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- April 18th, 2013, 2:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: USVI (now with pictures)
- Replies: 6
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Re: USVI
I plan to be in the USVI for a little while early next month. Can anybody tell me what I should expect to see or go look for? I don't know how mobile I am going to be, so what could I expect to find around a resort complex? Thanks in advance. This may help: http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewt...
- April 4th, 2013, 11:25 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: New Zealand - January 1st Pelagic Trip
- Replies: 12
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Re: New Zealand - January 1st Pelagic Trip
Does that mean you've seen the other 468 species of sharks? :shock: I wish! At this point (your two excepted), I've got all the ones I want to see enough to do specific trips for - I'm on about 32 species, could probably get a fair few more off a couple more trips but there's so many non-sharks to ...
- April 1st, 2013, 10:59 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: New Zealand - January 1st Pelagic Trip
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9229
Re: New Zealand - January 1st Pelagic Trip
I can't believe you posted the only two sharks I have left to tick off my shark bucket list from a single pelagic! Not cool man, not cool (I mean obviously it's very cool but it stings a bit )!
- March 24th, 2013, 9:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Med Chameleons.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 897
Med Chameleons.
I've just put a thread up in the mammal forum with a trip report on my quest for iberian lynx in spain: http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=15638&p=186566#p186566 Since not all of you go to that forum I thought I'd throw up a teaser with the herping highlight of the trip...
- March 24th, 2013, 9:47 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
And that is why I want my next European trip to be Spain. I just couldn't squeeze it in last year when I went to Germany. Epic! Love the interest in all things from herps to mammals to birds to bugs to plants. And so many Lynx. I would probably die of excitement. thanks for the comment about the wi...
- March 24th, 2013, 8:01 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
Day 7 The final day was essentially all drive to the airport. Having dropped off Elizabeth for her flight, we went for a quick circuit of Rio Guadalhorce again. After two visits and nothing but females, I was delighted to connect with a load of drake white-headed ducks displaying their naming chara...
- March 24th, 2013, 7:55 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
Day 6 Our last full day of lynx-watching featured slightly better weather. We’d planned for a three stage day’ morning at La Lancha, then back to Los Pinos to allow us all a warming coffee, with those who wanted it staying in the warm for lunch, and those who didn’t heading out to the dam, followed...
- March 24th, 2013, 7:27 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
Day 5 Our second day of lynx-searching started far more slowly, the weather was again poor - dry this time but heavily overcast and with biting wind. A lovely herd of fallow deer on the drive in was a nice start though. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8353/8410622452_e0251cc0ca.jpg http://farm9.stati...
- March 24th, 2013, 6:15 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
Day 4 Our first day of lynx watching proper. I had a feeling there would be plenty of stuff to be seen on the way in for some reason and was delighted to be proven correct only fifteen minutes into the drive in. A brown shape moved across the pasture to our left and I immediately blurted out "...
- March 24th, 2013, 5:59 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Re: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
Day 3 – 21/01/13 After a lie-in, caffeination and simple breakfast we headed out around 11 to collect another member of the party, Elizabeth from the airport. With the final two members delayed we headed back to Guadehorsa for another quick session and were again rewarded with birds of prey, this t...
- March 24th, 2013, 5:56 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11570
Iberian Lynx and other beasties trip report
The Iberian Lynx is the rarest cat species in the world with only 300ish individuals out there. Notwithstanding this and its secretive nature, european mammal watchers have had decent success searching in the Sierra Andujar for them. I joined a trip in January to chance my hand. Day 1 – 19/01/13 My ...
- February 28th, 2013, 3:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Check out this guys yard!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2005
Re: Check out this guys yard!
Back in the day I always felt the same about this lady's estate:
http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/category/arizona/
I think it was all the different owls and raptors and the tale of the Gila swimming around in her pool that got me.
http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/category/arizona/
I think it was all the different owls and raptors and the tale of the Gila swimming around in her pool that got me.
