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24 Jan 17
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Badges, and foxes and eagles and rabbits,
What will it be?
What will it be?
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foxes (nap)
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could be a buzzard again
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mice perhaps?
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Sessile…… not any word used often
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Badger!
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Lovely fire!
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foggy
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100 flight's at Heathrow cancelled yesterday
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heres a one we filmed earlier
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We have to throw in a bit of daytime filming
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It was on last night!
I missed it! |
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We = They (dictation error )
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tyson fox was on last night picking at carcass
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Will check it out on iPlayer later
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Dartford warbler lovely Bird
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only seen it in books and on film
none up north as far as i know |
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What miscreant puts a trap out for a mouse?
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My dad used to catch squirrels in a cage in his garden and take them away about a mile and release them.
They used to play havoc with the bird feeding stands |
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He's given in a rest recently
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it
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On again ...
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Fox and Woodcock !
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good name for a pub.
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Just had a look , there isn't one in the whole world
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Cute water voles.
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my old golf course had water voles
i spent hours watching them rather than practice no regrets |
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Used to be a brook where I grew up, just north of Cheltenham, quite a few on the banks.
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Water Voles were Water Rats when I was a kid. They changed the name to get valuable support for the work required to protect and grow their numbers. We've got them back in our local brook
 nb - still don't like this bunny-hugging biased programme though |
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They are not rats so the name change is good because rats are associated with sewers and filth.
If there were no cities then rats would have the same rep as mice. If we don't look after wildlife it will gradually disappear. |
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Any cats in it ?
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No
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Of course they are not rats, I was merely relaying how they were commonly referred to in the countryside in my youth. In the countryside, rats are not particularly associated with sewers and filth, but more with hay, grain and other good stuff; they are still vermin mind.
Hard to think anyone would disagree with your last sentence, except the definition of "wildlife" varies significantly from town to country, and from interested party to interested party. |
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Disappointed you don't like the programme, blackbarn, as it's the only one we have on mainstream which allows the general populace to learn real stuff about the wonderful fauna we have around us.
Agree that the mouse thing last night was a bit gooey and was half expecting good ole Johnny Morris to pop up with a narration but apart from that think it's a great outlet and there are many people whose interest might be piqued by the odd bit of that. Didn't see tonight's so can't comment on anything. btw if you are looking in last week I saw a crested bird, starling size maybe, perched on top of a large tree in a town centre. It was difficult to make out any colours looking up without bins. It flew off in a dippy-loopy, undulating woodpecker style. It was alone and wasn't a woodpecker. Could it have been a waxwing? Thanks. |
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Clouseau - could easily have been a Waxwing - Good year for them (even down here in Sussex) and they are only slightly smaller than a starling and they do have a dippy flight. Unusual to see one though though as they are big flockers (ooh er mussus!) particularly where food is plentiful. Rowans!!
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Hoopoe perhaps ?
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Hoopoe - Too early, or very very very late
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The Leopard 24 Jan 17 20:36
My dad used to catch squirrels in a cage in his garden and take them away about a mile and release them. This is a criminal offence. If you catch a squirrel, you must humanely kill it. |
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Not really Facts! The legislation relates to "humane killing". The capture and subsequent release if done humanely is not an offence. Waste of good meat, and an offence against nature of course, but legal nevertheless.
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