wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica: September 2012
http://wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com/2012_09_01_archive.html
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica. Sunday, 16 September 2012. Me, Me, ME! There is an election coming up in Brazil, the most obvious manifestation of which is the use of vans playing annoying, repetitive, jingles, very very loudly. As with most things, there is a natural equivalent. The master of "political" advertising is the male Screaming Piha ( Lipaugus vociferans. Http:/ www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/140623/. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Me, Me, ME! Life in Vitoria, Brazil.
wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica: Brazilian Horses
http://wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com/2012/11/brazilian-horses.html
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica. Wednesday, 21 November 2012. Horses have played a huge part in Brazilian history, and every one was descended from an imported horse, there being no natural equines in South America. Over time, many local breeds have developed, often based on Portuguese types such as the Lusitano and Alter Real imported with Portuguese colonisers. The Lusitano. Were originally high grade carriage horses. Basically "field horse" the origins of this breed go right back to the ho...
wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica: Pity the poor mosquito!
http://wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com/2012/08/pity-poor-mosquito.html
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica. Friday, 17 August 2012. Pity the poor mosquito! You are probably, dear reader, a little prejudiced against mosquitoes. Take Aedes scapularis. Whilst it´s true that it is a vector for yellow fever, and human and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, poor A. scapularis. Has a hard life. In 2002, Casanova and do Prado studied them in the pastureland around a farm near Campinas, in Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Life in the 16 remaining pools was better, but not by much. ...
greenieinthewild.blogspot.com
Greenie in the wild: October 2014
http://greenieinthewild.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html
An account of the wildlife I come across and hopefully pictures to bring the account closer. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. Monday 27th. October 2014. With October almost over , I made a visit to Knole Park at Sevenoaks to see if the deer had got into rutting mood . Arriving at the back of the park , I was surprised to find eight Sika Deer , feeding just inside the gate , two adult and a juvenile buck and five does . The dominant buck with a fine set of. Blackening Wax Cap / H.nigrescens ,. In the same area ,...
greenieinthewild.blogspot.com
Greenie in the wild: December 2014
http://greenieinthewild.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
An account of the wildlife I come across and hopefully pictures to bring the account closer. Thursday, 25 December 2014. Thursday 25th. December 2014. When Carol told me yesterday morning that she didn't need any help with the final shopping for the festivities , I was gutted! Was a Great White Egret that flew in from the other side of the pit , and it wasn't long before it struck. Into it's breakfast . At almost the same moment , a female Marsh Harrier rose from it's roost in the. Some people spent thei...
greenieinthewild.blogspot.com
Greenie in the wild: August 2015
http://greenieinthewild.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
An account of the wildlife I come across and hopefully pictures to bring the account closer. Monday, 24 August 2015. Monday 24th. August 2015. Stuck indoors today with a temperature only half of what it was Saturday and pouring with rain , so a chance to look back on a couple of recent visits . The slope below Biggin Hill airport produced a 50-50 split male to female Chalkhill Blues , 5 Brown. On a log pile , no. Slow Worms didn't . Females right and centre and a male , with blue spots , bottom left ...
greenieinthewild.blogspot.com
Greenie in the wild: Monday 20th. July 2015
http://greenieinthewild.blogspot.com/2015/07/monday-20th-july-2015.html
An account of the wildlife I come across and hopefully pictures to bring the account closer. Monday, 20 July 2015. Monday 20th. July 2015. This Yellow and Black Longhorn Beetle / Rutpela maculate has been in very short supply this year , usually they are swarming all over the Bramble flowers , but very few seen . Also on grass seed heads , lots of these tiny Mirid or Capsid bugs , with their 'goulish , smiling face' markings . A few other finds at High Elms included ;. Towards the end of the week , an ex...
wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica: Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel
http://wordsofthemonkey.blogspot.com/2012/08/like-fire-walking-over-flaming-charcoal.html
Natureza - in and around the Mata Atlantica. Monday, 20 August 2012. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel. As probably you know, the sting of a wasp is more painful than the the bite of a mosquito (though not necessarily more dangerous! So who is the winner? The most painful possible sting, described as. Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel. And guess where they live?
