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A pricked or wounded Woodcock are notoriously hard to find for a dog if it's not marked well...Could that be the problem? I've seen dogs pass over them and struggle to find them, this experts attribute to the Woodcock not giving off much scent when wounded and sitting on eggs. A kind of survival mechanism kicks in.
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Trappa. There's far too many that would have shot the fox to big-up their egos with no thought as to why they've shot it. Why shoot such a lovely animal trying to live out its life, where it's not causing any bother at all? I've had lots of opportunities in the past to do the same but I've always let them go about their business, in fact, it's interesting watching them mooching about.
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Hedgehog!
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Sean, due to their large numbers, urban foxes are carriers of mange, amongst other things. I shifted a couple recently out of a mates back garden. There was fox shit all over the place, food debris, stench and damage to his boundaries and garden and with his two little kids wanting to play on the lawn etc, it was obvious that they'd have to go...and go they did! Full of mange they were.
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For those who like to follow hounds about on a fell..... www.cumbrian-lad.com
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Great article by Robin Page this week in the Shooting Times....
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There used to be a company called Honey Brothers, tree surgeons and arboreal specialists somewhere down south. Type in "climbing irons" and see what you get. Otherwise any shop that sells the tree felling gear and tools will either have them in stock or will be able to order them for you.
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I do the haircuts for the lads in work...easy stuff really, number ones, twos or whatever, shave the backs of their necks with a razor, trim ear and nose fluff and eyebrows, for feck all. Had the terrier at the vets this morning, in fact he's still there. He lost a chunk of his ear and had a tear on his flank when a large retriever type dog just bounded over and got hold of him as the wife walked him ON a lead....The vet's quoted a ton or more to snip off the piece of ear and stitch him up. The bill will be on the owners mat when he returns this evening, twat!
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Oddie wants a rocket up his arse, the man's a cu*t! That was the final straw last year when he advised any watching Mink to commit suicide. The discussion was about the lack of Water Voles and the reason....Mink! Rather than admit to getting the feckers trapped and shot he advised them to commit suicide. The man's a knob. That Kate Humble is worth one and if I got at her she wouldn't walk for a week, but to call young Blue Tits in the nest box, "babies" meant me turning the tv over. Could you imagine Attenborough using a term like that? Anthropomorphic softies.
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They must be travelling the country doing this. A local farmer had his nicked a few months ago though the tw*ts who took his did so quite expertly. How they got passed the two chained up collies is beyond me, but they did without a murmur from them. They then put the quad onto a lowloader and drove away...rolling down a slight hill from the farm with the ignition off!
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Well done Kay, keep it up you'll feel better for it. I enjoy walking out and especially with the footpacks on the fells, it certainly keeps me fit. During summer I bike it in work when I can. I've been off work this week so I've been out every day walking somewhere. Saturday I did the yorkshire Three Peaks, a 26 miler, tuesday I was on the Kinder Scout and today I've walked from Edale to home...about 23 miles. Feet up time tomorrow I think.
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Sung to the tune of "The Laughing Policman"... "There was a laughing Policeman, His name was PC Jim, He wondered through the scoreboard, to get his head kicked in, He came across a skinhead, and much to his surprise, that dirty rotten skinhead hit him right between the eyes". Best sung when standing in the scoreboard paddock, about early to late seventies, as a copper waded in, then watch the helmet go flying....Happy days. :black eye:
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The man could write. He was my inspiration in everything rural.
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Oh yes Byron. The hedgie's probably the thickest of the birds to allow a Cuckoo to lay in its nest...let's face it, a blue egg of the hedgy and a mottled, bigger Cuckoo egg...not much difference eh? The bird has in fact been recorded watching the Cuckoo doing the deed! Starting to fight back now though is the hedgy, hence the blue egg now being laid in europe by some Cuckoos.
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Heard one last saturday morning around the reservoir and I had him right in to me when I called him. He was mobbed by a few pipits as he flew overhead gowking. Woodga, you won't find a Cuckoo parasitising a Blackbirds mate.
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Lovely little animals those. I had a contractor in today for a price to clear a water course.....until our wildlife guy turned up and told me there were Water Voles living along it . It was my great pleasure to stop with the quote and go and get the nap sack on for some weedspraying instead.
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I've been lucky enough to see a stoat catch a rabbit twice now. The rabbit gives up in the end and seems to accept it's fate.
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We've a pair of those nesting on some marshy ground nearby. I found a nest a few years back, quite by accident, on the same land. Lovely photos there.
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I've done for them in the past Ditchpoo-er. I prefer the BTO and they have some good information available.
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Impossible Socks and it would be on national television if that was the case. They're migrants and therefore insect feeders and also love the hairy caterpillars, which just happen to be about at this time of year (spring), not january or february. Cuckoos only come here to breed and that's all, not to hang around for months. Everything they do coincides with food availability and other birds breeding. I'd say they're here for about six or seven weeks then they become less active and return from whence they came, not even seeing their own young hatch and leave the nest. And there begins another
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Impossible Socks and it would be on national television if that was the case. They're migrants and therefore insect feeders and also love the hairy caterpillars, which just happen to be about at this time of year (spring), not january or february. Cuckoos only come here to breed and that's all, not to hang around for months. Everything they do coincides with food availability and other birds breeding. I'd say they're here for about six or seven weeks then they become less active and return from whence they came, not even seeing their own young hatch and leave the nest. And there begins another
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I haven't heard a Cuckoo this year yet Geoff, but I'm on a place tomorrow that could have one. There's been one for the last few years there but last year it was only around for two weeks then it disappeared. Some folk have said they've been hearing them since february, but that's impossible. They must have been hearing a dove. Found a Dippers today.
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What was all that about, Lampard ripping his black armband off and nearly having a thrommy in the process as he kissed and squeezed it as he dropped to his knees? Was he expecting a response from it? Very theatrical and typical of modern day britain. Surely personal grief should be kept to just that...personal! It happens every day to ordinary people in the real world. He should mourn his mothers death privately.
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Cracking find Byron. I've just heard a Grasshopper Warbler "reeling" in some rushes. Couldn't see it though.
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Yes, I'd say so but back in the early 1900s.