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    Yellow mystery in pond, Cambridge, England

    Definately a piece of plastic pollution.
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    Yellow mystery in pond, Cambridge, England

    Top edge looks very much like a piece of plastic has broken off. April fool??
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    Flying fish/squid IDs, if poss.

    A quick bump up.
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    Flying fish/squid IDs, if poss.

    While on a cruise around Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, the crew did some squid fishing at night. At the same time, we were visited by flying fish. Any ideas as to IDs? TIA Fof
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    Australian Moths and other garden observations

    Having lived in Qld for many years, I can just visualise your drive home. Not nice!!! Gabe can really get into tickling the angels up there.
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    Confused

    @Odonate. Just a follow up, as I am, like you, confused. You stated: Now you say: All I was doing was putting forward my thoughts and ideas. Also, Cornwall, where I live, isn't, as far as I am aware, on a different continent from Devon.
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    Confused

    How do you know if it was FULLY formed? It could have been minutes/hours/days from hatching. Think about a chicken's egg. The embryo grows and develops until one day, nature decides it has developed enough and hey presto, it hatches.
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    Longhorn beetle ID

    Hi guys I hope you all had a good holiday and wish you all the best for '25. I've just split a piece of oak, and in a cavity I found this intact, but very dead, longhorn. Any ideas as to which sp it may be? Fof
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    Bird Sexing

    Probably asked many times, but just curious. Currently I am spotting with Mammal Web and often see images of birds that exhibit sexual monomorphism, eg Wood pigeon. Very daft question, but how do they manage to select the opposite sex? Colour patterns using UV/IR/polarised light? Tonality...
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    Foxes in garden

    Fabulous pics of your foxes, Chris. I do have one possiblem gripe with you, though. I don't know where you are, but if you have reds, then yes I agree totally, but, if, as I suspect, they are greys, then I would do eveything possibel to encourage the foxes to take the greys. They are just...
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    What's with this magpie?

    While doing a bit of spotting for the National Hedgehog Monitoring Project, I came across a sequence, taken 19-08-24. I've never seen a magpie like this before. Almost looks like it has been throttled.😳😳 Eyes look a bit odd, as well. Any suggestions?
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    Australian Moths and other garden observations

    Gorgeous. Ran on Chrome, but not Firefox
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    Brown Hare

    Sure looks right to my untutored eye. Nice one.
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    Dragonfly that lights up

    Sorry. I got it to run. Agreed
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    Dragonfly that lights up

    The video doesn't play. Just a grey square.
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