Polish wildlife and similar wild life where you live.

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Jun 9, 09, 06:16 #91

wildrover:

big aggressive hornets

hornets are not aggressive unless you mess around their nest or try to catch one

they are less of a threat than common wasps in August when they are attracted in masses to human food: fruit and sweets

even a couple of stingings by hornets won't do you much harm unless you are alergized against their venom, are an infant or the bites are somewhere within your air passages

plk123Threads: 30 Posts: 6,410 Joined: Aug 29, 07 ♂	Edited by: plk123 Jun 9, 09, 07:26 #92
polishgirltx: that is the wildlife in my Polish neighborhood... ;) pawian: This is in mine: that's just strange as the two of you are from the same hood.. interesting. but back to the wildlife, it's really just easier to tell you the animals that aren't around here that are in PL: hedgehog, stork... that's about it. :D

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Edited by: SeanBM Jun 9, 09, 10:55 #93

wildrover:

badger tracks

thesittingfox.co.uk/Badger%20track%20ID.jpg

I love tracking while walking.
One of the interesting things about humans is we are audio visual creatures, most animals rely heavily on smell.
I think a good way to imagine it is a dog distinguishes scents like we see colours.

wildrover:

Badgers are not aggressive towards humans , and will leg it at the first smell or sign of a human....

gumishu:

hornets are not aggressive unless you mess around their nest or try to catch one

Yeah, other animals fear us, I can't blame them really.
Except mosquito, I hate mosquito and man do they LOVE me.
If I could wipe out all mosquitos, even though it would destroy the food chain and possibly kill all humans from starvation.
I would have to consider it carefully, pretty mean for a vegetarian, huh? :)

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Jun 10, 09, 22:34 #94

HA..i am happy to report that this evening i actually saw a badger for the first time in Poland... One of the things i brought back from the UK in my fully loaded Jeep was a new mountain bike , so tonight i went for my first ride on it... I rode ten miles along a tarmac cycle track that is near my home , it used to be a rail line , and runs through lovely countryside to the town of Polczyn zdroj...

These cycle tracks are great for spotting wildlife , seems a cycle makes less noise than a person walking , so you can get pretty near to animals before they leg it....

On my ten mile cycle i saw four rabbits , a deer , a large eagle that scared the hell out of me when it launched itself off a branch just over my head , and as dusk fell i came up behind a badger cantering along the track ahead of me , when i got close he turned off into the long grass , but i did get pretty close....

So if you want to see the wildlife , leave the car at home , and get on yer bike.... I feel strangely healthy too for some reason...?

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Edited by: SeanBM Jun 14, 09, 19:50 #95

When i was a kid in Ireland i used to catch pinkeens (spelling?), Little fish, they were kind of pink and very small.
Just a fond memory.

Here are some small fish in Poland that look kind of link pinkeens (except the colour). What are they? Are they baby fish?.

wildroverThreads: 180 Posts: 8,143 Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂	Jun 14, 09, 23:58 #96
Perhaps the ones you caught as a kid were sticklebacks , they are a bit pinkish.....I think the ones in your pictures are minows , but i am not much of an expert on fish . other than the kind you eat with chips on Scarborough seafront...

stumbellina	Jun 15, 09, 14:24 #97
Those photos are SO beautiful!! Where are those places? Can you give more details to the location? I live in Berlin and I want to go!!

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,647 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Jun 15, 09, 15:59 #98
stumbellina: Those photos are SO beautiful!! Where are those places? Which photos?. The last four there, were taken yesterday in Myslenice and Pcim, just south of Krakow on the way to Zakopane. The rest of the photos are taken from all over Poland.

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,647 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Edited by: SeanBM Jun 24, 09, 18:10 #99
I just saw a long-tailed Weasel (Wiki) running with a mouse in its mouth. It is the first time I have ever seen one. Strange creature, the length of a cat (inc tale) but much lower to the ground. This is what he looked like.

gumishuThreads: 13 Posts: 3,634 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Edited by: gumishu Jun 25, 09, 08:52 #100
weasels are cute - a friend of mine once found a little weasel and took it home - his mom would feed it with milk - I think they have released it afterwards but I can't really remember - and yes they are very slim - guess they can dig into mouse holes with little trouble

wildroverThreads: 180 Posts: 8,143 Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂	Jun 25, 09, 14:19 #101
Weasels , stoats , and Minks all look pretty similar , don,t know how you tell the difference , other than minks are usually black....i think..?

lukaszk	Jun 25, 09, 19:39 #102
Tose fish are probably minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) - strzebla in Polish. //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_minnow They are to be found in most moutanious streams togedher with trout and grayling. They are also living in cold streams of northern lakealands (in those where trout can be found). They are small fish all their life long and trout feed on them. Regards Łukasz

gumishuThreads: 13 Posts: 3,634 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Jun 28, 09, 08:05 #103
wildrover: Weasels , stoats , and Minks all look pretty similar , don,t know how you tell the difference , other than minks are usually black....i think..? weasels are very slim and significantly smaller than stoats and minks

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Jun 28, 09, 12:06 #104

wildrover:

Weasels , stoats , and Minks all look pretty similar , don,t know how you tell the difference , other than minks are usually black....i think..?

It was easy, I saw the guy and googled it and he looked exactly like the photo from Wiki I posted :)

lukaszk:

They are to be found in most moutanious streams togedher with trout and grayling.

Yes, maybe, many people here fish for trout.
Thanks for the info

gumishu:

weasels are very slim and significantly smaller than stoats and minks

Yes, I have seen a white mink in a cage in Ireland, very beautiful and very angry because of the cage.

