December 19th Another wildlife free day, not for want of trying though, I’ve not really been anywhere where wildlife has been prominent. So, I go back to sightings I’ve had this year. Today’s is from right at the end of August when I kept seeing the largest UK terrestrial mammal at a site I wasContinue reading “Advent Species No.18”
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Advent Species No.10
10th December To the year’s archive! Didn’t set foot in the great outdoors today much to my shame, but did life admin instead (still more to do! Hello tax returns!), so today’s species is one I saw over the spring and summer, and similarly to the ground beetle a few days ago this was alsoContinue reading “Advent Species No.10”
Polecat
Over two weeks since my last one. Not good! So, anyway. There have been a lot of bats in my life recently, both professionally and personally. I survey bats for a living (amongst other things), and I’ve started to survey bats in my own time for an official voluntary scheme. This scheme involves surveying batsContinue reading “Polecat”
61. Bank Vole
As I check my great-crested newt traps for newts (which are removed to somewhere safer which won’t be developed), which forms a large part of my job, I occasionally come across small mammals, often they are under carpet tiles which they lie to hide under (as do the newts, hence why they are there!) andContinue reading “61. Bank Vole”
57. Lesser Horseshoe Bat
I’ve finally started on bats for my new company! For most of last summer I was a sub-contractor for a local ecologists and 90% of my work was assisting with bat surveys; which basically involved sitting and staring at a corner of a building for an hour or so around dawn or dusk. This wasContinue reading “57. Lesser Horseshoe Bat”
Day 19 – Fox
I was sorely tempted to write about another thrush today as another species appeared in my garden today, but I thought two in two days is a bit much; best save it for a rainy day. So today’s species is one that I encountered on the way home from work in the early hours ofContinue reading “Day 19 – Fox”
Day 14 – Brown Hare
I’ve done some paid wildlife surveying today! I assisted a local ecological consultants in a site survey for wintering birds. Not many birds to be frank, other than on the adjacent Ribble Estuary so I’ve gone for the highlight of the survey, not a bird but a mammal. What: Brown Hare Lepus europaeus Pallas 1778Continue reading “Day 14 – Brown Hare”
Day 6 – Grey Squirrel
The cold’s virtually gone! So time for a species I’ve seen today. I’ve been wanting to surveys for some different creatures for a bit in my garden but the technique needs a few extra things I don’t possess so hopefully in a few days I’ll be able to write about something I’d not knowingly seenContinue reading “Day 6 – Grey Squirrel”
A Species a Day 