On 22/5/07 21:27, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:14:26 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

Mercifully, unlike Judith, I can do nothing about my birdie predicament. I
have jackdaws nesting on top of the chimney of my study fireplace.

All the local chimneys have jackdaws nesting in them.

The
noises are raucous, to put it mildly but they're beginning to worry both
grandchild and dogs. Sometimes it's just a general susurration but
occasionally a real "the pub's just turned out" fight appears to be going
on.

Their dawn chorus drowns out planes landing at Schiphol. We have a pigeon
nesting in a chestnut tree that is about 10 feet from our bedroom window. It
makes odd snoring noises. http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=WDUWUDHI

Patricia Atkinson writes about an owl doing that, in one of her books. We
had a wood pigeon that perched in the rose right outside our bedroom window
this year and last and which woke us every morning with that idiotic noise
they make. When we then opened the window further or shut it altogether,
there would be a panicky and indignant clatter of wings as the pigeon took
off in fright.

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
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