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You Are Here => Highway 61 => Topic started by: sam on June 30, 2019
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I was trying out a new light - actually an old one found hibernating in the loft yesterday - and it must have worked pretty well, because I spotted this little guy early one morning:
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/toad1.jpg)
He was a willing enough model. After putting away my camera camera (which I started carrying after being stuck with a phone camera for an encounter with a pair of runaways (https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/?p=7882) last month), I went back to check on his progress. When he wasn't immediately visible, I became horrified that I had rewarded his patience by squashing him. Fortunately not. So I helped him across the road, which must seem like an ocean of tarmac on that scale. He wee’d* on my cycling glove, possibly in gratitude.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/toadinhand.jpg)
It reminded me of another King Kong encounter: (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/acf/index.php?topic=50528.0)
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/brute.jpg)
I don't recall the circumstances, though that looks like a gardening glove.
* Past tense of wee is woe, according to one wag on the web
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(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/slug.jpg)
Obvious caption
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Q: Why did the badger cross the road?
A: To laugh at me from behind the hedge as I fumbled to get my camera out of the saddlebag in time. As if I ever had a chance.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/badgercam.gif)
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Another early morning hopper, outside my front door then off on a jungle adventure.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/toad2.jpg)
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/toadjungle.jpg)
What can I say, I’m fond of creatures that wouldn’t have required the services of Eadweard Muybridge. Here he is again, some weeks later, also calling at home:
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/morningtoad.jpg)
We're not even related! Don't be toadist. Do we all look the same to you?
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(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/badger1.jpg)
Could it be…?
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/badger2.jpg)
Yes, caught you!
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/badger3.jpg)
Not exactly wildlife photographer of the year stuff. Even though I had a camera reasonably handy, it wasn’t quite handy enough.
Actually a four badger night, two of whom were caught mid-assignation in the middle of the road.
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(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/alpaca1.jpg)
Alpaca not impressed with my camera's hunt for focus.
A few mornings later, watching the sunrise and his charges.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/alpaca2.jpg)
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Going about their business as I went about mine behind a hedge on a ride yesterday:
(https://i.imgur.com/DuLebfm.jpg)
Ladybird = Ladybug in the US
Waldo = Wally in the UK
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(https://i.imgur.com/6mGlsS0.jpg)
Found this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_worm) keeping company with my bikes in the shed.
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At around 3.30 this morning I heard a loud, persistent scratching. At first I thought it was Chompsky, but he was at peace (if now keen for breakfast seeing as I'd just woken him up: way too early little guy!). So I stuck my head out the window…
and caught a badger attacking the base of the tree right in front of our house. He gave me a searching look then got back to work.
A wasp flew in. I shooed him out and grabbed a camera, hoping to record Mr Badger.
(https://i.imgur.com/mKdjCgH.jpg)
No such luck
Another wasp breezed into the living room, quickly followed by three of his mates. I could dimly see them swarming around the badger, who had evidently disturbed a nest.
First things first. I hustled Chompsky out of the room, which he wasn't at all happy about, and dealt with the wasps. Then I got dressed and went outside, gathered a fistful of handy stones, and threw them at this newest agent of destruction. Fortunately this was enough to deter it.
The tree is now in a bad way and may have to come down.
(https://i.imgur.com/28FWgsa.jpg)
Grim reaper – you rang? (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=5213.msg15252#msg15252)
Here's a squirrel to make up for the lack of a picture of the badger.
(https://i.imgur.com/qPoEI4i.jpg)
What no caption for me?