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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 24 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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the daws are getting more chilled about me, a collar dove is here as a visitor
the newbracks are regulars, ditto pigeons and sparrows, considering how well dressed the daws and dove are the locals might need to ask about a good tailor and a bath house attendant
a 5 min outside had the two daws getting mealworms from the feeder and another watching with me a couple of meters away, ideal for snaps
i recon there is merit to study a small, very local place and its critters, just on time and logistics grounds,
another advantage over "expeditions to study......" is that most of those barely have time to scope for and establish themselves comfortably* in good observation spots, aside from the critters ignoring them(or interacting on their terms) rather than hiding or being grumpy
* see tropical and arctic medicine, dangeroos exotic critters and parasites etc, angry locals and dangeroos landscapes etc
and the bears might eat you while you watch the wolves
ps my otter spot is only in scotland, it is a little challenging to access and live in, i might make it with a boat to water to landing approach, down and up the side no, along no
most fit folk would be wary of down and up, or swimming the last 30 m with all the kit and scrambling up the rocks
the almost civilized descent to an also landable, if tiny, beach is about half a mile away, easy ingress from there if you swim with the jellyfish or a take a stroll along a charming selection of rocks with massive crevasses between them(Ditto the lochside route from the house with a beach)
it would be possible to canoe land about 50m from the spot, only at low neap tides and with only a bit of rock crevasse work
the otters are well chilled, the landscape and other critters are a bit challenging |
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 24 9:34 am Post subject: |
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i have created unnatural feeding supplies and the environments are a work in progress(at over 10 times natural speed)
most of the environments are far from natural, in a decade or so it has gone from a few species to many
it may not be natural but it is fun to watch it develop and how the critters use it and interact
the invertebrates pick and mix has shown dramatic changes as the place develops
some things are local fauna, some things thrive for a year or two, new things arrive most do not thrive but lots try
the composition of the slimy horde has developed dramatically over 15 years(we are now chums)
the worm estate is blessed with riches, semi natural feeding for birds, a good place but where i put it
the random flora, see birds etc, can fail struggle or establish
ditto my slightly less random introductions (i'm not sure how many vetches are lurking now or have had their genetics distributed in the past)
it is more intensive than my little forest, that is mostly natural between targetted seed distribution and 5 decades is developing
i should survey and record it, that needs help as a proper one of it needs several disciplines and some agile folk with cameras and sample pots etc
it looked ok last time when i was planting tahir's kind contribution of appropriate species
that and the occasional eyeball or new google earth snaps gives me an overall impression
to record it would require living in it for a while |
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Nicky cigreen
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tahir
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Mistress Rose
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8822 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 24 11:23 am Post subject: |
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birdtown news
i should not suggest queenie has developed a waddle out loud
across various species, the women are starting "to show"
this year's must have domestic furnishing for sparrows is lavender, good choice for the bedstraw layer of the nest
among materials of choice are the exposed tufts of a massive dreadlock (a bit of a csi scene in a garden "planter" but good plant food etc)
feathers
moss and slug glue composites are used by the blackbirds, that is a very messy at the "mining" and construction stages but an effective technique, it binds the moss to the twigs well which is then ready for lining with feathers end soft plant stuff etc
11 sparrows, 2 bracks, sufficient named pigeons, 2 daws(and any daws they invite, they disapprove of the others taking advantage of their hummingbird style mealworm wrangling), at least one wren, occasional woody and collar visits, pie passes by and sometimes decides here is not comfortable, grin is grin maybe passing maybe dining
heron passes above rather than uses of the river and beck, probably dining in man crèche fish bothering ponds and looking for sashami grade koi carp in gardens |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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