Animals and birds you used to never see...

Loevly to read all the accounts.

There does seem to be a great increase in wildlife. It's thrilling.
A sparrowhawk flew along the tops of electricity poles in front of me as I drove, like a game.
There are more hunting birds for sure, like Buzzards. I watched an older bigger one training a younger one to hunt.
I saw an eagle once, rise up from the ground. One of the best things that ever happened to me.
I saw a mother red squirrel last year leading her tiny weeny babies across the road - it would make you cry how pretty they are.
We are inundated with Sika deer, can hardly go for a single walk without seeing their white tails as they dart away. Sometimes the first mile of my car journey on these quiet roads is following silly little deer who won't jump into the hedge.
There is a pine martin who visits who is so huge and scary looking that it gives me the creeps.
Foxes, badgers, stoats, hares. All seem to be thriving.
There is something big or a group of somethings that has set up home in the garden recently, ruffling fallen needles and leaf under the trees. We have fairly dense tree cover in parts so it would be an ideal hiding/sleeping place. It's not a badger. It's an on-going mystery.

notobtuse wrote: »

A rare half-male and half-female cardinal has been spotted here in Pennsylvania, USA and reported by National Geographic. Scientists are hopeful it will reproduce because it is female on the left side - and that is the side the ovaries are located.

Yeah, but the right side is violently pecking any males that approach.