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  1. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Two dead pigeons, a falcon (edit...sparrowhawk) and a shifty-looking cat.

    There were feathers all over the place this morning when I took the dog out. The falcon was on top of one of the pigeons having a good old feast while the cat was sitting on top of a nearby fence looking very shifty.

    All this at 8am on an easy Sunday morning.
     
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    Dorty Dogbreath, Mar 25, 2012
  2. Swarbs

    Swarbs Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    The cat was obviously keeping an eye out for the bacon whilst the falcon disposed of the evidence.

    It'll be on Crimewatch next week - I'd invest in a bodyguard if I were you...
     
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  3. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    Do you live on the Serengeti?
     
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  4. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    No but last night about 200 squawking seagulls flew over my house on the way to the coast about seven miles away. What a racket they were making. Wonder where they'd been, they might have been to the Bigg Market for a knee's-up before heading home to Whitley Bay.
     
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  5. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    <laugh>
    Oh I reckon the cat did the pigeons, but then got scared off by something and a passing falcon (looking as mean as) got in on the act.
     
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  6. Swarbs

    Swarbs Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Don't remember vast flocks of pigeons sweeping majestically over the Serengeti plains. I must've missed that episode of Planet Earth...
     
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  7. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator Staff Member

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    That's the thing with Serengeti pigeons, you don't see them till it's too late <yikes>
     
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  8. The Raging Oxter

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    It would have been a sparrowhawk <ok>

    <oddie>
     
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    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    I saw a kite catch a rabbit the other day. Big bird.
     
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  10. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Was a vicious-looking thing but it disappeared when it saw me and didn't come back. A couple of years ago a young deer legged it down our street, wtf!
     
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    A falcon? Where the **** do you live, Scud Book? :cheesy:
     
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  12. The Raging Oxter

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    Tina's ornithological ignorance <doh>
     
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    Ram yer big words up your hoop :cheesy:
     
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  14. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Turns out to have been a sparrowhawk <laugh>

    Mind, it was still an impressive-looking beast.
     
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    A sparrowhawk!!!
    My gerbil could take a sparrowhawk ffs!!!
     
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  16. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    Fancy admitting to having a gerbil, you big girl :laugh:
     
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    A raccoon downed my wife's internet connection the other week Dorts. Amazing or what. :laugh:
     
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    BIK <ok>

    Now that's just not cricket.
     
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  20. Dorty Dogbreath

    Dorty Dogbreath keeper of the glow

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    That's the one, that's the killer. They seem adept at plucking the feathers, in order to get to the flesh I imagine. Cat's let off then, he was just an innocent bystander.
     
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