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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Mikey - 04-09-2020
(03-07-2020, 08:56 AM)JJB Wrote: No picture unfortunately but a red kite was eyeing me up overhead this morning on my trip round the 'estate'. They were rare here until recently so such a joy to see one close up..I like the word estate as it can be consider in quite different ways. I’m assuming as it’s in inverted commas you meant the garden, but at first glance I imagined you in Jodhpurs with Jeeves in tow
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - JJB - 05-09-2020
(04-09-2020, 10:11 PM)Mikey Wrote:(03-07-2020, 08:56 AM)JJB Wrote: No picture unfortunately but a red kite was eyeing me up overhead this morning on my trip round the 'estate'. They were rare here until recently so such a joy to see one close up..I like the word estate as it can be consider in quite different ways. I’m assuming as it’s in inverted commas you meant the garden, but at first glance I imagined you in Jodhpurs with Jeeves in tow
Imagine away,! I quite like that image. Delusions of grandeur only, nothing further from the truth. I have been known to wear jodhpurs, but not for a long long time. Estate could have meant 'housing estate' but that is false too. I probably meant soaring over several different types of land, including gardens, farmland, railway embankments etc. Who knows what was in my mind when I wrote it!
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 11-10-2020
Little frog on the building plot. Moved him to a safer spot. I nearly ran him over!
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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Veggie - 11-10-2020
Great photo, SC.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 31-10-2020
No idea what sort of fungi it is. It’s only a little. Nearly didn’t see them in the bit of rotting wood , I was about to see how far I could throw. I put them back until they’ve finished their tiny life cycle.
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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Mark_Riga - 12-11-2020
Out for a walk today I saw about 6 buzzards in a field walking about. would they be looking for worms? I saw something similar a couple of weeks ago down a different lne.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 13-11-2020
Yeah looking for worms and other insects.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - PyreneesPlot - 13-11-2020
I believe that worms & invertebrates make up a big part of a buzzard's diet which explains their success (when not persecuted).
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - JJB - 13-11-2020
(12-11-2020, 11:43 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: Out for a walk today I saw about 6 buzzards in a field walking about. would they be looking for worms? I saw something similar a couple of weeks ago down a different lne.
I've recently seen the same thing only even more buzzards, maybe a dozen or more, I wondered what they were up to, so thanks for the info team.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Veggie - 13-11-2020
(31-10-2020, 12:12 AM)Small chilli Wrote: No idea what sort of fungi it is. It’s only a little. Nearly didn’t see them in the bit of rotting wood , I was about to see how far I could throw. I put them back until they’ve finished their tiny life cycle.A very similar one has just been identified by my local "Plant geek" - photos on FB.
He says its :-
Mycena erubescens (Angels bonnet).
Cefn onn park on living tree trunk amid swathes of moss Hypnum cupressiforme. The cap is unbelievably small being only 3-5mm dia. Solitary, in small groups or rarely clusters.
Look really hard. The light spot at 9 O'clock midfield is the specimen. It looks like a minute camera defect.
Angel bonnet closeup. The slanted attitude of the stipe is a deliberate diageotropic response. The cap has a pink blush.