maybe look through the other end of the binoculars next time?I think you should have gone to Specsavers
or maybe you were standing in the next field when you saw them yesterday!
Nobody believes me, it isn't fair, you're all out to get me........I think you should have gone to Specsavers
For what its worth I also saw a cloud of small bees issuing from a hive the other day - straight onto my legs from a 14x12 plus standard brood hive that I had neglected to attend to end of last season. Damn thing was rammed with bees, chock full of stores and well glued down, so they had a warning that their world was about to be split apart.Nobody believes me, it isn't fair, you're all out to get me........
I was manhandling it!
Pic not yet available so I'd better explain - in case folk think I'm prone to tell porkies!We saw and heard a Kookaburra on our allotment yesterday. A neighbour allotmenter got a pic so I hope to post this when available - just in case no one believe me............
What an exciting life you lead!Pic not yet available so I'd better explain - in case folk think I'm prone to tell porkies!
A neighbour up the road breeds bird of prey - for falconers etc and I believe takes in injured raptors. He avoids publicity. A few years ago and shortly after returning from down-under, we were delighted for several weeks to hear a Koockaburra calling and were told that he had one or more on his premises.
Four days ago an allotment neighbour and I heard a Kook very nearby yet seemingly c.300m from the bird breeder's dwelling.
Yesterday SWMBO and a different allotment neighbour saw a Kook flitting from tree to tree and calling. We assume it has escaped from down the road. The neighbour took a pic.
PS: About 10 years ago SWMBO and I were on safari with others down-under and sitting round the campfire eating what we had just cooked. We noticed a Kook perched on a nearby post. Suddenly it swooped and flew off with a sausage from my neighbour's plate........
One "problem" with Kookaburras is they are always laughing when you do something stupid in the apiary. They get the timing perfect!Pic not yet available so I'd better explain - in case folk think I'm prone to tell porkies!
A neighbour up the road breeds bird of prey - for falconers etc and I believe takes in injured raptors. He avoids publicity. A few years ago and shortly after returning from down-under, we were delighted for several weeks to hear a Koockaburra calling and were told that he had one or more on his premises.
Four days ago an allotment neighbour and I heard a Kook very nearby yet seemingly c.300m from the bird breeder's dwelling.
Yesterday SWMBO and a different allotment neighbour saw a Kook flitting from tree to tree and calling. We assume it has escaped from down the road. The neighbour took a pic.
PS: About 10 years ago SWMBO and I were on safari with others down-under and sitting round the campfire eating what we had just cooked. We noticed a Kook perched on a nearby post. Suddenly it swooped and flew off with a sausage from my neighbour's plate........
There are some living wild I understand. Wonderful birds....when I opened my veterinary surgery in 1985, naturalist Graham Dangerfield, who luckily was a friend of my sister, came to our open day with an eagle owl. We got lots of pictures in the local paper which was good publicity. Vets weren't allowed to court publicity in those days and I got rapped over the knuckles by the RCVS but they never did anything else so I got away with it.
Rose Ringed parakeet?
Thank God they are not here!