- December 15th, 2012, 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sea Turtle tracks identification
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2372
Re: Sea Turtle tracks identification
based solely on the size I'd be leaning towards Hawksbill
- December 5th, 2012, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Let's see those Owls!!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 28215
Re: Let's see those Owls!!
mamma long-eared http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4044/4628480187_53772579d2.jpg baby long-eared http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4034/4628480191_43b1a64fff.jpg Tropical screech owl http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3656/3474724313_909351507a.jpg Great-horned (with iguana) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3562/3...
- December 5th, 2012, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Big fish from Canada
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4728
Re: Big fish from Canada
It is a white sturgeon.
- December 2nd, 2012, 10:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Animal Planet wants your opinion on Rattlesnake Republic
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7760
Re: Animal Planet wants your opinion on Rattlesnake Republic
the 210 comments at time of posting seem to be entirely in protest of the show. Hope they are getting two messages:
1. this type of show is unacceptable; and
2. lots of people care about snakes ergo a good show about snakes would have a market.
1. this type of show is unacceptable; and
2. lots of people care about snakes ergo a good show about snakes would have a market.
- December 1st, 2012, 10:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Animal Planet wants your opinion on Rattlesnake Republic
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7760
Re: Animal Planet wants your opinion on Rattlesnake Republic
they have now received my thoughts. thanks for posting the link.
- November 30th, 2012, 12:44 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Grey Seal pupping ground visit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2926
Re: Grey Seal pupping ground visit
oops. forgot to add these. 5 years and 9 days ago was my last visit. Things were.......ickier. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2280/2067338674_124f878f74.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2059/2067338340_d4c35cd32e.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2008/2065439452_5142ac16c6.jpg http://farm3.staticfli...
- November 30th, 2012, 11:55 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Grey Seal pupping ground visit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2926
Grey Seal pupping ground visit
I've been visiting the parents this week and today we visited a classic local nature attraction - a grey seal pupping beach. This "beach" sees probably thousands of visitors a year to look at the cute baby grey seals on the mudflats. The bull grey seal (Halichoerus grypus, meaning "ho...
- November 19th, 2012, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Leucistic Opossum
- Replies: 19
- Views: 37374
Re: Leucistic Opossum
It also looks pretty docile, don't those things bite? That said, they have MANY sharp teeth and can bite. Aside from how many die on the roads, it is amazing they survived predators long enough to colonize much of the US. To quote a distinguished naturalist on the topic.... I call the big one "...
- November 19th, 2012, 1:47 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5399
Re: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
Wow! That was great...surely the most productive sturgeon fishing I have heard of, I am used to just a bite or few in a long day, and multiple cathches uncommon. Did you keep or eat any of those sturgeon? They amongst the finest fish I have ever had. Do I understand correctly you catch these sturge...
- November 17th, 2012, 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ID help: Olive ridley or Green sea turtle?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1615
Re: ID help: Olive ridley or Green sea turtle?
seconded.DracoRJC wrote:Ridley
- November 17th, 2012, 11:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Yay: I rediscovered a snake thought lost for over a century
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8537
Re: Yay: I rediscovered a snake thought lost for over a cent
True that!Soopaman wrote:It's just such a Hoser thing to do...
Nice work Hans. For your next mission........Orang pendek please.
- November 17th, 2012, 8:47 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Big fish from Canada
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4728
Big fish from Canada
In case any of the fishermen don't visit the mammal subforum I thought I'd flag the fact that part 2 of my Canada trip report in there is slightly more focussed on these http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8331/8104085906_c0fa12d75b.jpg than the bears and whales of part 1..... :lol: It's here: http://www....
- November 17th, 2012, 8:44 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5399
Re: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
So when we left this report I'd just abandoned the beautiful shores of Vancouver Island.... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8132261217_bb8c9e2803.jpg .....and headed back to the mainland and Vancouver proper. On Day 7 I met up with the rest of my group and headed out to Chilliwack where we got se...
