On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:42:37 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 6/6/04 16:13, in article , "Franz
Heymann" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
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I'd love
to know
why all these birds follow these patterns - the summer holiday of
the rooks
and Little Owls fascinate us. The owls go first and then come back
about
now and start that slightly wussy 'wooooo' thing at about 3pm

Ours do it at 3 am

That, too. But I *expect* owls to do that at 3am.
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I went sailing on the IJsselmeer a couple of days ago. It was very
black and green fly day. This normally happens in May but is late this
year because the water seems much colder than it has been for some
years. We and the boat were covered in a billion flies.
We used a hose to wash them off the boat, us and sails. I was a bit
surprised that we attracted a lot of ducks which vacuumed the by now
dead flies off the surface of the water.
On the same day I saw a crow try to grab a duckling, and a swallow
sitting on the anemometer support on the top of a mast, using it's
head to stop the cups turning until there was a really big gust of
wind and the cups knocked the swallow off it's perch.