Hello I’m Poppy

[Erbswurst]

Yes, usually they don't do anything, but it seems as if they can do a lot more than we think.

A friend of mine worked as a missionary somewhere in South Africa.

Because it didn't rain for many weeks his competition decided to organise a rain dance next evening and my friend also went there to see what's going on.

After a pretty long time dancing, singing and doing whatever was necessary on a forest glade, there came a very big, highly erected holy black mamba out of the forest, went through the crowd that opened a gab for the snake, and disappeared into the wood at the opposite side of the place.

Immediatly afterwards it started to rain heavily.

Back at home my friend sorted his stuff, cancelled the job and came back to Germany.

 

[henchy3rd]

Hello poppy,
I study Insects, Coleoptera( beetles) & Hemiptera(true bugs)but also find any bug interesting.
You may find joining a local natural history group very helpful as there’s plenty of like minded people, they do site visits & hold lectures/talks.
Or have a look at DANES Entomological society.
All the best in your venture into a colourful & fascinating world.

 

[Tengu]

Im glad you like my article, Poppy; the overarching theme is Wiltshire Heritage but a lot of my articles are natural rather than man made heritage. There are articles on a Royal Forest and geology.

My latest one is on the Canal, and the next I have planned is Wiltshire Dinosaurs.

 

[PoppyD]

If by ‘cool stuff’ you mean that pile of poo sitting on my t-shirt, you’d better sort it out.

It’s not poo. It’s owl pellets. nice ones.

 

[Tengu]

I think thats a good find.

 

[PoppyD]

They’re really big. Barn owl. We have them in our stables now and they leave whoppers. Wait till I start dissecting them and make more mess.
I’d post pics but can’t. Bit annoying.

 

[Tengu]

Very fortunate.

There are a lot of Tawny owls in the Bushmoot woods at Merthyr Mawr. Very noisy.

One night driving back there was a owl sat on every fourth fencepost.

 

[PoppyD]

We have lots of tawnys in the woods around our house. One sits on the fence and squeaks all the time. And there are loads now. We had four the other night. Youngsters getting ready to move on. Had little owls in the barn until recently, but the barn owls must have evicted them And we haven’t seen them for ages.

 

[CLEM]

My favourite bird the Barney, the first time I saw one in the wild was truly spectacular. It was like a scene written,produced and directed by Spielberg. Something never forgotten.

 

[PoppyD]

We haven’t seen them out flying yet, just their bums sticking out over the ledge. I’m going to go down when the weather looks good again and watch the fields one evening. I am getting the new iPhone on Wednesday and will be able to take good pictures of them.

 

[Nice65]

I get some pretty good pics from the iPhone 12 Mini. Your namesake

 

[PoppyD]

Poppy’s are great. I even have a day named after me where everyone has to wear one.

My camera is OK, but it’s a bag of Pooh next to the new ones. I can’t wait.

 

[JonathanD]

She was cute once.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Hi Poppy, welcome and enjoy.

 

[PoppyD]

Thank you.