Road wildlife (not killed)

[Mike Causer]

Yesterday evening a Barn Owl was hawking along a ditch
within 10m of me, and this afternoon a Little Owl crossed in
front. Oh, and last Sunday a Marsh Harrier was scanning a
field alongside the road.

Wildlife is good on the Fen edge, which makes me think I'll
include a part-sig.

Mike
--
Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement -
http://www.wicken.org.uk (http://www.wicken.org.uk/)

[-Lsqnot Respond]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:33:57 +0100, Mike Causer
<mikec@firstnamelastname.org> wrote:

>Yesterday evening a Barn Owl was hawking along a ditch
>within 10m of me, and this afternoon a Little Owl crossed
>in front. Oh, and last Sunday a Marsh Harrier was scanning
>a field alongside the road.
>
>
>Wildlife is good on the Fen edge, which makes me think I'll
>include a part-sig.
>

Wicken Fen. I spent much of my youth hanging around
places near Holme. Still got a soft spot for the Fens and
go back often.

>Mike

[Simon Brooke]

in message <i_1zc.650$jj2.20@newsfe1-win>, Mike Causer
('mikec@firstnamelastname.org') wrote:

> Yesterday evening a Barn Owl was hawking along a ditch
> within 10m of me, and this afternoon a Little Owl crossed
> in front. Oh, and last Sunday a Marsh Harrier was scanning
> a field alongside the road.
>
> Wildlife is good on the Fen edge, which makes me think
> I'll include a part-sig.

Yup. Yesterday, riding up the old railway to Loch Skerrow,
it was dragonflies - the size of swallows, and numbering
in hundreds. On looking them up since we got home they
were golden ringed dragonflies but even for that normally
large species they were big. Also a red kite and dozens of
butterflies. Getting up into the wild country where people
rarely go and insecticides have never been used it's
amazing what you see - although I suspect it's no more
than my parents generation before the war saw everywhere
as children.

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke)
http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; not so much a refugee from reality, more
a bogus ;; asylum seeker

[Jbb]

"Mike Causer" <mikec@firstnamelastname.org> wrote in message
news:i_1zc.650$jj2.20@newsfe1-win...
> Yesterday evening a Barn Owl was hawking along a ditch
> within 10m of me, and this afternoon a Little Owl crossed
> in front. Oh, and last Sunday a Marsh Harrier was scanning
> a field alongside the road.
>
>
> Wildlife is good on the Fen edge, which makes me think
> I'll include a part-sig.
>
>
> Mike
> --
> Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement -
> http://www.wicken.org.uk (http://www.wicken.org.uk/)

Pevensy marshes last week - innumerable small rabbits on
the road plus baby blue tits and chaffinches trying to
flyand two jeuvenile foxes all in the space of about 6
miles. I can't remember having to do so much wildlife
advoidance for ages.

Julia

[Tom Anderson]

Mike Causer wrote:

> Yesterday evening a Barn Owl was hawking along a ditch
> within 10m of me, and this afternoon a Little Owl crossed
> in front. Oh, and last Sunday a Marsh Harrier was scanning
> a field alongside the road.
>
>
> Wildlife is good on the Fen edge, which makes me think
> I'll include a part-sig.
>
>
> Mike

Pulled in to a layby for a drink and saw a crow trying to
take off with a large rabbit in its beak. We startled it
and it dropped its lunch and flew away. The rabbit ran off
into a ditch.

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