- November 12th, 2012, 9:12 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Alphabirding
- Replies: 308
- Views: 125427
- November 9th, 2012, 12:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Puerto Rico is the 51st state (maybe ?)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2500
Re: Puerto Rico is the 51st state
You learn to love that Coqui call pretty quick :D I kinda miss hearing it as I go to sleep now. And if you think herpers would get weird about this new desire to add PR herps to their US lists, you can't imagine what the birders would do! Forget PR the American Birding Association are still arguing ...
- November 8th, 2012, 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HELP NEEDED: Herping in the Miami, FL area
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3186
Re: HELP NEEDED: Herping in the Miami, FL area
I've done florida twice as a visiting herper - both times I ended up cruising ENP in the evenings. To add to what others have said, it's dead easy, there are plenty of species to see and you'll know you're in the right spot cos you'll randomly bump into other herpers (and other FHFers) as you drive ...
- November 1st, 2012, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Monkeys
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9565
Re: Monkeys
oops! good spot.mrichardson wrote:Tai - The Olive Baboon photographed in Kruger is in fact a Chacma Baboon (but I'm guessing you already knew that and just made a typo!).
- November 1st, 2012, 5:40 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Monkeys
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9565
Re: Monkeys
Common Langur in India are cool for 3 reasons (at least): first up they form mixed herds with the Chital deer combining the benefits of their various senses and using sentries to ward off tigers and leopards http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/6933539460_40f83b8e18.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5...
- October 28th, 2012, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5399
Re: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
Day 4 Was a trip to the Orford River with the Homalco First Nation on Bute Inlet. I went with these guys http://www.adventurewhalewatching.com/ who were excellent. With a long boat ride ahead of us I was optimistic that we'd maybe connect with more Orca but when the shout of whale went up I got a su...
- October 28th, 2012, 11:13 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5399
British Columbia, October - Mammal and fish quest
Just back from British Columbia and a bit of a mammal/fish quest (with a couple of herps thrown in). I'll throw this up as a day by day trip report. Day 1. Landed in Vancouver to driving rain (the first in weeks) at around 11am. Delays at the airport meant I got a ferry at midafternoon over to Vanco...
- August 8th, 2012, 3:23 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: An enormous Sturgeon caught!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3693
Re: An enormous Sturgeon caught!
headed there in October - wish me luck!! tai, bring the big sticks. Tim I'm not sure I have a big enough stick :oops: :lol: Seriously though my first few days look like getting spent on trips out of Vancouver Island, whale watching, bears, etc. I've got 5 days booked for sturgeon and will probably ...
- August 1st, 2012, 7:21 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: An enormous Sturgeon caught!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3693
Re: An enormous Sturgeon caught!
headed there in October - wish me luck!!
- July 12th, 2012, 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Germany - few herps, long read....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6023
Re: Germany - few herps, long read....
I'm reasonably comfortable saying the fish under the coot are rudd; the dorsal fin looks to be too far back for roach.
- July 12th, 2012, 2:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: "Extinct" snake rediscovered
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2912
Re: "Extinct" snake rediscovered
Yuup. For more accurate "horses-mouth" reporting Durrell has a blog which has featured the SL Racer http://blog.durrell.org/index.cfm/2012/7/2/The-ones-21-that-got-away Worth a look generally as it's also covered off mountain chickens and some other interesting herps (and non-herps for tha...
- June 7th, 2012, 8:55 am
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Inverts- Virgin Islands National Park
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5015
- June 6th, 2012, 5:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A year in Australia - some of the highlights.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6149
Re: A year in Australia - some of the highlights.
Not a herp, but amazing to see - Short-beaked echinda, Tachyglossus aculeatus http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6724489717_ec548ae7e7_z.jpg Well it lays eggs and has a venom gland so I reckon that makes it close enough to most of the cool stuff on here to allow us to give it honorary herp status! ...
- June 6th, 2012, 5:13 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97826
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Hi5s on this choice Curtis, Kudu is delicious (kuduwoers is also awesome). I don't think I've seen Capybara listed. Nice enough when stewed, a little stringy.Curtis Hart wrote:Greater Kudu as steak and biltong.
