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Jam Lady



Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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Location: New Jersey, USA
PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 18 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We also have clear wing hawk moths, Mistress Rose. Hummingbird back a few times yesterday and again this morning. I am not even going to try for a picture. They are too quick for a hand held camera to focus.

Our only specie is the ruby throat, which fly down to Mexico for the winter. More species in Arizona, New Mexico, California.

lowri



Joined: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1322
Location: ceredigion
PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 18 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not a polydactyl perhaps, Mistress Rose? I had friends who had a tabby cat with 6 toes and huge feet!!

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 18 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mistress Rose wrote:
That sounds amazing Jam Lady. We don't get them in the wild here, only humming bird hawk moths, and they are amazing enough. Agree with Dpack, a photo if you can please.

Lowri, I am sure some sightings are of large cats with the distance difficult to judge, but if the paw print we saw and have a picture of was of a domestic cat, it had very outsized feet.


re close encounters of the second kind dick's one had canine teeth a lot bigger than the average puss cat
the wreckage suggested a beasty of puma size and hunting style.

a rather odd aside , most puma sized cats pounce, adjust themselves, grip and choke by mouth to windpipe.
they tend not to go for things much stronger than them as the wriggling can get messy.
dick's one could drop a 30 or 40 kg deer with very little sign of a struggle
i'm pretty sure it wasnt tiddles on pcp

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 18 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jam Lady, your humming birds sound sensible going south for the winter, from what you have posted of your winters. Lovely to see in the summer though.

Lowri, I am pretty sure it was a bigger cat than domestic, as it had the normal number of toes and the size of cat and paw print matched.

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 18 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

while out with the hounds i found a large thistle gall which is my first sighting of that type in york .
a little smaller than a golf ball but a pretty good size for a little thistle and, i assume, a moderate size wasp.

i dont know what species it is but i did get a snap so if i can work out how to get a phone to talk to a steampunk pooter i will show n tell

buzzy



Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 18 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Probably from one of the Picture-winged Flies (Urophora species). The really large galls have more than one larva inside, if I understand the book correctly.

Henry

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 18 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

thanks the bulgy gall in the snap looks very much like the one i saw .

not a wasp , a fly.
i spose they have exploited quite a few resources over the years

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 18 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My daughter came face-to-face with this in my in-laws' garden in Alsace a few days ago. It rather obligingly held still while she came to get me and my camera. Rather a privilege to see one up so close!


sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 18 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Great picture. What make of owl is it?

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 18 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ditto

buzzy



Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 18 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) I should say.


Great find, and great picture.


Henry

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 18 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yep - long-eared owl. Had a juvenile with it, too, but that one wasn't quite so happy to pose!

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 18 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Great picture. They will only usually stay still when you haven't got a camera, so you were lucky. Pity about the juvenile, but that is more typical owl behaviour.

sgt.colon



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 18 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's because youngsters are twits.

Sorry!

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 18 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


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