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    Great garden shots, all...
    Cheers!


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    What's in your garden?-20200102_104420-jpg

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    Rear view

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    ^ Nice view out back, Jack. We're starting to get a lot of development around us as Korat expands and I'm quite envious of such rural views.

    Tonight there was a lot of squawking overhead and it turned out to be a couple of miner birds upset that their chick had left the nest too early. It was lucky I found the chick in the garden before our dogs did.



    The nest is under the eaves above our bedroom balcony but impossible to get to... so I made a nest with some food on our balcony. Half an hour later the parents were feeding the chick in it's box!



    It's gonna be hot tonight... have to keep one of the balcony doors closed now.

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    Cool, Doctor Dolittle

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    ^^ i do love stuff like that, some happy endings happen outside BKK

    ^ nice gaff Jack, the place we are looking at building on (for the BiL) is only 1 Rai but TBH even that is quite a bit of fiddling to keep everything under control

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    ^ and another happy ending tonight...

    Just settled down in bed to watch the rugby when Yogi just would not stop barking. I went downstairs to investigate...



    Another pipe snake and a lucky one... just rescued in time!

    Got back to bed and England are 17 - 0 down... they'll have to do well if we're gonna get a third happy ending tonight.

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    Do you let all your pet snakes roam free,
    or are the wild ones attracted because you keep some as pets?

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    ^ I don't know why we get so many snakes... I guess having the pond and chickens attracts them but even so.

    I don't really have any pet snakes. I used to catch them and keep the bad ones in the snake house for a while like 'temporary' pets, before releasing them or taking them to Korat Zoo. These days we rarely get many bad ones and I'd just leave the harmless ones alone if it wasn't for the dogs. The snakes need rescuing.

    ^^^^ The baby miner bird is still OK!

    Here is the nest it fell out of... (top right)



    I had to draw the net curtains on the balcony door, and the mum and dad miner birds have been back and forth feeding the chick in it's cardboard box on the balcony all day...



    Not quite David Attenborough standard pictures, but it gives an idea!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I'm quite envious of such rural views.
    Yeah I do like those views and as a Kid that was my life. Open land right out the back door. Here in my mooban I have the house basically on the middle of the property and lots of trees so very private but not a very scenic view.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
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    Here is the nest it fell out of... (top right)



    I had to draw the net curtains on the balcony door, and the mum and dad miner birds have been back and forth feeding the chick in it's cardboard box on the balcony all day...
    Mendip,
    As a word of caution, having a Mynah bird nest on wires can pose a risk. The reason being Mynah birds use everything for their nests and that can include aluminum wrappers from ice cream to exposed bare wire etc. This could then short across the power lines being they appear exposed under your eave. In the beginning we used to have an occasional nest under our house but then I started removing them for other reasons and when they fell to the ground it was amazing the materials they used. After a bit of pressure and nest building disruptions they now build in the trees.

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    Thanks for the advice JPPR2... I try and dissuade pigeons from nesting around the house but will now extend that lack of hospitality to the 'mynah' birds as well. I'll just wait until this latest chick is safely away from the nest site.

    Thanks for the spelling lesson as well. I thought at the time that 'miner' didn't look quite right!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Thanks for the advice JPPR2... I try and dissuade pigeons from nesting around the house but will now extend that lack of hospitality to the 'mynah' birds as well. I'll just wait until this latest chick is safely away from the nest site.

    Thanks for the spelling lesson as well. I thought at the time that 'miner' didn't look quite right!
    Glad to assist. It was from experience that I learned about what the Mynah birds use for nest building. They really seem to love plastic (Imagine that in Thailand) . Mynah birds nest in trees so a bit of pressure and they will leave. I had some nesting in our gutters at one time. I climbed up and cleaned them out and destroyed their eggs. When I started tossing out the nest material, I found PEA statements, Hershey aluminum ice cream wrappers, Wire, wire insulation, Twigs, bottle caps. Straws. It was funny.

    Pigeons on the other hand are a big nuisance. The young always return to where they were hatched. Once you get 3 or 4 cycles of them you end up with lots and they are not easy to pressure away unless you "off" them. My neighbor to the far right of us has let pigeons overtake his home and they got crowded and started branching out to nest at our house. I kept pressure on them but they are extremely persistent and "domestic" pigeons do not nest in trees( typically). Its always around human dwellings. I finally had to start shooting them with my .22cal Pellet gun. After a few "removals" they stopped and they do not come back.

    Good luck

    BTW, I got a 15 ft long straight piece of bamboo and at one end added a loop of hard plastic and would go around and knock the nests down. I used to have a cover on our power line going to the house but had to take it off as it made to easy for them to build and hide.

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    Just an update on the mynah bird chick...

    I checked the box on the balcony today and it was empty... the chick was nowhere to be seen.

    I now know what the black slimy thing that Tommy was eating this morning was.

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    A couple of pet cobras.

    Issues solved.

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    ^ No thanks!

    Now... I've been feeling sorry for these poor frogs for a long time... just one hop away from a stir fry.



    Had a bit of a 'disagreement' with the wife today and she stomped off down to her mum's house... so I released the lot into our pond!



    Freedom!!!



    My darling wife is gonna go f'kin mental when she gets home...

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    ^

    Oh, Oh.

    A suggestion or 3.

    Post lost/wanted posters around the village with pictures of frogs on. Get them out before the drums start up.

    Acquire a large dead snake and hang it from a tree. Both creating a plausible scenario.

    Do you have a hazmat suit, a fully stocked, reinforced "Safe Space" to exist in?

    Do your wife's family have access to explosives?

    Keep your dash cam on 2/7, connected to the internet so somebody around the world can monitor it, whilst you grab 40 winks.
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    I do notice that when Thais go for something they seem to commit with a quite a bit of intensity, if only for a short while. Still, at least with Cacti they can be left for a bit whilst you are away on Hols.

    I looked and it seems you have Peyote, 3rd piccy top right tray, happy landings.
    No Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) but a specie of the Astrophytum genus. Probably Astrophytum asterias.

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    A lot of people complain about the mot daeng in their gardens...

    I came across this today.



    And on closer inspection. You can't help but admire that teamwork.


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    Game over for that poor bugger.

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    ^ I was going to rescue him but he was already dead!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    A lot of people complain about the mot daeng in their gardens...

    I came across this today.



    And on closer inspection. You can't help but admire that teamwork.

    Lemme tell ya Mendip. That beetle does not bite. Those 25 Mot Dang will tear you up and draw blood. I will take the Beetle any day......

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    Cycles would lend to tragedy if not for ants and the like.

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    Big butterfly on one of our trees.

    What's in your garden?-50b65a95-9108-4c9c-afde-ce292b0c54f6-jpeg

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