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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #45 on: December 19, 2011, 07:09:11 PM »
Homer back again this morning... :-\
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #46 on: December 20, 2011, 12:55:07 AM »
You may have to send him on a long-distance odyssey Anne - like to the great field in the sky. ::)
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #47 on: December 20, 2011, 08:43:08 AM »
Here's a starling on my lawn today, but what is different about it and why?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #48 on: December 20, 2011, 01:50:03 PM »
Seems to be a bit blonde  :D - and it's rather heavily spotted across the base of the wings. Is it a different species from what we have here in Europe and have exported all over the globe, or has someone been throwing paint around?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #49 on: December 20, 2011, 07:18:48 PM »
It's weraring a Santa Claus hat (which it has momentarily removed and hidden behing the fence)?
Or have you been trying to cover it with chcoclate?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #50 on: December 20, 2011, 09:06:42 PM »
me, me, me! but not saying for now

Sparrows and Blackcaps are at it now in UK
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #51 on: December 20, 2011, 09:11:12 PM »
Does this help?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #52 on: December 20, 2011, 10:37:24 PM »
You HAVE been trying to cover it with chocolate, or cocoa anyway. :D
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #53 on: December 20, 2011, 11:56:13 PM »
I suspect it has been supping Phormium nectar and the orange is pollen?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #54 on: December 21, 2011, 08:38:46 PM »
Spot on, if you'll forgive the pun. The ph count is very low though. :)
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #55 on: December 21, 2011, 09:30:39 PM »
 ;D Correction done. Don't want to get slated.
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #56 on: December 22, 2011, 01:04:52 AM »
Here's the monarch's progress. The chrysalis yesterday and the male butterfly that emerged today. Once his wings are dry he will fly away. Meanwhile, another female monarch is busily laying eggs on milkweeds. I think I'll cage one, because the larvae seem to be heavily predated by beasties unknown.
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #57 on: December 22, 2011, 08:13:58 AM »
Such a magnificent thing. What are the eggs to the lower left of the butterfly, on the shadecloth?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #58 on: December 22, 2011, 09:22:02 AM »
The are eggs of the emperor gum (Opodiphthera eucalypti). I have a few dozen cocoons which are hatching sporadically. I now have a few dozen larvae from one batch of eggs, but I'm releasing most of the new moths, especially as the last three were big females. There's a row of big gum trees nearby, so hopefully wild males will mate with them?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #59 on: December 22, 2011, 10:30:25 AM »
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