Unusual/strangest "Real Figures" that have visited your Railway

[cbeckett]

I'll look that one up!

 

[KandNWLR]

Oh yes Andrew's spider has very good taste I have some 2006 Margaux (Chateau Palmer) gathering dust in the cellar waiting for a suitably special occasion (although we did drink one bottle just for testing purposes - it's still a bit young . Seeing as none of the kids seem in a hurry to get married we may well drink some on our 40th anniversary in 4 years time...hic...

Anyhoo, back to the topic...

Ch. Palmer 1983 last week at my father´s place. Good one! As for the 2006 it´s a big brooding bugger Bordeaux, so you may have to hide it from the kids for a while...

 

[gregh]

Pretty certain it is an Orchard Swallowtail..

Now how did you know that? Sure are some clever people on the Forum. Well done. It does look like that.

 

[PhilP]

Now how did you know that? Sure are some clever people on the Forum. Well done. It does look like that.

1. An interest in butterflies and moths in my youth.
So I knew it was a swallowtail of some sort..
2. Google / Wikipedia for quick-hit. Followed by a more authoritative source.
Still have some 'butterfly books' in the loft I reckon.

 

[Lordraglan274]

My neighbours have a large pond, and the resident frogs do like to come and watch the trains but have no concept of track safety and refuse to wear Hi-Viz clothing. They can cause widespead disruption to schedules, and a light engine has to be despatched to apprehend them.

 

[beavercreek]

I did post the photos of me wild ducks earlier but I took them off to swap them and then forgot to repost...

A pair of mallards arrived on our pond and proceeded to bring up a family of lovely little fluff balls.
There were ten to start with but the cats and foxes reduced their number to five by the end.
They were great, but did they make a mess of the railway.. what with trampling the small folk, pushing through buildings and the guano  .........

 

[stockers]

Well done. Our neighbor often has breeding ducks on their pond but mother ducks don't seem very careful - the net result is usually zero unfortunately.

 

[gregh]

A pair of mallards arrived on our pond and proceeded to bring up a family of lovely little fluff balls.
There were ten to start with but the cats and foxes reduced their number to five by the end.
They were great, but did they make a mess of the railway.. what with trampling the small folk, pushing through buildings and the guano .........

Get's my vote as the cutest visitors so far.

I'm enjoying this topic.

 

[minimans]

Strange and real...............................

 

[minimans]

A real animal this time my beloved and missed Puffy`s foray into the Railway.........................

 

[cbeckett]

Lovely pooch.. bet you miss her. :'(

 

[dunnyrail]

Not my line, but taken by me on Andy Rush sadly no more Railway. First up the Railway had a large Swiss See (OK Pond then) which was installed by a firm of contractors.,we had not even completed filling it with Water when this fellow arrived:-



Towards the end of the line I noticed this fellow trying to do obscene things to this unfortunate LGB Guy. Sadly it did not result in an explosion of new LGB Guys:-



JonD

 

[3Valve]

Strange and real...............................
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[David Attenborough Voice] and here we see the great blue chested Chas, completely at home in his natural environment, which would be anywhere with a Garden Railway nearby [\David Attenborough Voice]

 

[cbeckett]

There again, you don`t see too many of these little wrens...just out of shot of the Railway - sorry!

 

[PhilP]

Wow! .. Wonderful plumage the ..

Don't see wrens as colourful as that round here!!!

 

[3Valve]

Lovely, really striking colour.

"beautiful plumage init..."

 

[Madman]

Beautiful. I've never seen a Wren of that color. Is it native to OZ ?

 

[KandNWLR]

Lovely, really striking colour.

"beautiful plumage init..."

Is it justified to say "Norwegian Blue"? Sorry, I´ll get my coat ...

 

[beavercreek]

Nice bird....looks like a cross between a great tit, wagtail and a pot of blue ink..........

 

[cbeckett]

Beautiful. I've never seen a Wren of that color. Is it native to OZ ?

As far as I know.. In typical Australian "keep it simple", it is called.... a Blue Wren