Recent content by forrestdweller

i like your way of thinking.... (now i've to go back in the jungle and try to find it again... :P ) currently the tarantula wasps are busy dragging stunned spiders across my (gravel) floor and on my way to 'the office' i almost stepped on a mica (=non-venomous snake)

this morning i opened the chicken coop to find another chook missing: the culprit from two weeks ago was back and managed to get in despite closing last time's entrance... .unlike last time it didn't get out again, so i found myself dragging a p***ed- off 6ft boa constrictor out of a nesting box...

been out checking my trail cameras again, but but had a malfunction, so no videos (and some rough walking for nothing...)... i did however come across a northern tamandua (tamandua mexicana) which i didn't see for years, so i'm excited... they only eat insects but have strong claws so don't get...

to quote another famous spy: "i find that very hard to believe..."

i'm somewhat sure they weren't available in Stalin's days, at least not in the soviet union...

in this case i'd be curious about a tutorial... brass (probably) won't work well in "my" obscene tropical humidity, but aluminium or stainless steel should do for a tinderbox (without the lens in the lid)...

buildings around here don't have numbers, except a bunch of houses in the nearby village (supposedly for sla... eerrhh... workers for the banana mafia) which have 3digit 00 numbers... 007 had for a while a lot of cops hanging around... not sure if that story is true, but i remember reading...

huh?! did someone just call me?!

unfortunately no stills (=camera was set to take short vidoes...) and i'm still too technically challenged to attach pictures to my posts :-(

the puppies (see my previous posts) are growing and doing well :-) this morning one of our chooks was missing when i opened the coop and no trace of an intruder... the mystery was solved when i saw a ca. 5ft long boa with a suspicions lump outside...(despite my local reputation the boa wasn't...

that looks like a non-venomous species?! last night i encountered a fer-de-lance on the footpath and dispatched it about 4m from the puppies' nighttime box... .it was about 4ft long and tasted great :P ; today's only encounter was a male basilisk (a.k.a. "jesus christ lizard" as they can run on...

i still miss her (5years in august she went missing), i had folks asking me for years afterwards what happened to her but never found out... in 2012 i rescued a puppy in south korea from ending in a soup pot (i came too late for her two siblings but later pointed the bone (==a form of...

some more suggestions: ● the original french versions of "the visitors" and "little indian" ● back to the future 1-3 ● a man called horse 1+2 (i forgot the title but there's a movie about hugh glass (=the revenant) with the same actor ● the guns of navarone ● chato's land, red sun, yukon (based...

two day ago i saw my first juvenile neotropical otter, which is even more surprising given the fact that the river is higher than usual again... four weeks ago i had a different animal encounter: i was on my way to my WiFi spot when i found a bag in our entrance. i picked it up thinking someone...

● once unsuccessful (and without any instructions) ● a friend found his water source this way ● as usual i'm clueless