Author Topic: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill  (Read 133950 times)

Auntie Helen

  • 6 Wheels in Germany
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #300 on: 11 March, 2017, 01:21:16 pm »
My landlord is a beekeeper with 16 hives.

Although the bees have been sleeping since I bought Millie the white Velomobile, now they are awake they are attracted to her and peeing on her in the garage. I have all these tiny yellow dots which are bee urine. They seem not to come off with water.

Anyone know how to remove bee wee from a white painted carbon velomobile without dissolving the velomobile?

(First world problem, clearly!)
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Kim

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #301 on: 11 March, 2017, 01:53:12 pm »
Maybe you could compare notes with nikki's kayak...

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #302 on: 31 March, 2017, 06:13:38 pm »
Our lunch and its preparation were interrupted by the appearance of an escaped white rabbit bounding into our garden.

We don't know who the owners are or where they might live.

Rabbit was darting all over the place but did take some of the lettuce we offered before bounding off.

I don't think we can/could do anything...

hellymedic

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #303 on: 31 March, 2017, 08:20:28 pm »
Bunny rabbit came back but hopped off by the time I'd put out more lettuce.
What should we do if it returns when David is home?

Basil

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #304 on: 31 March, 2017, 08:30:07 pm »
Carrots, onions, simmer on a low heat for 90 mins.   Hmm, rabbit stew.  :P
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #305 on: 31 March, 2017, 08:35:40 pm »
First, catch your rabbit...

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #306 on: 01 April, 2017, 09:19:58 pm »
I can't stop laughing

https://youtu.be/CEQuDyuQFKE
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tiermat

  • According to Jane, I'm a Unisex SpaceAdmin
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #307 on: 21 April, 2017, 12:10:16 pm »
I got home, last night, and needed to rush to get showered, changed into my bike gear, get the bike int he car then drive 10 miles to meet up with a group of cyclists to go out to tackle some hills.

Imagine my surprise to find that one of the cats (we suspect it is Oreo) had been sleeping on top of my cycling gear, then had decided to use it as a toilet!  Just what I needed!

The worrying bit was that the urine looked like it had some blood in it :(

We haven't seen him all of yesterday, nor today...
I feel like Captain Kirk, on a brand new planet every day, a little like King Kong on top of the Empire State

Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #308 on: 02 May, 2017, 09:52:34 pm »
Seen on Twitter https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/859441404551942144


Imagine these crawling all over your tent... :jurek:
Not fast & rarely furious

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #309 on: 11 May, 2017, 03:31:14 pm »
Apropos of the recent BBC article about counting albatrosses by satellite, I've discovered that you can also count emperor penguins on Google Earth

https://plus.codes/29PJFH59+4C   (switch to satellite view using the top centre menu bars)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/-75.5408171,-27.4237657//@-75.5419789,-27.4248455,461m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #310 on: 16 May, 2017, 10:17:12 am »
I was mugged this morning by Olive, our local Irish deerhound. She's lovely, but very big and her not-very-big female owner has trouble keeping her under control when she's excitable. She knows I have a tendency to keep treats in my pocket and she puts her nose in my pocket at every available opportunity. Her owner describes her as being "like Emu", which is pretty accurate I think.

One thing leads to another, as it does, and said owner and I have a date for Friday morning for at tandem ride.
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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #311 on: 21 May, 2017, 09:55:34 pm »
WoW I think you mean either an Irish Wolfhound or a Scottish Deerhound. Both are great big shaggy galumphing but friendly creatures (unless you are a wolf or a deer of course).
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Basil

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #312 on: 22 May, 2017, 08:45:04 am »
Don't mess with sea lions.
https://youtu.be/pMDtibc13fc
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David Martin

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #313 on: 22 May, 2017, 04:25:59 pm »
Impressively fast reactions there.
"By creating we think. By living we learn" - Patrick Geddes

hellymedic

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #314 on: 22 June, 2017, 12:54:15 pm »
Seen in West Hampstead:


ElyDave

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #315 on: 22 June, 2017, 09:11:02 pm »
Carrots, onions, simmer on a low heat for 90 mins.   Hmm, rabbit stew.  :P

saw a wild one out at noon today down the lane, rather unusual
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #316 on: 25 June, 2017, 11:13:37 am »
We've had three dead rabbits in our garden this week. All young and ostensibly healthy looking (aside from the being dead thing) and with no obvious signs of having been attacked (eg by a fox), nor any signs of myxomatosis or any other obvious disease.

So I'm left wondering what it was that did for them.

Could be the heat, perhaps - I know rabbits are prone to heat stroke. One of them was under the garden shed - it was the dog that found it - so probably taking shelter from the blazing sun we had earlier in the week. The other possibility is that the neighbours are poisoning them, which makes me reluctant to let the dog have them, or to eat them myself.

I just launched them over the hedge into the field next door, much to the dog's disappointment and confusion. I've had to reinforce the dog-proofing to stop him burrowing through the hedge to get to the bodies.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #317 on: 27 June, 2017, 07:22:50 am »
Make that four dead rabbits.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

David Martin

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #318 on: 01 July, 2017, 05:55:15 pm »
Two new zealand flatworms
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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #319 on: 03 July, 2017, 05:06:15 pm »
We have a shrew that visits our lounge periodically. We've named it Franz Shrewburt.

Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #320 on: 03 July, 2017, 05:11:42 pm »
We have a shrew that visits our lounge periodically. We've named it Franz Shrewburt.

Does he turn up on the hour every hour and announce "I'm prompt Shrew!" ?
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hellymedic

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #321 on: 03 July, 2017, 10:05:36 pm »
We have a shrew that visits our lounge periodically. We've named it Franz Shrewburt.

Does he turn up on the hour every hour and announce "I'm prompt Shrew!" ?

In G Flat?

Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #322 on: 03 July, 2017, 11:08:47 pm »
We have a shrew that visits our lounge periodically. We've named it Franz Shrewburt.

Does he turn up on the hour every hour and announce "I'm prompt Shrew!" ?

In G Flat?

Do they live in d flat?
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It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.


Wowbagger

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Re: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill
« Reply #324 on: 14 July, 2017, 10:10:50 pm »


I almost put this elsewhere...

You learn something every day.
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It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.