Brief but intense Surprises Waiting
today's entry will be brief because there is not much to tell but they are pretty intense experiences. To begin to say that winter is presented as intermittent snow covering the Cantabrian mountains and giving a soft to hard limestone rocks.
Nevada on the Cantabrian mountain
also say that yesterday I saw another robin capiblanco to 1 km in a straight line from where I saw the great camp last time. This time a copy lying on top of a tree and holding a significant lag between a flock of Fieldfare. In the picture we can see the robin with one of the thrushes
capiblanco Blackbird (Turdus torquatus ) with real wood thrush (Turdus pilaris )
Finally say that yesterday I saw another wild cat of considerable size in the nearby region of Oman. This adds another copy to the list of bobcat sightings on the Cantabrian coast, one day show a balance by counties the number of copies I've seen in each. The particular animal rested sitting on a snowy lawn at noon. Here I show you a picture, pinchadla to see a plus size.
Wildcat (Felis silvestris )
As I was a fairly short entry but I hope you liked it anyway. A greeting and thanks for visiting the blog.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Invitations Church Ceremony
I entitled to this entry waiting because it is often seen as more things in the bush. While still life follows its normal course around us, just have to have a little patience and observation. I have visited the feeder that I have prepared for birds this winter and learned a lot in the long waits at the hide.
We can see the relationships between different species at feeding time. Who dominates whom, who eats first ... We can also compare different individuals' confidence and although we know that species within the same species every individual is different.
The truth is that this year several species down to the feeder. Are fairly typical but not be underestimated. Tits group of regularly visiting the feeder a couple of tits and a tit. A copy of this second is very suspicious and made test flights over the trough before deciding to settle, but his partner is quite confident.
tit (Parus major )
tit (Parus cristatus )
As you can see, next to the tit is a stool, probably a squirrel, but that's another story to tell later. Following
birds also a pair of nuthatches feed quietly in front of the hide. They are quite aggressive with other species and have control of the situation. The specimen photography is a male as indicated by the dark ocher under their wings.
nuthatch (Sitta europaea )
also a robin, confident as ever, has chosen the trough to carry the winter best if you have not seen you around. The copy of the picture occasionally landed just below the camera lens at 30 cm from my face.
Robin (Erithacus rubecuola )
also enter a couple of common grackles to which I have not photographed as the distrust dela species requires more time to get used to the noise of the camera shutter.
These are the species that I observed directly into the feeder while I was there. But there are other species that roam the trough without getting directly. A swamp coal feeds in the buds of the birch trees around. A flock of finches are quite important as well and also feed on the ground. I had always seen roosting in this species fed the highest branches of birch or rowan fruits of the soil but rarely. However, from the hide I saw the feed side as if a flock of finches, walking quietly among the leaves of birch.
Macho common bullfinch (Pyrrhula Pyrrhula ) Hanging around the feeder
jays
ones when armed riot around. The hawk in the area raises the alarmed birds from time to time. Short-toed Treecreeper also search for food among the birches lichens. They basically insectivorous looking at small spiders and mosquitoes that lie between Evernia and Usnea . This spec seems much more timid than the nuthatch, despite the similarities in their lifestyle. Always seek the opposite side of the tree to which you find yourself.
Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla )
and coal tit garrpinos also sing in the vicinity along with the myths, but do not dare to come forward.
We now turn to the mammalian subject. In the days that the snow was around the hide was easy to see the tracks of foxes, wild boars, deer, small mammals, squirrels ... I saw Fox in the summer roaming the area and the deer I see or hear almost every day I'm waiting. With the squirrel
I was surprised the other day. Almost always see in the way of ascent to hide by jumping from an oak tree to another or still monitoring the situation. But the other day had about 20 minutes in the hide when I see a power move in a birch. It was the squirrel that chewed the tips of birch branches fine on it. I followed his movements for a while and soon saw ina saved in that tangle of birch branches. Spent 2 hours until the dough left so I did think it could be the squirrel's nest. A real surprise as he had seen many potential squirrel nests but never with such visual observation. Then upload a photo of the squirrel in the vicinity of the nest.
squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris ). In the lower left corner you can see the possible nest in which the squirrel was about 2 hours.
I hope you liked the entry, thanks for visiting the blog and a greeting.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Seating Chart Templatesauditoriums
If there is anything that characterizes the life of the naturalist is that however much you leave the field, never fail to take surprises. May be seeing a different species, a behavior, a particular place ... but always come home with new experiences. l is that yesterday was a day of many surprises of this kind.
To start I could see the first Wildcat this year and also in the region of Laciana. This is the first time I see him live in my district, I found a copy run over and plenty of tracks and droppings, but finally I could see the elegance of this species walking on my land. This adds a region to the list of places where I had meetings with the Wildcats. The specific animal rampant through a meadow dotted with snow at about 1300 meters above sea level and approximately 2 pm. His fingerprints were printed on thin patches of snow and the truth is they had a considerable size. Esrella I've always had this kind and you follow the blog and know me a bit different you know that I love. Symbolizes patience, waiting, polished technique over thousands of years, the effectiveness ... that wastes no time to put it in some way. Its outline is drawn in the meadows sitting with their ears moving adjustable for any sound of a mammal that may occupy a cozy place in your stomach at any time.
is practically the opposite of a canine as the fox for example, abounds distractedly waiting until something to put in their mouth at some point and does not averse to practically nothing, but the bobcat is practically limited to meat. Here are a couple of photos of the beautiful copy of yesterday, with a thick winter coat and a look that goes through the meat.
Wildcat (Felis sylvestris )
Bobcat
soon begin full zeal of those animals voicing their meowing at night calm of the Cantabrian Mountains. A esectáculo worth witnessing at least once in their life.
This year has been quite cold like the snow last year and have failed to withdraw from all delas summits since the snowfall has reached the bald intermittently filling the sun and rain had resulted in moments of calm. That is why the elafoideos as deer, roe deer, etc ... are in the lowland areas to feed. Yesterday 2 powerful male deer antlers lugarse looked different but with his head down since what premium was fed.
Deer (Cervus elaphus ) with 13 points
deer antler and have a completely bald, lose those cleared by the end of August to have the cuernalista for rutting in September. However, the deer lose their antlers in early winter, late autumn and some of them look a horn formed but still clears deck. Sensaión that gives shelter their antlers in winter lol. For what I have found, this time is the highest number of deer can be seen in the Cantabrian Mountains. Tend to be more clustered and the fact that it snowed and the trees have leaves also facilitate their observation. Watching these animals napping in the sun in winter has a special magic.
Macho roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) wearing a horn cover
clears couple of deer
But the biggest surprise for me yesterday the birds that were not be seen often. Capiblancos speak of blackbirds (Turdus torquatus ). An amazing flock of 14 birds were resting in a meadow near a clump of oaks. Flights in which they fought and fell to the ground attached. If it is difficult to see one of these animals, just imagine that amount of illusion it does, and more with this type behavior. I had no choice to photograph the entire flock and they were off and flew continuously, but if I fotgrafiar to a copy that stopped to rest in an oak. It is a testimonial image.
Blackbird capiblanco resting on a mountain oak
The scene of the blackbirds happened as a fox rampant in search of food under them and 2 deer nap in the sun. An idyllic scene to remember. The blackbirds have chosen this area as wintering regiçon so here I'll be aware if I can observe their progress. I hope you enjoyed the entry and greeting.
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