funny moments with Wildlife

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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.

it did take a likeing to my jumper. i filmed it pulling my jumper. iv also taken some pictures with my camera. I did have to carefuly get up and go outside and put a leaf against my jumper for it to walk on my dogwood in my wildflower border  il add them when I can. wifi is terrible and I can only send it on my laptop im having to use mobile data at the moment 

when I put my hand on the banistar in hopes it will crawl on my hand for me to put it outside it lent back on my hand and used it as a propeller to take off. I wondered where on earth it was cause it disapeared into thin air. I got on my bed and there it was on my jumper walking about but since then it has been as still as a rat 

it is currently resting on my jumper which im wearing so I cant move at the moment or I could acidently squash it but im used to it cause even Bumblebees, moths and other invertebretes dont want to move when they decide to land on me then not want to leave for literaly a few hours 

just hanging out with a ladybeetle. its been walking up and down the banistar and walking arpund the top of the banistar in circles on my top floor 

thats funny exspecialy the boat one. I know that birds do find boats useful in the sense that they do find them good look out spots like a mast for instance but they do stop off on boats any part of the boat will do also birds can even congregate  to  rest before setting off again 

I found these pictures when you were on holiday, but I saved them for when you got back.

1. The first was taken just over two years ago in Stockholm. Sweden. The bird looked like it was used to the cleaners leaving the door open sometimes, and was looking to go in.

2. The second was taken just over one year ago off the coast by Lyme Regis. We went on a short one hour boat trip, and this gull landed on the boat and acted like he/she owned it. I asked the captain why they landed and he thinks that they use boats to save energy and get a lift as if it was a taxi!

the starlings are at it again

This isn't my picture. My mother in law took this out of their kitchen window on Saturday morning.

Their garden backs onto a hill with trees and then a canal. They think it came along there.

It's a muntjac deer

I've posted the first photo before, of a gull ruling the roost. But I took the second one at the same time of a pigeon.

I will go feed some ducks next week. all set to go.. I will try to get them to do something funny. that should be easy with ducks!

yes good but

are not all cats wind at heart?

;o)

no photos unfortunatly  but the woodpigeons were at it again today. this time they did it all on the roof so I was just sat there like what on earth are they doing and the more strange noises they made the more I my brain kept repeating what are they doing every time they paused and started again so they were busy chaseing each other agaiin. I have no idea what the others in the house were thinking but there pretty much used to the birds making noises on the roof. cheeky juvinile starlings like to practice flying between this house and other houses with there parent on the roof and then when it comes to the woodpigeons on the roof they sound like  someone sitting in a heavy peice of equipment on the roof play fighting and chaseing each other or playing a game of sports on the roof. recently they decided to take it to the ground aswell as the roof but this time they decided to stick to the roof 

this mallard was tilting its head at me out of curiosity as it went round at the pond. it was quiet funny 

The photo isn't particularly funny, but it was funny at the time. This rabbit was happily sunning itself in a empty park that is usually full of people.

I am trying an experiment by seeing if I can upload an animated gif that I have just created. (DIDN'T WORK. Uploaded but too big )

I have posted this photo before.

Several months ago now, I saw movement one day out of the corner of my eye and realised that a bat had got caught in a large glass vase. It was sooooo cute. I tipped it out outside seconds after this and it had a little sniff around and then flew away. I don't know how it got in. I was so happy for days. I have not seen any signs of bats since.