At the desk opposite mine

[Abitrary]

How did your brother wound it in the first place then?

 

[Aperitif]

How did your brother wound it in the first place then?

Probably practising amateur hammer throwing in a local park somewhere... the pidgeon was an innocent byflyer...

 

[Abitrary]

How come...

Cyclists seem to love dogs so much. On the space hopper forums everyone's got cats in their avatars

 

[bonj2]

How did your brother wound it in the first place then?

ran it over.

 

[Dayvo]

ran it over.

Was he out jogging!?

 

[Crackle]

How did the interview go Laurence.

Did you fly through it or was it all a bit of a squawk?

 

[laurence]

i flapped a bit.

think it went well, i was pleased with the task i had to do. Trouble is, i'm not really qualified for the post.

bird update from the London Wetlands Centre... lots of ducks. got a good view of siskins. good Grebeage. the magpie goose pecked at me - we had another argument over posing for photos.

 

[Crackle]

Trouble is, i'm not really qualified for the post.

Well, they interviewed you, they must think you are.

I never got any Heron pictures, although I nearly got a Heron yestrerday. It was sitting in the ditch at the side of the road (I don't know why, I didn't ask) and when I came along in the car it flapped off right in front of me. Now Herons might be graceful fishers but they ain't fast flyers. Only some hard, the ABS kicked in, braking saved it's feathery ass from certain squashiness.

 

[laurence]

i disturbed a heron today and it loped off, as they do. last week one was bumbling along about 10ft over the heads of two young mothers and their children. i was so entranced i didn't think to raise my camera. part of me wanted it to pluck a child out of their buggy. alas...

 

[longers]

We had a good bit of heronage a few years ago. Cycling through a village we stopped to watch a heron swallwoing a massive frog/toad that it had just lifted from someones pond .

 

[laurence]

i used to like herons until i learned that they ate all the avocet chicks at the wetlands centre last year.

i don't think there's a park in london without a heron now

 

[Chuffy]

i used to like herons until i learned that they ate all the avocet chicks at the wetlands centre last year.

i don't think there's a park in london without a heron now

You'd like my commute along the Exe Estuary. Herons, egrets (I've had a few) and plenty of other long beaked wadey things.

 

[laurence]

i'd be there with my binoculars!

and my rspb book of long beaked wadey things as most of them look the same to me. although i do know a lapwing from a dunlin.

 

[laurence]

anyway Chuffy... did you get that application in?

 

[sloe]

Saw a heron catch a finger length fish by its tail, on Portobello beach. It then flipped it up in the air and swallowed it down head first. There's elegant.

And a V of six herons over the village here, clearly emulating geese efficiencies.

And they fish by the sodium lights of the harbour way past bedtime, not daft.