander, etc.
Birds? OMG! Maybe a thousand different species.
Coyote, bear, kit fox, red fox, gray fox, puma, bobcat, hogs, badger, elk, columbia blacktail deer and others I've not seen or forgotten about.
Carcajou Garou
27-11-2004, 22:11
During the summer every weekend loud music, drinking, parties etc.. oh you mean't animals, very little... they don't like the loud music, drinking, parties :rolmao: :o): :-P
couldn't help myself :shock:
Being blessed with living in the country I have
Red, roe and muntjac deer
foxes
badgers (one killed on the road this summer :cry: )
weasels
stoats (seen more of these in the last couple of years :-) )
hares
rabbits
shrews
voles
mice
rats
grey squirrels
Loads of sea birds
lots of migratory waterfowl
barn owls
tawny owls
little owls
kestrels
sparrowhawks
marsh harriers
hen harriers
lots of partridge and pheasant
the usual british songbirds
kingfishers
and I saw a black redstart once which I believe is quite rare.
These are just the ones I have seen, there are chinese water deer in the area and red squirrels but I haven't been lucky enough to spot them. I also got talking to an old boy who said he had seen otters in the river Ant.
Rats and that's about it in Essex.
I think 100miles radius is a large area in britain so the immediate area around my home, say 10miles, the fields and paths that I walk. These are the rarer and more interesting animals that I have seen, not including songbirds even though they should be respected as much as any other animal.
fox
red deer
badger
hedgehog
stoat
rabbit
grey squirrel
adder
buzzard
sparrowhawk
peregrin falcon
barn owl
kestrel
raven
wheatear
great spotted woodpecker
green wookpecker
grey and red-legged partridge
wood pidgeon
canada goose
pheasant
kingfisher
little egret
ducks(mallard and shelduck and others?)
oyster catcher
curlew
fulmar
grey heron
and many other different birds that i could not identify as I have not been doing this for long!
Aside from the common stuff, I regularly see goshawks when fishing, there are boar tracks in the woods but I've only seen one once. There are a couple of badgers sets nearby. I've seen one Wryneck and there are water rail around ( but I told the warden I wouldn't say where ), some kind of harrier is occaisonaly seen flying low across the lake to one of the islands in the middle of the lake where there's also a nesting heron pair. Cornsnakes seem to be breeding around the area along side the grass snakes. All three of our native woodpeckers breed in the woods. Once in a while when fishing I'll turn round to see a vixen sitting behind me, not sure if she's hoping for food or just waiting for me to clear off. She'll sit within touching distance but I've never dared hold out a hand yet, I must take a tin of dogfod with me next time.
Oneforthepot
Ridge Runner
30-11-2004, 00:23
What is a stoat?
What is a stoat?
I think you call them weasels over there, they are about 10 inches long, red with a black tipped tail, and yellowish white under body. Ohh and up north they turn white in winter (apart from the black tipped tail).
What we call weasels are much smaller, about a half the size of a stoat and lack the black tip on the tail.
isnt a stoat different to a weasel.. thats what i have always though!
though very closely related.. small size difference i believe
(Snufkin.. jus read you sig.. Swandri do make trouers, check out their site.!)
What is a stoat?
Here is a stoat (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/201.shtml) and here is a weasel (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/202.shtml). I have seen a stoat and it was readily identifiable due to the black tip on its tail, as snufkin has quite rightly said. I think that there is not much size difference so I would not rely on that when I see a stoat or a weasel and I think that they are more of a brown than a red.
Realgar, you are so lucky, I wanna see a goshawk!! :roll:
my list is very much similar to the previous two..
i would add
weasles/stoats
rats
Same here with some frogs and toads, lots of creepie crawlies and tings with lots more legs than me thrown in!
I have one very strange neighour who could quite possibly be classed as wildlife...? :shock:
lol me too.. and he looks in here from time to time :wink:
i think that many of use will have similar lists here in the UK! and we could spend a long time adding to it.. which is a good thing me thingks
I've just go within six inches of a tree creeper nose to nose, my gilfriend though it was hillarious as I nuck around the tree to see where it had gone.
I forgot about the bats round here, I've seen seven species - common pips, daubentons, serotines, noctules, barbastelle, brown long eared and the lesser horseshoe. That's a lot of bats within walking range and you get to see a fair few owls whilst you're looking for them.
Anyone got dabchicks nearby? This is the third year in a row that ours haven't left for the winter - messed up clinate or don't they always leave?
Realgar