What is it?

[Niels]

Hmmmmmmm:bluThinki Is it actually standing in the water?? I might be onto something here!

 

[Harvestman]

Yes, it is in the water. In fact this was a water filled ditch and it was full of it.

 

[Niels]

Yes, it is in the water. In fact this was a water filled ditch and it was full of it.

Hmmmmmmm:bluThinki Without the flowers it's difficult. Anyhow who can identify my little friend here?


Steenluis by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[xylaria]

red spider mite Dont know which one though.

 

[Harvestman]

Depends on the scale, but I will say velvet mite, though it mite be a brick mite.

 

[Niels]

Just mite is enough. I don't think you can identify it in the field really.

 

[bb07]

From the northern boreal forest:

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Those are crowberries bb07.

 

[bb07]

Those are crowberries bb07.

Is there anything you guys don't know?

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Is there anything you guys don't know?

Plenty of things,............the meaning of life & Harvestman's plant to name but 43

 

[Bushwhacker]

A weasel it is!


2013-04-25 18.28.35 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Now, I didn't know this due to my non existant tracking skills, but because I know my home area well. There are no hedgehogs in this area.

Not stoat then? How are you sure it's weasel?

 

[Niels]

Not stoat then? How are you sure it's weasel?

I'm 99% sure, as I've lived here all my life, and I've never seen a stoat here. And I have seen weasels in this location. I live in a very cultivated landscape, with almost no forests, so the biodiversity is relatively small.

 

[Harvestman]

Shall I put you guys out of your collectve misery, at least as far as my plant is concerned?

If not you have until the end of saturday, as then I'm camping for a week.

 

[Harvestman]

I'm 99% sure, as I've lived here all my life, and I've never seen a stoat here. And I have seen weasels in this location. I live in a very cultivated landscape, with almost no forests, so the biodiversity is relatively small.

So you are not stoatally sure then?

 

[Niels]

So you are not stoatally sure then?

No. Now go get your coat And as for your plant. I have just accepted that I do not know. I hope someone else does.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Shall I put you guys out of your collectve misery, at least as far as my plant is concerned?

Not just yet, we do like a challenge ...................a few clues would be welcome though, like what colour are the fowers ?

 

[Harvestman]

If two people ask for the answer, I'll tell.

In the meantime, here's one taken in the last half hour in my garden. Feel free to criticise the photography, since my wife took the shot

What bird is this?

 

[copper_head]

Green finch?

 

[Niels]

Blue tit. Why do all English bird names have to sound so weird though. I hope google translate's right, cuz that's a weird name.

 

[Harvestman]

Neither greenfinch nor blue tit.

If you thing the bird names are bad, in Hawaii there is a rare spider called the 'no-eyed big-eyed spider'