What's in your backyard?

Geez....That puppy would kill any sizzle!

Me...I'll screech and run!

Snakes are not my fav pets!

Tom
 
Coatingsarecrack said:
Can’t dislike but would if i could. What kind of spider is rhat? Brown recluse?
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I looked it up and it resembles a wolf spider to me. Based on another post by Big Dave complaining of the heat, I’m going to assume he is from down under or similar. And if so, the brown recluse isn’t native to that area.
 
dgage said:
I looked it up and it resembles a wolf spider to me. Based on another post by Big Dave complaining of the heat, I’m going to assume he is from down under or similar. And if so, the brown recluse isn’t native to that area.
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Yes, it's a Garden Wolf Spider, apparently a painful bite, but not lethal. Second row, on right. We've also got Redbacks around here as well. And yes, I'm down under, about 2 hours north of Sydney, near Newcastle. Our house is so new, barely 12 months, it doesn't show up on Google Maps. I even had to tell them where it was on the map, people would look it up and go to the wrong place. 2 years ago it was farmland. View attachment 72188

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I found this nasty guy a few weeks ago at work.



These highly venomous spiders are best avoided!
 
When I helped my brother move house last Feb, we used a hired van to move most of his plants, some had been in his backyard for almost 10 years. It wasn't till we were getting the plants out of the van at the new house that we saw all the Redbacks on them, there must have been at least 10 or more, some as big as the one in DFB's pic. Luckily whenever I move stuff like that, I'm always gloved up, and I was the only one who was.

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Demon Max will kill those spiders.

It's the "Frank's Hot Sauce" of pesticides ... put that sh!t on any bug and it will kill it ! :bat:
 
Looks like an F22 Raptor Big Dave. Very cool to see that from the backyard...as long as it isn’t too noisy.
 
dgage said:
Looks like an F22 Raptor Big Dave. Very cool to see that from the backyard...as long as it isn’t too noisy.
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Agree. It's an F-22. I see them fly by my work location on the rare occasion...when I'm not in a pandemic telework status.

Based on the size of the first image, it was at a pretty high altitude and shouldn't have been much louder than an F-15 or F-18.

My backyard lately has seen some birds we don't typically see in this area. The birds themselves aren't rare, just in the 13 years of living in this area and at this house, I've never seen them in our feeders before. My guess is our extremely mild winter has changed migration patters this year.
 
dgage said:
Looks like an F22 Raptor Big Dave. Very cool to see that from the backyard...as long as it isn’t too noisy.
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Unfortunately, we don't have the F22 down here, we have F35s just entering service. Their silhouette is so close, and the image was pixelated. The only way to tell in that image is the angle on the intakes, not enough angle for an F22. We used to have Hornets, now out of service, and Super Hornets, all currently grounded due to an incident. Good guesses though, given the image quality.

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Big Dave said:
Unfortunately, we don't have the F22 down here, we have F35s just entering service. Their silhouette is so close, and the image was pixelated. The only way to tell in that image is the angle on the intakes, not enough angle for an F22. We used to have Hornets, now out of service, and Super Hornets, all currently grounded due to an incident. Good guesses though, given the image quality.

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F-15 Strike Eagle?
 
PaulMys said:
F-15 Strike Eagle?
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It's an F35, and they're loud, but I don't mind. Where we lived in Sydney we had commercial airlines all day, up till about 11pm. The F35s and Hawk trainers we might get a few times a day, and only a few days a week.

The coolest thing is when they do a fly past, the area I live is half defense housing, in this case, Air Force. And when a pilot is retiring he's given approval to do a fly past of his house. I've seen it once so far, 4 FA-18s flying past low, and slow. It brings everyone out of their homes. Very cool.

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Cool. I grew up on an Army base so we mainly had C-130s flying over with some C-5 Galaxies and Huey helicopters thrown in.
 
dgage said:
Cool. I grew up on an Army base so we mainly had C-130s flying over with some C-5 Galaxies and Huey helicopters thrown in.
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I got to walk inside a C5 at an air show 20+ years ago, I'm still amazed at how those things actually get in to the air.

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