CJW, Grousemore and Kiki do Central Florida (1 Viewer)

Grousemore

Senior Member

• Mar 9, 2006

• #21

CJW said:

I don't remember him...

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...not surprising really, well known for causing amnesia.

 

Kiki

Well-known member

• Mar 9, 2006

• #22

You're a bad influence on him Trevor. He never smokes, drinks or swears normally....

 

Grousemore

Senior Member

• Mar 9, 2006

• #23

Kiki said:

You're a bad influence on him Trevor. He never smokes, drinks or swears normally....

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...well he certainly doesn't drink "normally" B B B

 

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Steven Astley

Well-known member

• Mar 9, 2006

• #24

Nice report Chirs. Especially jealous of all the woopeckers you saw.

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Mar 10, 2006

• #25

Steven Astley said:

Nice report Chirs. Especially jealous of all the woopeckers you saw.

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Thanks Steven.
Yeah I enjoyed the woodpeckers, like I said to Trevor, "there's no such thing as a boring woodpecker" (cue predictable jokes...) and they were remarkably easy to see - certainly more so than our paltry 3½ species in Britain.

 

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mountain man

Guest

• Mar 10, 2006

• #26

Great read, Chris. Nice website as well. Is that your own boat?

TM

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Mar 10, 2006

• #27

tom mckinney said:

Great read, Chris. Nice website as well. Is that your own boat?

TM

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Cheers Tom. Nah it's not my boat (belongs to mate), but I'm in the market for one similar. Trouble is, I can go halves with another mate or I can go on another foreign birding jaunt. Difficult decision.

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Mar 10, 2006

• #28

CJW said:

Trouble is, I can go halves with another mate or I can go on another foreign birding jaunt. Difficult decision.

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Do the foreign trip, then come back and scrounge lifts on the new acquisition of the 'another mate'

 

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pete woodall

Well-known member

• Mar 14, 2006

• #29

Hi Chris
I've just finished reading your great South African report. It brought back many happy memories of Kruger and the Cape and not a little envy for some of the birds you got that we've missed out on.

In your photographs - Other Animals, the "Lizard sp." is another Rainbow Skink - but an adult male, losing the blue tail of juvs. and females. As Bill Branch's "Field Guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa" puts it ...."adult males become buff-olive to olive-brown above, each scale bearing a pearly-white spot. ....the tail changes to yellowish to orange-brown".

I don't have such an easy id for your gecko - where was it taken in KNP or the Cape?

Cheers

Peter

 

Kiki

Well-known member

• Mar 14, 2006

• #30

Thanks Pete,for the kind words and the ID! I'll update that this morning.
The gecko was taken in KNP, at Mopani Camp if that helps.

 

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pete woodall

Well-known member

• Mar 24, 2006

• #31

Hi Chris/Keren
My best guess at the gecko is Moreau's Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia. The pattern on the back is almost identical to a photo in Bill branch's book and the distribution and habitat are OK but I'm no expert on this group (or any group for that matter, just a b... naturalist with an interest in everything!)

Pete