Hello

[Owl]

Hi,
I'm new and confussed, the reason being what to say? I thought I'd pick up some idea's from some of the other 'Hello' messages but haveing read them I discovered I had nothing to say as everyone seemed to have web sites and things of intrest to say! So if you can put up with a boring thread of someone who realy must get a life do read on.

We, my husband and I (sorry!) have just moved to the Isle of Wight as I could no longer live in London. I love London and it's my home town but it's just too crowded and I have never been good in crowds! My other half comes from Burton-on-Trent and after 12 years of driving around London , I think he's quite pleased to be out of there as well.

We both enjoy bird watching, walking and all forms of 'Wild watching'. We love Camera's but none of the 7 we own are that great, I do have a cheap digital but have lost the computer link for it, so any photographes we send to the site would have to be from my scanner.

I learnt about wildflowers from my mother who even knew the latin names, however I seem to have completly forgotten most of the names and families and find myself saying 'Oh what a buitiful..... pink flower!' Here I think I might be able to have my fadeing grey cells jogged.

As for this web site I only have one complant and that is that I love it! I found it by accident whilst looking around for a sight on Tree Superstions and since then I keep coming back and in the end I joined up!
Congrats to all involved in it.

Owl

[wildone]

Hello Owl. Welcome to WAB. Don't worry we are not all techies, some of us have to ask how to get a certain page onto the monitor. Anyway now you have found us I'm sure you will improve your ability to know what flower is which and when it will bloom. The main thing is to enjoy being a member of a wonderful wildlife site.

[glsammy]

Hello Owl, and welcome to the friendliest site on the web!

[Willow]

Hello Owl, I'm new here too - and just wanted to say that your thread is anything but boring! You are not alone...I know only too well that feeling of having forgotten oodles of the plant info that was so readily in my head years ago..... Hopefully, it's all still in there somewhere, if a little rusty.....I'm sure this wonderful website will help jog our i.d. skills back into action! Also, my camera "skills" amount to pointing and shooting a small 'family snaps' digital camera, which I sometimes use with my binoculars (oh - for a digiscope!) to get more close up shots of my garden birds. However, as most of the time I'm trying not to drop camera and bins into the kitchen sink, they do tend to come out very out of focus!

Looking forward to swapping wildlife news. It must be lovely to get away from the crowds and live on the Isle of Wight. Have you seen the Red Squirrels yet?

All the best,

Willow

[Helen]

Hello Owl and welcome to the forum.

Regards

[pheonix]

hi and welcome, im sure there will be storeys of urban wildlife and new discoveries from the i.o.w coming our way!

[Owl]

Hello, and thanks for the greeting. I apologise about not saying thank you before but I was reading the Thread re the Grey Squirrels and the one on the Red's that everyone seem to think only know live in the north of England, but as I've all ready said they live here on the Isle of Wight.
Oddly enough there was an artticle on the Red in the Local paper and a fantastic photograph of this poor little Squirrel that had lost both limbs on the left side, could I ask if anyone whould be intrested in the photo and the article?
I'm sure I can scan the photo and mention the article in brief?
Can anyone say if this is somthing that they would be intrested in or is this considered a 'no no'?
Hello Willow and as yet I've not seen a Red, well not up close! They are so shy but I'm living in hope!
Take care and keep taking the photo's, I remember taking a roll of what could have been wonderful photographes but I dropt the camera in thew sea!! I saved the camera but not the film!

Hope to here from someone soon.

Owl

[Tinkerbell]

T-wit Owl and welcome from me t-woo!

I wonder if you might add a bit to Be it ever so humble - a thread in the Treehouse. I was hoping members might tell us a little about 'their' environment - there are so many places in the British Isles I've never visited and I'm sure I'm not alone, so a description of terrain, population, and a few wildlife facts would be of interest. glsammy was kind enough to respond, but I'd like to hear a few more (many end up in an introductory thread and are then 'lost').

Tink.

[StuartDH]

Hi Owl,

So you managed to break out of London. Many dream of leaving city life, but few have managed to escape. Good choice heading off the Isle of Wight, was it a 'pin the map' decision or did it top a list of places to live?

I should imagine it's a shock to the system when you first got there from the big smoke.

We don't tend to hear too much from the islands around UK and I've never been to the IOW so it'll be great to hear about the wild things on the Isle.

Stu

[nightshade]

Hello Owl,just use the site as a diary there must be plenty to tell us if there aint just admire the gallery
I know what you mean about London it took us 2.5hours to get from Millwall to the motorway,but only 1 hour to get home what a hideous place
I went out for a morning paper near the hotel and greeted everyone I met,with a good morning,you would have thought they were being scourged
from their reactions. Oh! and when I got out of the car at major junction and told off the people sitting in the yellow box and made them back up so I could get through I got a cheer, so they cannot be all bad(it may have been the north circular?)

[Owl]

Hi all,
I go off line for what felt like afew seconds to see if I could do anything about a write up for Tinkerbell ( I will do that soon after having done this), and come back in to find more people have looked at what I concidered a boring report on my move over here.

As for leaving the Smoke a shock to the system, StuartDH, isn't the word for it! Fresh air! I'm old enough to remember the very end of the smogs and the bane on coal fires! Know I see a chimney smoking I'm trying to ring the fire brigde! My husband who comes from Burton thinks I'm nuts and that it's funny! But when he had my brothers and I in the car all yelling at him that something had to be wrong he realised just what affect the Smogs of old London Town had on us Londoners!

All I can say to you Nightshade is that you were luck not to get killed! My husband is an ex-biker and not afraid of things but he nearly passed out when I read out your thread to him! We Londoners are an odd lot we are friendly but are so locked into our little worlds that we don't see people and are stunned when people smile and say hello! Here on the Island people pass you by and smile, nodd and say hello. I stop and ask my other half "Who was that?" To which he grinns ust a friendly local come on." But I've still got to much London in me and look after them as if there nuts!! I will calm down. I even went out without my watch and didn't even miss it! I must be getting better!

Take Care all and I will rush over to the other thread and see what I can do. Sorry I do go on don't I

Owl