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« on: August 21, 2016, 03:06:29 PM » |
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Taken in my garden today.
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2016, 05:57:09 PM » |
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Just proves you can find beauty anywhere, even on your own doorstep. Great photos.
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2016, 09:54:03 PM » |
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Talking about on your own doorstep, I have got a bumble bee's nest in the eaves (I live in a bungalow) right by my doorway. There are always a few buzzing about the ventilation hole. I don't mind bees just hate wasps. I had to check which kind they were as honey bees need to be fetched by an apiarist so they can be added to a hive. Any other type of bee and they don't want to know. I have a massive buddleia (aka the butterfly bush) in the front garden and I think this might have drawn the bees too. Without sounding too mad, it might also be because I saved a bee earlier on in the year when it had been warm and then the temperature dropped quickly. I picked him up and kept him warm. Perhaps he remembers and brought the family! Ok, maybe a bit too mad.   |
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2016, 09:57:06 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2016, 06:50:59 AM » |
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even when it rained, they took cover, clever B's
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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2016, 08:24:44 AM » |
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Never seen that before!
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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2016, 06:18:34 PM » |
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Beware the Ides of March, But!
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2016, 02:51:51 PM » |
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wandering across Dartmoor and found these, so I walked a little quicker
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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2016, 05:08:30 PM » |
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 I have a holiday in the Scottish Highlands whenever I can. The "coos" roam free, like the horses in the New Forest. I've stepped out of the car a few times to photograph them, then thought Hang on, they're the size of a sofa, with 3 foot long horns. 
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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2016, 10:44:48 AM » |
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They're usually pretty docile unless they've just given birth.
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2016, 11:05:31 AM » |
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they took an "unnatural" interest in me, and started to follow ! AND, what are they doing way down 'ere in Devon?
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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2016, 11:31:09 AM » |
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Maybe they're on holiday?
I'd be pretty angry too if I'd just given birth to one of those.
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« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2016, 01:43:08 PM » |
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There are longhorn cattle in the New Forest. I love to see them. Of course there are the well known ponies but cattle, donkeys and pigs also live there. There has even been sightings of wild boar but not by me, thank goodness. The pigs are released around Autumn to eat the acorns falling from the many oaks in the forest. This is called pannage. They are released to eat the acorns before the ponies can, as eating acorns can kill the ponies. Once the acorns are all gone the pigs are usually rounded up and removed until the following Autumn. A holiday in Scotland meant I saw many highland cattle. They are so beautiful. As my photography is not brilliant I bought postcards of them instead.  |
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples - Japanese proverb
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired - Jules Renard
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« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2016, 04:14:43 PM » |
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my son captured this yesterday, at a falconry day out.
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