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  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,708
    Aww, a lovely photo @steephill
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,921
    Fantastic!
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    edited September 2023
    Liriodendron said:
    Caught on camera yesterday evening, coming out of his summer residence under the shed:



    - and seen on the house wall this morning:



    I believe it's Dicranopalpus ramosus, a Harvestman spider not native to Ireland or Britain, but becoming more common.  Those legs look a positive liability...
    @Liriodendron ,    Think I would have run a mile if I'd seen that😱 What a monster.....
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Saw a hummingbird hawk moth exploring the flowers on the verbena bonariensis outside my kitchen window yesterday! Very exciting!
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Us innuendo lovers have been waiting years for this to happen
    A red-footed booby, native to the Galápagos Islands, was spotted on top of Bishop Rock Lighthouse on Monday, with a brown booby at the bottom steps.
    Lucy McRobert, from the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, said having a "pair of boobies" at one location was an "unbelievable sighting".

    Big fan of Lucy's work B)



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • CrankyYankeeCrankyYankee Posts: 504
    Almost stepped on this little guy...

    None of the close ups came out - wrong lens for the job!

    New England, USA
    Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've just had a weekend away doing wildlife watching. I had a really great time and saw loads of cool stuff but one of my main plans was to go to the coast and try to find some interesting seabirds to add to my bird list. One of the main ones I wanted to see was a Shag (make your own jokes) but all I could find were Cormorants. This one was so close to me that I couldn't get it all in the photo. It was only when I uploaded this photo to iNaturalist that the AI system told me that this actually is a Shag and I'm just so crap at bird ID that I can't tell the difference when it's only a couple of metres away :# 

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,921
    Looks more like an immature Cormorant to me. The forehead doesn't look right for Shag. 
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    LunarSea said:
    Looks more like an immature Cormorant to me. The forehead doesn't look right for Shag. 
    That's what fooled me but it's been backed up by some people who seem to know their stuff. The RSPB profile shows a similar juvenile too https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/shag  Apparently there are over twice as many Shags as Cormorants in this country and at sea the proportion is higher again. I'd always assumed it was the other way around.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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