Here’s what a good Rioja does to late afternoon sunshine. If that doesn’t cheer you up you have no soul.
Are they easy to see? If you visited that is - obviously they're rather brightly coloured. Saw two Kingfishers yesterday
The ones on the “pink lagoon” tend to stay in areas that don’t have good public access, but I have previously seen flamingos at the La Mata lagoon. There are also a few inlets further up the N332, en route to Alicante airport where flamingos can often be seen from the road. This resurgence of flamingos breeding is as a direct result of COVID reducing the number of people visiting the area 6 years ago, creating a more peaceful environment for the birds. Obviously busier now but the birds seem not to have noticed. Long may it continue.
I saw a kingfisher in Henley on Thames yesterday but did not see the peregines in Romsey Abbey today.
Anyone visiting Cyprus can see millions of them them on the Akrotiri salt lake, cant remember what time of year though
I've spent the week in the New Forest pet sitting for a friend. As an avid runner, having the opportunity to run around the forest every day has been a real treat. Here are some photos of some of the New Forest wildlife I saw along the way! Oh, the deer was actually at Studland as I was there for work last week too. Closest I've ever been to a deer with it not being bothered by my presence! I saw plenty of deer in the New Forest too, but just not close enough to get a good photo on my phone!
Great pictures! Many years ago I used to work across the central South based from a lab in Downton. I lived in Chandlers Ford at the time and I used to drive home through the Forest every day at the end of the day. Always loved that journey home!
Was that deer as close as it looks in the picture? Amazing. We have quite a lot around where we live and the only time they don't scarper pretty quickly is if they have young nearby. Even then I've never got that close!
We regularly get Roe Deer un the garden. Last year we pulled up in the car and there was a doe and a fawn in the front garden. We sat and watched them. My wife carefully opened the door of the passenger seat and the fawn went up to her before she had the chance to get out. The fawn came within a metre of her before skipping off with her mother. It was an incredible experience. My wife is a bit of a wildlife magnet. She is always spotting animals and birds. Before she met me, she had little interest but seeing stuff in New Forest and Cornwall has sparked her interest
It was about 3 or 4 metres away! I was walking along a bridge over the wetland that the deer was happily feeding away in, hence the photo is looking down on it. I've never managed to get nearly that close to a wild deer before either! I didn't see a fawn with it, but it might have been under the bridge or in the bushes.
Sadly I saw the second dead snake of the summer, on this morning’s walk. It’s a shame that people don’t just avoid them, especially when they are on such quiet roads where a driver would have time to stop or swerve around it. Don’t know the species but if straightened out it was about 2ft long.
