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  1. Til

    Tilertoes Well-Known Member

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    its been a reyt week at work. I’ve seen my 2nd ever kingfisher, some llamas, hedgehog, my first ever live badger and 2 toads. The kingfisher was a real highlight but I got giddiest over the badger. Top drawer
     
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    On my recent Wild Yorkshire Way walk I made an impressive list of wildlife that I saw. Here it is: -

    Dog
    Rabbit
    Cow
    Weasel
    Grey squirrel
    Sheep
    Hare
    Seal
    Tadpole
    Horse
    Pig
    Cat
    Donkey
    Deer
    Lizard
    Alpaca
     
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    Guessing you're not in an office? Only wildlife I see is the occasional blue bottle.
     
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    Them Kingfisher are a bugger to spot, been trying fo years to get a decent photo. Their just too fleeting, suppose I'm too impatient.
     
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    Very envious. I'm really missing my garden and the local wildlife big time. Been opposite the local train station in a flat with one window having a slight view of the top of a tree on a main busy road while having my house extended... hoping to be back in tomorrow/the weekend, so hoping all the birds haven't forgotten us and come back quickly!
     
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    I saw one on my walk, a magnificent blue flash which flew past me, then turned round and flew back the other way. A fantastic experience.

    As far as I know there's a pair on the River Dove near Worsbrough Mill, if you're patient enough.
     
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    Cheers mate.
     
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    Been watching a pair for months on the TPT near Lewden Springs
     
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    Seen them a few times at Fairburn Ings this year. Time before that was about 30 years ago at Worsborough Reservoir.
     
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    Is that the pond on the dove as you drive towards the dumpit?
     
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    We get them sometimes at Meanwood beck.
     
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    I saw one the other year at RSPB Old Moor. But only because a twitcher pointed it out and let me use his binoculars. It was perching on a post so I could get a good look at it. My friend saw one at Worsborough Mill whilst I was looking the other way at summat else!
     
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    I saw 3 in the Curry Mahal last night
     
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    Back to the feathered rather than alcoholic...
    Fairly often see one in winter at the pond/stream at Abdey golf club.
     
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    Bottom of station lane worsbrough dale
    If you walk down the trail towards Wombwell you come to the viaduct and the river goes under the path just beyond there
     
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    I’ve seen the lesser spotted Spicehead, the double breasted alcoholic, the greater spotted smack head and the raucous noise that is the Needsumbusfayre


    In more serious news, there’s a few pairs of Kingfishers on the Dearne from Millers to town.
     
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    saw my first and only Kingfisher a couple of years back on a canal walk near Leek (North of Stoke) seen loadsa badgers when I was in the RAF and stationed at RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire.. I used to do a lot of SCUBA diving in the RAF and got to some great places, I have had the honour to have dived/swim with Seals, Dolphins, porpoise, whales, turtles, basking sharks Rays... to name a few also was stationed at RAF Kinloss in Scotland on our trips to the N.West coast saw many sea otters. Also saw many specie of deer while up there. I went to the Falklands with the RAF and got to see Elephant seals, fur seals, albatross, and many species of penguin. Its always a very humbling feeling when you get close to these animals. I would so like to go out to meet Orangutan's in the wild... I reckon I would just break down and cry I think they are that wonderful.
     
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    Taken a few years ago on the canal at Elsecar :D

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    70-300mm Tamron (the higher spec one.....can't remember the name). They were both only a few yards from me.....just lucky ;)
     
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