J Darcy 5,871 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 mate handed me a copy of daily mail from tuesday and i saw a pic of 3 white ravens with blue eyes!!!! apparently found "in a bush" and starving in a co durham churchyard..... they all look fledged but surely this cannot be coincidence???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Eh? WTF?! Ok, JD. Let's try to examine this as scientifically as we can here. To start with: Are Ravens currently known to be found in Co. Durham? 2. If so, are they nesting there? Ok, fact that they appear fledged brings in the possibility that they may have flown in? Obviously, it sounds more like someone dumped them there. So who in hell's breeding such birds then chucking them out? And Why??? F*cking Twilight Zone material, mate! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lurcherbitch Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 There you go. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Yeppers. Just got back from Google News myself, where I was reading that article. Now it's all becoming a bit clearer! Ravens, to the best of my learning, are extremely long lived and pair for that life, no? They're also given, I believe, to site fidelity. So; No one there " Experts " included made a fuss about ravens breeding in that churchyard, per se. So it seems, yeppers, ravens are known to breed in Co. Durham. Rest isn't rocket science then, is it? The pair nesting there have a genetic glitch between them. Makes them throw leucisctic offspring. I wonder if All their young are like this, or if it's more hit and miss and they hatch normal chicks in other years? I'll bet JD would like to get a look at the eggs of this pair as much as I would too! Crazy notion, but ye have to wonder if the shell colouration might be irregular too, eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
T.F.Student 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 We have a healthy population in Britain Ditchy with 13,000 pairs http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob15720.htm Whereas in the UK there are only 7,500 pairs http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/raven/ Even new labour doesn't trust them anymore...and from that shower thats saying something Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Butler 396 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Ditch i have bred quit a few mutation birds and there egg shells have always been the same color as there normal counterparts. IMO the white birds in question are crows not ravens wouldn't be the first time the papers got it wrong Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Ditch i have bred quit a few mutation birds and there egg shells have always been the same color as there normal counterparts. IMO the white birds in question are crows not ravens wouldn't be the first time the papers got it wrong i was thinking that Butler, but the beaks do look overly long and very much like a raven...the trio had blue eyes too.... "parrot food"...are they having a laugh!!!!!! even if they were crows, it would be a billion to one chance for all three to have occured.... its the blue eyes that are most strange....the leuistic birds i have seen have all had "normal" pupils.... somethings odd.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Look like Carrion Crows to me too, guys. Though that woman had one till adult? 'Mind you, that's why I put the word 'Experts' in parenthesis! :whistle: People in 'nice' jumpers so seldon have a clue what the f*ck they're on about. I wonder what half those " Experts " wear ..... Can't help thinking; Wouldn't that site make a Great mission for JD and Lamper? I'll bet between the pair of you lads we'd have this thing cracked wide open in no time! With photo's! TF; Why don't Tony and his cronies like the RSPB then, mate? I'm out of the loop now so don't get to hear about such juicy gossip! BTO site? Man! I'd never even found that part of it before! Brilliant! I was a long standing member of their Garden Bird Watch. I also have my Nest Recording Scheme gear stashed away here somewhere. God, how I miss all that! I'm gonna check out Irish Birds / Birding, what ever it is. Failing that, I may well write and beg the BTO to let me join back in! If I was in Ulster they'd let me. What f*cking differance can an hours car journeys distance make? I'm a bit of a data compilation junky. I need to record shit! Just need someone to need what I get! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
T.F.Student 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I was looking for the information about the little fallout but could'nt find it But i found this that gave me a chuckle as it did first time around Magpie Bounty http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../27/nrspb27.xml and a interesting response from one of the men that put up the Bounty http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jh...t0601.xml#head1 Maybe the "Ravens/Crows/Jackdaws" are clones http://www.gene.ch/genet/2001/Aug/msg00061.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
teesdale 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Im not 100% sure but I heard that there were white ravens in the same churchyard last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Some cracking reading throughout, TF! Cheers, mate. Most enjoyable! " The RSPB are out of touch with reality. " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DUCKWING 302 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 WELL LADS , IVE SEEN A MAGPIE THAT WAS LIGHT TAN COLOURED WHERE THE BLACK SHOULD BE , FECK ME NEVER DID TAKE MANY PHOTOS RAVENS IN COUNTY DURHAM ? .............. DEFINATELY .............. A PAIR NESTING ON THE BORDERS OF ANOTHER COUNTY ..... MORE OUT THERE THAN YOU THINK........... WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR :whistle: ALL THE BEST DUCKWING Quote Link to post Share on other sites
juckler123 707 Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Dont all corvids have blue eyes when there young? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 no mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
juckler123 707 Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Just blown the pic up they are really pale blue arent they. Had a few baby crows of various breeds they all had grey/blue eyes as young uns but not like them your right JD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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