cragman
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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.
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to The Stiffmeister. At the end of the day, who gives a feck, 'cos they still get their thousands, win, lose or draw. It'll be somebody elses turn next week to cry into their beer.
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Feck all to do with the topic but...We could be here all night with this one Stiffy, but I'd say those three you mentioned would be worth one Denis Law or the left leg of George Best, or the big toe of the mighty Duncan Edwards.
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Baldie's from over that way....I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of his, he'd sell the steam off his piss. Tell you what, if it is Baldies, then someones going to get a real bargain 'cos he packs a cracking fart. :sick:
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Many of you planning to go to CLA this year?
cragman replied to SportingShooter's topic in General Talk
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That was excellent Jasper . Tyson is the only guy that made me sit up and watch heavyweight fights in the late eighties/early nineties. I've a video here with some great action on featuring some of the best around, including my boxing hero, Jack Dempsey...."Kings Of The Ring".