David Collier

[David Collier @whizzone]

@esm2e But happy that a handbag did

[David Collier @whizzone]

@Survivinthe20s @jlb26_ Jerry took them out, not Hannah. If one said 'haggis' they were both out

[David Collier @whizzone]

@jlb26_ @Mittly5 @Survivinthe20s Because they could only dig one grave at a time

[David Collier @whizzone]

@KlausSchwabX @LNallalingham And Mo Farrah was born in Somalia, based on the accuracy of your statements I doubt he lives in USA.

[David Collier @whizzone]

@KarenQuinn1973 @andyburnham @downingstreet @DHSCgovuk @YvetteCooperMP @MrsBr0wn_82 @ClareCraigPath @jemmm85517813 @SoniaPoulton What damage does the added folic acid do?

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

This behaviour is called kleptoparasitism.
Red kites were persecuted for centuries and are exceptionally wary of landing on the ground.
But by waiting for the highly intelligent, bold magpie to safely feed first, the kite effectively verifies that the food isn't poisoned and that no hidden predators, traps, or humans are waiting in ambush.
Once the magpie deems it safe, the kite swoops down to usurp the food using its superior size.
The kite using the magpie this way is interspecific: Stealing between different species.
Kleptoparasitism is heavily linked to high intelligence and cognitive flexibility.
So it's no surprise that our clever, adaptable hedgehogs also use it.
Hedgehogs use intraspecific kleptoparasitism (stealing from members of the same species), by stealth, rather than the kite's scramble method.
Many of you will have seen and filmed this - one hedgehog stealing bedding from another's house, to line his own. 😊(this always makes me smile).
This stealing, instead of having to search and forage the nesting materials for themselves, saves the hedgehogs so much time and energy, therefore boosting their survival chances.
So leaving a pile of hay beside your hedgehog's house (protected from the weather inside a large flowerpot or bucket laid on its side) will help everyone.❤️

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Hedgehogs are great creatures of habit, and will always return to the same spot to hibernate, if they can.
Darling Belina has already returned here, to 'her' pen, and is beginning to prepare for hibernation this year.
With the prolonged drought conditions forcing trees to drop their fruit and leaves early, and the absence of natural food, the signs and smells of approaching autumn have arrived very prematurely this year, so hedgehogs are likely to enter hibernation early.
So now is the ideal time to check any empty hedgehog houses in your garden, to ensure they are still weatherproof, and give them a good clean out.
Please always use the stick test first, to make absolutely sure the house doesn't have a resident (see below).
Once the houses are completely dry, line them with newspaper and stuff them full to the brim with clean dry hay.
Then poke your hand inside the hay, through the doorway, and flatten down an area, to make an inviting cosy nest.
(scroll to the bottom of this website page to see a How-To video of making up a house: https://t.co/5b0wenkB5O)
Don't worry if the house already has a resident. Just fill a large flowerpot or bucket with fresh hay and lie it on its side, next to the house, so the resident can help themselves to clean sheets.😊
Hedgehogs build 2, sometime 3 hibernation nests, just in case their chosen nest becomes endangered or flooded.
This forward-thinking means they always have a safe warm ready-made shelter to move straight into, at a time when dry nesting material would be impossible to find, and they wouldn't have the energy to build.
Isn't that clever?
Belina's history: https://t.co/AGfSTCJxm8

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Look how happy she is!😍
Taking a prize home to her hungry babies.
This is the desperate badger mum who came into my garden looking for anything to eat, and left with nothing.
The following evening I put some food out for her in the woods, where I know she visits (to drink from the water I leave out there daily for wildlife).
I left good quality dry cat food for her to eat, and slices of Chubb Roll and chopped apples and pears to take home to her cubs.
While textbook badger behaviour states they don't carry food to cubs, extreme environmental stress forces wildlife to adapt and break the rules, and as there's zero natural forage in this drought, clearly that's what this clever mum was doing.
She spent the whole night there.
After all these weeks of deprivation and stress it must have felt like Christmas for this sweet mum.
She made several trips back to her sett with food, in between eating for herself and resting and drinking.
Just before dawn she covered up what was left, and went to bed full and content.
I'm so happy.
Badger's history: https://t.co/c7N9kFscSe

[David Collier @whizzone]

@thehundred Fantasy points for Annabel Sutherland and Phoebe Litchfield are incorrect.

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

Imagine what my manager had to do.

[David Collier @whizzone]

@lynners2 @MartinSLewis Where does money come from to pay the fine? Customers?

[David Collier @whizzone]

@RickXBT @OptaJohan They used a notebook to list players booked. Sending off was just that player was told by ref I'm sending you off.

[루시퍼 @lucifer5670]

신기한착시

원의위치는 그대로임

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Jeff Lynne's ELO - 10538 Overture (Glastonbury, 2016)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Left: how humans see starlings.

Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.

The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of… birds.

[Marco Cavicchioli @cavicchioli]

Mostrate ai decerebrati che ancora negano il riscaldamento globale questo video ufficiale della NASA sulle temperature globali dal 1880 ad oggi:

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

-- Hubert Reeves (1932 - 2023)

[David Collier @whizzone]

@RacingPost What if a horse does this and then wins? Can runner up object, it should be a non-runner

[David Collier @whizzone]

@CommentatorMark What if he had won? Would he then have been deemed a non-runer?

[David Collier @whizzone]

@Dan_Wyke Perhaps there should be a maximum wage, surely £3m pa is enough for anyone.