Wildlife Challenge!

[cowcrzy06]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

Pops,
What a great picture of Cyrl I might have to frame that one!

[jds9000]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

Here's one of mine ....
... unusual coloring .... just a 'juvenile' I think !!

Jay

[jds9000]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

Found another 'resident' .... one of a pair who regularly arrive !!

Jay

[Pol]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

I'd been assuming it had been a squirrel taking bark and damaging a few branches on this tree. Today the true culprit was caught in the act.

A Carrion Crow - several are nesting in nearby trees.



Pol

[Pops]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

Snap....

[Autumn]

_Portugese_Man-O-War_jellyfishII

Here is a photograph of a jellyfish I saw on the beach

[Autumn]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

Here is one in the sea in Cuba:-

I am happy to receive critiques of the two jellyfish above.

[Pops]

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I can't believe everybodies garden has been barren of wildlife for 3 whole days


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[StuartR]

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Well I suppose these count if the thread is waning a bit

1000's of the buggers in my pond.





Mmmm, I've eaten snails, frogs legs, winkles, cockles, whitebait.......wonder what these taste like

[Pops]

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You would want a fair few to make a sarnie

[Pol]

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You would want a fair few to make a sarnie

Not so many needed to shove on a cracker to mimic caviar.

Pol

[StuartR]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

You would want a fair few to make a sarnie

True Pops, but when I was a kid I remember my Dad making winkle sandwiches most Sunday tea-times during the summer - this required some patience and dexterity with a sewing needle or pin! Quite a ritual it was, with salt, pepper and vinegar; it also had to be white bread and real butter. This would be followed by cockles, which I never took to - too reminiscent of dead baby birds (I sometimes wonder if this description was regularly trotted out by Dad because he had 6 hungry kids and it helped ensure that he got the lion's share ). Crab (something else I never really took to) would also be on the table if Dad was feeling flush that week.

We lived in Kent and used to have a guy come round with seafood in a chilled box on the front of his push-bike most Sunday afternoons in the summer. I think he came up from Whitstable or possibly Seasalter* which wasn't far away by car but on a bike on a hot day must have been hard work.

*Jewel of the Kent Coast , look for "there be dragons here" on the map.

[StuartR]

Re: Wildlife Challenge!

You would want a fair few to make a sarnie

True Pops, but when I was a kid I remember my Dad making winkle sandwiches most Sunday tea-times during the summer - this required some patience and dexterity with a sewing needle or pin! Quite a ritual it was, with salt, pepper and vinegar; it also had to be white bread and real butter. This would be followed by cockles, which I never took to - too reminiscent of dead baby birds (I sometimes wonder if this description was regularly trotted out by Dad because he had 6 hungry kids and it helped ensure that he got the lion's share ). Crab (something else I never really took to) would also be on the table if Dad was feeling flush that week.

We lived in Kent and used to have a guy come round with seafood in a chilled box on the front of his push-bike most Sunday afternoons in the summer. I think he came up from Whitstable or possibly Seasalter* which wasn't far away by car but on a bike on a hot day must have been hard work.

*Jewel of the Kent Coast , look for "there be dragons here" on the map.

[StuartR]

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Whoops - don't know how I managed to do that

[Pol]

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This is "chips" the squirrel - a very messy eater.

Pol