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crmcatee
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LongQ
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crmcatee said: Nice. New fur coat in the offing? Did you measure it for size?
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crmcatee
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Not when it was 28 deg C.. 
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LongQ
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crmcatee said: Not when it was 28 deg C.. But surely you have to plan ahead for -28 deg C ... ?
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Japveesix
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crmcatee said: Nice, guess you must live somewhere remote like Dartmoor or maybe the Lake District as I never see bears in the cities at all.....
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Dogsey
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Japveesix said: crmcatee said: Nice, guess you must live somewhere remote like Dartmoor or maybe the Lake District as I never see bears in the cities at all..... 
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crmcatee
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Japveesix said: Nice, guess you must live somewhere remote like Dartmoor or maybe the Lake District as I never see bears in the cities at all..... Correct - here's Maidstone earlier yesterday.  CMAC5928 by CRMCATEE, on Flickr
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Japveesix
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crmcatee said: I'm genuinely incredibly jealous. Canada is very high on my list of places to visit, for the sole purpose of seeing wildlife and exploring huge remote wilderness areas. Sadly I'm amazingly poor at the moment, but next time I've have some spare cash I'll definitely be going bear, orca, wolf and moose hunting. Maybe even try to see some Canadian beavers whilst I'm there
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jmorgan
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Dogsey
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Had my first encounter of any length with a small sounder of boar tonight for ages and highly enjoyable it was too!  Boar 01 by dogsey, on Flickr  Boar 02 by dogsey, on Flickr  B&W Boar by dogsey, on Flickr ETA: We are again facing a cull of boar without any certainty of their numbers. Estimates seems to vary wildly between 150-200 through to 650+. The Forestry Commission have decided that they need to cull 100 boar between now and January, this could have a potentially devastating effect on the boar population. Please sign and forward the petition to suspend this cull for 12 months to help us get a better idea of how many boar there really are. Stop the Wild Boar CullThanks.
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JSS 911
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tenex
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JSS 911 said: I think they might have spotted you.  Nice pic. The boar look good too Dogsey. 
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LongQ
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 Hover Fly on marigold flower.
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JSS 911
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DibblyDobbler
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^^^ I like that! 
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2slo
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Very good work on here everyone, be it Boars, Bears, Deer or insects I went out armed with my 7D looking for birds and wildlife this morning. Nothing with any legs worth photographing (unless you want to see my tripod ) so the best I could manage is a shot of late summer flowers: 
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Japveesix
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2slo said: Very good work on here everyone, be it Boars, Bears, Deer or insects I went out armed with my 7D looking for birds and wildlife this morning. Nothing with any legs worth photographing (unless you want to see my tripod ) so the best I could manage is a shot of late summer flowers: Himalayan Balsam, Kill it, kill it with fire!
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2slo
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Japveesix said: 2slo said: Very good work on here everyone, be it Boars, Bears, Deer or insects I went out armed with my 7D looking for birds and wildlife this morning. Nothing with any legs worth photographing (unless you want to see my tripod ) so the best I could manage is a shot of late summer flowers: Himalayan Balsam, Kill it, kill it with fire! Just a wild flower to me. Care to explain?
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Japveesix
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2slo said: Japveesix said: 2slo said: Very good work on here everyone, be it Boars, Bears, Deer or insects I went out armed with my 7D looking for birds and wildlife this morning. Nothing with any legs worth photographing (unless you want to see my tripod ) so the best I could manage is a shot of late summer flowers: Himalayan Balsam, Kill it, kill it with fire! Just a wild flower to me. Care to explain? Himalayan Balsam is an introduced species because it grows easily and looks nice in gardens - I admit it is quite pretty. Found natively in the Himalayas (surprisingly!) it seems to do exceptionally well here and is now one of the most persistant, destructive, rapidly spreading and difficult to manage invasive species in the country. Takes over whole riverbanks (leaving no room for any native plants at all) then dies off leaving a completely exposed river bank that then washes away as soon as there's some rain/high flow. On the plus side it does pull up very easily and is quite satisfying to do it - try it next time, get a firm grip and pull. Their roots are amazingly small and shallow, even on the 12-15foot monsters
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2slo
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Japveesix said: Himalayan Balsam is an introduced species because it grows easily and looks nice in gardens - I admit it is quite pretty. Found natively in the Himalayas (surprisingly!) it seems to do exceptionally well here and is now one of the most persistant, destructive, rapidly spreading and difficult to manage invasive species in the country. Takes over whole riverbanks (leaving no room for any native plants at all) then dies off leaving a completely exposed river bank that then washes away as soon as there's some rain/high flow. On the plus side it does pull up very easily and is quite satisfying to do it - try it next time, get a firm grip and pull. Their roots are amazingly small and shallow, even on the 12-15foot monsters Well I didn't know that, thanks As it happens, this was the only bit of colour along the riverside in our village which hadn't been washed away by the flooding last week. I take your point about it's invasive nature but, given the circumstances, I was glad to see it.
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