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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:59:10 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: We now often have more house sparrows than chaffinches at the feeders. {:-)) 3 and 2 respectively? :-) -- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad |
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:59:10 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: We now often have more house sparrows than chaffinches at the feeders. {:-)) 3 and 2 respectively? :-) -- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad |
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Subject: grubs
From: martin Date: 29/02/2004 10:55 GMT Standard Time Message-id: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:30:55 +0000, klara King wrote: In message , martin writes but we only have two sparrows left :-(( I've got plenty, 'cos they've got plenty of cover. The local sparrowhawk is quite skinny, and the sparrows know where the ivy is.... nearly all the sparrows disappeared here at the same time and at least a year before I saw reports that the same had happened in UK. One year they were everywhere as normal, the next year they had all gone. The last cock sparrow in our garden went quite mad: throwing himself against the shed window, then, when we covered that, against the bedroom window; then he 'adopted' the baby bluetits in the nesting box: he sat on the box all day, trying to keep the parents away. The woodpecker also attacked the box, so we hung a cage over the box. (After that all went well, and the bluetits raised their young. We left the cage on there for years.) In any case, I wondered whether it was some sort of bird flu that had this strange effect. I wondered the same. It was certainly nothing to do with change of habitat. Speculating wildly here, but climate change (we blame everything else on it)? Perhaps some sort of response to pollution, I have a very hazy memory that something similar happened to seals in the north sea. I have another hazy recollection that there was a theory that mobile phone signals interfered with birds in some way. -- Rhiannon http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhiannon_s/ "The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." Aubrey on remaining at liberty www.somethingpositive.net |
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Subject: grubs
From: martin Date: 29/02/2004 10:55 GMT Standard Time Message-id: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:30:55 +0000, klara King wrote: In message , martin writes but we only have two sparrows left :-(( I've got plenty, 'cos they've got plenty of cover. The local sparrowhawk is quite skinny, and the sparrows know where the ivy is.... nearly all the sparrows disappeared here at the same time and at least a year before I saw reports that the same had happened in UK. One year they were everywhere as normal, the next year they had all gone. The last cock sparrow in our garden went quite mad: throwing himself against the shed window, then, when we covered that, against the bedroom window; then he 'adopted' the baby bluetits in the nesting box: he sat on the box all day, trying to keep the parents away. The woodpecker also attacked the box, so we hung a cage over the box. (After that all went well, and the bluetits raised their young. We left the cage on there for years.) In any case, I wondered whether it was some sort of bird flu that had this strange effect. I wondered the same. It was certainly nothing to do with change of habitat. Speculating wildly here, but climate change (we blame everything else on it)? Perhaps some sort of response to pollution, I have a very hazy memory that something similar happened to seals in the north sea. I have another hazy recollection that there was a theory that mobile phone signals interfered with birds in some way. -- Rhiannon http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhiannon_s/ "The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." Aubrey on remaining at liberty www.somethingpositive.net |
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Subject: grubs
From: martin Date: 29/02/2004 10:55 GMT Standard Time Message-id: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:30:55 +0000, klara King wrote: In message , martin writes but we only have two sparrows left :-(( I've got plenty, 'cos they've got plenty of cover. The local sparrowhawk is quite skinny, and the sparrows know where the ivy is.... nearly all the sparrows disappeared here at the same time and at least a year before I saw reports that the same had happened in UK. One year they were everywhere as normal, the next year they had all gone. The last cock sparrow in our garden went quite mad: throwing himself against the shed window, then, when we covered that, against the bedroom window; then he 'adopted' the baby bluetits in the nesting box: he sat on the box all day, trying to keep the parents away. The woodpecker also attacked the box, so we hung a cage over the box. (After that all went well, and the bluetits raised their young. We left the cage on there for years.) In any case, I wondered whether it was some sort of bird flu that had this strange effect. I wondered the same. It was certainly nothing to do with change of habitat. Speculating wildly here, but climate change (we blame everything else on it)? Perhaps some sort of response to pollution, I have a very hazy memory that something similar happened to seals in the north sea. I have another hazy recollection that there was a theory that mobile phone signals interfered with birds in some way. -- Rhiannon http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhiannon_s/ "The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." Aubrey on remaining at liberty www.somethingpositive.net |
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The message
from martin contains these words: Well, anyone who's once seen a robin couldn't mistake any other bird for one. yes but what about six? :-) Depends on whether you can count I suppose. 6 looks like VI looks like six, however you write it. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: Well, anyone who's once seen a robin couldn't mistake any other bird for one. yes but what about six? :-) Depends on whether you can count I suppose. 6 looks like VI looks like six, however you write it. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: Well, anyone who's once seen a robin couldn't mistake any other bird for one. yes but what about six? :-) Depends on whether you can count I suppose. 6 looks like VI looks like six, however you write it. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: Well, anyone who's once seen a robin couldn't mistake any other bird for one. yes but what about six? :-) Depends on whether you can count I suppose. 6 looks like VI looks like six, however you write it. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: and woodpigeons :-(( at the allotment. There are plans to discuss allotment birds on a separate group :-) Should we send them - um - him - all our pigeons? I don't know why they're called woodpigeons, they don't eat wood, they should be called brassica pigeons. battery hens don't eat batteries, what should they be called? Well, I don't see many stacks of layers, either. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: and woodpigeons :-(( at the allotment. There are plans to discuss allotment birds on a separate group :-) Should we send them - um - him - all our pigeons? I don't know why they're called woodpigeons, they don't eat wood, they should be called brassica pigeons. battery hens don't eat batteries, what should they be called? Well, I don't see many stacks of layers, either. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: and woodpigeons :-(( at the allotment. There are plans to discuss allotment birds on a separate group :-) Should we send them - um - him - all our pigeons? I don't know why they're called woodpigeons, they don't eat wood, they should be called brassica pigeons. battery hens don't eat batteries, what should they be called? Well, I don't see many stacks of layers, either. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from martin contains these words: and woodpigeons :-(( at the allotment. There are plans to discuss allotment birds on a separate group :-) Should we send them - um - him - all our pigeons? I don't know why they're called woodpigeons, they don't eat wood, they should be called brassica pigeons. battery hens don't eat batteries, what should they be called? Well, I don't see many stacks of layers, either. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:06:18 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote: The message from martin contains these words: Well, anyone who's once seen a robin couldn't mistake any other bird for one. yes but what about six? :-) Depends on whether you can count I suppose. 6 looks like VI looks like six, however you write it. 110 looks like 6? -- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad |
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