I saw a thing in the garden (3 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

False widow spider the other day in our kitchen.

 

[therealjohnny]

Pretty sure there is a rats nest under my shed/office. I spotted one outside one day a while back, the dog is obsessed with something under there, and that intermittent scratching noise is probably not the hedge moving in the wind. The cat brought a corpse into the house last night.

So what to do? Poisoned rats will likely end up in the cats or dogs belly. Traps, maybe?

 

[dudley]

Pretty sure there is a rats nest under my shed/office. I spotted one outside one day a while back, the dog is obsessed with something under there, and that intermittent scratching noise is probably not the hedge moving in the wind. The cat brought a corpse into the house last night.

So what to do? Poisoned rats will likely end up in the cats or dogs belly. Traps, maybe?

blunderbuss and a rocking chair

 

[therealjohnny]

ear worm for today

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[therealjohnny]

View from my office. This Great Tit has started hanging around and is really interested in something in our kitchen. He seems to want to get in, or he is reacting to his reflection.

Terrible photos so including a photo of the web so we can see what they actually look like


#oldpaintycanjohnny

 

[Cormcolash]

This Great Tit has started hanging around and is really interested in something in our kitchen.

Like recognises like

 

[seanc]

DUCKLINGS!!!!!!!!

 

[seanc]

Also the swan really hates that Canada goose. They were engaged in aerial combat the other day. Today swan is throwing shapes, goose is making noise while actually moving away. I shouldn't anthropomorphise but it is a bit like a teenage disco round here.

 

[seanc]

The bees!

I only recently found out that there's a beekeeper with a bunch of beehives about 30m over that way, so all the diligent workers are out and about the last few days. Can't believe I was brought up to be scared of these lads.

And this year, I want a jar of that local honey, flavoured with pollution and sewage.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

He wouldn't sit still but this fox was completely unfazed by me. It lives in the laneway beside my flat.

 

[egg_]

Pretty sure there is a rats nest under my shed/office. I spotted one outside one day a while back, the dog is obsessed with something under there, and that intermittent scratching noise is probably not the hedge moving in the wind. The cat brought a corpse into the house last night.

So what to do? Poisoned rats will likely end up in the cats or dogs belly. Traps, maybe?

Just let the cat do its cat thing, I'd say

 

[Cormcolash]

blunderbuss and a rocking chair

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[flashback]

I think there's a pair of common buzzards living around the Griffith Park area. Which is still kinda my back garden these days.

I've seen them a few times, seemingly always paired up. I guess there's a bit of open land in the area, still I was surprised to see them appearing to be living there.

 

[magicbastarder]

griffith park in drumcondra? i.e. you're not in cork anymore?

 

[flashback]

griffith park in drumcondra? i.e. you're not in cork anymore?

yup, I'm out that area for a short while now. I'll be going back to Cork at some point, once I've harvested all the local buzzard eggs probably.

 

[magicbastarder]

didn't know there were buzzards down there - we'd seen one occasionally over the botanic gardens though.
i think i mentioned a pine marten was found as roadkill in drumcondra last summer; i suspect somewhere near griffith park.

 

[flashback]

didn't know there were buzzards down there - we'd seen one occasionally over the botanic gardens though.
i think i mentioned a pine marten was found as roadkill in drumcondra last summer; i suspect somewhere near griffith park.

The first few times I assumed they were passing through. I wasn't sure they were buzzards initially, they looked a bit dark compared to the lads I was used to in Cork.

But I've been seeing them in almost exactly the same place a number of times now, including calling at each other (that was the point I knew for sure they were buzzards), so I'm starting to think they've set up shop somewhere around the area?

 

[Cormcolash]

I saw a golden eagle last week, fuckin hell it was massive

 

[magicbastarder]

Jealous. Where did you see it?

 

[flashback]

I saw a golden eagle last week, fuckin hell it was massive

Oh nice. Was this out in Donegal or Kerry or something?

I've never seen one. I've seen Sea Eagles, and Andean Condors. Condors don't really even look like birds, they look more like small planes piloted by little fellas. They'd sort of swivel their heads around and look at you, but the rest of the animal looks like it's a glider with a lad in the front flying.

I'd guess the Golden Eagle would be more like a Sea Eagle, massive enough but flies more normally? I only properly got the scale of the Sea Eagle when she was being harassed by Greater Blackback Gulls, which she dwarfed. And we've all seen the footage of the Blackbacks choking down whole rabbits.