cragman
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They must be travelling the country doing this. A local farmer had his nicked a few months ago though the tw*ts who took his did so quite expertly. How they got passed the two chained up collies is beyond me, but they did without a murmur from them. They then put the quad onto a lowloader and drove away...rolling down a slight hill from the farm with the ignition off!
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Well done Kay, keep it up you'll feel better for it. I enjoy walking out and especially with the footpacks on the fells, it certainly keeps me fit. During summer I bike it in work when I can. I've been off work this week so I've been out every day walking somewhere. Saturday I did the yorkshire Three Peaks, a 26 miler, tuesday I was on the Kinder Scout and today I've walked from Edale to home...about 23 miles. Feet up time tomorrow I think.
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Sung to the tune of "The Laughing Policman"... "There was a laughing Policeman, His name was PC Jim, He wondered through the scoreboard, to get his head kicked in, He came across a skinhead, and much to his surprise, that dirty rotten skinhead hit him right between the eyes". Best sung when standing in the scoreboard paddock, about early to late seventies, as a copper waded in, then watch the helmet go flying....Happy days. :black eye:
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The man could write. He was my inspiration in everything rural.
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Oh yes Byron. The hedgie's probably the thickest of the birds to allow a Cuckoo to lay in its nest...let's face it, a blue egg of the hedgy and a mottled, bigger Cuckoo egg...not much difference eh? The bird has in fact been recorded watching the Cuckoo doing the deed! Starting to fight back now though is the hedgy, hence the blue egg now being laid in europe by some Cuckoos.
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Heard one last saturday morning around the reservoir and I had him right in to me when I called him. He was mobbed by a few pipits as he flew overhead gowking. Woodga, you won't find a Cuckoo parasitising a Blackbirds mate.
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Lovely little animals those. I had a contractor in today for a price to clear a water course.....until our wildlife guy turned up and told me there were Water Voles living along it . It was my great pleasure to stop with the quote and go and get the nap sack on for some weedspraying instead.
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I've been lucky enough to see a stoat catch a rabbit twice now. The rabbit gives up in the end and seems to accept it's fate.
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We've a pair of those nesting on some marshy ground nearby. I found a nest a few years back, quite by accident, on the same land. Lovely photos there.
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I've done for them in the past Ditchpoo-er. I prefer the BTO and they have some good information available.
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Impossible Socks and it would be on national television if that was the case. They're migrants and therefore insect feeders and also love the hairy caterpillars, which just happen to be about at this time of year (spring), not january or february. Cuckoos only come here to breed and that's all, not to hang around for months. Everything they do coincides with food availability and other birds breeding. I'd say they're here for about six or seven weeks then they become less active and return from whence they came, not even seeing their own young hatch and leave the nest. And there begins another
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Impossible Socks and it would be on national television if that was the case. They're migrants and therefore insect feeders and also love the hairy caterpillars, which just happen to be about at this time of year (spring), not january or february. Cuckoos only come here to breed and that's all, not to hang around for months. Everything they do coincides with food availability and other birds breeding. I'd say they're here for about six or seven weeks then they become less active and return from whence they came, not even seeing their own young hatch and leave the nest. And there begins another
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I haven't heard a Cuckoo this year yet Geoff, but I'm on a place tomorrow that could have one. There's been one for the last few years there but last year it was only around for two weeks then it disappeared. Some folk have said they've been hearing them since february, but that's impossible. They must have been hearing a dove. Found a Dippers today.
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What was all that about, Lampard ripping his black armband off and nearly having a thrommy in the process as he kissed and squeezed it as he dropped to his knees? Was he expecting a response from it? Very theatrical and typical of modern day britain. Surely personal grief should be kept to just that...personal! It happens every day to ordinary people in the real world. He should mourn his mothers death privately.
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Cracking find Byron. I've just heard a Grasshopper Warbler "reeling" in some rushes. Couldn't see it though.
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Yes, I'd say so but back in the early 1900s.
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It's a good read Lonedigga. It's a novel based on the authors days out with foxhounds hunting the south east of the lakes. It puts you right there amongst the fells, crags and hounds. Others have tried to replicate the storyline...unsuccessfully!
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There's nothing wrong with using your ferrets to the rats, but be warned....they will get injured, and possibly killed, so think carefully before you enter them. There again, if you don't give a flying feck about them, you shouldn't have ferrets in the first place. Not all ferrets will enter to rats. Some, as they term it, "jib" at the hole when there's a rat present so remove them, they don't fancy it. Don't force them down the hole or into the situation where there's a rat. Others positively take the lid off their box to get at the rat, so let them have a go. Most rats, will get the hell "ou
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We had a litter of five last monday. Found the cubs first, after finding a few footings in the snow. We went back in the evening and got both dog and vixen with the rifle coming in to see their family. Fieldcraft it's called.
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That's a bad do' John and a rotten thing to do to ANYONE! I nearly got stung a year or two back when I put some books up for sale. The total for the books came to about £200 and this guy said he'd have the lot. Details were sent of where to send the books and he said the cheque was on its way. In the meantime I parcelled up the books, got a price for postage and intended to send them the next day and wait for the cheque to arrive. That's the type of person I am, trusting of every fecker. I held back with the posting and I'm glad I did...nowt arrived and claims were made that the cheque was, "
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LL, you're obviously an expert ....and I'm out of my depth!
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They carry the crypto decease, shit everywhere, are aggressive and eat large amounts of grass intended for my farmers sheep. Sometimes there's over a hundred or more grazing on the fields near to me. The farmers won't tolerate them round here, hence the governments sensible move to all year round control. I've been doing them for years, either shooting or at the time, under license, pricking the eggs. In my eyes and those of my farmers, they are a serious pest. Each to their own.
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Why wait LL, get 'em hit NOW. They're on the open ticket. I've just started "moving" them on near to me.
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You say that a couple of places have no cover etc...ask the landowner if you can plant your own. If you get the nod, get to work and lay your own cover. There's plenty of places selling quick growing cover, like Kale, Maize, Millet etc. It's great fun being able to get your own shoot up and running and gives you added responsability. You'll learn a fair bit too. Good luck.
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The best was when he pushed over that excuse for a man, Paul Alcock, who was refereeing the hammers versus Arsenal. And then Winterburn tries to get involved and does a massive swerve thinking Di Canio was going to clout him. Di Canio was only scratching his ear.