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Never been to this part of Spain before but it was stunning and the drive over to Ronda on the A-366 was stunning , what a road . Shame I was driving a Punto. The other pics are of the Castillo d

Martyn Pitt
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Well it was nice to get out in the fresh air for a change, unfortunately the light was pants (sorry for resorting to technical terms), and there were not many birds about. Anyway this Goldcrest w

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A few from dog walking over the last few weeks

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5 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

I'd have never have got that in a month of Sunday’s! 

It's a very common plant in Spain, and has something to do with the production of tequila, though probably quite remotely.  Travel broadens the mind, but I guess there's nothing like traveling inside your own, and many people don't ever try that, shame on them.

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6 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

It's a very common plant in Spain, and has something to do with the production of tequila, though probably quite remotely.  Travel broadens the mind, but I guess there's nothing like traveling inside your own, and many people don't ever try that, shame on them.

Interesting Dave. I saw a documentary on Tequila recently - it’s named after the town Tequila. It showed them harvesting the plants - there were specialist harvesters, all done by hand. I seem to recall that the main producer is a family business - Americans, who spotted an opportunity. That could be wrong though as it was all a bit fuzzy. Absolute Vodka, Cherry flavour.

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Interesting Dave. I saw a documentary on Tequila recently - it’s named after the town Tequila. It showed them harvesting the plants - there were specialist harvesters, all done by hand. I seem to recall that the main producer is a family business - Americans, who spotted an opportunity. That could be wrong though as it was all a bit fuzzy. Absolute Vodka, Cherry flavour.

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You're pretty spot on with it, and the cherry flavoured Absolute.  I currently have eight label stickers from litre bottles of Absolut on the fridge, I keep a score as to how many I drink in a year, there's been a couple of litres of Tanqueray too, and facts and figures can come hazy, even to a genius.

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4 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Prickly pear ? Oops  just seen the answer. And I still got it wrong 

Prickly pear is Opuntia, lots of species all or most of which readily hybridize, so are always difficult to name, their flowers are incredibly different to agave and vary immensely in colour, they produce small fruits, which are the edible prickly pear, much praised by Baloo

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3 hours ago, Philippe said:

Yesterday by walking in the forest I saw this strange oak. Someone must have created this but for what purpose ?

 

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It happens quite naturally Philippe, it's called inosculation, trees will grow into each other if they have branches that are close enough and rubbing together.  Honeysuckle does it a lot with anything that it climbs through, much sought after by walking stick makers. 

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4 hours ago, TattooDave said:

It happens quite naturally Philippe, it's called inosculation, trees will grow into each other if they have branches that are close enough and rubbing together.  Honeysuckle does it a lot with anything that it climbs through, much sought after by walking stick makers. 

Thanks Dave, a cousin of mine gave me a walking stick like the ones on your picture. However it's the first time that I see such a thing with an oak. and in this case it's ONE tree, not three different. Still a mystery for me...

 

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If you search for "inosculation" and go to images you'll see that it can be from just about anything.  Multiple trunks are usually from damage early in the trees life, rarely do several seedlings survive if they germinate so close to each other, there's always a faster grower.  My father makes walking sticks.

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3 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Those Anthony Gormley  statues are great. Everytime I got to formby to see the Red Squirrels I mean to go to Crosby to see these statues and never get there. . .One day. .

Steve 

The best time to go is when the tide is just about to go out as many of them are totally submerged at full tide and they slowly start to appear as the tide goes out - spooky.

 

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If you search for "inosculation" and go to images you'll see that it can be from just about anything.  Multiple trunks are usually from damage early in the trees life, rarely do several seedlings survive if they germinate so close to each other, there's always a faster grower.  My father makes walking sticks.

Wow, we learn something new every day. I didn't even know this word "inosculation". Thanks Dave !

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Johnny. I love the colour of the rape seed . The yellow is so vibrant when it's growing this time of the year. Pity that it's not the most insect friendly crop we grow here in the UK which is one of the contributing factors to the decline of so many of our farmland bird's.

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Roe Deer. Last years fawn. Its mother is heavily pregnant with this years baby and is due anytime now and was barely visible in the bushes . Couldn't get the two deer in the picture

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Had a beautiful stag walk right towards me last weekend, alas no camera/phone on me , which I ‘always’ have with me , doh. Great pic , you must have been stealth like!

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Had a beautiful stag walk right towards me last weekend, alas no camera/phone on me , which I ‘always’ have with me , doh. Great pic , you must have been stealth like!

Thanks Col. It was about 60 yards away from me on a island.  Where they know that they're safe so stealth  mode isn't really needed.  . I went looking to see if the fawns had been born but after seeing one of the pregnant Doe . It answered my question . 

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One of the many Sedge Warblers now residing at Belvide for the summer, already pairing up and building nests.

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Stunning picture mate. Not seen any at Pennington flash this year

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Pied Wagtail fledgling

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Carrion Crow with fledgling Blackbird that it had predated. Nature is tough

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Once saw one grab a starling by its wing and swing it round and literally battered it to death on the roof tiles of the house we were working on , then it ate it, feathers an all ! . Hate the buggers, I see them looking for small birds ,nests , reducing the population of the blackbirds etc , I suppose this is to be expected since all birds became protected. Great pic by the way👍

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Brown Rat. One of the most hated animals on the planet

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I think they’re actually very nice. Wouldn’t  want them in the house though. I had one living in a huge pile of rubble outside my back door once. It was in the winter and I became aware of it after hearing strange noises at the back door at night for about a week. I finally noticed that something had chewed a huge hole through the wooden weather board at the bottom of the back door. In the spring we filled two skips with the rubble - after nearly a mornings work, down to the last couple of barrow fulls, Mr Rat jumped off my mates shovel and scampered off. He was the size of a rabbit! 

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