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    @Reedfish how do you know so much about plants? Are you a botanist/horticulturist?
     
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    I think @Reedfish is a very skilled and knowledgeable horticulturalist as his other hobby. Glad he’s giving aquatic plants another go!
     
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    Africans invading (uhhhh allready invaded) our country.

    African Nile Geese are beautiful birds but quite invasive.[​IMG]

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    Our native geese (with Canadian intruders) looting the just harvested cornfields. Too many of those too.[​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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    No, I am not. Would love to be though . (Am an accountant :oops:)
    I have been growing plants for 35 + years - cacti & succulents, ferns, orchids, carnivorous plants, bulbs, tropical plants. Etc.

    I have also been fascinated by nature all my life - wildlife (everything from microbes to mammals), fish keeping, plants/ botany, palaeontology,
    Have literally thousands of books on various topics.
    So while I do not have any formal qualifications on this, I do have a fair bit of knowledge based on my own studying.
     
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    I am rubbish at growing aquarium plants :oops:
     
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    That may be about to change though!
     
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    A British friend of ours grew up with David Attinborough as their neighbour. Says he was away a lot, modest house chock full of specimens and books, ie pretty much what one would imagine :)

    For the Western Cape people, the Langebaan Fossil Park is a real gem and well worth a visit. Mammals, birds etc from 5 mil years ago. Astonishing collection including short neck giraffes, in situ fossils as well as a great visitor center, knowledgeable guides. Not sure if they’re open yet.
     
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    That's really awesome!!!
     
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    My fossil collection(with a few exceptions) is from before the KT boundary (event that ended the dinosaurs). Not much younger
     
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    Would love to see photos! It’s nature too
     
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    It was nature 1.000.000 years ago

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    Nightsky alluminated by the capital Amsterdam. [​IMG]

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    Beautiful!
     
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    Saterday hike.[​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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    The birds in the 1st and 2nd photo, are they wag tails?
    And I love the colours of the sheep!! Look like marble cakes :lol:
     
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    Correct. The swallows have left so the Wagtails have taken over the fly and waspcatching (second pic).

    The amount that the Swallows appeared to have eaten is unbelievable.

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    Some random pics[​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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    The last one is especially special
     
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    This morning taken from my carwindow hahahha. Had to take it

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