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[Hurdity]

Wild Birds? Nature? 

We have 17 early purple orchid flower spikes up on our wild grassland!!! Thrushes are singing merrily

Hurdity x

[Two hoots]

The thread has taken a detour into the call of nature today 

[CLKD]

"Izal" ...........

Try not to kill spiders  1 can buy a gadget from Lakeland.  After I had breast disease and recovered I swore not to kill much - apart from flies and rats ........

[Joaniepat]

  You're on good form Two hoots!

[Hurdity]

The thread has taken a detour into the call of nature today 

 

It's one of the few threads in the chat bit of the forum I look at if there have been new posts when I've been away from the forum to read about what birds and insects and plants members have been seeing so I couldnt work out what was going on and kept having to scroll back!!!

Hurdity x

[jillydoll]

Oh very good two hoots, just read back,
and just got it.
Talk about slow....

Jd x

[CLKD]

 . where's Daisydot gone 

[Taz2]

I've seen our buzzards 'standing' still in the air but not seem them hovering with their wings quivering fast like a kestrel or humming bird does.

Taz x

[CLKD]

The RSPB web-site is not monitored, they are not responsible for the comments put there.

Maybe take some video of the buzzard Hasty and send it to Autumn/Spring Watch Team, they can then come and have a look-see - you might become famous. 

[CLKD]

We had buzzards in mid-Wales when we lived on the snow line in the 1980s.  We were there when the red kites were re-introduced.  Most birds of prey are lazy.  I flew Harris Hawks for a while, they are so lazy that they hunt in packs  .  No loyalty, only to what is on the glove.

I found a dragon fly larvae this afternoon - hopefully it won't eat *all* the tadpoles  - they are ferocious, larvae, not the tadpoles.

Sent a message to Chris Packham's management team  - got a message back that they don't answer queries about hawks but to send via Twitter what ever that is  .  Won't.  Can't.  Will have to grab him or one of the other 'experts' at Bird Fair and ply with questions 

[Kernow]

Today I stood about 2 feet from a heron...we regarded each other and I found it amazing to take in every detail.
That's the thing with nature isn't it? Simple things...sitting on a cliff overlooking the sea..a lazy caterpillar ambles by...a gannet dives at sea..a pod of dolphins make their appearance..all a joy.
And yet just to see the antics of the birds arriving in the garden, the blackbird awakening me in the morning..life would be very poor without these wonderful creatures.
I once went to Gozo off Malta..I would never return..not one bird did I see, no birdsong..they trap the migrating birds most cruelly...you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

[CLKD]

Yep Malta does not have a good reputation for looking after migrating birds!  Do you go to the Bird Fair at Rutland Water?  Have a look-see at their web-site.

There are few trees on Malta = not many birds.

I'm feeding robins: 2 adults and a baby.  One of the adults refuses to fly away unless I feed 3 meal worms  . I found a very small moth on the clematis earlier ......... really really tiny.  I was taught to stand, listen and watch 

[jillydoll]

Lazing on settee this afternoon,
nearly got stung by a big bloody wasp!!!
Heeelllppppppp, don't know where it's gone.....lol 

Suppose we'll find it later. (Or feel it...lol) 

[CLKD]

We haven't seen a large hornet on the ponds yet this year.  Several wasps.  Tadpoles are growing.  Damsel fly larvae present.  Another fish has a wound on her back  .  Robin is at mh feet, searching for meal worms  >pauses to throw a handful in his direction<

Air is buzzing gently with insects.  Neighbours however are throwing bottles into a bin, slamming the shed doors, clapping hands trying ti stop the dog barking 

[jillydoll]

Errrrrr who needs neighbours! 
OH wants to go live on a desert island,
He would as well.