Yesterdays ride was packed with wildlife moments.
Trying to count the number of Jays around, there seem to be more then previous years.
Missing a pheasant by a few centimetres during a wooded descent.
Best of all was getting to the local weir on the river Goyt and seeing salmon and sea trout jumping. There's not much water in there at the moment, so it's easy to spot them.

It certainly made my day.

Agreed. Best time of year for wild life, they are all out busy shaggin' or gathering food. Lost count of number of red squirrels, deer, hares and pheasants I've seen in the last month. If you ever get some trail kill, let me know how it tastes 😉

Plenty of badgers, grey squirrels and rabbits.
No reds here though 🙁 I love them.

Green woodpeckers, badgers, deer and pheasants against a backdrop of autumn lovelyness all in the last week. I'm currently on the lookout for the resident Sparrowhawk who prowls in one of my new trails. This is a wonderful time of year. 😀

I'm currently on the lookout for the resident Sparrowhawk who prowls in one of my new trails

We have a sparrowhawk visit our garden regularly as the neighbours on both sides have well stocked bird feeders. It's fantastic to see him (it;s a male) fly through a full pelt, swivelling his body 90 deg to the vertical to slim through the 9" gap between our garage and the neighbours'

There was some pheasant road kill on the road climb out of New Mills yesterday. You can't beat wildlife. Especially when it stays still so you can look at it. Then there was the decomposing badger on Chunal that lasted several weeks before it mysteriously vanished – perhaps it was hibernating – and my old mate, the dead fox on the double chevron climb up Monks Road out of Charlesworth. There's something quite diverting about watching things gradually rotting away, it's a bit like one of those time lapse cameras…

BadlyWiredDog – you can eat road kill. Make their death worth something.

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BadlyWiredDog – you can eat road kill. Make their death worth something.

…but only if you haven't killed it yourself. Otherwise all the banned fox hunters would be hunting the things in 4x4s and beemers!

Quite a few buzzards around here too. Plenty of food for them.

Starting to see some good birds in the garden, they've come out of their moulting season, easier to see now the tree is almost bare.

BWD – don't eat the road kill badger, that's just so wrong 😕
Are you still coming on our Roman lakes ride? Hope so.

BWD – don't eat the road kill badger, that's just so wrong

Have you never seen that chef bloke on TV who specialises in cooking and eating road kill?

On a rafting trip on the Rogue River a few weeks back we were followed for a wee while by a bear. One of the instructions you get when boating in Deliverance country is to sleep away from coolboxes because bears now know what they are and that there's food inside. They find it easier to break into a collbox than to bother with us.
And on another day, as we started to hear the sound of a rapid called the Widowmaker, I happened to look up and see vultures circling overhead…

there's been a dead crow on my walk home for a week now. Starting to show signs of decomposing.

I love london.

Trying to count the number of Jays around

I think they prefer to be called "roadies" 🙂