Wildlife September - November 2012

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[Anthony Darby]

Been there, worn that t-shirt. The event even turned up in Andy Murray's autobiography! Not my fault the borrower of said snake failed to realise the significance of the rubber band round the snake's box! Different race of milk snake though. This looks like Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli?

[Botanica]

Other Spider species in my Garden, a guardian or predator 




The young fighters.


A bambi in wild nature (in Alps)

[Stephenb]

Anyone know who this smart fellow is? Picture taken in Hampshire in August.

[daveyp1970]

Stephen it's an immature shieldbug,here's a nice site http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/gallery/heteroptera/Pentatomoidea/pentatomoidea.html

[fredg]

I think these two plants are a little ambitious.

[ronm]

A female of one of the Tipula sp. Who won this battle in the eternal struggle Fred?

[fredg]

The plants still have her Ron

[ronm]

I suspected they would, that glue is something else

Great pictures Fred. The close up is amazing

[Anthony Darby]

Better than the original glue used in the manufacture of Mosquitos. I saw one flying today.

[fredg]

Better than the original glue used in the manufacture of Mosquitos. I saw one flying today.

I'd love to see one flying Anthony.
I understood that the glue was perfectly acceptable in the European theatre but suffered from bacterial attack in the Far East / Asia. The Beaufighter cointinued to  fill that particular role there.

I know these are not exactly wildlife but they are taken from a Mosquito
( Not exactly tame life either )

[Anthony Darby]

Here's some Youtube of the event and one of my pics. I had a flight in a de Havilland Dragon. Here is a report. One line says "Thousands of spectators turned out to see the Mosquito's flight with a cue (at this point I lose the will to live) of traffic nearly 3km long." I joined a virtually stationary queue of cars 7 km from the Airport and abandoned my car at a community hall 5 km out and walked the rest of the way, beating the traffic.

[fredg]

And an Avro Anson, you lucky lucky man 

Loved the sound of those engines on the Mossie. 

[Anthony Darby]

The memory will linger Fred. The museum of transport in Auckland has a Lanc. It was flown in to NZ. Peter Jackson offered to restore it to flying condition if he could use it in a film. They refused, so it will remain for ever static! As for engines. Just as the mossie apporoached for the last of the three outings that day the NZAF started up its helicopter, so that's all we could hear until someone suggested they taxi it up the field a bit!
http://www.meetup.com/Auckland-Photography-Meetup-Group/photos/10965032/#164192712

[Anthony Darby]

Ever wondered how big a leaf cutting ant nest really is? http://www.dump.com/biggestant/