November top trumps

[iseenodust]

For the first time I have seen a wax wing. In fact a tree full of them, as a friend and I were having a coffee at a garden centre.

A goshawk. While walking dogs.

Fox. Tonight, doing a death run in front of the car.

A great honking V of exiting geese :)
A red kite, very low over my street and being buzzed by a horrified crow.

I read that as cow and had a slightly odd picture in my mind...

Seems we slumbered through Oct top trumps but are now back!
I do like this quiet yet interesting corner of MN.

I have seen bugger all for ages, but was reminded of this pleasant spot by Ariel boasting mentioning elsewhere that she'd seen a Great Northern Diver. Hopefully she'll remember too to get her bescaled arse over here with details.

She been socialising out at sea again ?
www.northerndivers.co.uk/

Nuthatches, while out on a buggy walk - don't see too many of the sneaky beasties here, although remember a holiday in Prague where they seemed to be around every corner

I've seen an otter at long last! That's been on my 'bucket list' for a long time.

We went to Leighton Moss yesterday morning, DH caught a glimpse of one which I missed. We did see some marsh tits, the first time we've realised what they were, must have seen them there before.

So we went back today - again I just missed one sighting, then DH saw it again from another hide...and despite him giving totally misleading description of where it was I saw it for a moment, looked like it had a biggish eel.

Niggle - for a moment when I saw 'buggy walk' I thought, 'ok, so what sort of bugs....'

I saw a nuthatch too yesterday, quite close. And a lot of the usual waterfowl - coots (loads of them), mute swans with cygnets, mallards, gadwall, goldeneyes, tufties, shoveller, comorant, a lesser white egret, heron, black backed gull, black headed gull, redshank, widgeon, snipe, teal.

An otter is something special. I've only seen one once and that was in the distance in a sea loch up by Skye.

A honking great wild boar poised at the edge of the road ready to charge. They really worry me. DH hit one once with the car. Or rather I should say, DH and his car were once was hit by one. The car was severely damaged and the pig ran off with narry a limp nor scratch as far as he could tell.

Ah, we're not in November anymore...

Waxwings, you say? Hard winter on its way. I was about to start a waxwing thread.