Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live.

I saw these on youtube videos and thought they were very interesting:

David Attenborough,

I took this picture in Kraków four days ago, in Zakrzówek park.

What type of insect is that lukaszpoznanski?

Nice shot, by the way.

Thanks Sean. I think it's a wasp, or some kind of hornet?

It looks like it'd sting you alright.

I never knew that Hornets (Szerszen po Polsku) are the largest eusocial wasps. I also didn't know what eusocial meant either.

Hi.

I have started an English-based discussion group about wildlife in Poland.

There is a lack of good information on the internet about Polish wildlife, and I wish to provide a general forum for discussion. (I am especially interested in building species lists and distributional information, both on a regional and a national basis.)

If you are interested, please go to ... groups.yahoo/group/polishwildlife ... to join the group.

Thank you for taking time to read this message.

Jonathan Russell

I might do that...i have some nice pictures of Polish wildlife...

how cool pawian! great pictures!!

we have a pair of these near my place of work. i've spent the last three years trying to photograph them, but it's almost impossible.

there was also a pair in one of the parks last year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Oriole

Thanx.

I can only say that no animal was harmed during the photo session.

Harmed animals in my photos were already dead.

'Almost', so there is hope, keep trying, they'd be a delight to see.


Great photos Pawian!

Ducks seem to be more sympathetic at home somehow.

I'm not sure if there already was a Bażant. In Lodz we have lots of them running free in the bushes (especially in the Park Widzewski and railtracks nearby). I haven't got my own pic of them because as for me they run to fast to take a pic ;) But here you have some pics from net to see how it looks like:

I have the same problem with all wildlife photos.
I think we have to bait them with some food, so they are still enough to take photos of

Here is a short video of some of the village I live in and neighbors plowing my land with a horse. It's beautiful here. Enjoy!

That's a fine horse.
What are you planning to grow?
Funny music, reminds me of a nursery rhyme.

Yeah, he's a nice horse and works all the time with his owner. This year, I had around 15 kg beans and over 120 kg of potatoes. Next year, I will plant carrots, onions, and potatoes.

The music is typical Polish Góralskie (Highlanders) by the Polish group "Misart".

Living off the land, sounds wonderful.
Do you have any live stock?

I could have you mixed up with another poster, excuse me if I do but do you run a tourist visiting centre there?

I have a newly renovated barn (can be seen in the background in the video on the left) but no livestock, yet. There will be chickens, and perhaps a pony.

My home is a center of agro-tourism and eco-tourism, and yes, I do accept guests. There are many such guest houses all over Poland.

In my experience carrots are hard to grow, you need to keep them covered or spray them a lot. I hope you have good luck.

Carrots are not difficult to grow at all. My neighbor has land adjacent to mine and had literally hundreds of beautiful, tasty, large carrots this year without any cover or spray. All natural. Keep in mind, it also depends on what type of soil you have. In this area the soil is excellent. Our location is in Southeastern Poland, between Tarnów and Nowy Sącz in the Carpathian foothills.

That is so lucky.
I have good carrot friendly soil but lots of pests:(

How do you combat carrot fly in poland?
versita.metapress.com/content/j1716k87u24l8k56/

I have seen quite a few small snakes with ZASKRONIEC (Common grass snake) over the summer.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaskroniec_zwyczajny

I will point out that there are no snakes in my country of origin, so there is nothing common about these guys for me :)


So it's defence is garlic farts and a nose bleed. Nature truly is wonderful :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Snake#Defence -> Grass snake (Wiki)

I wonder if that would keep a babcia at bay in a supermarket que...?

Rare? Do they have vampire bats aswell? (Yes, serious question.)

:)

This is great, I hope to become a vet one day and move to Poland and get involved in conservation so this thread is jst the thing for me........I also read somewhere that Poland has bears, however very little of them and they are threatened with extinction which is very sad. Also does Poland have the largest or oldest wildlife reserve in europe?

No, they are found in Central American region if my knowledge is right.

Latin America, yeah. I was just wondering if they somehow managed to migrate.

:)

I don't think Poland has the biggest but there is a primeval forest

Half of it is in Poland and half in Belarus....so combined it may be the biggest... its certainly one of the best....