Nature pics

[Topper]

Mediterranean gull in Arbroath where we bought our first smokies

 

[Archive4]

Mediterranean gull in Arbroath where we bought our first smokies

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Smoking is bad for you! But I do it anyway!

 

[Topper]

Smoking is bad for you! But I do it anyway!

If you have never eaten Arbroath smokies, you have never lived.

 

[RimaNTSS]

I see that my lizards have grown little bit and look like monitor lizards (OK, if you zoom in ;) ).

 

[Lazarus]

Love Lizards.

Bit strange not also being keen on snakes, though.

Only difference is legs.

 

[pontiend]

Mrs Ponti spotted this one a few days ago.From a distance it looked like a magpie.
It has started coming to the food tray today.
Managed to get a close up. It looks like a blackbird.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Mrs Ponti spotted this one a few days ago.From a distance it looked like a magpie.
It has started coming to the food tray today.
Managed to get a close up. It looks like a blackbird.

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It could be a cuckoo (like some on here). Rolf will be on in a minute to confirm.

 

[Channel Hopper]

We had one of those in the bathroom during our recent Tuscany hol.

It's a Scutigerid.

And they bite!

Thank you for finding out what they are.

I can confirm they do bite, or at least something else in the room ravaged me whilst sleeping.

Nature pics

 

[william-1]

In a meadow not far from my home.

 

[pontiend]

It could be a cuckoo (like some on here). Rolf will be on in a minute to confirm.

Never thought of that.It will be a first for me if it is.

 

[Lazarus]

Never thought of that.It will be a first for me if it is.

Looks like a Blackbird with Partial Albinism or Leucism

Sorry to disappoint, but it certainly isn't a Cuckoo

 

[blademedia]

Mrs Ponti spotted this one a few days ago.From a distance it looked like a magpie.
It has started coming to the food tray today.
Managed to get a close up. It looks like a blackbird.

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When is a Blackbird not a Blackbird... | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology

 

[Lazarus]

Good find.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Looks like a Blackbird with Partial Albinism or Leucism

Sorry to disappoint, but it certainly isn't a Cuckoo

Norwegian Blue then, beautiful plumage...........

 

[Archive4]

The Yukka is in bloom at the moment, quite nice, but messy when it dies



If you look to the background, you will see the neighbour´s is also in bloom

 

[rolfw]

Mediterranean gull in Arbroath where we bought our first smokies

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Think that's a Black-headed Gull, Med Gull has a white tail and fuller hood..

 

[pontiend]

Getting a bit active around here.Another one, a mouse this time.I have a field mouse in the shed that I do not mind.Is this a house mouse.This tray is handy it is only about 15'from where I sit under the big brolly.I look like having to put it onto a pole to keep the mice of it.

 

[rolfw]

Getting a bit active around here.Another one, a mouse this time.I have a field mouse in the shed that I do not mind.Is this a house mouse.This tray is handy it is only about 15'from where I sit under the big brolly.I look like having to put it onto a pole to keep the mice of it.
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Looks like a wood mouse, has larger ears and head than a house mouse.

 

[Channel Hopper]

A batch of images taken from an excursion to Hayling island late last week, just before the weather closed in.

 

[Channel Hopper]

And a local resident , discovered as I was about to make good a hole in the wall. The largest one I've found this year.