This one is called
There isn't a right way up
NeilGo on, it's in its embryonic stage, what's it going to be when it grows up
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NeilGo on, it's in its embryonic stage, what's it going to be when it grows up
It is indeed and it will grow into huge plant, and with its pals dominate that area by the river
Pretty sure it is. My dad was a huge fan and used tons of it in his allotment.
mickthemaverick wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024, 09:51 Sorry Neil but no way can that picture be deemed picture of the month, I'll never hear the end of it!!! Pete the Pigeon outranks it anyway because it is not a posed picture
In athletic achievement they probably just trump our Citrojim!The Goosander is a duck apart, a thoroughbred and a maverick. Far from being a portly, bread-ivorous consumer of benefit handouts, the Goosander is a big-game fishing duck. Instead of occupying slummy waters in the urban sprawl, this bird is at home in fast-flowing, highly oxygenated, supercharged wild rivers and deep pools. It is wild and untamed.
Many species of ducks, throughout the world, take an extremely leisurely approach to feeding. Mallards, for all their adaptability, give the impression that they are never making any more effort than we would to dig up carrots. Shovelers bulldoze the water surface, Teals pick seeds from the mud; Pochards graze underwater and sleep for much of the rest of the time; even Eiders in the sea only dive down to yank immotile cockles from the sea bed.
Goosanders, though, are birds that chase, and their prey is both fast and reluctant to be caught. They are among the very few ducks that catch fish for a living. These ducks need pace underwater, and they need unobstructed space in which to spot and snatch their prey.
The males, and only the males, go on a "lads holiday every May" to the North of Norway on a "Moult Migration", returning when their new plumage is pristine to strut their stuff in the breeding season back in the UK.