Reply to: Xog County

[scotspine]

back on topic - no spring run this year [ so far! ] oh. too busy but out on my afternoon promenade today i did see a peregrine take a buzzard down to the ground. stupendous aerial acrobatics.

[The Master]

Just to test your plan out, can you arrange for Tony Blair to be bitten on the arse?

I tried, but it got confused and got Cherie instead...

[MrsGoof]

Just to test your plan out, can you arrange for Tony Blair to be bitten on the arse?

that's cruelty to animals

[sasguru]

Shhhhhh... I'm not ready for details of my cunning plan to leak out just yet.

Just to test your plan out, can you arrange for Tony Blair to be bitten on the arse?

[The Master]

PS I have a theory that there is a mutant breed of giant rats in London's sewers. Just biding their time.

Shhhhhh... I'm not ready for details of my cunning plan to leak out just yet.

[sasguru]

I saw a rat the size of a cat the other day. It had just emerged from where they're repairing the Victorian sewer.

SG in "London wildlife" mode.

PS I have a theory that there is a mutant breed of giant rats in London's sewers. Just biding their time.

[OrangeHopper]

> Unfortunately they let anyone in these days, as you have discovered.

God, I'm quick today. Only took me 20 hours to get that one!



Jackdaws are nesting in Xog's church by the way.

[janey]

We had a Kestral take a collared dove in the garden last week. We know what it was cos it proceeded to fly into the living room window and fall in a heap on the ground outside. We got a good look at it while it sorted itself out before flying off again to dismember its lunch in next doors garden.

[DaveB]

We had a Kestral take a collared dove in the garden last week. We know what it was cos it proceeded to fly into the living room window and fall in a heap on the ground outside. We got a good look at it while it sorted itself out before flying off again to dismember its lunch in next doors garden.

[OrangeHopper]

So the monkey actually remembered. Ascending descending numbers.

Bunking sounds like a very good idea. I'm soooo sleepy.

Must resist the temptation though because I still have at least three other things to get wrong today!

[MrsGoof]

Blimmey, I might as well end it now.

Nooooo don't

only 5 atempts to get into the safe today.

I hate it when the monkey is bunking off

[threaded]

On Saturday I saw a lark, well I saw a black spot in the sky that was singing like a lark.

On Sunday I saw a Harrier, well I saw a falcon like bird that was able to be stationary even though there was no wind. I saw it stoop and catch a mouse (or some other small creature) and it flew to it's nest, well in the general direction of some trees where I suspect it has a nest as a few minutes later it was back and hunting again.

[OrangeHopper]

Blimmey, I might as well end it now.

I'm always wrong. Doesn't matter what it is, I'm always wrong!

Sorry but I chose not to write "fire or gold crests" because I didn't get a good look at the little blighters before they flitted off elsewhere. So, as is my nature, I picked the wrong one.

As to sightings of tree creepers, black caps, bull finches, stone chat et al, since I only get to see them once or twice a year they are twitches to me.

Actually, I can see stone chat whenever I want so yet again I'm wrong.

Anybody else want to tell me where else I'm wrong? Go on, join in, why not it's open season on OrangeHoppers.

[FrankScribe]

Had a lovely work through Xog country yesterday.

From the church to Carla Lane's place and back again. Fire crests and a tree creeper the twitches of the day.

Firecrest (one) possible, Firecrests (many) unlikley though there are places, e.g. in The New Forests where a few pairs can be found. More likely they were Goldcrests.

Oh, and just to be completely pendantic, whilst you might have twitched a Firecrest as it would be a slight rarity, but you would only have ticked Goldcrests and Treecreepers as they are both common species.

[wendigo100]

xog, now you know where your hubcaps went.