In the English language a "weasel" is something negative to call someone.
I have no idea why but it means a sneaky person who lies an cheats.

away guyThreads: 12 Posts: 392 Joined: Mar 16, 07 ♂	Jun 28, 09, 13:33 #105
I love hunting and fishing .... but im against hunting of certain animals ...

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,647 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Jun 29, 09, 01:56 #106
away guy: im against hunting of certain animals Which ones and why?.

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Jun 29, 09, 02:05 #107

I was brought up in a hunting family. By the age of 6 i knew what the insides of most animals looked like, i also had a basic understanding exactly where my meat came from, how it was looked after ect. I DO think that makes a big impact on what i buy today. I was always taught by a local game keeper that you only hunt for animals you can be certain of will not make it through the harsh Scottish winters or will have a bad effect on the local environment. And even then it should only be down to the gamekeeper to decide how to run his land and livestock. In Scotland we have a big deer problem, which can be controlled by many means, but selective hunting is probably the best form. A stalker is not allowed to shot anything in site, he must only choose what the gamekeeper see's fit. This is what hunting should be about. But unfortunately it isnt always the case :/

krysiaThreads: 26 Posts: 3,604 Joined: Aug 10, 06 ♀	Jun 29, 09, 06:30 #108
away guy: I love hunting and fishing .... but im against hunting of certain animals ... Why should some animals be killed because you don't like them and others not because you do like them? Why kill animals? What did they do to you? They want to live like everyone else. If you want to hunt animals so badly, go hunt some woodticks and mosquitos. Nobody would miss them. :)

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Jul 30, 09, 17:33 #109

Okay this is a beetle I saw today.
I want to get better at taking shots of wildlife.
Anyone know anything about this beetle or similar beetles?.

wildroverThreads: 180 Posts: 8,143 Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂	Jul 30, 09, 20:17 #110
Its quite similar to a dung beetle , but not quite round enough........Any beetle experts here....?

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Jul 30, 09, 21:32 #111

wildrover:

Any beetle experts here....?

"Beetles, under the class known as Coleoptera, are believed to make up at least quarter of the animal kingdom. Beetles are the largest group of animals, representing one fifth of all known living organisms and one fourth of all animals. Almost half of all living beetles are known as weevils under the family known as Curculionidae. It is believed that the number of species of beetles range from approximately 250,000 to 350,000."
From here
I think an expert might have trouble too.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jul 30, 09, 23:48 #112
I wonder if the pumas are still roaming the forests. Were they eventually tracked down?

aphrodisiacThreads: 19 Posts: 3,907 Joined: Apr 15, 09 ♀	Jul 31, 09, 02:46 #113
Seanus: I wonder if the pumas are still roaming the forests. Were they eventually tracked down? I read somewhere that it was a large cat. I am serious. I don't know how reliable that was, but it was in one of the major Polish newspapers.

gumishuThreads: 13 Posts: 3,634 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Jul 31, 09, 12:56 #114
wildrover: Its quite similar to a dung beetle , but not quite round enough........Any beetle experts here....? no way a dung beetle - must a member of Cerambycidae or Carabidae

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Edited by: SeanBM Jul 31, 09, 16:14 #115

gumishu:

Cerambycidae

Is the Longhorn beetle (wiki)

The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae; also known as long-horned beetles or, more archaically, longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.

Maybe not.

gumishu:

Carabidae

Ground beetle

This is a large family, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.[1]

Could very well be, it had wings but did not use them. It was black and on the ground not near much water and no huge amounts of big dung around.

constituting about 25% of all known life-forms.[1] 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species[1]),

From here Wiki

So getting it down from 350,000 different species to only 2,700 is pretty good.
I had no idea beetles rule the world, what a human I am.

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Beetle in Polish is Żuk.

wildroverThreads: 180 Posts: 8,143 Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂	Edited by: wildrover Jul 31, 09, 19:10 #116
SeanBM: Beetle in Polish is Żuk. Oh don,t get me going on that one....... first time i saw a Zuk truck i was sure the first letter of its name was an F.....even when i looked closer , it still looked like an F......so from that moment on this vehicle was known as a fuk truck......

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Edited by: SeanBM Aug 20, 09, 16:58 #117

Tettigoniidae or better known as crickets (wiki) to you and me.

Tettigoniids may be distinguished from grasshoppers by the length of their filamentous antennae, which may exceed their own body length, while grasshoppers' antennae are always relatively short and thickened.

The males provide a nuptial gift for the females in the form of a spermatophylax, a body attached to the males' spermatophore which is consumed by the female. The function of the spermatophylax is to increase the attachment time of the males' spermatophore and thereby increase his paternity. [1]

:)

Cricket in Polish is swierszcz.

Grasshopper directly translates to "field horse" konik polny :)

McCoyThreads: 46 Posts: 1,755 Joined: Jul 3, 08 ♂	Aug 20, 09, 19:00 #118
SeanBM: "field horse" or field pony, konik means a little horse

SashaThreads: 2 Posts: 1,558 Joined: Apr 19, 08 ♂	Edited by: Sasha Aug 20, 09, 19:19 #119
SeanBM: Anyone know anything about this beetle or similar beetles?. I think it's either "zhuk-olen" (deer-beetle - Rus), Lucanus cervus or "chlebny zhuk" (bread beetle - Rus) Anisoplia austriaca. Were there any grains close to the place?

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,647 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Edited by: SeanBM Aug 22, 09, 11:27 #120
Sasha: Were there any grains close to the place? Not really no, it was in the middle of a forest in the Chełm mountain in Myslenice, south of Krakow. There wasn't a field around for kilometres.

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