Wildlife

Latest Articles

Wildlife
Page Previous 1, 2, 3 ... , 213, 214, 215 Next

Downsizer Forum Index -> Conservation and Environment

Author

Message

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 25 10:54 am Post subject:

yep, nature is "untidy" but it is alive

the birds here ignore me, often i do not notice them feeding within reach if i am playing with plants etc

the current mr sammison is undecided about me, if he has not seen me he is ok with within reach, at a few M he is unconcerned and listens to my greetings to him

i get the feeling he might have a sight issue, not that much of a problem for critters that live under ground and follow scent trails over ground

the daws are comfortable with me 2 couple of M away, they know i do water and pasty crimps and meat and worms and tings
they are very territorial against the other 50 or so of the local flock

the all live and work together but job demarcation that would shame a 1970s car factory is non negociable

they have grown up a lot since they entered my life down the chimney

young daws is treated like all the others

the woody does look very like fat walter from years back and the new mr black(where is mrs brown?) is very busy shopping for the family

the sparrows treat me as landscape

i really should do some snaps

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9243
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 25 11:30 am Post subject:
Snaps would be lovely dpack..you do catch some good ones

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 25 9:50 am Post subject:
apparently not just my local insects global but intense in some places and species welcome to the 6th

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 25 12:35 am Post subject:
this probably belongs in wildlife but pet zebra in a net has other theme options ps a chum grew up as child of zoo keeper, zebras are not really pets or "easy" to live with, they bite, they kick and are very uncooperative with humans make friends with one is a special skill only known to kids who have opportunity to over a few years a bit like "taming" a less than chummy pig[/url]

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 25 2:50 am Post subject:

oh dear 3 mins ago i had an "incident", more of that later

half an hour ago i went out to quietly observe the night wildlife
nowt to see, nowt to hear, nowt to smell

that is a bit sad as 5 yrs back there would have been multiple spp reports

anyway, i took my drink with me and put it on the rim of a deepbed planter

after waiting for wildlife i remembered to pick up the whisky horn, i put to my lips(just to see if it had contents

) and kissed a slug

spose it is better than third eyebrow, twice.

i must be more careful

ps i am being rather unfriendly to the probably not native funnel webs
the neurotoxin is proper horrid

a year into the trial schmit 4 , a brief series of tiny prickles not unlike small bramble spikes, minor pinkness and local swelling, long term black tatoos on the fang holes and pain+twitching that would easily pass for parkinson's disease
that can be local to the leg or elsewhere
proper horrid, if you are hosting funnel webs, id them to sp

some uk ones are fairly harmless even if provoked, i think these ones are probably from kanagland
york has lots of visitors with bags that are perfect for stowaways

provoked(in a slipper) it provided one of the nastiest wildlife encounters i have had

a year on the spasms and pain have decreased, impressive for no visible beyond a 2 and 2 and 3 single micro fang tattoos in pale black afte a day of a bit pink at the bite marks

awsome critter, i am murderideling its family.
these are dangeroos, a small person or mutt would be in big trouble, and i am fairly certain than turning up in emergency demanding FW anti toxin would be too slow to be of use

tis a posh neurotoxin, respect to evolution, as a deterrent for ever, remove the threat or use a tiny bit to "calm" lunch i cant fault it

i tried so you don't have to

i did not mean to

back in this thread there might be snaps of this one's ancestor

ps i think there are a few middle aged ones and a couple of babies i still need to kill, a bit dark but it may be a nice home for them but........

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 25 2:53 pm Post subject:

that jackdaw has a very fluffy waistcoat

im not sure if it is child of the daws

that might be children of the daws
they have been rather busy and these two are being educated and protected, and given a beak round the ear to make them polite

the woodie and pal are regulars as is mr black, not seen mrs black for ages

some sparrows maybe about ten that visit often

a few bees in the brambles along with hover flies, no where near the number sof a few years ago

ladybirds are rare, ditto aphids

the most toxic spiders are being evicted

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16507

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 25 9:05 am Post subject:

Wildlife, but certainly not the sort I want to conserve. A grey squirrel tried to come into our bedroom window yesterday morning. I yelled at it and waved my arms and it luckily decided we weren't squirrel friendly.

Otherwise, went into the city yesterday evening and were in an area with just houses and shops fronting the street, apart from one patch of garden which seemed to be the backs of houses. Realised how I just couldn't live in town with no greenery.

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 138

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 25 9:13 am Post subject:
Anybody want a squadron of assorted sparrows for a hedge?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16507

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 25 6:53 am Post subject:
Was in the woods yesterday listening to a blackbird at various distances most of the day. Also did some ID on some grasses, and now know that I was wrong on the names of two of them. Couldn't find the one I really wanted to ID, but think it might have been sweet vernal grass.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 25 10:20 am Post subject:

iirc grasses of (britain and ?)northern europe has thousands of them, tis technical descriptions with no pictures but the definitive book(s) on the subject

you need to learn the technical terms and a bit of latin but most plant id guides have very few grasses/sedges etc

one of my sammisons is getting quite tame, i still have one hand feeding pigeon

at the mo im on antibiotics again and as they sensitize skin to uv daytime observations are rather restricted

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16507

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 25 7:04 am Post subject:

I am only concerned with those in the woods. The book I have has pictures, and Keeble Martin which I use for flower ID is also quite useful.

Sorry to hear you are on antibiotics again Dpack; hope the infection soon clears up. Nice to have even a pigeon hand feeding and nice to have a fairly tame sammison. With the sun as it is at the moment, you are probably better off inside with windows open anyway.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9243
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 25 7:27 am Post subject:
Riding to the gallery in Culzean, heard the yellowhammer for the first time this year

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16507

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 25 7:17 am Post subject:

Nice. There was a blackbird singing quite near out open bedroom window yesterday and it was really loud. Found a bumble bee on the ground yesterday, although apparently all right, so son put it on a bramble flower and it seemed to be using its tongue, so hopefully got some nectar and more energy. Also saw a lovely red admiral sunning itself on the ground and had to get it to move as I wanted to walk through there.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16507

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 25 6:56 am Post subject:
Had a great tit land on the inside of the bedroom window yesterday. I asked it not to come in, and glad to say it didn't. Last week we had a young blackbird came and perched briefly on the outside of the kitchen door on one of the frames between the panes of glass. Not sure if it was a crash land or didn't see the glass.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44397
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 25 11:04 am Post subject:
short report i think i saw a hen harrier again, last sighting was about 5 wks ago the other stuff is mixed re numbers and thriving or not

	Downsizer Forum Index -> Conservation and Environment	All times are GMT Page Previous 1, 2, 3 ... , 213, 214, 215 Next
Page 214 of 215

View Latest Posts