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  1. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    I've just been outside for a smoke and thought I saw a butterfly. It wasn't a butterfly: it was a wren. A pretty rare sight anywhere, but particularly on a business park just outside a town. It was a dear litlle thing with a very high metabolic rate.

    What's your favourite feathered friend and why.





    In breaking news: the badger cull has failed <grr>
     
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  2. jenners04

    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    always loved eagles. was at warwick castle years ago and stood on a bridge that used to have water running underneath it and a bloke with one on his arm walked right underneath, it was a thing of beauty.

    always been fascinated by vultures, they get a bad rep considering they clear up most peoples mess, think they are vital to the eco system as well aren't they?

    not sure what a wren is, i always think of the war when you say wrens, my step dad had a picture of a sparrow hawk ripping apart its pray in the back garden once.
     
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  3. It won't surprise you to know my favourite feathered friend is a cooked one :)
     
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  4. jenners04

    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    you probably have shares in kfc <laugh>
     
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  6. I prefer duck :p
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Is all you think about your ****ing stomach? I was trying to bring a little natural history to the forum <doh>
     
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  8. Eating is natural <doh>
     
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    I thought it was the name of your latest watering-hole of choice.
     
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  10. funnily enough, I thought the same <laugh>
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    It was a fair assumption. That's the Grange. Not anywhere near as much wildlife in there as the Cheese. <laugh>
     
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  12. Foredeckdave

    Foredeckdave Music Thread Manager

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    My favourite birds are Cocricos (the national bird of Tobago) - noisy stupid birds!! The other is the Frigate Bird - the nearest thing to a pterodactyl flying today!!!
     
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  13. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Aren't they all? <laugh>

    I like blue-footed boobies <ok>
     
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    Foredeckdave Music Thread Manager

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    Cocricos live in families and they define their territories by calling from one family to the other - but their calls consist of screeches! They don't land in trees they just crash into them. They are a right pain!
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    I like blue-footed boobies for the Darwinian link <ok>
     
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  16. jenners04

    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    magpies are a beautiful bird, but sadly have the stigma attached to them of being bad luck, bit like crows, but always wary of them for some reason, probably because one ****ing suicidal one flew straight at me once.

    have a whole load of magpies at my daughters school playing fields, anyone know what the old wives tale for seeing 15 of the ****ers is lol.
     
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    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    Don't think they got up that high <laugh>

    members of the corvine genus are very intelligent for birds <ok>
     
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  18. Wouldn't mind spending time with this feathered friend...

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  19. InBiscanWeTrust

    InBiscanWeTrust Rome, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Madrid
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    Big bird from Sesame Street was always my favourite <ok>
     
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  20. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    One-track mind.



    Dirt track.
     
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