Good morning/day all. Spotted my first Ruby-Throated Hummingbird this morning. I was watering roses and it spent a few minutes bathing & drinking in fresh water. Feeder now hung.
Thanks Mark, the catch would have been probably close to double that. But there was types of groupers we couldn't keep because they were out of season. And we caught a bunch of them. The other issue was the sharks. We lost 6 nice king mackerel from sharks biting them in half. While we were fighting them.?
The other issue with the sharks was when they showed up. Pretty much all you caught were big sharks until they broke off. Then we would have to leave to another stop.
TO MANY SHARKS!
Actually the graphics is a t-shirt. I bought the shirt and then before the final finish. They fit the shirt around the socket and then apply a clear laminate.Ray...maybe get it repainted based on your trip. Some cool looking Hammerhead Sharks would go well!
Sr breakfast this morning.. Jess has conquered through all of the BS.. I’m a proud Mommy !!! View attachment 324167View attachment 324168
Yesterday’s kayaking trip was a group of four, including my friend who daily searches for & finds wonderful fossilized Megalodon shark teeth along the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland.
As an FYI, Megalodon (Otodus megalodon),meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of sharkthat lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. It was formerly thought to be a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). @Tidgy's Dad
My friend & her husband collect these fossils, & clean them up. The largest go to the local Calvert Maritime Museum
We Are Open! | Calvert Marine Museum, MD - Official Website
www.calvertmarinemuseum.com
& the others are made into pendants as gifts. Yesterday, I was lucky to get one of these ancient relics!
Megalodon Shark Tooth
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Personally, I'd watch "The Meg" & a couple other ScyFi movies of megladons before I'd get all gooey about finding a living one, but hey, fossils can't bite, can they?Wow!! How very interesting and cool!!!
When I read megaladon I knew what you were talking about I just never knew people searched for them!? Hoowww coooool!
Well.... now I want one?!
They are a million years old!
Think about that!!.
Wow....?
I knew Rose's hands would have to be in it somewhere along the assembly line... and to her liking.?The second night for dinner. The captain fried up 2 groupers for dinner. When we got back to dockside. The captain and 1st mate and all my sons chipped in. They had a assembly line going. So it went from fish on the ground to fillets in vacuum sealed bags in about a 1 1/2 hrs.
All the fish I kept were only gutted. Rose prefers the whole fish. Some fish were also steaked up.
I got Sapphire out today even though the air was chilly and windy. His enclosure said in the high 90's with the sun. That must have been correct because he stayed out under a dandelion. We had March winds and April showers on the same day. He was already back inside when we had the shower but at least he got to get a few hours of a suntan.?Good morning all from a grey, chilly showery Wales.
It's the end of April and a third of the way through the year already.
Doesn't time fly?!
Hope everyone has a good Friday!
They’re big boys now. They need to sort it out themselves ?It was a good time, even with the little rivalries between 2 of my sons. Sometimes they don't play well together.??
They were worried who was catching more fish or bigger fish. ?
Instead of being the good dad. I would add fuel to the fire with sarcastic comments to both of them. So I had fun in all aspects of the trip.??????
The scratching is actually not a problem. The only way a hedgehog can groom between its spines is by scratching, so they scratch a lotPoor thing.
Maybe he's been fighting too - at least he's in good hands now.
My hedgehog is back!
The camera picked him/her up last night. I can tell it's the same one because of a horseshoe shaped lighter patch on his backside.
He was scratching a fair bit which is probably fleas - is there anything I can do to help him with that?
Maybe a deeper tray of water for him to bathe in?
I'll start the feeding again too.
I was only checking to see if a mouse I've seen was still out there, so was really excited to see the Harry back and looking well. He was last seen in October.
Smae here... actually we might make 11C in Kent, but still brrrrrrr!Our temps are only averaging about 10C/50F give or take a couple of degrees for the next week.
The shark I ate was good and much like a tuna steak. I simply changed my diet and just don't eat skin fish any more.?I did some research on this topic this evening. Some interesting tidbits on shark meat preparation....and why.
Can You Eat Shark: What Every Angler Should Know about Shark Meat -
Can you eat shark? The answer is yes! In fact, some species have meat that tastes like swordfish. Since sharks expel toxins through their skin, but with proper preparation and timing, the potentially foul taste can be elminated. Find out all you need to know about eating shark here.www.reelpursuits.com
Yea but it's so much fun to egg it on. How can a parent resist ?They’re big boys now. They need to sort it out themselves ?
I've found my best that I can do for them is grow true Rose of Sharon bushes. They really love them. They really are a living jewel in nature.I saw this about feeding hummingbirds today.
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I really wish we had them in Europe!
Seeing all of the plants in your yard the last few years I'm not surprised. They'd be there even without a feeder ? just gives them something else to fight ? over.Good morning/day all. Spotted my first Ruby-Throated Hummingbird this morning. I was watering roses and it spent a few minutes bathing & drinking in fresh water. Feeder now hung.
Wow!! How very interesting and cool!!!
When I read megaladon I knew what you were talking about I just never knew people searched for them!? Hoowww coooool!
Well.... now I want one?!
They are a million years old!
Think about that!!.
Wow....?
That's so funny ? It looks like your badger would like to remain anonymous. Sneaky little bugger.Good evenooning all. It’s been ridiculously busy at the rescue. I started at 7am this morning. First shift is always tough. Round one - just food down everything using one bo of food and separate utensils. Round 2: give everything its own bowl. Round 3: get the paperwork in order. Round 4: which is 8am start cleaning as well.
It is physically demanding and full on for the entire 3 hours. The hospital manager turned up and wanted a load of enclosure moves done without specifying exactly who to kove where... “I trust you to do it right”.
I stayed an hour after my shift and was given the intern to assist and was told I was in charge. I got a grateful message this evening saying “It’s been a mad day. Thank you for the baby bird moves, really helped today” so we obviously did it right.
I wish I had time to take photos this morning. We had some truly gorgeous birds in. The cutest magpies, so small, that were just turning black and white like the adults. Carrion Crow hatchlings that looked like dinosaurs. And an older single Carrion Crow that was lonely and “chatted” to me throughout my shift. I love feeding corvids. They rally go nom-nom-nom out loud as you feed them
Our badger turned up again last night. She came in, sniffed round the hedgehog feed staion, walked round the shed and left through a six inch square gap under a gate on the other side of the house.
We have a very indecisiv female hedgehog who spent the night before last carting leaves from under our shed to under the shed next door. Last night she moved a load back. On checking the cameras she made an unexpected daylight appearance to move to the middle section of our shed.
A hedgehog out in the day is usually sick, but there’s an exception for females in breeding season.. hopefully hoglets are imminent ?