Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

roughbarked said:

Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

The seeds visible are burr medic and Senna artisimoidies and Dodonaea subglandulifera 2010. Which was… Eremophila alternifolia

should have just gone back to where it came from

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-28/vagrant-westland-petrel-preserved-by-wa-museum/101900224

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Lovely. How big is that then?

Bubblecar said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Lovely. How big is that then?

I dunno. That was from David Attenborough Fans on Facebook. Similar from 2021:

https://www.livescience.com/rare-glass-octopus-sighting.html

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Lovely. How big is that then?

I dunno. That was from David Attenborough Fans on Facebook. Similar from 2021:

https://www.livescience.com/rare-glass-octopus-sighting.html

The glass octopus in Wikipedia grows up to about 45cm total length, but it looks like a different species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_octopus

roughbarked said:

Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

Glad to see that your hard work is paying off
having created a permaculture/ecosystem in which so many relatedly rare creatures could both thrive and multiple

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

Glad to see that your hard work is paying off
having created a permaculture/ecosystem in which so many relatedly rare creatures could both thrive and multiple

Fine snaps, too.

Ogmog said:

roughbarked said:

Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

Glad to see that your hard work is paying off
having created a permaculture/ecosystem in which so many relatedly rare creatures could both thrive and multiple

:)

roughbarked said:

Yes they are still hatching out this morning.

Apparently the sticks I put there to stop the choughs diggiing them up has provided good cover and camouflage.

That’s great. Got lots of beardies around here but I’ve never seen any of the youngsters.

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

TIL that you’re not to be trusted when you say you’re too busy for the forum.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

TIL that you’re not to be trusted when you say you’re too busy for the forum.

Srsly? You’re not going to let me have one morning off?

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

Amazing. I thought you knew everything.

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

TIL that you’re not to be trusted when you say you’re too busy for the forum.

Srsly? You’re not going to let me have one morning off?

Nah i’m just joshing. The air of mystery about your doings does intrigue me though.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

TIL that you’re not to be trusted when you say you’re too busy for the forum.

Srsly? You’re not going to let me have one morning off?

Nah i’m just joshing. The air of mystery about your doings does intrigue me though.

That’s just the smell you are noticing.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

Amazing. I thought you knew everything.

A reasonable assumption but there are still a few patches beyond my grasp.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

TIL that you’re not to be trusted when you say you’re too busy for the forum.

Srsly? You’re not going to let me have one morning off?

Nah i’m just joshing. The air of mystery about your doings does intrigue me though.

It’s not that mysterious. Sometimes projects amp up suddenly and there are great demands on my time.

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

It not ermine, it Siberian stoat.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

Amazing. I thought you knew everything.

A reasonable assumption but there are still a few patches beyond my grasp.

if you need any help filling those gaps just give me a hoy.

dv said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

TIL an ermine is the same thing as a stoat.

Amazing. I thought you knew everything.

A reasonable assumption but there are still a few patches beyond my grasp.

Clearly there may still be some things that you could ask me about.

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Srsly? You’re not going to let me have one morning off?

Nah i’m just joshing. The air of mystery about your doings does intrigue me though.

It’s not that mysterious. Sometimes projects amp up suddenly and there are great demands on my time.

Yeah i assumed this was the case.

JudgeMental said:

dv said:

roughbarked said:

Amazing. I thought you knew everything.

A reasonable assumption but there are still a few patches beyond my grasp.

if you need any help filling those gaps just give me a hoy.

SCIENCE is my Selleys in that regard

dv said:

JudgeMental said:

dv said:

A reasonable assumption but there are still a few patches beyond my grasp.

if you need any help filling those gaps just give me a hoy.

SCIENCE is my Selleys in that regard

Yeah but what does he know about fauna?

dv said:

What’s known as a wipeout.

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

What’s known as a wipeout.

Best not to wear black wetsuits that make you look like a seal.

Bubblecar said:

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

What’s known as a wipeout.

Best not to wear black wetsuits that make you look like a seal.

I’m reasonably sure this is photoshopped and also that they are dolphins.

Anyway, back to reality. This is another youngfella but of greater dimensions.

!

Which bird does scat this big?

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

A pelican?

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

A pelican?

Pelicans do fly over but they don’t walk around here. This is from a bird that is closer to the ground.

Listening to the Major Mitchell’s cockatoos feeding their young my walnuts.

roughbarked said:

Listening to the Major Mitchell’s cockatoos feeding their young my walnuts.

They are some lucky parrots!

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

A chook. Gytha can produce a scat as big as that.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

A chook. Gytha can produce a scat as big as that.

No chooks on this spot.
Choughs yes.
Boobook owl, possibly or maybe another owl?
I’ve seen the pigeons do fairly complex scats, particularly when they eat the chelated iron snail bait.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

A chook. Gytha can produce a scat as big as that.

