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ian mcdonald

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #540 on: November 14, 2015, 11:37:16 AM »
Sounds dangerous.

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #541 on: November 14, 2015, 04:02:35 PM »
My goodness, so it eats meat too?  ;D

Hmm - could have chosen my word more carefully  ::) How about undiscriminating herbivore.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #542 on: November 14, 2015, 11:12:01 PM »
Polyphagous?
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #543 on: November 17, 2015, 10:12:22 PM »
Yes, though I was thinking about this the other day. Polyphagous = 'eats many things' vs Omnivorous 'eats everything'. Just scientific convention rather than any real precision in the terms themselves.

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #544 on: November 18, 2015, 01:51:54 AM »
Yes, though I was thinking about this the other day. Polyphagous = 'eats many things' vs Omnivorous 'eats everything'. Just scientific convention rather than any real precision in the terms themselves.
Yes. I despair when I see birds described as "seed predators". Conjures up the vision of some fierce avian ambushing unsuspecting seeds and pecking them to death. Also, substitution the word grazer to mean any animal that eats bits of something else without killing it, when I was always taught that grazers ate grass, and there were other words to use, such as browsing, which was nibbling bits off bushes or coral etc. Black rhino = browser; white rhino = grazer.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #545 on: November 19, 2015, 07:43:27 PM »
Some recent Squirrel pictures taken from my kitchen window.  The one with four was taken at lunchtime today.  It's unusual to see so many that close.  It did end in fighting ;D
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #546 on: November 20, 2015, 03:56:58 PM »
If you want to export one or two...... ;)
MINIONS! I need more minions!
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #547 on: November 22, 2015, 10:29:13 AM »
Great pictures of the squirrels we have one sometimes and a pair of woodpeckers had a walk yesterday frozen solid I went to feed my friends, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #548 on: November 22, 2015, 10:44:22 AM »
Not bread, I hope.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #549 on: November 22, 2015, 12:14:57 PM »
Cake?
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Feeding on the kniphofias this morning, New Holland Honey-eaters
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #550 on: November 22, 2015, 12:53:00 PM »
Not all wildlife is welcome in the garden
This viola which I got from a friend has been sitting on the middle step at my front door for at least two months
Look where I found it this morning - well pruned too and deer tracks all around
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #551 on: November 22, 2015, 05:03:45 PM »
Oh Deer good in the deep freeze? cheers Ian
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #552 on: November 23, 2015, 07:34:40 AM »
 
Oh Deer good in the deep freeze? cheers Ian

 ;D 8) ;D
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #553 on: December 07, 2015, 07:37:58 AM »
Last night I spotted this Emperor Gum moth (Opodiphthera eucalypti), that had been attracted to a security light, in Remuera, Auckland. Female, but not sure if she'd mated. We'll see if the eggs are fertile. It's an Aussie import.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #554 on: December 28, 2015, 09:42:45 AM »
We have a resident local dove or crested pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes in our garden.
Not easy to capture on a "point and shoot" camera, so not the clearest of pics,
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