Hey Laurence: I'll see your squirrel and raise you a goat!

[Crackle]

He just wouldn't look at me. Shy I suppose.

 

[laurence]

that's a cool goat.

so, you dusted off the pentax then. excellent!

i'll be back once i've finished uploading today's pics

 

[Maz]

was this on your commute, crackle, or at the kiddy animal farm?

 

[stevenb]

Maaaaaarvelos (best sheep type sound)

 

[Crackle]

was this on your commute, crackle, or at the kiddy animal farm?

'tis on one of my routes but I went out in the car today with camera.

 

[longers]

Great pic Crackle, I used to live near an "interesting" goat, he could be often seen terrorising the sheep in his field and he used to do the longest wee's I've ever seen any animal do.

The rest of the time he just sat around chewing grass looking like he was thinking about getting up to no good.

 

[Crackle]

Maaaaaarvelos (best sheep type sound)

but it's a goat he wouldn't understand. Can't you talk Goat?

 

[longers]

Our butchers has just started selling goat. There's a curry coming .

 

[stevenb]

Their voicebox is the same though.

 

[Crackle]

Our butchers has just started selling goat. There's a curry coming .

I thought this herd was wild but I found out yesterday that they're kept and farmed. He could be your future curry and a damned tasty one too

 

[laurence]

ok... no goats, or even sheep... but i have got a bird and a fish in the same shot....

 

[Crackle]

Oooh, nicely captured. Darn! Not sure I can compete with that.

 

[Crackle]

I have some distant Oystercatchers to offer temporarily. Slightly grainy as I yanked them out of the background.

I missed some circling buzzards and a herd of deer were too obscured by trees.......but I'll be back.....

 

[Maz]

v.nice picture - is it a grebe?...i think that's got a perch in its mouth.

 

[laurence]

they're better than the oystercatchers i tried to snap.... good catch!

it is a grebe, a great crested one.... called Mallen (by me) as it has a small white streak on it's head crest.