Author Topic: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill (Read 137307 times)

T42 · « **Reply #226 on:** 16 October, 2015, 09:23:27 am »

Just watched for 10 minutes as three crows harassed a red squirrel in a big ash-tree down in the back meadow. At one point there was a crow working up from the bottom as its two chums worked down from the top. The squirrel had the measure of them, though, giving them the slip every time. Eventually they got pissed off and retired to a neighbouring trio of fence-posts, whereupon the squirrel made a deliberate run under their noses and doubled back to its tree: a perfect "up yours". Then it nipped round the far side of the trunk and sat up calm and straight at the root. The crows buggered off.

Got sore arms holding the binox.

Quote from: Andrij on 13 October, 2015, 07:38:03 pm

Goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon

Wowbagger · « **Reply #227 on:** 20 October, 2015, 06:34:05 am »

Yesterday my s-i-l took his son for a stroll along the Medway tow-path. At one point the toddler stopped and dibbled his hands in the water. A large pike, between 2 and 3 feet long, appeared and took a keen interest in whatever toothsome morsel was causing the disturbance on the surface.

Fortunately my s-i-l was paying attention and whisked his son away pronto. "Dagnappit!" thought the pike, as it disappeared back into the depths.

T42 · « **Reply #228 on:** 24 October, 2015, 04:04:49 pm »

Lotsa tiny teeth. Ouchable.

Ham · « **Reply #229 on:** 07 November, 2015, 04:37:45 pm »

No, not wildlife, very civilised life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhg7Xm4FXAY

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #230 on:** 02 December, 2015, 12:41:14 pm »

If I could be sure Pete wouldn't eat them, and if I was at home and able to socialise them, I would like a black and white kitten called Pickle and a ginger one called Cooper.

hellymedic · « **Reply #231 on:** 05 December, 2015, 02:24:40 pm »

It seems dog vs reindeer conflict is a seasonal 'bad news' story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35015079

My Twitterfeed show a photo of a caged reindeer being eyed up by hostile-looking dogs in East Finchley.

hellymedic · « **Reply #232 on:** 09 December, 2015, 10:29:47 pm »

Surely, DNA tests would only tell if these seal pups were identical twins?
If they were born almost simultaneously to a single mother they must be twins anyway?

Is seal reproduction fundamentally different from human?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-35051015

Wombat · « **Reply #233 on:** 10 December, 2015, 08:32:29 am »

Aren't they a bit like cats in that they can have two babies by different fathers at once? (or have I got that totally and utterly wrong?)

Must be tricky for such slippery animules to go about shagging anyway, definitely "slippery when wet".

I have developed a minor obsession with pangolins, where can I see one, apart from Sierra Leone? I am actually going to SL, but not to the pangolin-likely area, and I only realised they had pangolins there when I was reading out a list of all their wildlife, and most of it was horrible and bitey (or in the case of the leopard, lovely and bitey) and then it said about pangolins, one variety of which apparently falls out of trees from time to time. I just can't get that vision out of my head...

Pingu · « **Reply #234 on:** 10 December, 2015, 12:49:19 pm »

Perhaps the births had not been witnessed. Maybe one mother disappeared shortly after giving birth and the second one ended up with two pups by mistook.

ElyDave · « **Reply #235 on:** 10 December, 2015, 11:15:39 pm »

Quote from: Wombat on 10 December, 2015, 08:32:29 am

Aren't they a bit like cats in that they can have two babies by different fathers at once? (or have I got that totally and utterly wrong?)

Must be tricky for such slippery animules to go about shagging anyway, definitely "slippery when wet".

I have developed a minor obsession with pangolins, where can I see one, apart from Sierra Leone? I am actually going to SL, but not to the pangolin-likely area, and I only realised they had pangolins there when I was reading out a list of all their wildlife, and most of it was horrible and bitey (or in the case of the leopard, lovely and bitey) and then it said about pangolins, one variety of which apparently falls out of trees from time to time. I just can't get that vision out of my head...

Isn't that sloths that fall out of trees?

I thought a pangolin was a bit like a cross between an armadillo and an anteater?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #236 on:** 11 December, 2015, 08:52:51 am »

First picture on the Wikinaccurate page is a pangolin climbing a tree. One of the genera of pangolins is the wondefully-named smutsia; I think YACF should adopt one.

Slofs lack both the energy and motivation to fall out of trees. Unlike, say, drop BEARS.

Kim · « **Reply #237 on:** 11 December, 2015, 12:20:52 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2015, 08:52:51 am

First picture on the Wikinaccurate page is a pangolin climbing a tree.

Looks like a slow araf^[1] to me...

_{[1] A distant relative of the drop-bear, native to Wales.}

Wowbagger · « **Reply #238 on:** 08 January, 2016, 03:21:36 pm »

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/08/montreal-traffic-camera-captures-stunning-images-of-snowy-owl-in-flight

Rather good!

matthew · « **Reply #239 on:** 11 January, 2016, 08:12:47 pm »

My sisters cat has reappeared after being missing since Wednesday. May have something to do with knocking on doors to ask for sheds and garages to be checked.

Obviously she was very hungry.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #240 on:** 11 January, 2016, 08:43:12 pm »

Glad she's turned up ok. We reckon Mojo had been shut in somewhere when he went missing.

Wombat · « **Reply #241 on:** 14 January, 2016, 08:50:20 am »

Quote from: Kim on 11 December, 2015, 12:20:52 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2015, 08:52:51 am
First picture on the Wikinaccurate page is a pangolin climbing a tree.

Looks like a slow araf^[1] to me...

_{[1] A distant relative of the drop-bear, native to Wales.}

Those slow arafs suffer a terrible road mortality rate, judging from the number of them you see splattered about Welsh roads.

hellymedic · « **Reply #242 on:** 14 January, 2016, 02:58:43 pm »

Quote from: Wombat on 14 January, 2016, 08:50:20 am

Quote from: Kim on 11 December, 2015, 12:20:52 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2015, 08:52:51 am
First picture on the Wikinaccurate page is a pangolin climbing a tree.

Looks like a slow araf^[1] to me...

_{[1] A distant relative of the drop-bear, native to Wales.}

Those slow arafs suffer a terrible road mortality rate, judging from the number of them you see splattered about Welsh roads.

Steph · « **Reply #243 on:** 19 January, 2016, 09:41:53 pm »

They are predated on by the upright arafwch

simonp · « **Reply #244 on:** 07 February, 2016, 02:24:11 pm »

https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/merl/2016/02/03/155-year-old-mouse-trap-claims-its-latest-victim/

Wowbagger · « **Reply #245 on:** 07 February, 2016, 02:44:42 pm »

Dead otter on A683, near River Lune, E of M6, last Sunday.

menthel · « **Reply #246 on:** 10 February, 2016, 11:52:45 am »

Bleedin' goldcrest in the garden this morning in among a crowd of tits and other LBJs. A new recording for my little patch of suburban W London.

Wrong thread- will put this in seen today too!

Pingu · « **Reply #247 on:** 15 February, 2016, 10:58:19 pm »

Mrs P has just found a dead male chaffinch under the bed

mattc · « **Reply #248 on:** 28 February, 2016, 04:53:40 pm »

Quick poll - who would know what this safety sign means?

(spoiler in the URL!)

Kim · « **Reply #249 on:** 28 February, 2016, 06:20:42 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 28 February, 2016, 04:53:40 pm

Quick poll - who would know what this safety sign means?

(spoiler in the URL!)

It means you won't need your ex-NASA techno-pants.

Author Topic: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill (Read 137307 times)

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