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| Another spider thread (warning for birdlovers); They breed 'em big up your way, Bix | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 26 2008, 09:44:53 PM (41 Views) | |
TopCat3
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Oct 26 2008, 09:44:53 PM Post #1 |
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Tantalisingly Opulent Pussy, Caring And Thoughtful
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Not for the faint-hearted... http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshow.aspx?sectionid=6573§ionname=slideshows&subsectionid=147525&subsectionname=spider&photo=1 :spider: Go on, click it, you know you want to.... |
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| Tiredwithtwins | Oct 27 2008, 03:09:00 AM Post #2 |
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ok, i just peed my pants ... how big are those birds?!?!?? |
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BIX
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Oct 27 2008, 01:46:06 PM Post #3 |
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Boner-fide Bonza Bloke
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Cairns Post 25 Oct....... Amateur photographer and bird enthusiast Les Martin took the photos in his back yard last week and while he was amazed at the sight, he never imagined his pictures would be such a hit. "I didn't realise there'd be so much excitement," he said yesterday. Click here to see what all the fuss is about in our photo gallery. Cairns.com.au has received more than 900,000 hits since posting Mr Martin's pictures at 11am on Thursday, and has fielded dozens of inquiries and comments from people amazed by the photos. Initially, Mr Martin's identity was unknown but, after The Cairns Post yesterday appealed for the mystery photographer to come forward, his son-in-law phoned to tell us who took the pictures. The 75-year-old revealed that it was his wife, Roslyn, 70, who first spotted the orb spider dining out on the bird, a chestnut-breasted manikin, caught in its web. Mrs Martin saw the metre-wide web when she was checking on the caged cockatiels the couple keep in their yard in Loder St. According to Mr Martin, by the time he arrived at the scene with his digital camera, the orb spider was hoeing into its meal. "It was an awful thing. The spider was just chewing into its head," said Mr Martin, who worked at The Cairns Post as a printer before retiring. "The spider's head was going up and down, and it was gouging into him at the top of his beak. It was still wrapping it up. "And then the spider just left it. It was like it was too big or something." Spider experts said the photographs showed the orb injecting venom into the stunned bird. But Mr Martin maintained what he saw was a dead bird. "It was still wrapping it up while it fed but, thankfully, the bird was dead." The photographs became internet fodder after Mr Martin emailed them to one of his five children. Canberra-based Scott Martin sent the images off to his friends, and the images then began circling worldwide. The female orb spider reaches 30-50mm in size and can have a leg span of 200mm. The orb is found in gardens and rainforests from Cape York to Noosa. |
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TopCat3
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Oct 28 2008, 02:39:10 PM Post #4 |
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Tantalisingly Opulent Pussy, Caring And Thoughtful
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That's it, I'm staying in NSW |
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