Published on 12, July, 2020
sometimes I get photos of Wildlife doing funny things so I thought i would do a thread specifically for that and share them with others
when I was in Wales last month I saw a blackbird being fidgety and preening and it ended up with funny hair
for today this afternoon I kept hearing two woodpigeons seemingly up to mischief and repeatedly flapping wings at each other. them outside being funny
2023
I ouldnt help it when I saw these from 2023
crow perches on the exit sign
exit this way
crow says
this way to mission possible
That is excellent, Zo! I love it.
I do remember a funny story about a squirrel.
I had been awake all night and went for a walk at first light. I am a little bit prone to hallucinations when I am tired. (Not fun or scary ones like big pink polar bears coming to get me, but more along the lines of spotting something out of the corner of my eye that isn't there)
Anyway, so I'm tired and I see this squirrel running towards me, but with bright red eyes! Like one of those rats that have red eyes. It was actually a little bit scary.
When it got closer, I realised that it was holding a stick in it's mouth with two berries on that just happened to look like they were in the location of its eyes,
I still remember this vividly 30 years later!
just testing this out first to see if it works its an acumalation of photos stiched together to create an animation. so its been converted from jpeg to a gif file
yes
I tried to do a gif once, but it didn't upload for me. If yours works, will you share how you did it?
I would of course send the you tube video but The moderators are abit iffy about youtube and seem to remove peoples links so Iv trying to turn my video into a gif to send instead
the fully booked part with the photo acompanyed is funny. did you check the links out in the end by the way
sorry for the photo delay yesterday wifi has been better today than yesterday.
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I'll try to get the thread back on track...
The photos themselves aren't funny, but the fox saw me and then backed up into the foliage. it was a funny moment for me.
They were taken July last year
Totally fine and understandable.
thanks I didnt mean to be a pain or anything its just that only those whov seen the wildlife holidaya thread would undertand the whole situation and what its all about and so I would rather continue the discussion there than on the funny thread that is the main reason I do have anothet update on the whole thing aswell
I dont know what my position is on pms yet but I dont mind people adding me on pm for me to acept or reject regardless of weather iv added them yet or not so im not going to turn down your request but not going to acept the request yet either if thats ok with you but since youv added me as a friend for pm purposes the option is there for me anyway so its good you added me jist in case cause then the option is still there and I think I prefer it this way anyway at least for now.
for the thing you said though I will respond to it on the wildlife hploday thread. I have another update so will be adding it to the thread anyway so may aswell continue the discussion there for now
when youv bookmarked a thread click on your name and it will come up with a list and in thqt list it will say bookmarks. click on bookmarks and it will show you the threads you have bookmarked. il reply to the throat comment in the relevent thread onced youv copyed and pasted it in
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I can underatand but it would be easyer for me aswell as others if we stuck to the thread the conversations were on. this thread is only for funny moments not sireous ones so changeing the topic to one discussed on a different thread would comfuse everyone including me and make it even harder to keep track of so would it be ok to bring the paragraph not related to wildlife to the relevent thread where it was discussed its about wildlife hidays but also where I decided to give an update the other thread, iv only ever discussed it on wildlife holidays. no whete else. to make things easyer you can bookmark the threads we talk on and find it in bookmarks
Wasps/Bees - wasps do annoy me, so I will look at those links. I do have a bee hotel though. It's fully booked!
(I posted that picture on the board a while back. It still looks the same today. I'll be so pleased when they come out. Those 'scratches' in the middle section are from some of the bees using the wood to help fill in the holes.)
thanks. they deserve an equal amount of respect as Humans. Wildlife have rights aswell and there all part of the cycle of life that keeps nature in balance. beetles, insects and Bumblebees are all in decline
the common kestral for instance is actualy a declining species in my county and the cause is due to the decline in the vole population that is due to ilegal poisoning and there habitats being afected.
scavengers actualy take dead animals. without them we would have alot more dead animals to clean up off the road amoung other places. every species has there own role to play.
with Kestrals there fadcinating to watch cause they hover and keep its head still in the wind and just like crows are scavengers. both are predators that keep populations under control. while some arnt very fussy like crows
even though kestrals do also eat other things a common kestrals( main diet) is actualy voles
when the vole pupulation was afected so did the predator who controls them in return
just like certain people like us can be mis understood and misrepresented so do wild animals either through media or by things like myth and superstition amoung other causes
for instance even though wasps sting not all of them do. with wasps its only females that sting. and the peak time that they bother people is summer cause that is when there diet starts to change to sweet things eventualy due to factors that ocur back at there nest that make them hungry so it is important at this time to feed themselfs so theres a very good reason and just like other wildlife its all about survival. the wasps that bother people during summer that most people are familer with is the German wasp and the common wasp.
there are also solitary wasps those ones arnt social and arnt the ones that interrupt picnics there is also solitary bees aswell like the leaf cutter. some species of solitary wasps prey on certain species of solitary bees they do it through there own unique method but both also pollinate plants
even though I know alot about wasps and have for a long time I dont want to go off tiopic too much and so thought you might find these interesting
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/discover/in-your-garden/article/154
https://theconversation.com/why-wasps-become-so-annoying-at-the-end-of-summer-145053
honey bees and bumblebees. and they also ( only) sting if they feell threatened. and just like wasps its only females that sting. plus in spite of the saying blind as a bat they actualy arnt blind
for me when I go out in the garden I dont just plant with birds and beetles and bees in mind I also plant for wasps cause they are actualy pollinators aswell as bees and have an important role to play to keep the earth in balance evrything does.
aside from the fact that both animals wild or not deserve respect just like us that are also unique in there own way just like us alot of people do tell me that im very good with animals. both with pets and wild ones and that I have a way with them.
one of the keys to undertsanding wildlife and knowing what to do and when is not just learning about different species but also learning about what there body language means what postures they make and what there trying to communicate. for instance if a Bumblebee feells uncomfortable or wants space it will put its leg up and wave which for humans looks as if its saying hello. a female wasp will also display certain behaviors if it starys to become irritated. it will normaly display a certain posture if it feells threatend in any way aswell
it will also display a certain tyoe of posture and behavior if it views another wasp as competition
but it can also display a certain behavior when mateing aswell aswell as when looking for insects.
other species of wildlife also have there own unique body language and behaviors
ive helped lots of species no matter what they are. alot of ladybeetles can begin to be founf indoors at this time of year
You are very kind to wildlife.