Picture(s) of the day....

[Peter.N.]

That's because you picked up the imperial ones.

Peter

[Peter.N.]

Tuesday smiles

Brilliant Steve. Your own work?

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD is good, very good, but the more regular contributors it gets, it gets better and better!

Hello botany club!

Somehow I don't think these would make a delicious crumble....

red,yellow, and green berries

down by the riverside

Regards Neil

[Steve Walsh]

Tuesday smiles

Brilliant Steve. Your own work?

Peter

Unfortunately not my own work, It arrived by email from a mate this morn and made me smile, !

[mickthemaverick]

POTD is good, very good, but the more regular contributors it gets, it gets better and better!

Hello botany club!

Somehow I don't think these would make a delicious crumble....






Regards Neil

Is that one for the House of Lords Neil?

Lords and ladies - courtesy of the wildlife trust

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes Lords and Ladies, Devils and Angels, Adam and Eve, Cuckoo-pint, Snakes Head, Parson in the Pulpit,

Interesting snippet from here....

https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild- ... nd-ladies/

The most common upset with Lords and Ladies is if somebody uses the leaves as woodland toilet paper, a mistake they will only make once!

Regards Neil

[bobins]

...but, in a reasonably easy target for photographing, it was difficult to get the eight Swans in the same shot, and even more difficult getting all 8 with their heads up because they were feeding as they swam.

So here's one of the rejects, if nothing else confirming once again that POTD welcomes all contributions, with no threshhold of photography skill required!



Regards Neil

You're just not trying hard enough, Neil

2 Swans and 6 cygnets this morning....

Swan family - own work

And cygnet feeding real close up

Greedy cygnets - own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

duplicated

[NewcastleFalcon]

You're just not trying hard enough, Neil

2 Swans and 6 cygnets this morning....

Credit where credit is due Whats that stuff you are tempting them with? Mine were eating the finest riverbed vegetation hence the constant use of their long necks for the function they have evolved for

On that lords and ladies plant, it does have many alternative names according to wiki

"snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast.

Yes granted the double B variety!

Regards Neil

[bobins]

duplicated

Un-duplicated !

[NewcastleFalcon]

duplicated

Un-duplicated !

Has one of my posts gone AWOL? It went something like this

Credit where Credit is Due (ie well done for getting all the swans in the Pic). What was that stuff you were feeding them? Mine were feeding on the vegetation of the riverbed using their long necks as nature intended!

on the Lords and Ladies wiki has a fair list of alternative names

snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast.

Granted its the double B variety!

REgards Neil

That was duplicated and I deleted one

Did anyone see that post? or did I fail to press the submit button!

Regards Neil

[bobins]

Two identical posts existed for a very short time. And then there were none ! Have you checked down the back of the sofa for the missing one ?

[mickthemaverick]

I saw it but only 1 listing!! Don't follow the last line, so I thought you must have tasted the lords and ladies!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Two identical posts existed for a very short time. And then there were none ! Have you checked down the back of the sofa for the missing one ?

Never mind thanks for that, pretty much recreated above and well done for the swans with the artificial enticement

I saw it but only 1 listing!! Don't follow the last line, so I thought you must have tasted the lords and ladies!!

Cheers Mick, I must have obliterated it by mistake.

Regards Neil

[bobins]

What was that stuff you were feeding them? Mine were feeding on the vegetation of the riverbed using their long necks as nature intended!


Regards Neil

I've been feeding them floating duck food pellets since they were old enough to eat them, so they're used to me by now, but it's only in the last week that a couple of them have taken from my hand. The only reason I feed them that close is to try and limit what the ducks eat