wildlife

[Tristan_He]

Superb Fermi. We only have sheep to worry about.

[Gabriela]

Possible conversation:
pic 1: what are we waiting for? Shouldn't we just jump into this garden?
pic 2: here comes Ted
pic 3: Ted says not to jump into fermi and Will's garden or they'll get mad!
pic 4: we're off then!
cheers
fermi

 

[fermi de Sousa]

Superb Fermi. We only have sheep to worry about.

Generally the sheep in the neighbours' paddocks stay put except when  gate gets left open
However there is a "pet lamb" kept by a neighbour above us who keeps alpacas as well.One alpaca and the pet lamb have managed to go from their paddock into the next one and the next one down from there. Yesterday we saw that they had actually managed to get into the yard of the neighbour opposite us and that means they can get into the street and into our garden
The roos can jump the fences but the tend to only eat grass (and grass-like plants) however they can do "mechanical" damage by standing or jumping onto brittle plants and smashing them to pieces
Lost a young Pecan tree that way (a few years ago) which we never bothered to replace.
I guess we can be glad that they're not as big as Ken's moose
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Just as well the sheep are not woolly jumpers! 

[fermi de Sousa]

Just as well the sheep are not woolly jumpers! 

I think the alpaca holds up the fence while the lamb crawls under
cheers
fermi

[David Lyttle]

I had kangaroo steak when I was in Australia a couple of months ago ---- it appears you could live quite cheaply ----

[Anthony Darby]

Did't roo the day you ate it then?

[johnw]

Some good news and some shocking news.


Super news, a healthy brown bat population has been found here in Nova Scotia:

Discovery of bat colony in Nova Scotia provides hope for the at-risk population | The Chronicle Herald


The experts now seem to be leaning towards a great white shark attack in nearby St. Maggi's Bay; certainly looks like a great white in the slowmo version.  Now if fishermen will just leave it alone.

Shark attack or porpoise play? You be the judge | The Chronicle Herald

john

[Lesley Cox]

I KNEW it wouldn't be long before our Maggi was beatified.

[Maggi Young]

     Thanks for your "faith" Lesley!!

[fermi de Sousa]

I KNEW it wouldn't be long before our Maggi was beatified.

Lesley, Lesley, Lesley,
are you forgetting your Sunday school lessons?
Beatifying someone only makes them a "Blessed"; to become a Saint Maggi had to be Canonised!
(Don't go there, David N, or you'll be paying a hefty fine in chocolate! )
cheers
fermi (B.Theol.[unfinished])

[David Nicholson]

If it means being shot from one I wouldn't bother Maggi.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm chortling away but have no smileys :-(

[johnralphcarpenter]

Don't you have to be dead to be canonised?

[Maggi Young]

Don't you have to be dead to be canonised?

Very likely- I'm not for it!