On 8/3/09 23:12, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 8/3/09 17:00, in article
, "Judith
in France" wrote:
On Mar 8, 2:59*pm, "Dave" wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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You call that an addiction already?

Stop trolling & grow up

Hey Dave, Rusty is our well respected poster, he is part of who we
are, urg, he doesn't and wouldn't troll. He has a sense of humour,
don't you often natter over the garden fence with your neighbours and
share a joke, a smile, I do, I wish Rusty was my neighbour.

Judith

Well, I *did* until I read the bit about shooting rooks. We're very fond of
'our' rooks! ;-)

I'd rather do a regular limited cull of fledgelings with a good air
rifle than watch the owner missing and/or wounding scores of adult
rooks.

I like rooks too, but they have their drawbacks where farm livestock and
arable crops are concerened. They are positively good for some crops,
generally neutral for others, but can be really harmful to some
germinating seeds.

So, if I can bag a number every year and keep the rookery in equilibrium
so it doesn't provoke the farmer into an irregular spat of flying
feathers, I count that as
a) ethical
b) pie
c) ethical pie
d) not as good as sqrl pie...

Or even square pi? Nobody (that I know of) shoots our rooks but I think
they've split the parliament established a new rookery a few fields and a
hill away. 3 of the trees in which they nested had to be cut down last year
and there was a lot of jostling and squabbling for the remaining nesting
space. We've had a crow scarer going off in the field next to the Nursery
for a month or more now and unwary customers are sometimes seen to take off
vertically!

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Sacha
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