canuckblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Sound familiar to anyone?
Wildlife in your Garden
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Sound familiar to anyone?
sdk
Player Valuation: £35m
Springtime brings an onslaught of vicious pocket-sized creatures to eastern Massachusetts. Beware!
I was mowing the other day and scared up another tiny bunny, which I then chased into the bushes to ensure I wouldn't inadvertently run him down.
I thank Philip Larkin for the warning he issued in "The Mower," which immediately came to mind:
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
I was mowing the other day and scared up another tiny bunny, which I then chased into the bushes to ensure I wouldn't inadvertently run him down.
I thank Philip Larkin for the warning he issued in "The Mower," which immediately came to mind:
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
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For the second time in the last 4 days, I had to release this stoopid young squirrel from inside my 'squirrel proof' bird feeder this morning.
Here he is a few minutes later and looking none the worse for his stupidity. lol
Here he is a few minutes later and looking none the worse for his stupidity. lol
....seen this Fella around here in West Derby the last 6 weeks or so. Took this pic this morning on a roof a few doors up from me, not sure what it is but the Magpies always chase him off;
It’s a Grey Heron, one of your neighbours must have a garden pond with fish in.
They're rather partial to goldfish !
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
what did it sound like?
Like a Cuckoo lol
Sassy Colombian
Member: Team PoP
Just noticed this morning that we have a new guest living under our garden shed, a groundhog. Which freaks me out because they can do so much damage to a garden. I wasn’t able to take a pic of him this morning but hopefully once we trap him I take a shot of the prisoner lol
In the UK gardening we found lovely earth worms planting in the moist soil - fed them to my KOI Carp in my pond plus goldfish yum yum free food for them natural food ...... 
This years dogs/vixens onlt 2 spotted so far, there was 4 last year.
So what you see here is the remains of an aphid, it's body attached to a podium created by a braconid wasp. This tiny parastic wasp finds a target host and deposits an egg inside it. This egg will be dormant until the host is big enough for the larva to hatch and then the wasp larva feeds on the insides of said host.
Eventually, the parasitic wasp will emerge and fly away and so nature goes on...
Paul.
Eventually, the parasitic wasp will emerge and fly away and so nature goes on...
Paul.