Bird news for laurence et al...

[Aperitif]

Can you imagine a pecker this big?

 

[Crackle]

Holy Schmoly! Do you think that is the equivalent of ....you know.....It said he had a female and a baby. It's a bling bill.

 

[tdr1nka]

Thats quite some peckering in Pickering!

 

[laurence]

bet the others are jealous

 

[laurence]

and on the subject of woodpeckers...

do you think DeNiro was inspired by these when doing Taxi Driver?

 

[rich p]

We had a green one in the garden last week. their call is known as a yaffle down here - is that a local or national word?

 

[laurence]

they are known as yaffles in certain parts of the country. i like that name, much better than green woodpecker.

 

[tdr1nka]

they are known as yaffles in certain parts of the country. i like that name, much better than green woodpecker.

Or, 'you know, the one on the cider bottles.'.

 

[Aperitif]

Merrydowns or magners?

Can't be Magners - that's the one with the black and white bird on the front...

 

[longers]

Reading that it says their tongues are at least three times the length of their bill .

<insert your own comment here>

 

[Twenty Inch]

Can't be Magners - that's the one with the black and white bird on the front...

We use the phrase "mixed race" now.

 

[yenrod]

I hear a woodpecker in the morning whilst walking across a park...

 

[laurence]

Can't be Magners - that's the one with the black and white bird on the front...

that'll be yer greater, or even lesser, spotted woody then.

 

[Kirstie]

Check out this lovely partridge, in our front garden yesterday. Pic by my other half

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/2402279353

 

[laurence]

Check out this lovely partridge, in our front garden yesterday. Pic by my other half

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/2402279353

being that chubby is just asking for trouble for a game bird.

what's it looking at? is someone approaching with a large pastry case?