Hi everyone, just a quick hello from me. Ive already trried this twice and it failed to send the message, oh well....
Anyway, I'm a 40 year old father of two who used to do a lot of bird watching(hated being called a twitcher tho), but since we had the kids I havent had much time to get out and about, hopefully that will change soon!
Tho I used to do a lot of birding I would call myself a general naturalist enjoying everything to be found out there with a particular interest in plants and spiders(I have 5 Tarantulas at home), in fact to be honest I'm plant obsessed, and have quite a few Aloes and simialr plants at home.
Anyway our gas is off at the moment and its freezing out so I'm geting myself a coffee.
Looking forward to meeting you all,
Larry

Hello GreenLarry, welcome to the forums! I know exactly how you feel with not having the time to get out as much as I would like, but I definitely make the most of the small amounts of spare time I do have now!

It's freezing here too, just turned the heating on!

Hi riana, the problem with our gas is that they are doing maintenance work in the sterrt with big holes everywhere so we everyone has no gas, with no idea when its being turned on again!
(For some reason I cant post messages from my phone which is what I normally use to go online,but it tells me the message is missing,weird-I'm on the PC today which is a rare thing these days!)

Hi GL, from Tibbar & Skippy, We are freezing here also in the north-west. We have no rads in the bedroom due to renovations (Yes, I know , wrong time of year! ) & then to top it all the boiler blew up, so we know how you feel.anyway we are half toastie now as the boiler has been renewed.
Welcome to the forums!!

This post was last modified: 23-11-2007 03:50 PM by tibbar.

Hello GreenLarry, I hope you will be warmer soon . What tarantulas do you keep? You will have to be our resident expert on spiders now . My father used to drag us outdoors whether we liked it or not--it was either that or visiting museums. I like to think it did me a world of good, even if I didn't necessarily appreciate it at the time...

What is the rarest bird you have seen? Was your bird watching confined to the UK?

Welcome to Wildlife UK!

Kingfisher

Hello GreenLarry, I hope you will be warmer soon . What tarantulas do you keep? You will have to be our resident expert on spiders now . My father used to drag us outdoors whether we liked it or not--it was either that or visiting museums. I like to think it did me a world of good, even if I didn't necessarily appreciate it at the time...

What is the rarest bird you have seen? Was your bird watching confined to the UK?

Welcome to Wildlife UK!

Kingfisher

Well, I have 5 in total, an adult Mexican Red Knee that I recently handled, a super fast Trinidad Chevron which lives in trees in the wild(arboreal), a young Chile rose, which was my first T bought in August 06, a young Curlyhair which I raised from a tiny baby I got for free and a dwarf species from an island off Vietnam, also free.
I'd post pics on here but not sure other members would appreciate them!
As for birds, well I'm not sure what my rarest is, I'm not really interersted in getting rare birds to be honest and I've never been abroad. The most exciting bird for me tho has to be the gannets i saw for the first time at Scarborough a couple of years ago.

This post was last modified: 24-11-2007 10:53 AM by GreenLarry.

There's a pets thread lurking in here somewhere, and I know I would like to see them , I have three snakes, though, so I'm a bit eccentric.

Rare is relative. To me, 'rare' is something that does not normally occur in my area. For you, a Bald Eagle would be rare. For me, well, there are hundreds of them less than 60 miles away, and a pair live around a mile down the road!

Gannets would be rare for me to see here, as they are birds of the Eastern Seaboard of the US. I saw my first, and only, gannets on a trip to Maine a few years ago.

Kingfisher

Lol, I didnt realise you werent in the UK, this being a UKWildlife forum and all.

Ive had a postcard from a friend in Maine, beautiful place!

Hi GreenLarry I am afraid I not a fan of spiders,in fact if there is one in the house you would not see me for dust,the weather here in the south east is so cold to-day I only spent a little while in the greenhouse then I had to come in,the sweetpeas are comeing up nice for next spring,I can't wait for that time of year,hope everyone keeps warm copperfirefly.

I was born in Swinton, Lancashire, and return as often as I can. Seeing wildlife is always one of the things I enjoy most. I probably enjoy the wildlife viewing as much or more than the genealogy I'm always working on. My father taught me a lot about animals and birds in the UK, he was always roaming around on Chat Moss as a lad.

Kingfisher

Hi Larry, welcome to the forum.
Hope you've managed to warm up a bit by now

Sorry this is a bit late, I haven't been on for a few days

Incidentally, I have to 'rescue' my husband from spiders - even the small ones!

Yes the gas is back on at last. Turns out ours didn't need turning off as we don't have a combi boiler but the workmen didn't bother to ask!

Howdy GreenLarry, welcome aboard. Glad to hear that the heating's back even if you didn't have to do without it in the first place