Big Merv's nature watch.

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big mervyn wrote:
Setanta wrote:They should be protected.
Poultry farmers?
Rooster in captivity?
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Setanta wrote:They should be protected.
They are legally protected in the UK.
Strange little animal who really has small person syndrome, they get very vicious looking if they think they are cornered.
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
Rooster wrote:A Pine Martin snooping around here this past few weeks, hopefully snacking on grey squirrels
Nice one. :thumleft:

Some auld poultry farmer will likely shoot it or something though. :roll:


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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.

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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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.
Wot?

Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
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.
Wot?

Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!

Beat that Grumpy :lol:
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big mervyn wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
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.
Wot?

Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!

Beat that Grumpy :lol:
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big mervyn wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
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.
Wot?

Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.
Must have been a dry night Rooster - not too wet to woo!

Beat that Grumpy :lol:
You're a hoot ... even if that is a very owl joke. :roll:

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. >EW
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I've been waiting for an Ian Nagle joke...
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Dave wrote:I've been waiting for an Ian Nagle joke...
No doubt we'll get one sometime ... it'll just be by some circaetus route.
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Cloves enough!
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Do a bit of Owl spottin' myself
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Nice. :thumleft:

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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