[Closed] My wild year in words and pictures.

The hide and seek stag pic is astonishing. Mate, honest, you could sell some of these! 🙂

Thanks for sharing them with us 🙂

Excellent! A real gift.

This is serious talent you have mate.

Thank you for sharing these. Wonderful!

Buzz, and all after that special whiskey... 😉 Are you coming on Sunday BTW?

Extended thanks. PP That whole moment was surreal, no camo as usual, so i walked towards it everytime it went down to graze, the moment it moved i stopped and did my best tree impression(Badly) Got within I'd say 40ft. 🙂

Brilliant Sharki, hope 2013 is as interesting & rewarding for you

Wow, great pics, thanks for sharing!

Great pics, fantastic pics of the Stags 🙂

The hide and seek stag pic is astonishing. Mate, honest, you could sell some of these!

I said I wasn't going to mention it anymore, but PP said it!! 😉 x

In answer to Martinxyz. The spiders are only related in class, that being Aracnida. The connection stops there in terms of genetics.
Both however have eight eyes, two of which are much more prominent.
Unlike most spiders, they don't use webs to trap spiders they hunt and pounce on them.
The zebra spider gets its name from its stripped abdomen.

Squidlord, nature is all around us and is my own therapy against having bad days.
Cougar, enjoy your new hobby, its keeping me occupied.

Gee-jay.
It'll take some beating, but if I get my head down and earn some pennies, perhaps a safari holiday and a month or so in Spain will reward me.
If not I know the UK has plenty more for me to enjoy.
I still Marvell at things I've seen hundreds of times, soaring Buzzards, the flash of a kingfisher, the raucous call of a Jay, the see-saw call of a great tit and the hum of summer Bee's, skylarks, the laughing call of the green woodpeckers, the hoot of a tawny owl, etc...

Great pictures Shane - well done 😀

Fantastic post! Superb pictures there sharki. Like the way you casually threw in that you'd been chained to a bed too. 😉

Hi S, yes the pic in your first six months of great tits nesting. Let me know if you want to sell me a copy, just a print would be ok too x

Top post 🙂

I reckon everyone ought to a post like this 🙂

Anna I've just found the great tit image on the external HD(oh boy di I need to get a more organized filing method)
I'll go up to the mill in a bit and use there WiFi to mail out the file to you and the SEO to whom ever wanted it.

Samuri, subtle and almost over looked eh? 😉

Redthunder. Now that would never happen. And if I ever tried such thing over on wild about Britain, it would get ripped apart by more knowledgeable people or people who think they know it all.

Which seems the norm on all specialist forums.
STW isn't the only place that harbours morons and negativity.
😉

Redthunder. Now that would never happen. And if I ever tried such thing over on wild about Britain, it would get ripped apart by more knowledgeable people or people who think they know it all.

Which seems the norm on all specialist forums.
STW isn't the only place that harbours morons and negativity.

True.

I might dig out all my fav wildlife pix from 2012..say one for each month as well.

Amazing pics Sharki! Thanks for posting 😀

WOW! Truly wow, what a wonderful set of photos indeed.

Hello Sharki. Ever thought of entering a photo for the BBC "Countryfile" calendar?

Buzz, and all after that special whiskey... Are you coming on Sunday BTW?

It's going down a treat with friends. Yes Sunday 10am at Holford Green so bring another bottle. BTW you were fretting about your free hub and I have an old 26" rear wheel which I rebuilt with an unused LX hub. As I'm clearing out my garage I wondered if you might get some use from it?

Eight eyes! I was amazed to find 4 eyes on the spiders above. I never knew! I'm sure I've seen spiders like those zebra spiders in the past (unless it's something similar) but the wolf spider.. never seen those in the flesh before.

Wow! inspirational stuff!

For once I feel like the 10 mins on STW was not a waste 🙂

Lovely, thanks Shane. E-mail address annalouiset74 @ gmail.com 🙂

Anna YGM

Stealthcat. I'm having issues with deciphering your Email address.
A can crawl around after nature but can struggle with technology!

So could you please mail me and i'll reply with the images you want. My Addy is in my profile.
Ta

Martin. Unlike the Obvious 8 eyes of the wolfspider, the Zebra spiders eyes are spread out more. Four large obvious ones on the front, then 4 smaller ones two on each side.

Buzz, I fixed my free hub last night, then found my brake pistons ceased when i went to replace the pads. I've now borked the pistons so shall not be wading/riding tomorrow. Call in to the Orchard and mancave though for another litre of Scottish mouth wash.

MrWoppit. I've been told to, but i suffer from lack of confidence and respond badly to rejection. 🙁

Working on it though..

Anna, you've changed it..EDIT It's not being recognised(technofail)

Hotmail address also good 🙂 Looks even more amazing as a large file, thanks Shane

Shane: I dont actually know where your "cave" is! My email is in my profile.

I still Marvell at things I've seen hundreds of times, soaring Buzzards, the flash of a kingfisher, the raucous call of a Jay, the see-saw call of a great tit and the hum of summer Bee's, skylarks, the laughing call of the green woodpeckers, the hoot of a tawny owl, etc..

Thanks.

sharki, you should bung this out there as a photobook. Really easy to do for no outlay at all using lulu.com. I think you'd sell a few.

Anna, i've only seen in on a 11" screen 🙁 but i did see it live too 🙂
Glad you like.
Bunny, every days a school day when it comes to the natural world and my quest for knowledge starts with never just accepting it's say a bird, tree, bug, etc.
Glad you're inspired, if anything, that's all we all want, is for everyone to open their eyes to what we have and share this rock with.

David. I've looked into LULU, at first to publish my walk blog. Then as that seemed a mahoosive task, to produce a small book on Westcountry Butterflies as that's my most extensively photographed subject.

But that means setting up a bank account, which after almost 3 years without one, doesn't enthuse me to do.

Great stuff.

Skuas are [i]badass[/i].

Ever been to Mull, Sharki? Saw a basking shark the size of a minibus on my first trip, not to mention the bottle-nosed dolphins bow-riding the boat. I also like to casually mention the storm petrels whenever I meet a twitcher...

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it's like a small dog with floppy ears!

nice work, fella.

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it's like a small dog with floppy ears!

nice work, fella.

Wow! Excellent thread Sharki! it's stuff like this that keeps me going "hmmn.. wonder what's going on on STW..."

Amazing stuff! A real pleasure to browse through.

Awesome post, excellent work fella

Nope, never been to Mull, but seen Barking Sharks in Cornwall and during the Orkney trip.
And you've see Storm Petrels..Nice. I don't claim to be a twitcher in the true sense of what they are, but i'm constantly extending my knowledge of the UK wildlife.

Alpin. i was thinking more of a Fluffy Bunny, but i do see a dog like resemblance in the image.

I'm about to book a winter break by the Red Sea, i've yet to properly look under the waves, other than bikini gazing when i was younger.

but seen Barking Sharks in Cornwall

!!!

Dog fish?
Erm, typo!