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Some pictures I took recently

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    #3242
    Eyepatch
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    LOL! A fairly small spider took up residence in my window and captured butterflies as well as flies. When I went to clean the window, I had to wipe away splashes of blood! What a vicious monster!


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    #3243
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Just curious, but how did you know it was blood, as an insect's blood is colourless?


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    #3244
    Eyepatch
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    Not, giving a smart answer - it was red! I don't know what else could have splashed it there. I had already found a dead butterfly and various other corpses (flies) in the same spot. Maybe when it dries it turns red? ???


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    #3245
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Eyepatch wrote: »
    Not, giving a smart answer - it was red! I don't know what else could have splashed it there. I had already found a dead butterfly and various other corpses (flies) in the same spot. Maybe when it dries it turns red? ???

    No haemoglobin in insect blood so nothing to show red. Houseflies have a red pigment in their eyes but it's in minute quantities.


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    #3246
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,950 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Not so incy wincy spider. have been watching this beaut growing in the back garden all summer
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    #3247
    Eyepatch
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    Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »
    No haemoglobin in insect blood so nothing to show red. Houseflies have a red pigment in their eyes but it's in minute quantities.


    It remains a mystery, then. I have no idea what caused the red splashes! :confused:


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    #3248
    kylith
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    Eyepatch wrote: »
    It remains a mystery, then. I have no idea what caused the red splashes! :confused:

    I wonder if it could have been spider excrement.


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    #3249
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    kylith wrote: »
    I wonder if it could have been spider excrement.

    Spider droppings are brown or black.

    Jeez, do you people know nothing about wildlife. :D


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    #3250
    Eyepatch
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    Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »
    Spider droppings are brown or black.

    Jeez, do you people know nothing about wildlife. :D

    ((((Bows))) to Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yos' expert knowledge on all things spider! :pac: :P


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    #3251
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Eyepatch wrote: »
    ((((Bows))) to Srameens' expert knowledge on all things spider! :pac: :P

    I know sweet all about spiders. Birds are my subject.:)


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    #3252
    axe2grind
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    Eyepatch wrote: »
    Not, giving a smart answer - it was red! I don't know what else could have splashed it there. I had already found a dead butterfly and various other corpses (flies) in the same spot. Maybe when it dries it turns red? ???
    Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »
    No haemoglobin in insect blood so nothing to show red. Houseflies have a red pigment in their eyes but it's in minute quantities.
    Eyepatch wrote: »
    It remains a mystery, then. I have no idea what caused the red splashes! :confused:
    Look up butterfly meconium
    Can be quite blood like!


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    #3253
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    axe2grind wrote: »
    Look up butterfly meconium
    Can be quite blood like!

    Absolutely true. It is blood like but not blood. The only thing is that it is excreted immediately after they leave the chrysalis, so the OP's butterflies would have to have been trapped almost immediately after the adult butterflies emerged and as chrysalises rarely are positioned on windows , it is unlikely. Not impossible mind you and a great suggestion.


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    #3254
    V Bull
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    A small selection of photos from my holiday in the USA.

    A resting Black Skimmer..
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    Laughing Gull...
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    Green Heron at the birdhide on Merritt Island...
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    Godwit & Willet..
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    Western Sandpiper.. going with this because of the part webbed feet...
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    Common Ground-Dove..
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    American Fox...
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    American River Otter..
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    Black Skimmers in flight... couldnt get a pic of them skimming...
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    Great Egret...
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    #3255
    OwlsZat
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    I was watching TV the last day when I spotted the nipper with what looked like a tarantula in his mouth.

    Obviously this was not the case, but what was this monster?


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    #3256
    Capercaille
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    V Bull wrote: »



    Godwit & Willet..
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    Western Sandpiper.. going with this because of the part webbed feet...
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    Your godwit is a juvenile marbled godwit, the coverts are only faintly marked.

    The western sandpiper is a juvenile. hard to separate from semiplamated sandpiper which also has partial webbing, but bill in this bird is delicate and finely decurved. Also you can see a hint of rufous on the scapulars.


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    #3257
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    OwlsZat wrote: »
    I was watching TV the last day when I spotted the nipper with what looked like a tarantula in his mouth.

    Obviously this was not the case, but what was this monster?


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    Hard to tell with the washed out colour but it looks like the House Spider Tegenaria domestica


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    #3258
    OpenYourEyes
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    Lesser Yellowlegs - an American wader, closely related to our Greenshank
    (taken in Wexford recently)

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    #3259
    Fruit1985
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    #3260
    shuffles88
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    This guy is in a bowl out in my backyard at the moment is it a baby? Very tiny about 1cm wide and 10 cm long


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    #3261
    Pie Man
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    shuffles88 wrote: »
    This guy is in a bowl out in my backyard at the moment is it a baby? Very tiny about 1cm wide and 10 cm long

    Your lizard is in fact a newt :)


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    #3262
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Thatv s a Smooth Newt


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    #3263
    shuffles88
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    Pie Man wrote: »
    Your lizard is in fact a newt :)

    Yeah, someone else commented that and then it disappeared :). Newt Gingrich has gone off on his merry way now...I just hope my dog didn't eat him:(


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    #3264
    Gran Hermano
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    shuffles88 wrote: »
    This guy is in a bowl out in my backyard at the moment is it a baby? Very tiny about 1cm wide and 10 cm long

    I'd release him from that bowl sooner rather than later.
    They are protected by law.


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    #3265
    shuffles88
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    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    I'd release him from that bowl sooner rather than later.
    They are protected by law.

    No, I didn't put him in the bowl. He was wallowing in it when I found him. Also as I've said in my last post he's gone now.


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    #3266
    Tea Tree
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    :)

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    #3267
    allthedoyles
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    #3268
    OpenYourEyes
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    There was enough of a discussion around Pinseeker's Falcon pictures to warrant their own thread - apologies for the delay in doing so, my internet connection is terrible tonight!

    Thread here: Falcon ID


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    #3269
    cscook
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    They're not wonderful pictures - but it was great fun watching these starlings bathing in a rock-pool near the South Beach in Greystones the other day. I have a short video too which is in THIS post in the video thread.

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    #3270
    spookwoman
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    Goldcrest
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    Fungi of some sort
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    Chaffinch having a bath
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    #3271
    MeteoritesEire
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    my first newt in hand#friend caught this the other day and put him in an aquarium thing-think I persuaded her to let him go


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