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dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 20 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ai individual recognition gets a mention along with the what species thing.


Jam Lady



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 20 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mistress Rose, very good! It is in the horse chestnut family. Native to southeastern USA, bottlebrush buckeye is a large, suckering shrub. I raised this one from seed. We moved it here when we came to New Jersey a couple of decades ago. It was in one of the half-dozen or so wardrobe cartons that were filled with shrubs, first off moving truck. I like the fact that it is summer flowering. Butterflies like it too. And this summer there are numerous tiny metallic bright little insects, unknown to me, busily visiting.

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 20 7:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I looked it up as I was totally unfamiliar with it, and saw that it is native to the southeastern USA, which is probably why we don't have it here. I suspect the weather might be wrong for it as we are cool and damp. As I knew the 'red horse chestnut' was a buckeye, and with the latin name, it came up on the search engine.

Dpack, it seems you are on the right track with your sparrow ID. Nice to know that this is recognised by ornithologists, but that most rely on AI rather than constant observation as you do.

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 20 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

the amount of fruit on the brambles has made any observations let alone constant ones a bit tricky

there is more bush than airspace at the mo

the sammisons had a visitation from a ratty troll on friday night/sat morning(friday was bin day round here but another refurb has been started as well as the pub reopening)

i have not seen it since but neither have i seen a sammison

the sparrows are between broods at the mo, clutches seem to stick together for quite a while, the missing may be fallen or moved to a new colony although i have not noticed any external ones joining this colony like they do in winter/early spring

mr and mrs brack are only feeding themselves at the mo, the two little brackets are still around but not "resident"

not seen grin much for a while, or a pair of grins teaching young grin, it might be that now there are more people in the city centre there is more food for pigeons(they looked quite bewildered at a lockdown town and moved out to forage something other than kebab rinds and pizza crusts )
more pigeons=a smaller happy hunting ground

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 20 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Judging by the number of pigeons in our and sons garden, they have moved out to suburbia.

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 20 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

the sammison saga continues

youngii ran from the wood shed, which was his home pre rat, over my foot and hid at the base of the bramble i was sitting against

well he hid apart from his tail:lol:

i provided words of comfort and a promise of protection and then stroked his tail 3 times, he was cool with that, and he smiled nicely as he carefully climbed up the bramble to wall top, then i gave him some seeds on the wall top

that was nice

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 20 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

How lovely. I must say that when we have seen wood mice foraging around in the leaves near us it has been rather nice. They totally ignore us and don't see us as a threat.

Doing a bit of observation along the track by our 'yard' have betony in flower, which is making a nice show, and not seen it there before, and some marsh cudweed Gnaphalium uliginosum. We usually get a little of that somewhere along the track. The area the betony is flowering has been lovely since the spring with violets, bugle, speedwell and now yellow pimpernel and betony.

Down the road from us, someone has a lovely display of harebells in their lawn, and the other way, they are flowering on a bank by the side of the road, so hope the contractors leave them alone. There was some scabious starting to flower on a grass patch down the road, but that has of course now been mowed as people complain if it gets 'untidy'. I have found a tiny bit of wild thyme flowering in the grass, so with any luck, that will spread. There was quite a good sized patch, but a new telephone connection box was put in, right on the largest patch, so hope it will re-establish.

dpack



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 20 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

it was a rather nice moment
i have had a few, but that one was comrade rather than "that human is no threat and it has food"
if i had met the rat first etc does not apply, it is a matter of hit the target and no collateral murder
this rat has displeased me, and them, big style

they should be settled in, having litters and storing food in their "silos"
at the mo they have an ogre living in their house and despoiling their granary

dpack



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 20 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

if you go down to the woods...



the report suggests a pizza mistake, i recon it was planning on ordering pizza

buzzy



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 20 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



Henry

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 20 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes, I saw that yesterday. Apparently not thought as odd in Germany as the UK, as nude sunbathing is regarded as fairly normal, so probably less embarrassing to all than if it had happened here. Must say though, that when I was a teenager visiting Germany, I did find the sight of an obvious German businessman in lederhosen somewhat amusing to be going on with.

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 20 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

moths ate my denazified lederhosen

naked is not an issue

a wild boar and piglets+the public sort of getting on with their own thing is ace.

i climbed a tree when i was fairly sure that some of them were after my food in the forest of dean, we did not meet

a long time ago a BG GEN told me the most terrifying thing he had ever experienced was a wild boar bursting out of a bush at him, he was good with a gun but it had stayed with him for 40 yrs

big up to the plump naked German chap, pretty much how i dealt with a 'pool robber on a bus in 1979
ps i was clothed that time

how R, M and me did naked with mr prescott and his minder was

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 20 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The wild boar running through the public and people not scattering surprised me, as I had always understood that boar were dangerous. As far as I know we don't have them round here at the moment, but they are on all sides of us, so wouldn't be surprised if they turn up sooner or later. Must say I would be a little more wary about wandering around the woods if they did, but it would certainly make the dog walkers think if signs went up warning them about wild boar. Some let their dogs just wander, and if they are in the same wood as the owner it is a miracle. A wet nose in the back of the neck when about to fell a tree is a little off putting, but owners often just 'don't see a problem' if you yell at said dog or them.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 20 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

just as you bend down with a felling lever would be a bit off putting

re boar afaik they are protective of the tribe but a foraging one will scamper rather than attack, so the circumstances of the encounter make a lot of difference

iirc ty gwyn's piggies are quite boarish and he finds them sweeties to work with, i knew somebody in wales with a fenced 7 acre site and a sidearm fac.

it might be how they expect to be treated that determines their demeanour

i can see how the scene would appeal to the german sense of humour, a naked bloke chasing a pig is prime time telly

re boars in parks etc human and piggy are both used to it and seem to have few problems as they are familiar with meeting
surprising a family of them that are not used to humans or cornering one in a bush is very different

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 20 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes. There was a woman on RC who kept wild boar, or wild boar crosses, and apart from being good escape artists, they behaved quite well. I remember a post of hers from years ago which concerned her chasing some adolescent wild boar round and round a tractor followed by a dog and a cockerel, then turning round to confront them and the cockerel shooting up in the air. Still makes me smile. Ty Gwyn probably remembers the post and knows her as I think they live not far apart. She did post on here for a short time, but can't remember what name she used.

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