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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #90 on: May 29, 2010, 03:55:43 PM »
Tony are you in the UK just now? I have only seen single dung beetles. I had a first last weekend when I saw my first cock chafer
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #91 on: May 29, 2010, 04:12:07 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on May 29, 2010, 03:55:43 PM
Tont are you in the UK just now? I have only seen single dung beetles. I had a first last weekend when I saw my first cock chafer
Mark I am at home but those pictures were taken on a mountain in northern Greece a couple of weeks ago. Some horses had gone up the road a little time before and dropped deposits every hundred yards or so. Each one was covered in beetles.It was a banquet.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #92 on: May 30, 2010, 11:07:47 PM »
Here's a female orange tip (Anthocaris cardamines) resting on an aubrieta in the garden today.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #93 on: May 30, 2010, 11:16:29 PM »
I see it is still cold enough in Dunblane for  a girl to be wearing her fur coat, Anthony  ;)
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #94 on: May 31, 2010, 06:21:57 AM »


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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #95 on: May 31, 2010, 09:16:26 AM »
arykana, lovely picture...looks so nice  :D
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #96 on: May 31, 2010, 09:30:38 AM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on May 30, 2010, 11:16:29 PM
I see it is still cold enough in Dunblane for  a girl to be wearing her fur coat, Anthony  ;)

Maggi, it was photographed yesterday lunch time and, even though the sun shone, it was so cold in the shade yesterday where the orange tip was that it was still there this morning.

Arykana, your toad is a green toad (Bufo viridis) and is not found in the UK.
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #97 on: May 31, 2010, 09:42:21 AM »
hi, a road runner herein germany  ??? ;) ;D...

and the male...

i´ve marked them on paper, my father in-law, mould them about a sheet of metal....
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #98 on: May 31, 2010, 07:11:11 PM »
Chris can I see a close of the dog in the background.. just being nosy.. like the road runner.

Angie :)
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #99 on: May 31, 2010, 07:42:37 PM »
angie, an mexican antique replica dog....
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #100 on: May 31, 2010, 11:14:03 PM »
meep meep!
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #101 on: June 01, 2010, 02:35:37 AM »
Looks a bit like Grommit
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #102 on: June 01, 2010, 09:51:13 AM »
Quote from: mark smyth on May 31, 2010, 11:14:03 PM
When the swifts arrive turn out the green house

Mark: Great excitement, swifts arrived in force here yesterday with a flock of some 200 seen over Trondheim... I guess they are finished breeding in southern Europe by now?  What are we supposed to do with our green houses?

http://www.artportalen.se/fennoscandia_birds.asp?speciesid=481&year=2010&month=5
(Click "show map" for all swift records in Fennoscandia in May this year)

There are only a few breeding records further north than our area in Norway


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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #103 on: June 01, 2010, 10:38:31 AM »
I think Mark is referring to the arrival of the swifts is the time he switches off his greenhouse heater? ???
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Re: Wildlife May2010
« Reply #104 on: June 01, 2010, 12:09:49 PM »
The sun?

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