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    dactylorhiza sp id please? (Guernsey)

    Sark's sinking under the weight of flowers! You come here to do a garden... and find that nature doesn't need help!
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    dactylorhiza sp id please? (Guernsey)

    Quote from Sue Daly's book "Wildlife of the Channel Islands" "The Southern Marsh-Orchid, Dactylorhiza praetermissa is easy to confuse with Heath and Early spotted orchids, a mistake made all the more easy by the number of hybrids between these three species" .... but Southern-marsh should...
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    ID Wall Speedwell

    Flowers don't read books! I'd expect to see it in May!
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    ID Cherry Family

    Aye.. domestic (eating) apple!
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    Fir/Pine Red Flower

    You've just never looked... the red ones are the female flowers, which develop into the comes.. the lower down, larger, catkin things are the male flowers.. which produce millions of pollen spores that blow in the wind.. polinating the females! It's a pine.. (Scots pine... I think)
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    Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News)

    I doubt if I agree with Jos.. ever!
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    Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News)

    "Since when did Europe become such vehement defenders of capitalism and big money ? LOL !" Since we invented it in the 18th Century! I don't think big business can be trusted to do much more than to look after it's own interests and profit margins. Bp's massive profits are there because we...
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    Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News)

    That's OK!.. No offence was taken My point, as always with Environmental stuff... was that there's always finger pointing and blame...but it's us... the consumer .... that provides the demand that drives big business, like BP, to take more and more risks. Whoever was responsible for this...
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    Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News)

    I'm not going to defend anything just because it's got the word "British" in it's name.. it's nothing to do with me!
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    Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News)

    As big business always says... "It's consumer demand". We demand the oil, they go looking for it in more and more risky places.. Accidents happen.. and are more likely to happen... and we blame someone else! .......when you're putting gas in your car, just remember the price isn't just in...
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    Nuthatch in Ireland

    I can see how you'd easily make the mistake if you weren't familiar with both species!
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    In an Island garden

    The award for "Migrant of the Day" goes to... drum roll... wait for it... rustling of gold envelope.... goes to... The Common Swift!.... The skies are full of them. I've been trying to spot the one with white bits.. but I went giddy and fell over! I'm not used to swifts being totally silent...
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    ID: Lancashire - Chicks?

    Just a timely reminder to everyone ( and I'm not accusing you of anything)... Please try not to disturb nesting birds at this time of year!
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    In an Island garden

    That's what I need... Hides!
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    save the coast = set the ocean on fire...?

    It's hard to put a dollar and cents value on a sea bird, a turtle, an ecosystem........
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    save the coast = set the ocean on fire...?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8654970.stm
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    In an Island garden

    I had a busy few weeks and stopped looking!.. so catching up now!
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    Bass Rock - Slightly weird Guillemots?

    It doesn't appear to have affected it's 'pulling' power!
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    In an Island garden

    76, Coot... looking totally out of place on a choppy sea! The thickets are full of Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Chiff-chaffs!
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    save the coast = set the ocean on fire...?

    It's the unacceptable cost of oil... probably the largest pollution event ever... It could be spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months! It's our addiction for oil that's the root cause... the more we demand it, the more dangerous the seach for it will be... it's not BP's fault .. it's...
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    Bass Rock - Slightly weird Guillemots?

    Aye.. it's a weird guillemot! A genetic abnormality affecting the colouration!.. Darwinism in action!... If it works, it's evolution.. if it doesn't.. its a blip!
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    In an Island garden

    75, Whitethroat
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    In an Island garden

    I love my job!...But one of the drawbacks of being a Professional gardener is that at this time of year..... it's head down and get on with it. Tempting as it is to check out every movenment in the shrubberies, every unfamiliar tweet in the trees... if I did the work wouldn't get done! ..And...
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    Is there a "bird safe" weed killer?

    Toys for boys.. and pyramaniac girls! http://www.hirecentres.com/index.php?main=page&mode=product&id=166
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    Is there a "bird safe" weed killer?

    I think any of the non persistant glyphosate based (Round -up etc)weedkillers are fine.... from memory they say that they are safe for animals and children when dry. Ask at a good garden centre... read the instructions.. if in doubt don't use.. if you do it on a warm dry day and scare off the...
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