"Nature Watch (other than birds)"

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #555 on: April 13, 2020, 12:52 »
Just realized put this in wrong section sorry  :ohmy:
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #556 on: April 13, 2020, 14:12 »
Just realized put this in wrong section sorry  :ohmy:
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #557 on: April 18, 2020, 19:19 »
Hello I have seen  3 Brimstone butterflies in the last 4 days usually it's one all year   jezza

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #558 on: May 15, 2020, 19:38 »
Hello found a baby Hare yesterday accidentally gave it a shower didn't see it in the flower bed till it shot out across the lawn I have photo  but can't post  on site   files bigger than 5000kb jezza

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #559 on: June 12, 2020, 15:57 »
Stopped at Compton Beach this morning on our way to work, walked to near the cliff edge and looked out at the sea.  My eye was caught by a black head in the water which then disappeared.  Paul went and got the binoculars from out the car.  When it popped back up again Paul confirmed it was a seal.  There were in fact two of them, never seen seals off the Island before so went to work in a really good mood.

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #560 on: July 01, 2020, 17:57 »
Five-lined skink.  He is chief of insect control at my new raised beds.  Here he is, on the job, patrolling the borders.
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #561 on: July 16, 2020, 00:35 »
Another lizard, this is an anole (pronounce it "uh-KNOLL").  They are capable of changing color from brown to bright green.  They rarely or never seem to be trying to match color with what they are sitting on.  Nevertheless, they are also great insect hunters.

I also found one of their little eggs, which they lay in the leaf litter.  Mama anole does not tend the eggs, the warm soil is enough.  I put the egg back after taking the picture of course.
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #562 on: July 16, 2020, 12:07 »
Delightful pictures  :D

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #563 on: July 18, 2020, 13:45 »
Wondered what the racket was as these approached!
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #564 on: July 19, 2020, 16:10 »
Baby anole picture!

This guy is tiny, the distance between front and back legs is less than 2 cm.  The egg that I posted a picture of a few days ago is now empty, so I am guessing that egg is now this little guy.  I'm calling him Egbert (and handing out virtual cigars). The babies tend to stay close to where they hatch, so I likely will see him throughout the summer.
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #565 on: July 19, 2020, 16:16 »
Wondered what the racket was as these approached!

Mr. D, do you know any bee keepers? they may be interested in this swarm.

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #566 on: July 19, 2020, 17:14 »
Wondered what the racket was as these approached!

Mr. D, do you know any bee keepers? they may be interested in this swarm.

I do, an old work colleague! However, the swarm was was actually a week or 2 ago and they didn't hang around for very long. Funnily around 20mins before they arrived Mrs Dog was joking about us getting trapped in the shed by the bumble bees nesting in one of the compost bins  :D They've moved out of the bin now and into a corner of my greenhouse, between the wall and a large planter - did the same last year and apart from distracting me from working as I get drawn in to watching their comings and goings are very welcome.

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #567 on: July 23, 2020, 19:51 »
Hello just a photo I took today hopefully it'll down load
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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #568 on: August 20, 2020, 15:08 »
One of our plot holders that had been clearing an overgrown section of their plot recently was bitten by a snake. Considering our location, next to David Lloyd sports club in Enfield, a bit of a rarity. no idea what sort it was as their English  is not that good, It did require a trip to A&E for them.

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Re: "Nature Watch (other than birds)"
« Reply #569 on: December 22, 2020, 18:45 »
It turns out some spiders are flexible! I got a bit of a surprise today when opening the garage door to find a large spider had deliberately squeezed its way into the tiny gap between the two halves of the door.

I couldn't miss it as it was at eye level. The body was well over 1cm end to end and it was significantly flattened. The colour was brown/bronze with a couple of dimples on the back.

My first thought was "Some sort of huge tick..." since we are in a rural location with deer but as I watched it started to unflatten and moved a little.

I gingerly shut the door giving it ample time to get away if it wanted to and fetched the camera. It was still there so I grabbed a shot as fast as I could before it inflated again.

I thought it might be some rare "Greater Tick-bodied Spider" but it turns out it was just a perfectly ordinary female Bronze Orb-Weaver which are the ones you find in your garden in the middle of a huge web. When you get too close to them they start to vibrate the web back and forth really quickly in the hope that you lose sight of them.

It turns out their bodies are "leathery" rather than "brittle" and they can squeeze themselves into narrow cracks in the bark of trees in the winter. This one has selected my garage door as an apparently suitable place to overwinter so I will have to persuade her there are better places.

She was much flatter when I opened the door and is returning to her "normal" rounded shape as I set the camera up.
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