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I cannot think of a link with Land Rover's... this is well off topic so forgive me, but I snapped these today from outside my office. Very pleased to have the red's coming back.
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Red squirrels. Great.
We've got frogs and a hedgehog and, unfortunately, the ubiquitous pesky wood pigeon.
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In my part of Norfolk we just has these.
There's supposed to be some reds in the Thetford Forest, but I've never seen any.
:squirrel
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I see this quite regularly in the garden...
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In my part of Norfolk we just has these.
There's supposed to be some reds in the Thetford Forest, but I've never seen any.
:squirrel
good to eat :essen or feed to ferrets lol
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Grey squirrels here, though down in Santa Cruz I've seen some black ones. My trail cams caught gray foxes for the last couple of years and then in Jan this year they disappeared. Joy as I caught one again on the cam last week! Bobcats eat foxes and there are at least 2 of them in the neighborhood.
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We have a fair few Pine Marten here, they keep squirrel numbers down.... and some other residents. ( £60 Trail camera, birthday present at the start of the year, site down the river a bit, baited with chopped carrot every so often).
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Grey squirrels here, though down in Santa Cruz I've seen some black ones. My trail cams caught gray foxes for the last couple of years and then in Jan this year they disappeared. Joy as I caught one again on the cam last week! Bobcats eat foxes and there are at least 2 of them in the neighborhood.
Hi there, the grey's are a north American import. Red's are/were the indigeneous UK squirrel. As I understand it, the Victorian's seem to think it was a good idea to introduce the grey's to the UK and since then they have taken over much of the UK. There are enclaves of red's in the North West where I live and in Scotland. I hate to say it, but the red's are really charming and the grey's are... not! Sorry.
Importing Japanese knotweed seemed like another great idea from the Victorian's
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These guys are living rent free under the hardtops down the bottom of the garden.
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There are red squirrels on the Isle of Wight. I've seen them. As far as I know there are no greys there.
Greys are affectionately known as tree rats here. They carry squirrel pox which doesn't affect them but it does the reds.
Rewilding is another brain dead idea, somewhat like the Victorian ideas.
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Importing Japanese knotweed seemed like another great idea from the Victorian's
... and Rhododendron bushes :timber
Apparently there's (or was) a bounty for greys in the Lake District.
I've seen pub menu boards up there with (grey) squirrel pie & squirrel stew :essen
:RHD
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According to what I've read, greys can live 6 years in the wild. I didn't think it was that long.
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Don't think we'll ever get reds back down this far south despite our best efforts. I've shot 51 greys this year in a very small area and they keep on coming! Gone are the days of the police paying you per tail.
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Only rabbits, foxes and badgers on my cam (not at the same time), but I did catch some snipe digging their beaks in the grass one night
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Hi,
Seeing as the title says "wildlife" ...
I once ran over an adder ... it shot across the road outside my house, in front of one of my S1s.
I stopped, and got out to have a shufti ... big jet of blood from out of it's mouth, but it was still out to get me. I didn't hang around to argue.
Nowadays, I prefer not to kill things, possibly because my best mate was killed by a shotgun, in his back garden, in Tooting Bec (South London)
602
Overtaken by George ... I too (once) shot a grey, in Croydon, the .177 slug went right through him. My BSA air rifle was, I suspect, "weapon quality", probably from WW1.
And now Worf. I chased a mouse round our bungalow on Penang, eventually caught it in a bean tin. Barbara climbed down from the sofa, took a look in the can. She took a look at the terrified beastie ... "Aaah! Don't hurt it!!"
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We have the plain ol' Fox squirrels in our yard, raised one from a new born once.
Possums and skunks frequently pass through our yard and we are seeing more armadillos passing through as well.
We use to have a family of foxes living behind my woodshed.
However - we do have a mountain lion living near by, it walks through our yard periodically. Ran into him a couple years ago when I was leaving our yard and he was entering it.
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The owner of the boot must have moved....haven't seen him for awhile.
.W.
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Hi,
that photo above reminds me of a cartoon that appeared in John Bull magazine in the 1950 ...
... two python type snakes having a chat. One was the normal snake shape, while the other was more "womanly" (36-24-36). The caption read ...
