British Wildlife

[Simon King]

Not keen on woodland spiders though, them really spindly things that delight in crawling on my face and neck! Yuk!

Conrad

"DaddyLongLegs" Conrad? Drop for drop the most venomous animal in the UK?

I think my most memorable wildlife encounter was on a blazing hot summer day on the Lea. Hearing a noise while fishing in a reed bed, I looked round to see one of my boots "dancing". (I'd exchanged them for waders at the swim).

Checking my roll-ups were only filled with Golden Virginia, I followed a succession of weird rustling and chewing sounds at various points around the reed-bed, finally seeming to come from next to my chair.

Then I saw a tiny pink nose protrude from the reed stems.

Grabbing a worm from my baitbox with a pair of forceps I held it about a foot away and this mole shot out after it like an exocet.

The pictures tell the rest of a remarkable 10 minutes.

 

[Brian Willson]

Hi Paul4,
many thanks mate, as i have got older there are so many things that i cant do.
Brian
ps to Simon...........great pictures mate.

 

[Richard Stevenson]

Great!
This has returned to topic after recent unpleasantness and has become one of the best threads I have read. This is what it should be all about. (Plus some fishing of course).
Thanks all.

Richard

 

[Ian Hugo Arnott]

I could not agree more!

Hugo

 

[Ian Wetton]

Fished the Trent today at Kings Bromley, not that far from where I saw a Little Egret on the Dove. There were 3 Little Egrets and a Great White Egret. I thought the larger bird was a Stork at first, but it seems a twitcher had eyes on it to :

http://www.birdguides.com/iris/pictures.asp?v=1&f=321153

 

[David Hall]

Here's a grass snake from the other day. Im seeing lots of wildlife at the moment including a barn owl clearing my head by six inches. Just a shame im not seeing more barbel!

that looks quiet dark, i saw one on my local lake and it was almost albino.