Comments for http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Pobblebonk by Russell http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3127&cpage=1#comment-3011 Russell Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:45:28 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3127#comment-3011 What a cool looing frog with a cool name. Superb photographs too! What a cool looing frog with a cool name. Superb photographs too!

]]> Comment on Graceful Treefrogs by Robert Ashdown http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058&cpage=1#comment-2846 Robert Ashdown Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:45:58 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058#comment-2846 Hey mate, like your blog! Wisconsin sounds like a great part of the world. Yes, we have experienced frog extinctions and declines, now thought to be due to a fungus introduced with the aquarium trade years ago, very worrying. The most well reported case was the disappearance of the gastric-brooding frog, which swallows its tadpoles and raise them in its stomach (http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/wildlife-ecosystems/wildlife/threatened_plants_and_animals/endangered/southern_gastricbrooding_frog.html). Cheers, Rob Hey mate, like your blog! Wisconsin sounds like a great part of the world. Yes, we have experienced frog extinctions and declines, now thought to be due to a fungus introduced with the aquarium trade years ago, very worrying. The most well reported case was the disappearance of the gastric-brooding frog, which swallows its tadpoles and raise them in its stomach (http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/wildlife-ecosystems/wildlife/threatened_plants_and_animals/endangered/southern_gastricbrooding_frog.html). Cheers, Rob

]]> Comment on Graceful Treefrogs by WisconsinWildMan http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058&cpage=1#comment-2841 WisconsinWildMan Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:05:39 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058#comment-2841 The amphibians always seem to be the first to go. We have some American Toads that live in our yard, and my place of work added a man-made wetland where there are Green Frogs. Is Australia experiencing sharp declines in frog populations like we are in the States? The amphibians always seem to be the first to go. We have some American Toads that live in our yard, and my place of work added a man-made wetland where there are Green Frogs. Is Australia experiencing sharp declines in frog populations like we are in the States?

]]> Comment on Mudwasps by Catherine Burton http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2987&cpage=1#comment-2809 Catherine Burton Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:19:10 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2987#comment-2809 Hello Rob, Many housewives wouldn't like wasp nests on their walls, but I am delighted to have the potterer return to the same nest for the third year in a row, and even more thrilled to see her on your website. You are quite correct she is not in the least bit viscous, elegantly swerving between our tea cups and saving me having to clean up cobwebs on the verandah by entombing all the young spiders. We were not so happy with nature on Saturday, the girls went out to get eggs for breakfast only to find a carpet snake strangling their bantam hen. He did apologise and spat her out due to all the crying and screaming, but it was too late. A neighbour told me that her father took an axe to one between its bumps and resuscitated all the kittens it had eaten!! Cheers, Catherine Hello Rob,

Many housewives wouldn’t like wasp nests on their walls, but I am delighted to have the potterer return to the same nest for the third year in a row, and even more thrilled to see her on your website.

You are quite correct she is not in the least bit viscous, elegantly swerving between our tea cups and saving me having to clean up cobwebs on the verandah by entombing all the young spiders.

We were not so happy with nature on Saturday, the girls went out to get eggs for breakfast only to find a carpet snake strangling their bantam hen. He did apologise and spat her out due to all the crying and screaming, but it was too late. A neighbour told me that her father took an axe to one between its bumps and resuscitated all the kittens it had eaten!!

Cheers, Catherine

]]> Comment on Graceful Treefrogs by Robert Ashdown http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058&cpage=1#comment-2785 Robert Ashdown Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:31:17 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058#comment-2785 Thanks, Russell. Yes, they are sublime little critters. Thanks, Russell. Yes, they are sublime little critters.

]]> Comment on Graceful Treefrogs by Russell http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058&cpage=1#comment-2767 Russell Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:07:06 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=3058#comment-2767 Really beautiful photographs of these superb frogs. I remember finding an orange tree with little green frogs on every second leaf when I was at primary school. They looked very similar to these. Don't we pay the price for progress? Really beautiful photographs of these superb frogs. I remember finding an orange tree with little green frogs on every second leaf when I was at primary school. They looked very similar to these. Don’t we pay the price for progress?

]]> Comment on Mudwasps by Russell http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2987&cpage=1#comment-2739 Russell Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:10:34 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2987#comment-2739 Wonderful photographs and magnificent creatures but I am always filled with fear when one buzzes by. Wonderful photographs and magnificent creatures but I am always filled with fear when one buzzes by.

]]> Comment on More great Boondall images by Simon Peisley http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2868&cpage=1#comment-2722 Simon Peisley Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:48:15 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2868#comment-2722 The amazing beauty of nature surrounds us.....yet most of us dont get to witness it in such superb detail. Thanks Mike! Fantastic shots! The amazing beauty of nature surrounds us…..yet most of us dont get to witness it in such superb detail. Thanks Mike! Fantastic shots!

]]> Comment on March of the Mysterious Moon Ants by Robert Ashdown http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2157&cpage=1#comment-2705 Robert Ashdown Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:14:52 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2157#comment-2705 These are old railway track hardwood sleepers, and have lots of ruts and runnels in the underside, plus they are quite large - a perfect shelter for these ants really (they are quite large ants). Do you have any similar types in your part of the U. K.? I took these shots with a Canon Powershot G12 compact camera set to macro mode and at a wide-angle setting, up close. Cheers! These are old railway track hardwood sleepers, and have lots of ruts and runnels in the underside, plus they are quite large – a perfect shelter for these ants really (they are quite large ants). Do you have any similar types in your part of the U. K.? I took these shots with a Canon Powershot G12 compact camera set to macro mode and at a wide-angle setting, up close. Cheers!

]]> Comment on March of the Mysterious Moon Ants by timber click http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2157&cpage=1#comment-2702 timber click Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:09:26 +0000 http://ashdown4628.clients.cmdwebsites.com/blog/?p=2157#comment-2702 i really enjoyed reading this, do you know if thet chose the railway sleeper for a perpous or was it just because its big and dark? i never even knew these 'moon ants' existed, its really cool the way you were able to photograph them, what lense do you have for your camera? i really enjoyed reading this, do you know if thet chose the railway sleeper for a perpous or was it just because its big and dark? i never even knew these ‘moon ants’ existed, its really cool the way you were able to photograph them, what lense do you have for your camera?

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