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Bull Horn AcaciaObserver
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Found this thorn on the sidewalk. It is approximately 60 mm from the center to each tip. Tips are very sharp,
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Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)Observer
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Could be a Immature bird
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Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Ochre Bracket (Trametes ochracea)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Common Wood-Pigeon (Columba palumbus)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park.
Sorry pic's not good, very overcast wet weather = bad light
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Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-Moss (Streblotrichum convolutum)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Ivies (Genus Hedera)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)Observer
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Dinton Pastures Country Park
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Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)Observer
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On a visit to the UK, we had the opportunity to go for a walk in the Dinton Pastures Country Park. I will be posting a few more sightings from our trip.
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Southern Cape Robin-Chat (Cossypha caffra ssp. caffra)Observer
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Immature bird in our garden and on our bird feeder
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Bushveld Speckled Mousebird (Colius striatus ssp. minor)Observer
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Mousebirds eating the leaves from this plant that sprouted next to our bird feeder, I think the plant may be from the Papaya family. I have done a separate post for the identification of the tree.
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Papaya (Carica papaya)Observer
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This tree, next to our bird feeder just sprouted, it was not planted. It could have been from food we put in the bird feeder or it could have been the seed that was brought in by a bird visiting the feeder. It is fast growing, is only about a year old, and is now about Two meters tall. The mouse birds eat the leaves.
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Tailed Daddy Long-legs Spiders (Genus Crossopriza)Observer
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Small Daddy long legs caught a moth
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Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens)Observer
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On the wall in my Kitchen at night taken with flash.
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Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)Observer
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On the golf course at Magaliespark with a greylag goose that has joined them.
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Domestic Greylag × Domestic Swan Goose (Anser anser domesticus × cygnoides domesticus)Observer
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This Goose (I think it is a Greylag goose) seems to have joined the Egyptian geese. I wonder if it would mate with them?
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
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Living up to its Afrikaans name this Naboom (Close tree) has grown right next to a tree, using the tree as a support structure.
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Fly Pirates (Genus Bengalia)Observer
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Watched this fly rob the eggs/pupae from the small black ants as the ants were carrying them along their path, possibly moving them from their nest to a more suitable place. The fly would sit on the brick paving and watch the ants move along their path, when the ants carried a pupae it would fly up at it and take the pupae from the ants, return to its sighting site on the paving and eat the pupae. In the picture you can see the fly eating the pupae. It did this multiple times but it was difficult to get pictures as it was very active.
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African Honey Bee (Apis mellifera ssp. scutellata)Observer
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Bees on my birdbath, assume they are water carriers.
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Lederhosen Moth (Morasa modesta)Observer
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Found this Caterpiller/worm in my backyard. Obviously dead. Not sure if the eggs it was carrying were its own or from a parasite that used it as a host for its own offspring.
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Feather-legged Lace Weaver (Uloborus plumipes)Observer
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This small spider was about 4 mm long, it had caught and wrapped a fly and seemed to be feeding on it. Its web was in a window space in our house and unfortunately I could only get a position to take the photos against the light so the pics are not very clear.
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African Spotted Tortoise Beetle (Conchyloctenia punctata)Observer
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settled on a pot plant on my veranda.
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Tribe SedeaeObserver
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I think this is the name of this succulent, it is cultivated and planted in my garden. I am posting it as an interaction with the common house sparrow that is seen eating it.
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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Found these what looks like very small worms that have hatched from a cocoon type substance on my bathroom wall on the joint between the tiles. The cocoon/egg case was about one centimeter long and when I wiped it off the wall it was a soft spongy substance that almost just melted away. The little worms were about 1 mm long. If I had to guess I would say they might be bag worms as I have had some of those but more mature in bag in the house before.
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Lesser Honeyguide (Indicator minor)Observer
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The Lesser Honeyguide visiting a Black collared Barbets nest and laying an egg. The Black Collared Barbets raised a single Honeyguide chick,
