The New French Forum

Oooh. Ammonia is sooo nasty. Ammonia gas is ultra explosive in the right mix with air and needs little energy to set it off. It is also extremely poisonous, so avoid breathing in the fumes. Regarding snakes in the garden, I am told that chickens are the answer. They also reduce the ticks, but unfortunately scratch holes everywhere, some of which...

The buyers of your house will be the ones to see it but its likely that either the parents, or perhaps the offspring having inherited their birthplace, will return every year for up to a decade, come in through any open door or window elsewhere in the property and fly around like mad in that one room only.

That was my experience here, in fact its...

Beautiful.

I record Butterfly sightings most days on

I personally have not notice any rise

Red top fly traps between chook house, dung heap & house...
Don't use red top but have heard others swearing by it as well, it's sticky paper here, that, lots of bad language, and a fly swatter. (The latter is called une tapette in France, which is also a slang word for a gay man, though I can't see the link)

I think it shows the real deal, but...

Maybe the toad was already dead or poorly?
We also had a large toad which came in in the evening as the outside door was always open in warm weather. It liked to sit in the dog's drinking bowl, perhaps dehydrated?

The wife?

Thanks for some of your answers. Strange to relate I do know that squirrels spend time looking for nuts (often unsuccessfully), that they buried the previous autumn. Unless I'm mistaken these searches are carried out in fields and gardens. However, as mentioned this one was giving the drive a serious exploratory sniffing. The drive comprises a...

That one at the front is going to be a right little tub, even when one of the others gets fed, tubby gets half. :lol:

We had a concussed Blackbird below the veranda the other night. It had an enormous tick on it's face. I managed to get the tick off and put her safely in the veggie garden away from the mad mutt. It was gone in the morning so hopefully a good recovery.
If it looks like recovery is possible I'll do my best to help but I'll also dispatch if it's...

That sounds great Why Me. I've been putting lots of feeding stations around my fields here in the UK, positioned myself with binoculars in hand watching the wonderful bird activity, even dug out my Observers book of birds so that I can identify them. I live in a conservation area by the river and have seen some great species.

Lets hope the next one does not turn out to be a marcassin!

Indeed, because mummy will not be far behind, and she will be very dangerous. :lol:

Walking with my Greyhound off lead down the lane some years ago we saw 2 or 3 adults followed by a line of humbug coloured marcassins trotting behind them, walking down the edge of the forest towards...

We have a great peacock moth, 5 inch wingspan. It's is on the wall next to our post box.

I heard our first last Wednesday but not heard it again since - hope it's found somewhere warm & dry to stay!

Pretty much all our usual migrants are back (though we haven't checked out where our local bee eaters usually lurk yet ) but not a cuckoo heard yet here in 09....We seem to have been hearing/seeing less of them over the last 4-5 years

At last! The first Golden Oriole calling. It's miserably cold here, with a bitter wind and threatening rain, but it must be Summer! Yippee:!: :good: :good:

Blue Escher's Polyommatus escheri

If people who work could get paid properly they would have enough left over each month to fund their own retirement. But since the people running the industries are constantly looking to reduce overheads and costs (wages) and giving the savings to already rich shareholders who do F all we end up with an ever widening gap when we get to retirement...

I fall for it every time, whenever I see this thread title I think of hospitals, what a nice surprise each time I get here. :oops: :lol:

My favorite Orchid Naked Man Orchid Orchis italica

Saw one in 06 this morning. Really lifts your heart, doesn’t it?
Angela

I heard one this morning. I have still only ever caught a fleeting glimpse though. I'm envious of those of you who have them at the bird table.

Well done ! :good:
I remember my father when I was a child: he used to be friendly with robins which landed on his hand for getting seeds and pieces of meat.
One day, as an adult, I saved a female blackbird that had fallen from the nest and fed her. I took her on vacation in my camper van. She slept near me and pulled the sheets in the morning to...

I have seen them stop and circle over a larger town and have always assumed they were using the thermals to regain height.