No chooks on this spot.
Choughs yes.
Boobook owl, possibly or maybe another owl?
I’ve seen the pigeons do fairly complex scats, particularly when they eat the chelated iron snail bait.

These aren’t the biggest I’ve seen. Some are as long as fox turds.

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

dv said:

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

Bastards they are.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

Bastards they are.

I hate Eurasians as much as anyone but we have to learnt to live in peace

dv said:

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

There also feral wallabies on the Isle of Man.

Michael V said:

dv said:

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

There also feral wallabies on the Isle of Man.

ah the beauty of it, the genius, they can introduce a fur industry species so they don’t have to kill the poor innocent natives for fur instead

*hides*

SCIENCE said:

*hides*

I appreciate the stealth pun

Michael V said:

dv said:

One thung I didn’t know is that there are large numbers of raccoons in Eurasia, mainly due to deliberate releases during the psst 200 years in order to build fur industries. Why raccoon furs are so great compared to native animals, I don’t know. Germany appears to have the densest cluster but they are also in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan.

There also feral wallabies on the Isle of Man.

There’s budgies all over the world.

boa constrictor – half a smile…

Arts said:

boa constrictor – half a smile…

Awesome beasts.

Arts said:

boa constrictor – half a smile…

A friend of yours?

Being animalia I suppose we can have insects here too.
Here is an almost albino version of the painted grasshopper.

roughbarked said:

Being animalia I suppose we can have insects here too.
Here is an almost albino version of the painted grasshopper.

This is what they usually look like.

roughbarked said:

Nice photos.

roughbarked said:

Yeah. This is on the laundry windowsill. Must have at least half a dozen or more cells already built.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Nice photos.

Yes very good close ups.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Nice photos.

Thanks. :)

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Nice photos.

Yes very good close ups.

I tried movies too. This starts out blurry and gets better. It is from when she was making the first cell.
Wasp

You may or may not need a flickr account to see that?

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

Nice photos.

Yes very good close ups.

I tried movies too. This starts out blurry and gets better. It is from when she was making the first cell.
Wasp

You may or may not need a flickr account to see that?

She’s either left it for the night or she hasn’t found a spider yet.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Yes very good close ups.

I tried movies too. This starts out blurry and gets better. It is from when she was making the first cell.
Wasp

You may or may not need a flickr account to see that?

She’s either left it for the night or she hasn’t found a spider yet.

wrong image..

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I tried movies too. This starts out blurry and gets better. It is from when she was making the first cell.
Wasp

You may or may not need a flickr account to see that?

She’s either left it for the night or she hasn’t found a spider yet.

wrong image..

Usually they build vertically on a wall. Do about six or eight cells and finish it off with insulating work.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Yes very good close ups.

I tried movies too. This starts out blurry and gets better. It is from when she was making the first cell.
Wasp

You may or may not need a flickr account to see that?

She’s either left it for the night or she hasn’t found a spider yet.

We have lots of varieties of mud wasps here. I can’t see where they would get any clay binder here. I think they may chew up plant material and mix it with wet sand as a binder. But I don’t know.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

She’s either left it for the night or she hasn’t found a spider yet.

wrong image..

Usually they build vertically on a wall. Do about six or eight cells and finish it off with insulating work.

ooops and that last photo should have been vertical.

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

Nature is healing.

Witty Rejoinder said:

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

Nature is healing.

It’s been proposed to build in a similar fashion to a wasp nest/hive as they are extremely good at regulating temperature

Witty Rejoinder said:

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

Nature is healing.

This shaky video of sealing the hole.

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

I made up a kid’s game when I used to teach about wasps in outdoors Science! I had kids be the wasps and they all had to find each of these elements and match them up. So it was like a treasure hunt for them. They loved it.

ms spock said:

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

I made up a kid’s game when I used to teach about wasps in outdoors Science! I had kids be the wasps and they all had to find each of these elements and match them up. So it was like a treasure hunt for them. They loved it.

School should always have been such fun.

roughbarked said:

ms spock said:

roughbarked said:

Today she found a silver orb weaver and dropped it in the hole.

Then she sealed the hole.


then she went around sealing all the cracks.

and is now installing tthe insulating fins.

I made up a kid’s game when I used to teach about wasps in outdoors Science! I had kids be the wasps and they all had to find each of these elements and match them up. So it was like a treasure hunt for them. They loved it.

School should always have been such fun.

Teaching outdoor Science meant I could always create games the introduced or reinforced their learning. I had them running, jumping, searching, looking, identifying, collecting and catching up samples to identify, finding different types of crabs, and running to each tree that they could identify. My knowledge is very basic but it was enough for primary school children.

ms spock said:

roughbarked said:

ms spock said:

I made up a kid’s game when I used to teach about wasps in outdoors Science! I had kids be the wasps and they all had to find each of these elements and match them up. So it was like a treasure hunt for them. They loved it.

School should always have been such fun.

