What is your all time top UK wildlife?

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Mine is probably the starling murmurations in Brighton, but also eagles on Scottish islands. Seals in East Anglia too.

What are yours?

Planning some trips over the summer, and wondering if there is any special UK wildlife we have missed out on so far.

@orangeleavesinautumn for basking sharks, go to Tobermory on Mull in summer and take one of Sea Life Mull whale watching trips. That's how I got to see them, plus other sea creatures and birds

Seals on Lindisfarne Northumberland and Bla Point and Scolt Head Island both in Norfolk.

Water voles and kingfishers at Slimbridge.

Puffins in Cornwall.

A young badger one moonlit evening on the cliffs at Ladram Bay, East Devon.

Hoping to see Roseate terns on the Farne Islands one spring soon. When I've saved up enough money. May take a long time but one day....

As a child hedgehogs in our back garden.

Baby bunnies in my sister's college garden. That was also Norfolk but I'm the broads

Oyster catcher chicks at Slimbridge.

Gannets diving into the sea on the Dorset Coast - amazing how they fold their wings back and plummet into the waves.

Minke Whales in Orkney
Golden Eagles in Cumbria
The Barm Owl I see on very early and very late walks

I'd love to see a kingfisher and an otter.

Watching osprey fish at dawn on a Scottish loch.
Bitterns in a muddy bit of Lancashire.
A charm of goldfinches at Conway Castle.
Hares and assorted raptors near where I live.

A pair of red kites and a pair of buzzards battling for territory above the hill opposite my house in Wales.

Watching the red kites feeding from the hide at Nant y Arian.

A hawk bringing down a pigeon in my garden next to where I was digging yesterday, then the pigeon escaping and being pursued. I had no idea pigeons could move like that.

Dolphins mucking around off the beach in Aberystwyth a few years ago.

Starling murmurations.

Puffins, both the Isles of Scilly and Yorkshire.
Bats in my garden

A goldcrest hopping about on my patio about two feet away from where I was sitting. It was absolutely gorgeous and so tiny!

Impossible to choose a favourite.

Single place to see the most must be Mull - we went there in the May half term holiday with our dd (twice, she wanted a repeat!) - otters, seals, whales, porpoises and dolphins, and about 60 species of birds - eagles, seabirds, and all sorts on land. And a trip to Lungha where you can lie on the grass a few feet from the puffin burrows - they don't mind people as it keeps the predatory black backed gulls away. Not sure if it's a bit late in the year for those now.

Our nightly clattering of jackdaws.

Hedgehogs. We put up with the opportunistic greedy rabbits and occasional rats for them.

Dolphins in the Moray Firth.

The Eriskay ponies and Uist otters are v cute too.

I also find hedgehogs so interesting!

Puffins - on Farne Island (Staple) and on Skomer. Skomer was our favourite out of those two but both were good. Also day trip to Bempton cliffs but harder to spot there.

Seals by Blakeney and in Devon

Seals on Horsey Beach and their pups around Boxing Day, magical.

Red squirrels in Tresco Abbey gardens.

Swimming with seals by Lundy and wildlife on Lundy island.

Nothing really spectacular. Saw a heron swoop out from the stream the other day while I was riding my bike though. I think it was a heron anyway - it wasn't hanging around.

I think the foxes that I feed in our garden are the most amazing thing which never fail to spark joy.

Dolphins at the coast. Two stags walking along the road in the Highlands.

I saw a kingfisher most days as a child as we lived near a river,I didn't realise how lucky I was until quite recently.

The seals at Horsey Gap.

The hedgehog in our garden.

Saw lots of red squirrels growing up and then again recently and had forgotten how cute they are,they really are sweet.

We have lots of local muntjacs. They're amazing
I love the squirrels , birds and butterflies.
There are lots of buzzards around which are mesmerising.
We have cranes, owls...... alsorts. I love all of it

We did a boat trip from Mull and saw basking sharks and Minke whales.

I've seen 2 kingfishers in the nature reserve near where I live in the summer

I've seen white albino deer in the forest

Otters, red deer, red squirrels, eagles, basking sharks, seals, barn owls, marsh harrier, dolphins, gannets, mink, hedgerows full of butterflies, wild horses, foxes, spoonbills, black swans

I have never seen an adder

I have never seen a puffin yet

I have never seen a live badger

I have never seen a haggis 😜

My friend lives on Isle of Man & says there are wallabies

I've had shrew & hedgehog & pheasants in the garden

Bats too

I'd forgotten about kingfishers.
I've seen quite a few of those, and one or two really close up. They are stunning - my favourite birds,

Used to regularly see water voles too, back in the 1980s.
Later on, saw mink instead

I saw a Vole last week, it wás really sweet.

I spent nearly an hour watching a family of badgers playing in a carpark in Devon. That was amazing

id love to go to Shetland and go orca watching.

Hedgehog in our garden, orca whale pod off shetland, otters on shetland, pine martens in scotland, badgers in a field locally, humpback whale off slapton sands in Devon, beaver in river otter in Devon, puffins at flamborough head. Dolphins and tuna jumping out of water at berry head in Devon, never seen a dormouse but would love to.