"It must be something I ate!".
My mate (early teens) had a young python, to which he presented a white mouse, once a week. The speed that snake could go from "inert", to "wrapped round the mouse" was scarey.
602
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The snake in the previous picture ate a hare. This one killed and tried to eat a wallaby, but by the time it got to the front legs rigor mortis had set in and the legs wouldn't bend back. All pictures were taken within 20m of my front door.
.W.
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I've got S2 content, the back of my 109 is even with my front porch.
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What is it ?
.W.
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Puma or mountain lion not sure what name you hear them called. I get them on my cam about every 3 months, sometimes a pair, once a mom an cub. They eat peoples dogs or housecats they let out at night. Not to mention the deer.
You might find these websites interesting;
http://www.santacruzpumas.org/
http://www.bapp.org/puma-sighting-map
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Puma or mountain lion not sure what name you hear them called. I get them on my cam about every 3 months, sometimes a pair, once a mom an cub. They eat peoples dogs or housecats they let out at night. Not to mention the deer.
You might find these websites interesting;
http://www.santacruzpumas.org/
http://www.bapp.org/puma-sighting-map
Have you heard the female mountain lion/pumas mailing call? Will chill your blood and raise the hair on the nape of your neck.
Had it happen here. Even a passing police officer on his way home that a woman was being r***d and flayed alive. The entire police force was called out, as well as the County Sheriff's officers. They search our back property and the high school sports fields behind us. After a couple hours they called it off. About 2 in the morning SWMBO figured out what it was when she found an audio recording of it online. Freaked the police out a bit. Then I reminded them - if she was making a mating call, that meant there was a male out there as well.
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Naw, the keep pretty quiet around here, I've heard the foxes making a racket though. There is some sort of bird at night I'd like to identify making a trilling type call.
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Have you heard the female mountain lion/pumas mailing call? Will chill your blood and raise the hair on the nape of your neck....
Some mail system :-)
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Genocache
In the UK I have a great app on my phone to identify birdsong.
It's called Birdnet and it was funded by the EU so I don't know if it will be any use for you but there must be something similar for US birds.
Good luck
BW
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Birdnet should cover North America as well. It uses data from both regions.
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Some mail system :-)
I caught that - after it was too late to change it. I really hate these auto correct systems.
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Genocache
In the UK I have a great app on my phone to identify birdsong.
It's called Birdnet and it was funded by the EU so I don't know if it will be any use for you but there must be something similar for US birds.
Good luck
BW
BW, You can hear it at 1:06 on this video; https://youtu.be/8tBK55p3sTk
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Genocache
What a great video, I have listened to the birdsong at least 10 times but I can't identify it. It sounds a little like a dove/pigeon to me but I certainly wouldn't put money on it.
If you do find out, can you let me know please.
Good luck
BW
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Hi
I responded to a cry for help on the DIFFLOCK forum. Bloke with an S2 diesel wondering why it wouldn't do more than 45mph. We got chatting as you do... he told me he flew a 5ft wingspan model Spitfire, use to follow the adventures of Fred Basset, and went into the hills looking for rare breeds.
I asked him what rare beasties he went looking for?
"Tigers!"
"Ah! Er, where are you"?
"Mumbai!"
I knew he was a vegetarian, so I asked if he was Hindu .... ?
Close, but he was actually a JAIN. (I done a Google Wow!) Actually, he's a very naughty boy. I asked if BLONDE jokes had spread to India. He replied that they didn't have blondes in India, but a girl in their gang had dyed her hair blonde ... but when they went swimming it was obvious that she wasn't blonde. ???
One day, phone rang, Barbara answered ... screamed it was Ritul calling. He was driving up the M1 (?) heading for Liverpool. Seemed very impressed with the traffic. His family make gears, and he'd come to buy a gear cutting machine.
We corresponded for a spell, but that faded away at the same rate as my PC. I must try to make contact again.
Last I heard, he was driving a 110, and his father had told him it was time he got married.
602
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BW, You can hear it at 1:06 on this video; https://youtu.be/8tBK55p3sTk
Sounds like an owl.
