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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There are some inspiring bug photos here.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    star gaze lily said:
    I was only joking! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
    Sorry!
    My main wildlife is the birds visiting. Dave is the regular. Jumping up the back steps to the door is about the only exercise he gets   ;)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087
    Not garden wildlife but who can tell me what these well camouflaged waders are?


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    What size are their beaks/bills? 
    Sandpiper of some kind maybe? 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087
    Short and straight so I thought sandpipers too but really don't know about seabirds.
     
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Turnstone for the dark ones, sanderling for the light ones?
  • Anna33Anna33 Posts: 316
    Fire said:
    There are some inspiring bug photos here.

    Thank you for this - these are beautiful. I love macro photography and insects (knowing only a smidgen about each, though), so this is perfect.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    steephill said:
    Turnstone for the dark ones
    The pigeons of the seaside. You often see them picking up crumbs around peoples' feet in seaside towns. They turn more pasty crusts than stones.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087
    Thanks for the IDs.   No crumbs round feet in resorts here but then the whole set up here is different.  They are such busy little birds, all year round, running back and forth on the edge of the water.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lovely though. Not my area of expertise @Obelixx - anything to do with the sea.
    I knew some of 'the boys' would come to the rescue   ;)

    'Turn more pasty crumbs than stones' - there's a phrase you don't hear every day @wild edges   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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