Teaching outdoor Science meant I could always create games the introduced or reinforced their learning. I had them running, jumping, searching, looking, identifying, collecting and catching up samples to identify, finding different types of crabs, and running to each tree that they could identify. My knowledge is very basic but it was enough for primary school children.

Mrs rb has taught primary school since 1974 and is still in a teaching role despite having lymphoma and being well past retirement age. I asked why she still persists and she points to the love the children show for her methods of teaching.

roughbarked said:

ms spock said:

roughbarked said:

School should always have been such fun.

Teaching outdoor Science meant I could always create games the introduced or reinforced their learning. I had them running, jumping, searching, looking, identifying, collecting and catching up samples to identify, finding different types of crabs, and running to each tree that they could identify. My knowledge is very basic but it was enough for primary school children.

Mrs rb has taught primary school since 1974 and is still in a teaching role despite having lymphoma and being well past retirement age. I asked why she still persists and she points to the love the children show for her methods of teaching.

Wow! Intonach! (Wonderful!)

It is so wonderful when the kids learn and have excitement and enthusiasm dancing in their eyes and across their faces. Just so satisfying.

She went and made a whole new cell without me seeing it.

and here she is, has already made another and has deposited another orb weaver in there.

She spends some time tucking all the legs in.

Yes there’s flora but it is the fauna here that’s interesting. Seems that between these and the meat ants, not many seed pods are being allowed to form and hang on until ripened.

roughbarked said:

Yes there’s flora but it is the fauna here that’s interesting. Seems that between these and the meat ants, not many seed pods are being allowed to form and hang on until ripened.

ooops.

Positively ruined my intention of cleaning the laundry window. The Mudlark attacks it non stop all year round and poops all over it. Then the mud cauber comes along builds a big lot of cells then starts a new one next to it, does two cells. seals it all up and then goes back to the original dozen cell monster nursery and starts adding new cells to it. It is now up to the fifteenth cell in the one blob of mud.

cauber=dauber

Went to chuck a bit of loose fibro in the bin while walking in the re-established habitat that I physically planted.

roughbarked said:

Went to chuck a bit of loose fibro in the bin while walking in the re-established habitat that I physically planted.

Walked around picking up rubbish and pulling the odd fleabane I’d missed.
See different things. Fallen flowers and new ‘shrooms after the 60mm that has fallen in a week.

Don’t get too close now.

Yes I was looking in my magic bushland front garden for a place to plant a small leaved mintbush. Turned around and here be dragons.

roughbarked said:

Don’t get too close now.

Yes I was looking in my magic bushland front garden for a place to plant a small leaved mintbush. Turned around and here be dragons.

Isn’t he/she handsome

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

Don’t get too close now.

Yes I was looking in my magic bushland front garden for a place to plant a small leaved mintbush. Turned around and here be dragons.

Isn’t he/she handsome

:) Yes. I have a number of them that live in the area that I changed from destoyed wasteland to habitat. You may have seen the baby dragons hatching out at the start of this thread.

Pulled in for a pit stop during a downpour.
Had to stay a while to dry out tattered wings but managed a successful lift off not long later.
Delias aganippe.

roughbarked said:

Water Dragon?

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Water Dragon?

Bearded dragon.

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Water Dragon?

Bearded dragon.

My garden has quite a number of them.

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Water Dragon?

Bearded dragon.

Yes. Of course. Duh, Tamb.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

Water Dragon?

Bearded dragon.

My garden has quite a number of them.

Birds in my back and front yards.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

That’s really quite awesome.

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

I forget If I mentioned this but I have observed a bearded dragon laying these turds. So it is actually a bearded dragon scat.

and on the mention of bearded dragons. I was checking on a couple of wattles I planted out during the hot weather the other day and found that a bearded dragon had been digging a new nest right there overnight.

roughbarked said:

Which bird does scat this big?

Can’t remember if I mentioned that I have worked out the answer to this quite a while back.

They are Bearded Dragon scat.
Sometime after originally posting this, I observed a bearded dragon laying one of these.

Scientists genetically modify Victorian lizard to fight climate change

Get your ducks in a row.
Put my head back on the other end.
Don’t get in a flap.
Frosty pickings.

This dragon has been having a long brumation. When it does come out for some sunshine, it still seems asleep. It was back on this bit of branch again today. It may have been startled and slipped into a bucket so I picked it up and placed it back on the log, gave its back a stroke and there it stayed for a couple of hours until a short while ago when noticed it had gone back into hiding again.

roughbarked said:

This dragon has been having a long brumation. When it does come out for some sunshine, it still seems asleep. It was back on this bit of branch again today. It may have been startled and slipped into a bucket so I picked it up and placed it back on the log, gave its back a stroke and there it stayed for a couple of hours until a short while ago when noticed it had gone back into hiding again.

dang.

There were also a couple of Roo’s around , in all it was a great way to spend a morning in glorious weather

Should have been pruning the tree.

They only come together for mating. Oherwise solitary though they mate for life. Shinglebacks.