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I have a really good customer with a big house , a garden to match , a couple of fields and a bit of wood that get a bit of trade from fallow deer . He also has a cast iron statue of a stag . It's of some generic ,indeterminate species unknown to any but possibly it's third world fabricators. Though I suppose it might in poor light , at a distance pass for a red deer . Except that it is only about the size of a roe . Last year it was victim of a mysterious assailant and left laying with broken antlers beneath an apple tree . I suggested that rather than a vandal , a
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Yes , the second picture !
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Crikey , e dun arf look like Mountbatten ! I thought it was two Jewish tailors with an eye for business and an inventive sample book that really got the " Family Tartan " thing going . ?
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It's been very busy and still doing the odd nest or three most days. What l have noticed this year is that quite a few nests don't have any queen cells in them . And yesterday l did a nest that was in two sections. Half the nest was normal with egg galleries but hanging from the side was a perfect almost classic shaped football shaped nest . There were plenty of wasps working on the outside but when l broke-in it was just an empty shell .
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I looked in my gardening book. You are right . Pears will also graft onto blackthorn apparently!
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If you bake them like apples they have an almost apricot taste. Or maybe apricots taste a bit like quinces? Ever wondered why the label on marmalade specifies "orange" marmalade? No neither did l.. Until a few years ago l realised that a pub l do the pest control for had several quince trees in a derelict corner . Looking up ways of using up the bags of quinces l came away with l discovered that marmalade was originally made with quinces. The supposed story of how orange Marmalade came to be is that a jam factory bought up a ship load of rotting oranges cheaply . Th
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Stroking him and being firm but friendly with him will make him easier to handle . Stroke him anywhere you like but not the top of his head! Maybe its stimulates competetive hormones but rubbing and tickling a ram's head can too easily lead to a shoving match. Before long the ram sees you as a rival rather than benefactor .....
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Today l will mosly be removing .....
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Sadly as an univited guest it wasn't given the option of tea and cake. Strolled into the room while the elderly lady was knitting . As a fairly robust lady- albeit in her 90s-she tried explain the error of its way with the aid of a rolled up newspaper and strong words . Being met with vulpine indifference ,she shut the door and phoned me. Though l've no reason to doubt her claim that had l not been available she would've fetched a log from the woodshed and "brained" it. -
A fox from a living room . Talk about "Make yourself at home!"
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I'm absolutely no expert- just an amateur sheep-keeper so hopefully a proper expert will chip in. I was sold , very cheaply, half a dozen young rams after a local farmer had selected the best for breeding. I only kept them for meat . One had a rather nasty temperament so he went first. The others were good natured so grew-on as hoggets. When it was a few years old the farmer then kindly gave me the ram he'd originally kept back . Elderly or not the chap served my few ewes admirably and was a lovely character but was getting heavy on his legs . This and the fact th
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Never Mind The Bollocks ...... Look for sturdy legs too Rams can get heavy, and bendy limbs and wonky feet can limit the atheletic abilities required for mating. I guess you are renting the ram rather than buying. So its not such a long term investment though. ?
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?This lot weren't exactly best pleased by having their nest exposed by a chainsaw but while their siblings were bouncing off me others still carried on with nursery duties. I can imagine the reception if l'd suggested laying off the job for a day or two while l fimed some video footage . I don't think my wildlife camera would've survived a trip through the shredder?
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Not the best photo , partially because l was using my phone but mainly because l was standing under a nest full of hornets at the time? Unfortunatly l had to kill them because the nest was impeding some tree surgeons . Before doing the deed l managed this picture of the inmates of the pupation cells being helped to freedom by their older relatives
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It might be the day l get banned from the Site..... That's if l say what l think of the twats who think everything revolves around the possession of dogs with "good" blood lines... Have they never heard of building a relationship with a dog and taking the time to train it . And for a country that prides itself in being a nation of canine lovers the standard of dog training in the UK is a bit low . ?
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That's good of you to say. I expect you have just as many local breeds or more over there. And from some of what l've read the obsession with bloodlines from certain sources in the US is at least as pronounced as it is over here. Don't know if you have any sort of doggy folklore over there , but tales of fairy dogs , Black Dogs, Hairy Hounds ,Gelert and many more are a historical part of our culture too. Again l've read that while some of your native people considered dog meat a delicacy other tribes avoided harming dogs and wolves because they considered them relatives .
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Er no , l bow to your command of language and defend myself by saying that the limits of the keyboard do not always allow the expression of subtle humour or levity. Clearly l am in error. Tad concerned as to why you ended you post to Wolfie with a kiss though.??
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We have or had lots of different local types of dog . Seemingly every other town ,village or big country estate kept a strain of working dogs. That might've been terriers for ratting , badger hunting or fox digging. Dogs for fighting ,baiting or racing. Or maybe a local type of hare,otter or fox hound or harrier. Even before landed gentry developed gun dogs specific to their needs, there were older breeds for hawking and hunting boar , wolves and deer . Even huge hounds and war dogs that impressed even the Romans. Its a fallacy that only our British upper classes are inbreds. Peo
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I understood it . Its a layed back way of getting different opinions and perspectives . And it's worked!
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Hm, maybe that's nearer the truth . You swine Sir???
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Neil Young ? Wilko Johnson??
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I get all the time , " Brad Pitt ". Which is weird because l've always thought that if they made a film of my life the obvious choice to play me would be Will Smith .
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Tree wasps don't have the chocolate markings or brown/ orange " shield " on the shoulders ( medians do but they usually have a barred face too). Tree wasps also have a black spot on their faces. Without doubt "my" specimens are definately one of the dolichocephalic species though?
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40 views and no response. At least I'm not alone in my ignorance. Actually l have come to think after internet searching and book references that identification of the median wasp when they first turned up in this country might've been lazily done. The recognised "type species" as featured in identification charts have a barred face and yellow lower limbs . However a few pictures do show a wasp that match my specimens with brown legs and plain face. I reckon they are actually seperate species.
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Does anyone recognise this species. The nest was about twenty feet from the ground.From their behaviour and appearance ,albeit viewed from a distance and through my aged eyes, l was certain they were medians. Their lack of organised defence was also typical. However despite several classic pointers to that species , amongst other things the facial pattern doesn't tally with the text books. I still think it's a median , they can be a bit variable in body colour , but l'd love to have an opinion from someone more expert.
