Off Topic Naturewatch

Aye usually the further away I am from a large moth the happier I am but this one was fascinating. So odd to see one animal behaving exactly like another, like seeing a cat with an 8 foot neck grazing on a tree.

 

Giraffe that mate

 

Totally different species with absolutely no connection whatsoever, just evolved to make use of the same food sources. A great example of convergent evolution.

 

A

lot of council verges are intentionally down with wildflowers now.

 

Saw a bunch of those in Spain a few years ago. I was fascinated by them, trying to work out what the hell they were. Looked so much like hummingbirds. It's only a lot more recently that I googled and worked out they were a type of moth.

 

Out walking this afternoon and saw this hiding in the grass

 

They are everywhere now. They are pretty destructive really and don't have a natural predator.
They need culling.

 

Muntjac?

They are appearing round here more and more. I saw them in our local woodland a few years ago and was told I was seeing things. Now they can even be seen in the open fields at times.

 

My missus made me do a nomowmay, so today I went to cut it, it is full of baby frogs, so that’s no cutting for the foreseeable future

 

My missus took this picture when we did the North Coast 500, she wanted to get it framed but I said it was just two deer

 

Nowhere near as destructive as the local council with their 'forestry management' con. Removing massive trees and then planting a few hundred twigs

 

I think this is their mam

 

I think she was a bit of a tart

 

Garden at work, watched a sparrowhawk devouring a pigeon, while the pigeons mate looked on.
Took a video of it, but cant upload it on here, so a screenshot from the video...

 

Right ruthless bastards are the sparrow hawks.