Just found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4C4U70Ajc
(except your will probably be the Western one)
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Me? I hate "wildlife"!
Dozens of rabbits (that "breed like humans") dig holes in my lawn.
Families of badgers undermine the banks of my watercourse and totally dam it. Then they plough up huge areas of my lawn, just like pigs. >:D
Foxes bark/shriek outside my bedroom window at night.
The moles.... Well you know what moles do!
Pigeons make a terrible racket on my roof at 5am on a summers morning. And then defecate on every surface they can find.
The muntjac deer (another unwanted import) eat off eveything in my garden they can reach.
Then the fallow deer come in and strip everything else - destroying countless trees in the process!
Wildlife is best left to the soppy programmes on the TV where animals are given cutesie names and adoring voiceovers. :sleep
But trees.
Trees are a different matter.
And they hate wildlife too! :-X
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Sounds like an owl.
Just found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4C4U70Ajc
(except your will probably be the Western one)
Worf, It does sound like that and we do have owls, I thought they just did whoooo,......whoooo.....
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Well done Worf!
Yep sounds like your owl to me.
The whooooo whoooo!!! sound is a series land rover owner managing to start their vehicle without shedding tears!
Good luck
BW
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Can anyone recommend a good (and reasonably priced) trail cam that is easy to use?
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Mine is a £60 job, a Victure HC200. Fairly simple to use and fairly decent results. I suspect there are more expensive ones with more sensitivity, faster reactions but it works for me. The video clips are too big to post...
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Me? I hate "wildlife"!
Dozens of rabbits (that "breed like humans") dig holes in my lawn.
Families of badgers undermine the banks of my watercourse and totally dam it. Then they plough up huge areas of my lawn, just like pigs. >:D
Foxes bark/shriek outside my bedroom window at night.
The moles.... Well you know what moles do!
Pigeons make a terrible racket on my roof at 5am on a summers morning. And then defecate on every surface they can find.
The muntjac deer (another unwanted import) eat off eveything in my garden they can reach.
Then the fallow deer come in and strip everything else - destroying countless trees in the process!
Wildlife is best left to the soppy programmes on the TV where animals are given cutesie names and adoring voiceovers. :sleep
But trees.
Trees are a different matter.
And they hate wildlife too! :-X
Sounds like you need to buy some guns! Best type of shopping alongside land rovers and chainsaws.
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I've have a few brands, Moultrie, Browning and Muddy, The Muddy's take good pic, but are 'orrible to program and are the least expensive at $33USD. Also if locked to whatever they need to be unlocked everytime you check the SD card, PIA when you do it everyday.
The Moultrie's were my first cams at around $125USD and easy enough to program and take good pics and videos, with a .7sec trigger speed they can miss a running animal going through the frame, but sometimes there are no pics on them in 24hr. Looking on the web I'm not the only one and the company likes to cite the wrong batteries or a too large SD card for the issue. WTF?
My Browning are dead simple to program, have the fastest trigger speed, .3sec, and do great images and cost the most at $150USD. I have one at the mailbox and caught a mail thief last year, it takes 10 sec videos and gets between 80 and 125 a day the 8 alkaline batteries last around a month.
Trail cams like bicycles, you get what you pay for. I have found Trailcampros.com to be a good website for information and sales. I'm not affiliated.
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Hi,
A few weeks ago, I saw a baby hedgehog in the road outside my house. I went to say hullo, but he didn't want to stop and chat .. disappeared into a neighbours garden.
A few hours later, I found him in my garden ... dead ... with his face torn off. Cat? Dog? Hawk? I can't remember when, if ever, I saw a cat in this neighbourhood, and never a dog that wasn't on a leash.
The women in my life keep telling me to cut a hedgehog port in my forthcoming fence, but I'm not sure how Wilkie will react, or more to the point, will he damage a hedgehog?
602
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Reminds me when Dad painted white dots on The Hedge Hogs he fed, to tell them apart.
It stopped when her saw No 3 Squashed by car.
Being a wildlife Carer here in Aus, Rare, cute endangered small mammals ID'ed by members of the public end up being Rats.
