Re: Herons..

On 30/12/05 5:13 pm, in article cVdtf.6$e8.34@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"PammyT" <fenlandfowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> "Sacha" <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> LOL! Apparently, you're not far off. One escorts the other to make sure
>> the 'she' isn't pounced upon by some stray Lothario type rook. And yes,
> it
>> is the female rook that carries the stick......
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>>Sometimes this place
>> makes me think it's the equivalent of some kind of avian M25 and it's
>> absolutely marvellous!
> I adore corvids and would love to have a rookery on my land.
> I used to like the TV presenter Philip Schofield until he said that he
> bought an old house in the country with a 200 year rookery on the land and
> didn't like the noise to bought a gas powred bird scarer and had that going
> until they had all gone. I thought this was bloody arrogant and typical of
> an ignorant townie who moves to the country and expects silence. I think
> ancient rookeries should have some sort of listed building type protection.
> Philip Schofield is a wally and I never watch anything he presents now
> because I want to slap his smug smiley face just thinking about the rookery.
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>
That's an awful story - what a complete and utter prat. One man who nearly
bought this house before Ray did was put off by the rookery but at least he
didn't buy it and get rid of them! Apart from their noisiest moments when
breeding, we tend to notice them more when they go silent and take their
summer holidays. They disappear for a few weeks and are to be seen on
harvested fields, gleaning. But where they roost at that time, I don't
know.
I mentioned that rookeries are good luck - how's Schofield's career doing, I
wonder! I could never stand him and always thought him a vapid fool,
frankly, with all the depth of a soup spoon.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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