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Post by oldroader on Aug 10, 2023 11:35:48 GMT
I wonder if a Heron tastes like chicken 🤔 I’ve always been under the impression that predator meat is grim. But then tuna - fresh stuff, not the tinned nonsense we get here - is by far my favourite fish? Does Predator meat shimmer and hide behind your broccoli?
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Post by orkneyhatter on Aug 10, 2023 13:04:26 GMT
Recent bird noncing - I went to Bempton Cliffs with my old man last week after the cricket at Scarborough got rained off (I know WHAT a day out). All the puffins had gone but seeing thousands of gannets nesting with their chicks on tiny ledges was very impressive. you were too late for puffins. Most of them leave from mid July onwards. Used to go regularly about first week in July to see them. Of course up here I see them in the water from the ferry. Lots on Westray too. Some of the skuas are in short supply due to bird flu. Large flocks of shallows gathering-summer must be nearly over. Been lucky up here, hardly any rain for the last month and a fair bit of sunshine. Not bad for my first summer here.
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Post by orkneyhatter on Aug 10, 2023 13:05:29 GMT
Should read large flocks of swallows. Autocorrect grrr.
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Post by chadders on Aug 10, 2023 14:00:56 GMT
Recent bird noncing - I went to Bempton Cliffs with my old man last week after the cricket at Scarborough got rained off (I know WHAT a day out). All the puffins had gone but seeing thousands of gannets nesting with their chicks on tiny ledges was very impressive. you were too late for puffins. Most of them leave from mid July onwards. Used to go regularly about first week in July to see them. Of course up here I see them in the water from the ferry. Lots on Westray too. Some of the skuas are in short supply due to bird flu. Large flocks of shallows gathering-summer must be nearly over. Been lucky up here, hardly any rain for the last month and a fair bit of sunshine. Not bad for my first summer here. We weren’t really expecting to see puffins but you live in hope. We normally go to South Stack on Anglesey for that. Oddly we saw one guillemot on its own amid all the gannets. I bet the bird life up in your neck of the woods is incredible.
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Post by vicar on Aug 10, 2023 14:27:10 GMT
Well that is a new one on me. Just spied a Cricket walking up the house wall over my post-work garden bevvy. Never seen one in this country before, actually never seen one before anywhere. A lone cricket or have any of the rest of you seen a cricket in Stockers? I saw a three legged dog earlier and it was getting around fine which led me to think that the fourth leg is a bit of a waste, something of a design flaw don't you think.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 10, 2023 14:38:20 GMT
I wonder if a Heron tastes like chicken 🤔 I’ve always been under the impression that predator meat is grim. But then tuna - fresh stuff, not the tinned nonsense we get here - is by far my favourite fish? Chickens are decent predators too, when I had a flock I came home one day to find a dead mole in their house, they were all stood around trying to look innocent.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Aug 10, 2023 16:43:32 GMT
I wonder if a Heron tastes like chicken 🤔 Heron tastes similar to swan.
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Post by fb on Aug 10, 2023 18:09:24 GMT
Well that is a new one on me. Just spied a Cricket walking up the house wall over my post-work garden bevvy. Never seen one in this country before, actually never seen one before anywhere. A lone cricket or have any of the rest of you seen a cricket in Stockers? I saw a three legged dog earlier and it was getting around fine which led me to think that the fourth leg is a bit of a waste, something of a design flaw don't you think. My dog's got no nose.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 10, 2023 18:42:59 GMT
I wonder if a Heron tastes like chicken 🤔 Heron tastes similar to swan. Didn’t know we were graced by royalty! The secret’s safe with us, Your Majesty…
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Post by orkneyhatter on Aug 10, 2023 18:46:54 GMT
you were too late for puffins. Most of them leave from mid July onwards. Used to go regularly about first week in July to see them. Of course up here I see them in the water from the ferry. Lots on Westray too. Some of the skuas are in short supply due to bird flu. Large flocks of shallows gathering-summer must be nearly over. Been lucky up here, hardly any rain for the last month and a fair bit of sunshine. Not bad for my first summer here. We weren’t really expecting to see puffins but you live in hope. We normally go to South Stack on Anglesey for that. Oddly we saw one guillemot on its own amid all the gannets. I bet the bird life up in your neck of the woods is incredible. part of the reason I moved here. Had a short eared owl around a couple of days ago, seen hen harrier and merlin. Loads of starlings which love nesting under your car bonnet, a real fire risk in spring. Lots of geese, sea ducks, waders. What we don't get much here is things like greenfinch, great/blue/coal tit, your typical garden birds. No magpies either.
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Post by Radcliffe Hatter on Aug 13, 2023 15:07:25 GMT
Lad I work with who is a wildlife photographer in his spare time snapped a picture of a beecatcher (rare in uk) last week and had about 50 twitchers descend on the spot within 10 minutes.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 13, 2023 23:38:18 GMT
Well that is a new one on me. Just spied a Cricket walking up the house wall over my post-work garden bevvy. Never seen one in this country before, actually never seen one before anywhere. A lone cricket or have any of the rest of you seen a cricket in Stockers? I saw a three legged dog earlier and it was getting around fine which led me to think that the fourth leg is a bit of a waste, something of a design flaw don't you think. Dogs can actually learn to walk on two limbs. Incredible but true. Three legs hardly even hinders them. Incredible creatures. They can learn to adapt and live with most things.
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Post by vicar on Aug 14, 2023 13:15:22 GMT
I saw a three legged dog earlier and it was getting around fine which led me to think that the fourth leg is a bit of a waste, something of a design flaw don't you think. Dogs can actually learn to walk on two limbs. Incredible but true. Three legs hardly even hinders them. Incredible creatures. They can learn to adapt and live with most things. I've just had my daughter's Springer Spaniel for two weeks, they might be incredible but it's convinced my wife that we don't want one, lovely little thing in lots of ways but hard work.
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Post by Nik on Aug 14, 2023 13:19:49 GMT
I saw a three legged dog earlier and it was getting around fine which led me to think that the fourth leg is a bit of a waste, something of a design flaw don't you think. Dogs can actually learn to walk on two limbs. Incredible but true. Three legs hardly even hinders them. Incredible creatures. They can learn to adapt and live with most things. Depends which ones though, surely? If there's a dog out there who can walk with just one left front leg and one left back leg then I need to see it.
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Post by malc on Aug 14, 2023 15:53:54 GMT
Did you see that supervet, Noel Fitzpatrick on the telly box this week? He had a dog that had been run over and had it's back broken so the operation he required rendered his hind legs as useless. Noel made him a contraption on wheels that lifted the animals back legs high off the ground so he could get around on just his front legs and the trolley contraption. The dog looked so happy chasing around after his owners. Not much brings a tear to my eye but that did. That guy is an animal genius.
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