Nice!The boxes from the house clearance arrived this evening. I'm going to need another bookshelf.
This lot was in one of the boxes and the stranded cufflinks are rather unusual. One doesn't see men wearing cufflinks much these days, or maybe I'm just mixing in the wrong circles.
The silver tie pin is rather nice as well.
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Our turkeys are great for addressing hawks. We have a young hawk that has been around for 3-4, he landed on the fence post and the turkeys went after him. They also are an amazing alarm system.
that looks like a wonderful book - thanks for alerting me to its existence. I see hunting for detritivores in my future!
I think a mother hen really doesn’t care anymore about her daughters/sons, most of the time. I had problems at roost time too when the juveniles wanted to roost with the flock. The adults didn’t except the juveniles in their roost area repeatedly. I didn’t want run sleepers, so this was the reason to add the playhouse coop.
Fyi: There are several species of mice in the Netherlands, like in England. They all have the word muis (mouse) in their names.
that's my impression too. I highlighted the relationship for the possible feral genetic tendency rather than their inter-personal (? inter-chickenal?) behaviour.
English has quite a lot of these, largely because of two very different language traditions, Anglo-Saxon and French-Latin. Most words for ordinary everyday things come from Old English, while most abstract or theoretical words come from French/Latin, which were superimposed by conquest from 1066, but only onto things that mattered to the conquerors. By and large that didn't include animals - except when being served as food. Hence 'beef' from Fr. boeuf but 'cow' from OE cu.
Wow that is confusingI think a mother hen really doesn’t care anymore about her daughters/sons, most of the time. I had problems at roost time too when the juveniles wanted to roost with the flock. The adults didn’t except the juveniles in their roost area repeatedly. I didn’t want run sleepers, so this was the reason to add the playhouse coop.
Fyi: There are several species of mice in the Netherlands, like in England. They all have the word muis (mouse) in their names.
Huismuis, Woelmuis, Dwergmuis, Bosmuis, Slaapmuizen, Veldmuis en Spitsmuis. This makes it much easier to talk about mice.
Translate makes : House Mouse, Vole, Harvest Mouse, Wood Mouse, Dormouse, Field Mouse and Shrew. Completely different words like vole and shrew, and words that cant be translated to a single synonym (woel) makes its rather complicated to grasp/learn foreign languages.
Translating only the first parts of their names makes: House, Tossing and turning, Dwarf, Forest, Sleep, Field and Spire.
your post prompted me to look up 'shrew' on wikipedia, and it opens up even more levels of confusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShrewWow that is confusing
No wonder Latin scientific names are preferred in research.
Here a shrew is not a rodent, although same size as a house mouse. It eats mice and I welcome them in my house.
Several types of voles, they are bad for my garden.
I recommend "The Story of English", either the book or television series from the 1980s. Fascinating stuff explaining why English is so difficult to learn.
I can't find that - who is the author. Nearest I found was Melvyn Bragg 'The Adventure of English'. Is that it?
