Re: Herons..

On 31/12/05 8:42, in article LLe8IhA3RktDFw$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Klara"
<klara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <BFDB71F9.270BE%sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sacha
> <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>> Sacha <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>>> One rook is a crow, more than one crow are rooks.
>>>
>>> But what about two - never more than two?
>>
>> Never more than two rooks, do you mean? Scores of rooks in our
>> experience!
>
> Well, two somethings ... I keep trying to apply the one or many rule,
> but we always have a pair: too many to be crows, too few to be rooks. We
> may have the one and only sociable or faithful pair of crows (they do
> look like crows)!

I don't know how you tell rooks and crows apart, other than the number
thing, so I think you're doomed to puzzlement! Maybe you've discovered some
new twist of corvid behaviour that nobody else knows about. Apparently
there IS a difference between rooks and crows but I'm darned if I could see
it. However, just remember it's a parliament of rooks but a murder of
crows... I wonder what the collective noun for buzzards is. We once saw
more than half a dozen sitting stock still, spread out over a field near
here but have never seen that before or since.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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