Rooster in captivity?big mervyn wrote:Poultry farmers?Setanta wrote:They should be protected.
Big Merv's nature watch.
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They are legally protected in the UK.Setanta wrote:They should be protected.
Strange little animal who really has small person syndrome, they get very vicious looking if they think they are cornered.
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Never seen one giving problems Grumps, we had one a couple of years ago and the grey squirrels vanished over the winter, a few returned this summer but yer wee grumpy pine marten seems to have cleared them up again. Still waiting for the return of a few reds though 3 we used to have a lot of them before the grey took over.Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Nice one.Rooster wrote:A Pine Martin snooping around here this past few weeks, hopefully snacking on grey squirrels
Some auld poultry farmer will likely shoot it or something though.
The owls were having a bit of a new years party last night as well, lovely still night so could hear them all hooting even from a mile away or more.
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Seen a few reds in Castlewellan Forest this year.
Visited Ireland's oldest living oak this morning (Belvoir Forest)
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Wot?Rooster wrote:The owls were having a bit of a new years party last night as well, lovely still night so could hear them all hooting even from a mile away or more.
Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
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Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Wot?Rooster wrote:The owls were having a bit of a new years party last night as well, lovely still night so could hear them all hooting even from a mile away or more.
Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
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Half past 4!big mervyn wrote:Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Wot?Rooster wrote:The owls were having a bit of a new years party last night as well, lovely still night so could hear them all hooting even from a mile away or more.
Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
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You're a hoot ... even if that is a very owl joke.big mervyn wrote:Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Wot?Rooster wrote:The owls were having a bit of a new years party last night as well, lovely still night so could hear them all hooting even from a mile away or more.
Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
Beat that Grumpy
S'pose if they had been hooting a couple of nights earlier, it would have been Owl Lang Syne?
Plenty of owls where I live - Teat Owls
Most laid back owls ever - don't give a hoot about anything.
I had a pet owl that nearly turned 180 - it wasn't old, it just had a stiff neck.
I note a certain person who posts on this forum has been very quiet of late - his dyslexia has hit a new owl.
What's the difference between a sniper with Parkinson's Disease and a constipated owl? - One can shoot but can't hit ...
My wife said she was a night owl. She was lying though, because when I tried to turn her head through 270 degrees, her neck broke.
There's gotta be more ... but do let's keep them strig-ly about owls. No simply fowl ones.
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I've been waiting for an Ian Nagle joke...
I have my own tv channel, what have you got?
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No doubt we'll get one sometime ... it'll just be by some circaetus route.Dave wrote:I've been waiting for an Ian Nagle joke...
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Nice.
I would have thought an owl would be too small to be of interested to a tiger though.
Here's one of my own, since we've moved onto owls now.
And it's not a teat owl.
I would have thought an owl would be too small to be of interested to a tiger though.
Here's one of my own, since we've moved onto owls now.
And it's not a teat owl.
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Owls are the one bird I have never got a photo of in the wild, heard plenty seen quite a few but never got a photo
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Rooster wrote:Owls are the one bird I have never got a photo of in the wild, heard plenty seen quite a few but never got a photo
I got a lot of photos of owl birds, sahib, you like?
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