the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[martinw-48]

Thanks tas.

Well my Mudlarks are gone and every other insectivorous bird appears to be gone too.

I've only been going home for short mail runs but the Mudlark male loves to attack the mirrors on my car and his reflection in my bedroom window and he often leaves behind little signs but I've not had to clean any of my car or bedroom window for longer than I can remember now.

There's been a huge reduction in the amount of insects at my house and when I've had to drive to Hamilton and back to do the School Crossing Supervisor duties I wasn't having to clean insects off my windscreen.

I haven't worked since July last year but it appears that things haven't gotten better. I notice when I walk into my yard I haven't seen a single drop tail skink or Blue tongue lizard either

[ecar3483]

This is a Noisy Miner...

And this is a Common Myna...

They're fairly easily told apart, even at first glance, but both having very similar sounding names makes it an amusing way to pass the minutes trying to pictures of one, or the other on Google...

It didn't help that I knew what a Myna was, but didn't know what the other was called, ha ha.

Another instalment in the ongoing story of "Birds that turn up in the garden and I have no idea what they are"... ha ha...

I'm sorry to hear about the insects, Martin. A die back like that not only affects them, but also, as you've pointed out, affects the creatures that rely on them.

Speaking of, in a roundabout way, ha ha, I squashed a huntsman spider on the brickwork outside, and then left it, meaning to clean it off later.

Later arrived, but I was too late - a wasp had built a mud nest nestled against the mortar between the bricks, and had neatly cleaned away any trace of the spider, barring one segment of leg.

That's efficient tidying up, in my books... Now if only i could teach it to use the vacuum cleaner... ha ha...

🙂

[martinw-48]

I do my best to never kill spiders
When I was in waiting for my last MRI there was a little spider running around on the ground and a lady was going in and out repeatedly and I noticed that she saw the spider and kept making sure she didn't squash it

[imastawka]

 I try to avoid spiders, but if they come anywhere near me, their days are numbered.

Martin, I hope you're wrong about the insects.

They're not just food for birds, but help to pollinate a lot of plants too.

[lyhargr_0]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
Thanks tas.

Well my Mudlarks are gone and every other insectivorous bird appears to be gone too.

I've only been going home for short mail runs but the Mudlark male loves to attack the mirrors on my car and his reflection in my bedroom window and he often leaves behind little signs but I've not had to clean any of my car or bedroom window for longer than I can remember now.

There's been a huge reduction in the amount of insects at my house and when I've had to drive to Hamilton and back to do the School Crossing Supervisor duties I wasn't having to clean insects off my windscreen.

I haven't worked since July last year but it appears that things haven't gotten better. I notice when I walk into my yard I haven't seen a single drop tail skink or Blue tongue lizard either

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My garden is full of skinks, see heaps of them .......

[ecar3483]

The cockatoo "word" (shriek, perhaps is a better way of putting it) for "cat" is the same as the one they use for "possum"...

They start kicking up a fuss, so I wander out and do a quick visual sweep of the garden... and then the same with the possum houses...

More than nine times out of ten, some "sharp eyed" bird has spied the lower half of a possum protruding from the doorway of a possum house.

Having located "the offender", I then have to go through the pantomime process of "Looking"... then "Seeing the possum..."... and Turning to the birds and pointing out that I have seen the possum..."...

And then  reassuring them that it really poses no threat to them, stretched out, lying on it's back, and quite likely asleep half way out of the doorway... ha ha.

There will always be one bird who grunts at me, cynically... ha ha, but on the whole they'll go back to doing bird things, happy that the crisis situation has been resolved, ha  ha.

And then, because I'm out there, I might as well take a turn around the garden just to make sure that there isn't cat around...

In all the excitement, the birds might have completely forgotten about it... ha ha.

There's never a dull moment, ha ha...

Actually, in honesty, there's plenty of dull moments, but I try not to bother writing about those, unless things are really dull, and I can't find anything else to write about... ha ha...

🙂

[snow*jewel]

Wonderful to see you back Ecar. 

[twyngwyn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/uanse/possum_dominates_himself_at_a_bakery/

[ecar3483]

Twynnie, I laugh every time I see that photo, it never loses it's appeal... ha ha...

🙂

[twyngwyn]

my error......you're probably sick of seeing it! Never mind....as long as you're entertained 🙂