Weekly Chat, Sunday September 27, 2009

  • Teresa__ said:

    Alan

    The black squirrels are moving north. They are a threat to the grey ones so far but will be a threat to the red ones as well if they move into their areas. Not a very happy situation at all as they are quite fierce I believe from what I have read about them

    I OOps my mistake !!!

    Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

  • Teresa, as you will see from above, I was asking about the black squirrel. Since then I have been reading all about them and how they greatly reduced the numbers of the reds in America. There are different stories of how they came to this country but the most popular seems to be that the original blacks were zoo escapees and also that grey squirrels can give birth to black ones. I guess the last theory could be why we see one in our garden in E. Sussex. Anyhow thanks for your answer to Alan.

  • Late hallo folks.

    Auntie: A nest of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants! :-)))

    Caerann: Same here re the Ken Burns - another three nights of it I believe.

    AQ: My husband has read most of those books; he shoulda been a history prof. I keep asking him "How do they keep discovering enough to write yet another book on........"   We're both library/used book store fans. We have a wonderful store in Santa Barbara called Chaucer's. It's small, private, has all the latest (and best) books and offers no discounts but is such a local institution that it seems to be surviving okay in the face of Amazon et al.

    George: Is that Last Chance program focused on the UK or global?  If it's the latter, we'll probably get a chance to see it here at some point.

    Alan: Sounds like a lovely peaceful morning.  Never heard of black squirrels though....

  • Brenda

    I hadn't seen your message  Sorry.   I've not got much spare time lately so have just been skimming through the messages to keep up to date with our  ospreys.

    Use whatever talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sing the best.
    - Henry Van ***

  • Teresa__ said:

    Brenda

    I hadn't seen your message  Sorry.   I've not got much spare time lately so have just been skimming through the messages to keep up to date with our  ospreys.

    Thats a nice avatar. A lizard --is it? btw I love your swans.

    Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

  • I  have been flicking through the galleries.  There are some really  super photos there.  What a clever lot  you all are.   And also going through the forums it is so interesting what you find out. It really is an informative website.  Nice to have time to browse. 

    Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

  • Know what you mean Tish. I'm still exploring them and coming across new things.  :)

    It's great about Rothers isn't it.

  • 10 p.m. in California. Just watched another two wonderful hours about the founding of our national parks. As the Los Angeles TImes wrote: "For Californians, Ken Burns' gorgeous and exhaustive six-part documentary on the National Parks poses something of a dilemma. In the 12 hours it takes for "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" to unfold, an Angeleno could easily visit any of a half dozen national parks. Without traffic, you could conceivably get to Yosemite, where it all started, tour the valley floor and be back before narrator Peter Coyote stopped talking...."   

    Night all. :-)

  • For the residents of the USA, we have our own trust which celebrates the work of John Muir

    http://www.jmt.org/home.asp

    BUT they have upset a lot of people in Scotland with their deer culling policy proposal as follows

    "Close seasons

    We see no justification for a close season for male deer and believe that an effective statutory deer management planning system would provide adequate safeguards against potential over-exploitation of male deer. Removal of the male deer season would also allow for greater flexibility of deer management without the need for authorisations (e.g. the ability to cull males in the winter if they are causing damage to habitats)."

    This means that they would allow deer shooting on their lands all year round

    The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

  • Annette the programme goes to different countries and pick specific animals that are loosing their habitat mainly through logging.

    george g