Nature Notes

[Drog]

It's a trade off I suppose. It'll only be available under licence and used by licensed sprayers (people). Problem with our beet and other crops is that it is only grown in the same area year after year so these specific pathogens and pests become concentrated in that area and need dealing with.

 

[davebirch]

How about this?

'It was amazing': Two whales surprise Esperance paddleboarders

Erin Cummings and her friend were going for a leisurely winter paddleboard, when two whales surprised them. The experience was captured by a local cinematographer.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Drog]

That photographer's got a great shot of their arses! Some whales are in the background too!

 

[Drog]

Another Billy Big Balls yank 'harvesting' wild animals.
Hounds chased a Yellowstone National Park mountain lion into a tree. Then Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot it. - The Washington Post

Tell you what Senator..... here's a pocket knife knife now just to show what a tough guy you are climb the tree and harvest the mountain lion with that! Even I'd vote for you then.

 

[davebirch]

Closest thread I could find. A balmy autumn evening in Southern Sydney .

 

[Drog]

Lovely dave.... but those shrubs might be full of poisonous snakes, spiders and toads.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

20 Woodcock early morning a couple of days ago. They were in a field close to home.

 

[davebirch]

Lovely dave.... but those shrubs might be full of poisonous snakes, spiders and toads.

Maybe a couple of redbacks hanging around, but it's too busy for snakes. The Mrs has survived for nearly 40 years there
Plenty of frogs, they breed and the geckos come and knock off the spawn.
That gum you can't miss, we planted that in 1976.
The only tree that's there from when we bought the place, is an orange tree, that's on it's last legs.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

 

[davebirch]

Closest thread I could find. A balmy autumn evening in Southern Sydney View attachment 4022.

That was early autumn,
this is winter, Ginkgo in it's glory, grown from seed....

 

[Drog]

Whats the net over the shrub for dave?

 

[davebirch]

Whats the net over the shrub for dave?

That's a Cumquat, drog.
The net is to stop the Cockatoo's and the King Parrots from knocking the fruit off.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

That's a Cumquat, drog.
The net is to stop the Cockatoo's and the King Parrots from knocking the fruit off.

Now that would be worth watching!

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

I just bought myself a new t-shirt for my ornithological exploits.

 

[davebirch]

October 26.
The first day this spring that the weather has been warm.
By warm, I mean that the breeze has been warm. Up to today, the breeze has been cool/cold.
We hit 27c today, probably the warmest this year since January.
Bring it on, take the rain somewhere else.

 

[Drog]

27 = too hot imo. My ideal temp is 65-75 F.
I agree about the rain though dave. You could do with all that in the middle of Oz.

 

[davebirch]

Check this out on the rain in central and eastern Aus.
It will replenish the Great artesian basin for year to come

Australia's longest river system experiencing its wettest October on record

Rain this October across the Murray-Darling Basin is already close to 150 millimetres, nearly four times the average of 43.2mm and well above the old record of 102mm from 1950.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Drog]

Don't know if it's Avian flu or this blighter Suttonella ornithocola but I've hardly seen either a coal tit or a blue tit since August. I first thought they weren't visiting my bird feeder because of the abundant fruits in August / Sept but they've never returned. Woodpeckers and nuthatches are ever present with sparrows, blackbirds and robins scavenging underneath. Maybe the latter could be down in numbers but my tits have disappeared. Happy to say that I saw a tiny wren searching for food this morning which is good news as wrens are particularly vulnerable to cold weather.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

2 photos of the freeze near Lake Michigan from the Sky News website. I guess the freeze will be followed by floods.

 

[Drog]

How do you get in or out?