New dormouse picture

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I haven't posted a new picture of a dormouse for a while, this was one that escaped while one of my colleagues was checking a nesting tube and took refuge in a tree. The photo was taken with my phone and I have tried to enlarge it.

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Be careful, there're a few

Be careful, there're a few crazy cats running around here who might eat them. ;-)

Only cats?

you can add Foxes and rats (even seen in broad daylight) to your list of enemies. Thankfully, this is not dormouse country.

The photo is typical of a lot of my wildlife shots. All you get is their rear end as they hide away from these great hulking monsters called humans.

Keep on snapping.
Samantha

the wildlife

has invariably bgrd off by the time i've got a picture device ready! In the last week i've not got pictures of the Muntjack stood in the road 20m away, the Reed Warbler literally watching me ride past and of course, on Thursday the dragonfly that sat on my knee! Well done Ang for getting some sort of image. Last year was better, i did get reasonable pictures of a Shrike, a brown rat, a fox and a Heron although the Egrets are as camera shy as the dormouse!

Madeline Anafrid Bell

Had to Be(e) There...

...probably, but working in the statistics booth in the press box at the Cal football game, we get the television feed of the game on a monitor (in case we need to check who made a tackle or something on a DVR after a play). It's the same as what's going out over the network, minus the commercials. During a timeout yesterday, the monitor suddenly started showing a closeup of a bee scrambling around on a circular white background which included very small red line drawings of sports equipment (IIRC, a basketball backboard and football and soccer goals). Suddenly the camera pulled back and we saw that we were looking at the edge of a goal post crossbar and that the bee had been climbing around a vertical surface. Great shot, and probably seen by less than a dozen people since not many of the monitor screens there use that feed rather than the television signal, and there's not much reason for anybody to look at the monitor when the game isn't proceeding. (I'm manning the DVR, so mine's on a desk table rather than mounted below the ceiling like the others.)

Eric

Here's a critter that didn't get away

Ok, this was taken a few years ago but in the main, the Lemurs just ignore us and go about their business.
Samantha

You've been to Madagascar?

Ooh, lucky you, I'd love to go there before the ecosystem collapses through a combination of too many tourists and global warming.

The previous comment was about a bee, I have loads of photos of bees, mainly bumble or solitary variety. This is the only one I think I have of a bumblebee giving me the equivalent of the middle finger. When you are annoying them or they feel threatened, they raise their middle leg which is a warning to go. This Bombus lucorum White tailed queen was foraging on a cotoneaster hedge in my garden and the leg is clearly visible in the raised position.

Angharad

I have been so lucky

to have been there three times. Two were in small group (<15) holidays. The last was a solo trip. That was more than worth it. I went to places that have zero infrastructure to support even small groups. Camping on the beach of a small island in the N.E. was an honour.
I agree that certain places will get ruined by the tourists especially on the main route from Tana to Tulea. You can blame the French for most of that. If you get off that beaten path then there is zero infrastructure to support the sorts of Hotels that the comfy tourists want to stay at. Mind you, I have not been there since 2006.

Here is a more recent photo. This is a bad shot of a Mason Bee that was taken on the footpath to the beach near the Plas yn Rhiw National Trust property on the Llyn Peninsular

Samantha