After yet another successful year on the Odds & Sods thread, initially started I think by Hazy, it might be wise to kickstart the 2023 thread off.
Thank you to those who have contributed to last years thread, and there has been very interesting odds and sods in "Odds & Sods 2022" that aren't enough to place into a dedicated thread, which you can look back on the following link:
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/278729/odds-sods-2022/1417300?pifragment-4285=76#pifragment-4285=1
What better for me, and as yet, I've not ventured far, ewe know what I mean, with this lassie on Baddesley Clinton estate yesterday....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Prospective new neighbours
There were a dozen or more Housemartins fizzing about. A nest was started on the same house last year, but abandoned before it was completed, something about noisy neighbours I think! I saw one Swift amongst them briefly, but funnily enough...it was a bit quick for me
A mountain hare this morning in its summer coat. I've been wanting to get close to one on the local moors for a few years but never had any luck. Finally one obliged me
Thanks, I was over the moon that he or she let me sit on the dry stone wall maybe 30ft away and just snap away. I like how you can just see the remnants of its white winter coat on the ears. :Probably one of the nicest experiences I have had. Lots of jackdaws out and about too today. The farmers have ploughed the fields and dumped the collection which is left to feed back in to the soil presumably. The jackdaws love the heaps.
I'd love to cuddle a hare lol. The mountain hares I guess have a lot thicker cuddlier fur than the brown hares who don't need it. It's probably just about catching one in the right mood
This was taken just above Oaking Clough, on the moors above Sheffield. I know that Derwent edges where the dambusters had their trial runs and not too far away from the city, 80 years ago, have quite a few . Further out Bleaklow moors have quite a few and is a good spot from what I have heard.