The Nature News Thread.
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White crow!
I saw a white crow on sunday - sat on a tree out front of my house. Thought it was a seagul at first but it just didn't have the right beak.
Confirmed it was an albino crow when it flew off - that familiar crow clumsy take off and no webbed feet.
I feel lucky somehow!
I saw a white crow on sunday - sat on a tree out front of my house. Thought it was a seagul at first but it just didn't have the right beak.
Confirmed it was an albino crow when it flew off - that familiar crow clumsy take off and no webbed feet.
I feel lucky somehow!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
A black beetle. With 1,2,3,4,5,6! legs!
sparkling
Proper country now
A black bird is building a nest in the garden again. Last year when the babies hatched the three of them sat around on ground level just inside bushes while the parents fed them by turns. I was desperately worried about the cats but the blackbird parents dive bombed them and the cats had to slink along the ground till they got to the safety of their cat flaps.
Today I saw another blackbird and her silly clumsy baby just lollaping around but there was a beautiful although predatatory magpie also in the garden. The brave black bird mum dive bombed the magpie only to be chased by both the magpie and a crow!!! Poor mummy blackbird she was so brave and led the bigger birds away from the baby.
I can't watch out my window at this time of year its all too tense.
I think blackbirds rock
and they sing nice too
Today I saw another blackbird and her silly clumsy baby just lollaping around but there was a beautiful although predatatory magpie also in the garden. The brave black bird mum dive bombed the magpie only to be chased by both the magpie and a crow!!! Poor mummy blackbird she was so brave and led the bigger birds away from the baby.
I can't watch out my window at this time of year its all too tense.
I think blackbirds rock
and they sing nice too
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
it had little feelers
wow a white crow! I would love to have seen it.
Yes Blackbirds do indeed rock! I had a weird experience with them once though, I was walking down a lane (the disused railway walk from Finsbury park to crouch end)
and every couple of yards there was a blackbird standing on the ground with its head cocked to one side and feathers slightly ruffled, they seemed to be in a trance and didnt move away until I was really close, and there were loads all along one side of the path doing exactly the same thing.....
Yes Blackbirds do indeed rock! I had a weird experience with them once though, I was walking down a lane (the disused railway walk from Finsbury park to crouch end)
and every couple of yards there was a blackbird standing on the ground with its head cocked to one side and feathers slightly ruffled, they seemed to be in a trance and didnt move away until I was really close, and there were loads all along one side of the path doing exactly the same thing.....
sparkling
Proper country now
I like this thread as you don't have to be all arsey clever to go on it...just look out your window and appreciate nature. Well done Pieye for thinking of it
Apparently its International Dawn Chorus Day on May the 6th. Anyone planning on getting up early or staying up late to hear this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/radio/dawn_chorus/
Apparently its International Dawn Chorus Day on May the 6th. Anyone planning on getting up early or staying up late to hear this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/radio/dawn_chorus/
moon said:wow a white crow! I would love to have seen it.
Yes Blackbirds do indeed rock! I had a weird experience with them once though, I was walking down a lane (the disused railway walk from Finsbury park to crouch end)
and every couple of yards there was a blackbird standing on the ground with its head cocked to one side and feathers slightly ruffled, they seemed to be in a trance and didnt move away until I was really close, and there were loads all along one side of the path doing exactly the same thing.....
Probably protecting their nests. They can be quite upfront and bold about it. You want to see them bombing our cat when he's in the garden (even though he's not at all interested)
Aye, thread of the week IMO. Well done sparkling!sparkling said:I like this thread as you don't have to be all arsey clever to go on it...just look out your window and appreciate nature. Well done Pieye for thinking of it
Apparently its International Dawn Chorus Day on May the 6th. Anyone planning on getting up early or staying up late to hear this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/radio/dawn_chorus/
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
sojourner said:
IT'S A BEETLE
I founded it
sojourner said:Um, I think you DO have to be all arsey clever actually. I got told that my observation was a 'broad generalisation' and that I was not to post anymore about sunflower seeds
sigh
I think that particular poster was being a bit of an arse TBH. Ignore.
I'm enjoying being an 'armchair naturalist' !
Orang Utan said:
My snail had feelers as well!
[arsey-clever]Technically they are tentacles, but “feeler” is a pretty good description of their function because they are touch sensitive. The two longer ones have light-sensitive organs at their tips, making them the snail’s version of eyes, although their function is limited to light perception rather than image generation. The shorter tentacles feel, taste, and smell the environment in the never-ending search for food and water, and in constant vigilance against dangers.[/arsey-clever]
sparkling
Proper country now
cilobrac said:
I liked taking the credit for it...so you didn't fuck up completely.
I'm sure Pieeye won't mind if we dumb this thread down too much. Perhaps the sweeping generalisation was in danger of oppressing or excluding other things...and people were concerned that this thread should remain inclusive and non stereotypical etc etc.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
This nature table is RUBBISH!
cilobrac said:I think that particular poster was being a bit of an arse TBH. Ignore.
I'm rarely being serious, bricabrac -please don't be cross.
Orang Utan - I respect the beetle but we need more....story or something. Tell us about 3 more insects you see between now and tomorrow
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
<runs off snottily but enthusiastically, looking at the floor earnestly, before banging into a big boy and getting a thick ear>
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I will have shorts on the way home! I will also be breathing heavily through my mouth and have the tip of my tongue poking out of the sidePieEye said:
Mrs Snake was out again today. Asleep. She looks like she's got Maggie T's eyes, but it's only the colour of her nictating membrane when she snoozes.
They are green with round pupils normally. Wouldn't want to get too close, although she's non-poisonous, I bet she never cleans her teeth.
Saw a lizard dispatch a moth quite neatly today, and found some real alien bugs whilst shovelling compost. Size of cheesey wotsits they were.
They are green with round pupils normally. Wouldn't want to get too close, although she's non-poisonous, I bet she never cleans her teeth.
Saw a lizard dispatch a moth quite neatly today, and found some real alien bugs whilst shovelling compost. Size of cheesey wotsits they were.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I saw a MOSSKITO and a ANT. And a other ANT.
MsShirlLaverne
wearing purple
The mill pond where I live has beed drained and it's going to be made shallower with plants in it to encourage more wildlife, that's nice