One Lady had a Cute little Sugar Glider in her bra to keep warm. Couldn't get it out quick enough when it real identity was reveled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider
whitehillbilly
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I dislike badgers. They are destructive pests that will ruin a garden overnight. There used to be a set under my neighbours shed and every night both our gardens were wrecked, Eventually when the set was empty it was filled in and they haven't been back. Badgers are fine in the wild but they are not town and city creatures, it just that they have good PR people.
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Thanks for the tips - i'll get a camera ordered to see what chaos is occuring in the garden at night!
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Hi,
There was (is?) a small zoo near Neath (south Wales).
Somebody threw a sandwich crust into the badger pit. The Macaw got the sandwich. The badger got the macaw.
I regard badgers as a sort of small bear.
602
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Hi,
There was (is?) a small zoo near Neath (south Wales).
Somebody threw a sandwich crust into the badger pit. The Macaw got the sandwich. The badger got the macaw.
I regard badgers as a sort of small bear.
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Are you thinking of Penscynor Wildlife Park 602 if so long gone, oh the badger is more related to the weasel. :cheers
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Hi Maindy,
Yep! Penyscynor. I lived in Ynysmeudwy (Pontardawe), and then Glynneath, before heading for Milton Keynes.
Are you familiar with the tow-path along the Neath Canal? I'd be walking my German Shepherd along the tow-path, on a leash. Suddenly, a bicycle wheel would appear between me and the dog, but couldn't go any further because of the leash.
"EXCUSE ME!" would demand a cantankerous (and brave) old biddy.
602
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Not familiar with the area 602 but spent a lot of time visiting when my daughter was small as she was fond of the wildlife park, she is in her thirties now,also up until the virus i would go to the angel in Pontneddfechan for a meal after a walk up to the falls, a lovely part of the country.
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she is in her thirties
Hi Maindy,
My daughter is not far off retiring.
Barbara still claims to be younger than our daughter.
602
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Hi,
In our back garden we have metal tree, festooned with bags of wild bird seed. pidgeons, magpies and squadrons of starlings, but rare tits, and a very rare robin. Occasionally a solitary crow.
But we do have a daily visit from a grey, that romps along the top of our fence, and jumps five feet (1500mm) onto the bird tree, and tucks in.
How can a squirrel climb a smooth steel pipe?
602
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Sounds like you need to buy some guns! Best type of shopping alongside land rovers and chainsaws.
I agree.
I have Land Rovers, chainsaws and guns.
However, one particular not-rare-at-all vandalising mammal is heavily protected by law.... :shakeinghead
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Thought I'd post up last nights visitor. For S2 content you can see my wind vane in the piccy. Oh by the way the 3 turkeys were not around this morning neither was the doe and 2 fawns. One of my neighbors drove by while the lion was in my driveway.
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I can't hope to match that, up here in Scotland, but here is a regular visitor to my yard - a Roe Deer which is very fond of our shrubbery. The S2a is just out of shot on the RHS. Just behind the second Roe Deer and behind the Volvo 945
Ian F
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Do the spiders in my Series 3 count as wildlife?
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Do the spiders in my Series 3 count as wildlife?
That depends, do they ever buy the beer?
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Thought I'd post up last nights visitor. For S2 content you can see my wind vane in the piccy. Oh by the way the 3 turkeys were not around this morning neither was the doe and 2 fawns. One of my neighbors drove by while the lion was in my driveway.
We have one of them living behind our place. Have you heard their mating call yet?
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We have one of them living behind our place. Have you heard their mating call yet?
Nope the have around a 60sqmi territory.
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That depends, do they ever buy the beer?
Or bring their own…
Richard
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That depends, do they ever buy the beer?
No, unfortunately, they just enjoy the ride.
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Nope the have around a 60sqmi territory.
If you ever get the chance to hear it, it'll make your skin crawl. Sounds like something out of a horror movie. When it happened here the police got involved - everyone thought something horrendous was happening.
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Here's our cheeky visitor ....
:squirrel
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Photo of the month??
Ian F
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Not sure what's taken up residence in our back lawn... but the whole is big enough for our mutt to go inside.
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Photo of the month??
Ian F
Yes, but there's no Land Rover content :thud