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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:19 am
by barrett
blue wrote:sound world wrote:You don't mean a magpie?? (look on the list).Loads of them around all year.Wouldn't be scared of a pussycat,and would probably eat one if they were a bit smaller
Um, no Dave, I know what magpies are.
These birds are bigger than sparrows but not nearly the size of starlings, very well-shaped heads/bodies, only black and white.
Maybe it's only me that can see them.
It sounds to me like a Pied Wagtail (commonly known as the Willy Wagtail)cos its tail wags up and down as it hops about the place.Our village street is full of them.
Heres some piccies-
http://www.stevenround-birdphotography. ... agtail.htm
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:11 pm
by blue
Ah yes, thank you, that's the fella! For a minute there I thought I might be mad.
They do look funny hopping along.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:15 pm
by sound world
Now if you'd said their tail wags all the time....
All wagtails are beautiful.Yes,they're pretty unfazed by cats and humans.A surprising amount of birds are.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:17 pm
by blue
Well I don't think of their tails as wagging.
They just have very long tails and they hop, to my un-nature-fied self.
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:09 am
by kuhn
Are garden frogs common in England?
I've never seen one
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:21 pm
by sound world
Any self-respecting natural pond is likely to have them-except that fish and newts eat frogspawn,so make that every other natural pond.
There must be some in Norway?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:34 pm
by RobB
sound world wrote:There must be some in Norway?
There are plenty in France!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:03 am
by kuhn
RobB wrote:sound world wrote:There must be some in Norway?
There are plenty in France!
I guess frogs are everywhere. I just haven't looked for them
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:42 am
by blue
'Papa, I know there's a frog on my toe. Maybe I'll call him Jethro. Maybe I'll grow up to be wise and good as he, and maybe he'll come back after you're long gone.'
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:50 pm
by RobB
The back garden is a mass of yellow ragwort plants....erm weeds.....at the moment and several are now home to the orange/black striped Cinnabar (moth) catapillars which seem to be growing even as I watch them.
Unfortunately several have taken a dive into the pond as the wind blows the ragworts about but i've been doing my good deed of the day and have fished them out and taken them to a ragwort plant located safely well away from the pond.