Curtis
- June 5th, 2012, 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Yet another Galapagos post
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4306
Re: Yet another Galapagos post
Tai, only saw one Galapagos horn shark, at the northwest end of Isabella. Most common sharks were the scalloped hammerheads (several hundred) followed by galapagos sharks (dozens), silkies (maybe a dozen), 2 whale sharks, 1 blacktip shark, 1 horn shark. Thanks for that, the slightly sad/geeky thing...
- June 5th, 2012, 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bubble Boa and a month in the Carolinas (DUB)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11070
Re: Bubble Boa and a month in the Carolinas (DUB)
loving the coachwhip but I really loved the way you casually dropped in the faceshot on that black bear amidst all the close-ups. It made me jump a little.
- June 4th, 2012, 12:22 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Yet another Galapagos post
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4306
Re: Yet another Galapagos post
Nice red-lipped batfish. Looks like an awesome experience. How many of the Galapagos horn sharks did you see?
- June 1st, 2012, 4:58 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Shenandoah Brook Trout
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9953
Re: Shenandoah Brook Trout
I love lure fishing. I really do. and it's not like I have enough time or opportunity to do that but awesome posts like these are making me want to a) learn to flycast; and b) travel the world as an itinerant fisherman. You guys are seriously not helping my life choices. :lol: That first flank shot ...
- May 21st, 2012, 3:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 24 New Caribbean Lizards Found
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1484
Re: 24 New Caribbean Lizards Found
I found the skink on Carrot Rock back in the mid-nineties. I also believe the Anolis cristatellus is an endemic as well. My favorite memory is being nearly blinded by a red-billed tropic bird incutating her eggs among the boulders while I ascended to the top. Nice - I can only ever recall seeing RB...
- May 8th, 2012, 7:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 24 New Caribbean Lizards Found
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1484
Re: 24 New Caribbean Lizards Found
I made a coouple of attempts to get on carrot rock for the skink (I think there is also a carrot rock sphaero gecko) when I lived in BVI. By the time I decided to give it a go (trying to round out the BVI herps) I was into my last couple of months and every attempt was scuppered by the weather (tis ...
- May 8th, 2012, 2:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Exuma Islands
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2782
Re: Exuma Islands
always awesome to see Alsophis. That pink leaf cay Cyclura is really pretty - almost a polar opposite to some of the big dominant male C. pinguis I've seen with a baby blue crest.
- April 24th, 2012, 9:37 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: 20 foot Great white in the Sea of Cortez?!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4277
Re: 20 foot Great white in the Sea of Cortez?!
Tom - that was at Guadelupe Island, Mexico. There are a couple of boats that do cagediving trips out there (it's like a 3 day trip). We were the last trip of the season; apparently the big females turn up late in the season so we had big sharks. There are two cages (8 foot wide) with a little gap in...
- April 20th, 2012, 5:32 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: 20 foot Great white in the Sea of Cortez?!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4277
Re: 20 foot Great white in the Sea of Cortez?!
There are some absolutely gargantuan whites late in the year around Guadelupe - we saw a number in the 16-18 foot range on our 3 days there - so since the cortez sharks are part of the same population I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some record breaking sharks around. http://farm4.stati...
- March 30th, 2012, 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Future Mega Millions losers :D
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4738
Re: Future Mega Millions losers :D
I see a nice lush private caribbean island replete with Cyclura and Epicrates with a nice herd of big giant tortoises ambling around it......and a nice big chunk of northern queensland.......and a James Bond villain-esque highly customised walking cane that converts into a practical snake hook at th...
- March 1st, 2012, 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The "Post your RAREST of the rare finds," post...
- Replies: 64
- Views: 17556
Re: The "Post your RAREST of the rare finds," post...
Virgin Island tree boa. Endangered and extremely rare. Seen in St Thomas on a vacation. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2214/2477307488_e38e7d1acd_z.jpg VI Boa is nice but getting one on St. Thomas whilst on vacation? I'm seriously impressed by that. Here's one from 'tola where they're a little bit m...