What wildlife did you spot today?

[demented dale]

Magpie at the base of my bird feeders.

Magpie Bird Facts (Pica pica)

A long-tailed corvid with striking black and white plumage, the Magpie is one of the world's most intelligent birds and the source of many superstitions.

birdfact.com

Wish iD seen the pigeons using my car roof as a toilet !

i read al those magpie facts. great stuff. a few things i didnt know. thanks .

 

[demented dale]

This little chappie came to visit…..

fab. i used to train a buzzard. i named him leyton
ps can you give any buzzard facts Dave? x

 

[demented dale]

A little cucumber spider.

fab. have you got facts? great photos btw. x

 

[William_Montgomery]

fab. have you got facts? great photos btw. x

Not specific to the cucumber spider, but apparently spider silk was used to create cross-hairs on telescopes.

 

[demented dale]

Not specific to the cucumber spider, but apparently spider silk was used to create cross-hairs on telescopes.

Well I never! That is a fantastic fact and I'm chuffed to bits with that one. I found out some more in this link below. x
https://owlcation.com/stem/The-patriotic-black-widow-spiders-of-World-War-II

 

[forrestdweller]

cool, did you say you were a guide? bush craft? tourists? wildlife ???? x

occasional guide for tourists (national park and nearby private property which includes bowdrill demo ), still stuck in paperwork to obtain my license...

no special wildlife today, just the normal hummingbirds, herons/ egrets etc. along river and poison dart frogs outside my door (i don't know how to "milk" them. yet...)

 

[forrestdweller]

Not specific to the cucumber spider, but apparently spider silk was used to create cross-hairs on telescopes.

and early sniper rifle scopes iirc -- judging from our local spiders easy to believe (they like to put their nets at head hight across the trails in the jungle...), one spider in New Guinea produces nets strong enough to catch small fish...

 

[demented dale]

occasional guide for tourists (national park and nearby private property which includes bowdrill demo ), still stuck in paperwork to obtain my license...

no special wildlife today, just the normal hummingbirds, herons/ egrets etc. along river and poison dart frogs outside my door (i don't know how to "milk" them. yet...)

intersting. i made a blowpipe once lol and looked into poisons. I think the most lethal ones were from borneo. x

 

[C_Claycomb]

Was out on Saturday and saw a pair of house martins flying over Pitsford Water. Saw the other usual stuff, great crested grebes, swans, geese, various ducks etc.

Also, in the days since posting about the water deer behind my house I have seen a muntjac and last evening saw a pair of roe bucks in velvet.

Don't molest frogs! It seems the only frogs that are doing well are cane toads!

Amphibian 'apocalypse' caused by most destructive pathogen ever

The first-ever global tally of the disease's toll reveals that it caused declines in at least 501 frog and salamander species.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[forrestdweller]

some european

intersting. i made a blowpipe once lol and looked into poisons. I think the most lethal ones were from borneo. x

some european plants are suitable for making arrow poison, too

Antiaris Toxicaria is the tree used in Borneo to poison blowpipe darts -- not sure how strong it is, but the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates Terribliis)from Colombia is strong enough to kill 30 people and iirc you can't even touch it bare-handed...

 

[demented dale]

some european

some european plants are suitable for making arrow poison, too

Antiaris Toxicaria is the tree used in Borneo to poison blowpipe darts -- not sure how strong it is, but the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates Terribliis)from Colombia is strong enough to kill 30 people and iirc you can't even touch it bare-handed...

brilliant. i'm on ebay now x

 

[demented dale]

brilliant. i'm on ebay now x

ps
What European plants are toxic? x

 

[C_Claycomb]

brilliant. i'm on ebay now x

ps
What European plants are toxic? x

If someone knows you and knows you are just joking, that is funny as hell. If they don't, its not funny at all.

Lets not take a thread about wildlife spotting off topic with a further detour into blow pipes and related poisons.

 

[demented dale]

If someone knows you and knows you are just joking, that is funny as hell. If they don't, its not funny at all.

Lets not take a thread about wildlife spotting off topic with a further detour into blow pipes and related poisons.

. I am interested in everything so going off topic is easily done,
just to add though when I posted this I specifically asked have you got any interesting facts and someone saw a poison arrow frog and shared about poisons so its not that far removed and we can have a giggle. x

 

[Nice65]

Here, hare, here.

Was a couple of days ago but only just got round to uploading. Not as clear as it is if I watch it from my album, but hereharehere.

 

[Robbi]

Blow pipes are also banned

 

[forrestdweller]

Blow pipes are also banned

not in Costa Rica although the indigenous people have moved on to firearms... sorry for some infos not exactly related to the thread, but it was meant for entertainment only -- playing with arrow poisons can easily go wrong!

to get back to the subject of the thread: last two days i saw a big female iguana, a male basilisk (a.k.a jesus christ lizard because they can run on water) various butterflies and a ton of ant lions in my kitchen (dirt floor)

 

[MikeLA]

Those pigeons again

Wood Pigeon Nesting (All You Need To Know)

As one of the UK’s most common garden birds, many people will 'likely have seen a Wood pigeon nest. The nest of a Wood Pigeon with two eggs inside. Though…

birdfact.com

 

[Woody girl]

Orange tip butterfly by the pond, havn't seen any the last couple of years, so was chuffed to bits to see it. So excited its back

 

[demented dale]

Blow pipes are also

Those pigeons again

Wood Pigeon Nesting (All You Need To Know)

As one of the UK’s most common garden birds, many people will 'likely have seen a Wood pigeon nest. The nest of a Wood Pigeon with two eggs inside. Though…

birdfact.com

wood pigeon chicks are called squabs. I never knew that. good fact. and I saw that very egg in the fact sheet on the woodland floor today, I wondered what it was and now I know. x