i read al those magpie facts. great stuff. a few things i didnt know. thanks .Magpie at the base of my bird feeders.
Magpie Bird Facts (Pica pica)
A long-tailed corvid with striking black and white plumage, the Magpie is one of the world's most intelligent birds and the source of many superstitions.birdfact.com
Wish iD seen the pigeons using my car roof as a toilet !
fab. i used to train a buzzard. i named him leyton
fab. have you got facts? great photos btw. xA little cucumber spider.
Not specific to the cucumber spider, but apparently spider silk was used to create cross-hairs on telescopes.
Well I never! That is a fantastic fact and I'm chuffed to bits with that one. I found out some more in this link below. x
occasional guide for tourists (national park and nearby private property which includes bowdrill demo ), still stuck in paperwork to obtain my license...
and early sniper rifle scopes iirc -- judging from our local spiders easy to believe (they like to put their nets at head hight across the trails in the jungle...), one spider in New Guinea produces nets strong enough to catch small fish...
intersting. i made a blowpipe once lol and looked into poisons. I think the most lethal ones were from borneo. x
www.nationalgeographic.com
some european plants are suitable for making arrow poison, too
brilliant. i'm on ebay nowx
. I am interested in everything so going off topic is easily done,
If someone knows you and knows you are just joking, that is funny as hell. If they don't, its not funny at all.
Lets not take a thread about wildlife spotting off topic with a further detour into blow pipes and related poisons.
not in Costa Rica although the indigenous people have moved on to firearms... sorry for some infos not exactly related to the thread, but it was meant for entertainment only -- playing with arrow poisons can easily go wrong!
birdfact.com
wood pigeon chicks are called squabs. I never knew that. good fact. and I saw that very egg in the fact sheet on the woodland floor today, I wondered what it was and now I know. xThose pigeons again
Wood Pigeon Nesting (All You Need To Know)
As one of the UK’s most common garden birds, many people will 'likely have seen a Wood pigeon nest. The nest of a Wood Pigeon with two eggs inside. Though…
