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jamanda
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 17 10:46 pm Post subject:
Thank you. Now how about this thing?

jamanda
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 17 10:48 pm Post subject:
I can't even place that in a phlyum!

buzzy

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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 17 10:57 pm Post subject:
Looks as if it's on a piece of seaweed, in which case I think it's an early stage of Goose Barnacle. Don't know enough about them to give a species name, I'm afraid. Henry

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 17 7:26 am Post subject:
Is it the brown tail that can infest hawthorn and completely denude the plant? We sometimes have outbreaks of it round here.

buzzy

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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 17 7:44 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Is it the brown tail that can infest hawthorn and completely denude the plant? We sometimes have outbreaks of it round here.

I'm fairly sure that's the one. Don't get too near big infestations - if you happen to be sensitive (and sometimes even if you are not) it can be really nasty. Or so I read. I was looking at a big cluster a few weeks ago and I'm still here.

Henry

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 18 7:35 am Post subject:
Another one for you Buzzy, but not an insect. Yesterday we saw a greater spotted woodpecker on our nut feeder. Strange as it is nowhere near any woods, nearest about 1/2 mile or more away.

sgt.colon

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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 18 10:52 am Post subject:
MR, are those the red and black ones? If so we had one on our nuts a few years ago and we have no woodland anywhere near us.

buzzy

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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 18 12:15 am Post subject:

I guess Great Spotted Woodpeckers will travel as far as they need to get food, especially in the winter. My 'go to' ornithologist friend has a great dislike of them, so I daren't risk asking her for more info, but I'll see what I can find from the other birdy people I know.

We have had two different females, and at least one male visiting our peanut feeders in the past week. Quite a lot of drumming going on as well.

SC, yes, black and white mainly with red bits here and there (depending on age and sex).

Henry

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 18 8:15 am Post subject:
Thanks Buzzy, I know lesser spotted have been seen on bird feeders near our woods, so we think they probably live mainly in the woods, although we have never seen them, but didn't think greater would be on them. We hear them a lot in the woods, and sometimes see them. They mainly feed on insects, so didn't even know they would eat nuts.

gz

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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 18 9:48 pm Post subject:
Whose home would this be/have been? halfway down the blogpost (image just too big to post ) https://gzandco.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/beauty-spoiled.html

buzzy

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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 18 10:35 pm Post subject:
I think this would probably belong to a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) (which, despite the scientific name are not really cave dwellers! ) Henry

buzzy

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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 18 10:41 pm Post subject:
If it was very close to running water (bank of a stream for example) it might have belonged to a Dipper (Cinclus cinclus). Any estimate possible of the diameter of the hole? Henry

gz

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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 18 10:51 pm Post subject:
inch and a quarter? There are wrens about. Its probably too high above the river and too near the road for a dipper. Pirate thought a field mouse. I prefer wren. It is four foot from the ground, by an old doorway in the mill, about four foot from the road.

buzzy

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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 18 12:48 am Post subject:

gz wrote:

inch and a quarter?
There are wrens about. Its probably too high above the river and too near the road for a dipper.
Pirate thought a field mouse. I prefer wren.

It is four foot from the ground, by an old doorway in the mill, about four foot from the road.

Sorry Pirate, but I don't think mice are that neat and would not have their front door in the middle!

I think Dippers always build very close to running water, so I'll stay with my original guess of Wren.

Henry

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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 18 8:24 am Post subject:
I would think wren too. We have one built in an angle in the scaffold poles that holds up our log store. It is tucked into the odd bit of plastic tarp that we pad the poles with to stop them rubbing on the cover.

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