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Summer finds

Waterlily (from the fresh water ponds, Rosie scared the ducks away) and an oystercatcher
 

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Beautiful pictures Janine. I'd love to come visit your part of the world some day. Beware of Fennel, It belongs to the Umbelliferae family as does Hemlock, pictured here.
 

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Hey Wade! It's a mixture of urban areas interspersed with remnants of farming and more rural pockets here. To get to the country park I have to walk through a pretty funky neighbourhood with music booming out of teenagers' cars, but I just put them on 'ignore' until we hit the grass tracks! I've never tried to pick the fennel for use or dig up the bulbs, I'm fairly sure of the ID (and love the strong aniseed smell from crushing the leaves) but I don't want to take the risk. Same as fungi, I don't know enough to pick the right ones!
 
Found more speckled wood butterflies yesterday, some fly agaric ('specially for yu Wade, and no, I didn't nibble them!) I could hear the resident pair of buzzards calling but didn't see them unless this random tree shot is a lucky one! next time I'll remember to take my bins.
 

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Someone has been nibbling on the agaric, I'm glad it wasn't you J9. You are becoming quite a naturalist.
 
Thanks Chris! Nothing really amazing or rare, but I enjoy tootling around the countryside as a perfect antidote to my job. There were a pair of wrens scolding me on Tuesday that I couldn't get good pictures of, they kept darting back into the undergrowth. So just in my regular haunts I've got a few challenges to try to get good pictures of this summer, the Kestrels, the buzzards and those territorial wrens!
 
That's one of my favorite things to do! I love to take random nature pics.
Looks like my weekend walks, except I don't know all the names like you do.
I'd like to see some good Kestrel pics. We had a few nests nearby in a refuge but I haven't seen any for at least 6 years now that I have a camera!
 
alan said:
That's one of my favorite things to do! I love to take random nature pics.
Looks like my weekend walks, except I don't know all the names like you do.
I'd like to see some good Kestrel pics. We had a few nests nearby in a refuge but I haven't seen any for at least 6 years now that I have a camera!
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I really will try Alan. Rosie has her season so that's why there haven't been updates from walking along her usual route, which is where the kestrels are.
The reason I know lots of names is because I did A level biology, which included field studies, but I've always been keen on learning what lives around wherever I am. I'm too lazy to remember the latin names now though at one point I could rattle off hundreds of plants, animals and birds and their place in genera etc without even thinking about it!
 
In the woods out at the stables today I found more fly agarics, an orchid I've looked up and found on a flora site, the violet helleborine, and the buzzards' nest. Tons of rabbits bolting into their warrens, hence the buzzards' nest site!
 

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You know, Janine... Whenever I think of "Buzzards" I don't think of GB... I think of desert places like AZ, Southern Cal, Texas, maybe even arid places in Africa. Just NEVER GB!!! Odd, huh? What DO the buzzards in GB look like (I'll probably look it up, but if you've got pics, that'd be kewl too!)? LOL.
 
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You know, Janine... Whenever I think of "Buzzards" I don't think of GB... I think of desert places like AZ, Southern Cal, Texas, maybe even arid places in Africa. Just NEVER GB!!! Odd, huh? What DO the buzzards in GB look like (I'll probably look it up, but if you've got pics, that'd be kewl too!)? LOL.
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I'm tryng to get pictures Fred, but they won't cooperate! I could hear them calling in the woods when we were leaving.
 

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Really??? Is that a buzzard? Ours are alot different!!
 

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Hmmmmm... Maybe "Buzzards" in GB describe a different type of "buzzard" in the US. Here in AZ, "buzzards" are scavenger birds; vultures.

The bird you pictured clearly looks like a raptor or bird of prey. VERY KEWL. I think I learned something new today! LOL.

LOL... Wade beat me to the punch!
 

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:roflmao: great picture Wade!
Yes Fred, our version of 'buzzard' (Buteo buteo) is more like your hawks.
 
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