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dpack
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Jam Lady
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 4563 Location: Lampeter
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 19 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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I intend to call a nature center, or several, for suggestions. What I have found so far on Google -
Apparently eggs are difficult to relocate. Unlike chicken eggs if they are rotated it can kill the embryo. Most sites recommend making a cage / cover over the nest site. With opening either suitable for hatchlings to scurry out or too small for them to do so. They are about the size of a quarter, a US coin. Quite small, in other words.
Another issue is that adults are very territorial in the sense that if relocated they will do their best to get back to home base. When I find them crossing a road and want to relocate them to safety it is critical to figure out which way they are headed. Turn then around and they will stubbornly reverse to get to where they were going. So I need to find out the limitations if I try to move newly hatched youngsters off the lawn to a more suitable place. Will a few yards not matter, how many yards are critical . . .
They need to burrow underground for winter dormancy. Didn't know life could be this complicated for a turtle, did you?
Our lawn is of the "if it is green it may be mown" school. Would prefer to not mow over nest.
And it is amazing how undisturbed the area over the nest is. She had to dig down about 5 inches, one hind leg scoop after the other, to make a flask shaped excavation. I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. and she was still there. Himself came to bed about an hour later, having gone out with a flashlight and saw she was gone. So figure about 3 1/2 to 4 hours for labor and egg delivery. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45487 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45487 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45487 Location: yes
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 19 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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i can name quite a few but for counting spp purposes i just go for that is one, that is two ( and it has chums ), that is three etc etc
i usually think in terms of shape and dress code to separate spp but some i have common/personal names for.
such as big orange pashmina, white tail, small black, false honey, real honey, miner, mason, chinook, scarf n waistcoat, x,y or z stripe etc etc
once you get your eye in separating spp by silhouette and size speeds up id quite a bit during a count ( a bit like aircraft or bird watching )
foraging behaviour is a good clue as to which sort of dancing blob is that ?.
linaeus would not approve but it works for me
if i was going to make it data rather than observation i would use a named visual key checklist, a stopwatch and a pencil.
to make data from the sparrow behaviour stuff will need a visual key of each individual.
last spp/min came in at 7 |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 19 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I don't usually watch bees for that long together, as I usually see the bumbles as we are doing our own work; they collecting pollen and nectar, and me doing some woodland work. I am pretty sure we have several different species of bumble, as well as hornets and honey bees.
Yesterday I went out with the people surveying the dormouse boxes and we actually found one. It had made a summer nest in one, although at first the girl that found it thought it might be a birds nest as it was all dead leaves on the outside (dormouse summer nests tend to be of woven grass). It was fast asleep, so they didn't wake it, and all we could see was a tail and a paw, but they heard is snore. One of the showed me a video of a sleeping dormouse that was snoring and it gives a sort of 'whee' sound as it breathes out. What was even better was that we found it on the north side of the pylon line, where we were not sure they were, only having found evidence on the south side before. Double plus there.
The wren is still feeding its young in the wheel arch of the kiln and seems completely unafraid of us working there. Saw both parents yesterday, so hopefully will see fledglings soon. |
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42207 Location: North Devon
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 19 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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So this morning Mr Poe, our black indoor-only cat, was staring up through the skylight, wearing his stranger-danger-floof-suit and growling. Lo and behold, a black vulture was sitting on the metal stove pipe / chimney for the wood burning stove (obviously not in operation on this, the first day of summer.)
It sat for a few minutes, then unfurled its wings and flew off.
Mr Poe, who usually curls up on a chair to digest his breakfast at this time of day, has been pacing around, staring up through the skylights and muttering to himself.
What an exciting first, for the first day of summer. Or any time of year, actually. I do hope this is a one off, and it doesn't make a habit of perching there. |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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