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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #360 on: December 16, 2008, 11:22:49 PM »
Barn owls are lovely - quite small. In fact, tawny owls are the greatest predators of the barn owls. That great grey owl in the pic is some bird. Notice its round pupils indicating it is a dusk hunter.
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #361 on: December 17, 2008, 05:08:23 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on December 16, 2008, 10:25:31 PM
Quote from: Paul T on December 16, 2008, 07:34:26 PM

 Would still like to see a barn owl in person.
Or do you mean in barn owl? :D

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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #362 on: December 17, 2008, 07:38:30 AM »
Quote from: Paul T on December 17, 2008, 05:08:23 AM
Quote from: Lesley Cox on December 16, 2008, 10:25:31 PM
Quote from: Paul T on December 16, 2008, 07:34:26 PM

 Would still like to see a barn owl in person.
Or do you mean in barn owl? :D

Lesley,

OK, you've lost me?

Paul, the barn owl wouldn't be a 'person' (it would be a barn owl) ... Lesley is just too surreal for Australia!   ;D
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #363 on: December 17, 2008, 09:06:38 AM »
Thanks Cliff.  That one went straight over my head (no barn owl pun intended), so thanks for the clarification.  Lesley may not have been too surreal for Australia, but she was definitely too surreal for this Australian at least.  ::)
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #364 on: December 17, 2008, 09:20:12 AM »
I thought only people living in London south of the Thames were surreal?
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #365 on: December 17, 2008, 09:51:16 AM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on December 17, 2008, 09:20:12 AM
I thought only people living in London south of the Thames were surreal?

Believe me, Anthony ... there are more than a few in Lancashire ... in Whitworth ... on our road ... in our ... , etc. etc.
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #366 on: December 17, 2008, 06:53:49 PM »
Surreal is an OK epithet. I've barn been called much worse. :)
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #367 on: December 17, 2008, 07:04:11 PM »
I guess this little chap is a shield bug of some sort? I think he's dead as when flipped over he stayed that way. I like his red nether quarters. Very fetching.

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Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #368 on: December 17, 2008, 07:10:03 PM »
Looks more beetle than bug to me?
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #369 on: December 17, 2008, 07:49:02 PM »
Shield beetle then? In other words, what the heck is it? I see these in the garden very occasionally - the last one maybe a couple of years ago - but haven't seen the red spot before. He's 1cm in length.
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #370 on: December 18, 2008, 02:30:49 PM »
At Last!!! Our first Waxwing!  :D Hope he brings some friends. Husband's away with the telephoto, so you'll have to do with a distance shot on my little camera.
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #371 on: December 18, 2008, 04:04:01 PM »
It will probably stay a while because you have a good supply of berries on ?Joseph Rock.
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #372 on: December 18, 2008, 04:33:02 PM »
Correct - can you see from there??
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #373 on: December 18, 2008, 05:00:52 PM »
sure can. Biggest flock seen over here this week was 150 along a hawthorn hedge. Luck so and so who saw/found them
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Re: Wildlife - Summer, Autumn 2008
« Reply #374 on: December 20, 2008, 03:48:49 PM »
Finally I have seen Waxwings. 33 were feeding on pink-tinged white Sorbus berries at the entrance of a local school.
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