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 Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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 Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Mar 18, 20 4:50 am Subject: Wildlife |
Cool tail. How big is he?
Slightly bigger than a sparrow. There's always at least two flitting around the garden. They're pretty tame, too - whenever I water the flowerbeds they follow me around sna ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Mar 17, 20 9:34 am Subject: Wildlife |
Got a few snaps of one of our yellow-rumped bulbuls. He was busy serenading the ladies from one of the neighbour's trees. Managed to catch a shot of him showing off his tail feathers, too!
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Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Mar 17, 20 9:31 am Subject: Wildlife |
nice snaps, the silverbills are rather elegant
i do not know what mynahs are like in the wild, tame and captive ones are better at language and mimicry than parrots.
they get phrases easily and se ... |
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Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Mar 17, 20 9:30 am Subject: Wildlife |
Are the sparrows indigenous, as it seems odd that you get them along with birds we think of as exotic?
Sparrows seem to be endemic wherever in the world you go! Whether they've spread themselves ov ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sun Mar 15, 20 6:09 am Subject: Wildlife |
This is one of our Indian silverbills, hiding in one of our palm trees:
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| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sun Mar 15, 20 3:40 am Subject: Wildlife |
| That's their natural plummage - still a bit fluffy, as they're bairns, but pretty much the full adult colour now. I guess they match the house because the house is painted the same colour as the deser ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Mar 12, 20 9:29 am Subject: Wildlife |
They look lovely. What is the nest built in as it looks man made?
The metal flaps behind are the louvres on the outside of the extractor fan for our bathroom  Fortunately, we don't need to ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Mar 12, 20 4:35 am Subject: Wildlife |
Looks like our baby laughing doves will be ready to leave the nest soon:
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| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Mar 05, 20 12:14 pm Subject: Wildlife |
That was my tactic, too - hanging feeder on a wire from the apple tree in the garden and a headshot from the upstairs window with the lawn as a backstop. .177 air rifle was more than up to the job.
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| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Mar 05, 20 3:35 am Subject: Wildlife |
they would find a suitable corner and wiggle tiles loose to get in or gnaw through the soffit and facias
Yep - they are buggers for that. Much better in a stew than in the attic. |
| Topic: Landscaping project |
Shane
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Feb 25, 20 3:31 am Subject: Landscaping project |
| Did the wood pass? |
| Topic: trebuchet to space? |
Shane
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed Feb 19, 20 5:38 am Subject: trebuchet to space? |
| Would bring a whole new meaning to the term "crash test dummies" |
| Topic: camera for bee, wasp and hoverfly id? |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Mon Jan 06, 20 4:44 am Subject: camera for bee, wasp and hoverfly id? |
| Good to see the project is progressing. If you start getting into the video side of things, it might be worth looking into a fluid head for the tripod - you can get a decent one for not too much money ... |
| Topic: Problem Radiator |
Shane
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed Dec 04, 19 3:38 am Subject: Problem Radiator |
| Does the problem radiator have a thermostatic valve? Could be that the valve is malfunctioning if it's just the one rad that's having an issue. |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Shane
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Oct 08, 19 4:01 am Subject: Wildlife |
a pot of peanuts
Always best to put your peanuts in a wire cage feeder as birds - especially babies - can easily choke on whole peanuts. |
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