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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #360 on: October 29, 2007, 09:35:19 PM »
The 4 and 20 blackbirds are, if my memory is right, black birds and that = crows. Thats another wild food no longer eaten
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #361 on: October 29, 2007, 10:11:31 PM »
Not even when you are ravenous eh, Mark?
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #362 on: October 29, 2007, 10:41:28 PM »
So happy not to be able to share in the squirrel angst. ;D Enjoyed your article Carlo.

We have a great TV series currently running (series 2) called "Hunger for the Wild." Two Wellington restaurateurs take to the bush, mountains, sea, rivers and anywhere there's a decent meal in the offing and find it then cook it. They have a great time and some declicious food. There seems to be a good bit of alcohol consumed in the process. My kind of people. :)
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #363 on: October 29, 2007, 11:19:23 PM »
I never tried them while I was in Louisiana but I was told that people did have delicacies just as fried squirrel brains for breakfast!! Like the man said "first catch your squirrel"!
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #364 on: October 29, 2007, 11:25:45 PM »
At the end of August a friend sent me some larvae of a cross between the Chinese Moon Moth Actias sinensis and the American species A. luna. This wee male is the first to emerge. It shows more of its Chinese parent.
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #365 on: October 29, 2007, 11:30:10 PM »
do you have photos of the parents?
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #366 on: October 29, 2007, 11:52:47 PM »
Anthony,
what a fabulous moth! reminds me of the (Original) Dr Doolittle Movie i saw as a child!
Lesley asked about pictures of the echidna which rampages through our garden; here is a series of pics I took yesterday evening of "Erroll" (he has a swaggering gait!) - but "he" could be a "she" in which case it would be "Edna"!
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #367 on: October 30, 2007, 01:12:21 AM »
I hadn't realized he/she would be quite so hedgehog-like. A little pet. And what a lucky echidna to have such a beautiful and interesting habitat to live in. :D
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #368 on: October 30, 2007, 05:54:27 AM »
Lesley,

I must admit, Fermi's is remarkably hedgehog-like.  Those I have seen around here are much less prominent head-wise, looking more like a ball with a snout, rather than having a definite head as Fermi's does.  I took some pics at a friend's palce a few months ago when one wandered in while I was there.  I can post some of those pics as well if you're interested.  And they really aren't that little either...  The one I photographed would have been a good 18 inches long, plus the snout.  It was acutally bigger than I recalled them being, but it had been a while since I last saw one in person.

Great pics Fermi.  Yours was being MUCH more co-operative than mine was..... mine kept trying to hide instead of ambling around helpfully like yours did!!  ::)
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #369 on: October 30, 2007, 09:03:50 AM »
Fermi, I have died and gone to heaven. ;D Those pics are fantastic. Just what the doctor ordered. Mind if I show them to my 5th year class as we are starting "genetics and evolution" soon? :)

Mark, I'll dig some photos out.
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #370 on: October 30, 2007, 09:53:10 AM »
Some wonderful animals, folks - Anthony, that moth!! And the Echidna is really cute. (Also thanks for the chuckle, Cliff).
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #371 on: October 30, 2007, 10:50:17 AM »
Anthony, what a beautiful moth... I didn't know that moths would hybridise, another lesson learned here.

Errol Echidna is a smart fellow... very impressive to see such clear photos.....I am intrigued by the way the spines form that perfect chevron pattern down the middle of his back as the spines from east and west meet, so to speak....our hedgehogs (which are armoured much less sturdily) don't have that line.
Judging by the size of the Dianthus plants, Errol is much smaller than the example Paul met recently.... is there more than one species?
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #372 on: October 30, 2007, 10:54:42 AM »
Here is a pic of a hedgehog in my garden for comparison with Errol
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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #373 on: October 30, 2007, 09:11:50 PM »
Yes Paul, we'd like to see your echidna too please.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Wildlife Autumn 2007 (spring wildlife Down Under)
« Reply #374 on: October 30, 2007, 10:10:27 PM »
Me too Paul.
Fantastic pictures Fermi, the spines along the 'spine'??? are beautifully arranged and much more like the porcupine's quills than our hedgehog's little prickles.
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