Jan 2019 to Dec 2022 WILDLIFE SIGHTINGS - ADD CURRENT SIGHTINGS HERE

[Mark Caunt]

Please add your Wildlife sightings (not birds!) from Jan 2019 to Dec 2022 to this thread! Thank You.

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[Jean Cobb]

2 otters fishing at east end of Forfar loch,16th.January,c.3 pm. Jim Cobb

[Charles Rough]

2 grey squirrels chasing each other in the car park trees at riverside nature park Dundee 21/01/19 first time I have seen them here

[Jean Cobb]

3 common lizards at Balkello Woods,8/8/19

[joncook]

Report of a pod of dolphins off Carnoustie beach yesterday and today.

Surely that cant be the only interesting wildlife sighting since August 2019?

Jon

[dave b]

Two tree bumblebees on ceanothus shrub in my garden this afternoon. 3 days earlier than last year.

[Mark Caunt]

Saturday 20th June 2020.
Water vole family on the burn from st Vigeans, By Arbroath.
So happy, been Years since I’ve seen one properly

[Charles Rough]

a mink has been videod on the dighty burn ,it was in the area across from the scrapyard in whitfield

[Mark Caunt]

Friday 10th July:
Hummingbird hawk moth feeding on my garden honeysuckle, Auchmithie 11am.

[Ian Hay]

Looks like an incredible vole year in the hills. Well worth a bit of climbing.

Ian

[Mark Caunt]

Friday 25th September:
Hummingbird hawk moth feeding on my garden trailing geraniums, Auchmithie 12pm.

[Jonathan Pattullo]

Dead Fox at side of A90 just South of Easter Marcus, Finavon, 15.30hrs

[Mark Caunt]

Thursday 18th March:
Peacock butterfly today sunning itself in a warm, sunny Forfar garden.

[Charles Rough]

male orange tip and small tortoiseshell butterfly's riverside nature park Dundee,a walker told me he seen a dead badger by the roadside here recently

[Ian Hay]

(Aberdeenshire wildlife)

If anyone noticed my very long winded, boring facebook post yesterday (Orca Stonehaven Now) you may be interested in the vlog I have just uploaded about last nights encounter with the s27 orca pod.
Finished editing at 4.30 am so please share, like and subscribe!!!!
Also just shows what can turn up if you spend time at the sea. If interested tickets still available for my Seabird and Cetacean Wildlife photography workshops.

Ian

https://youtu.be/tJPvdUWHn6s

[Mark Caunt]

Wednesday 1st December 2021:
Saw a Water Shrew yesterday afternoon at Crombie Country Park in grassy area adjacent to the first Lifebuoy you come to from the walk from the car park.
Jimmie Dickie

[stevendoig]

Otter! - odd place but it ran in front of my car while driving through Montreathmont on way back to Forfar yesterday evening

[Mark Caunt]

Tuesday 9th August 2022 - 4:30pm.
Hummingbird hawk moth in my back garden.
Auchmithie visiting geraniums.

[Charles Rough]

comma butterfly riverside nature park Dundee today