Crows

[andygo]

I don't mean the green ones you get up your hooter, I mean the big black ones with feathers.

i live in Southport and for the first time this year have noticed the gradual appearance of Crows, especially near the beach. Now I'm a middle aged old fart and although I have seen them in Yorkshire and darn sarf, as far as I can remember they have never been around here before.

Why are they encroaching up north all of a sudden then? They look nasty bastids, worse than the magpies that appeared about 15 years ago.

Please don't tell me its global warming either. And I'm definately not some weirdo bird watching Bill Oddie saddo wannabe either.

Just wondered, thats all!

[mybrainhurts]

I blame Jeremy Vine...

[Piersman2]

You just know that if you had a pet crow you'd call it Russel.

[Mc Lovin]

I've got no answer, but god Bill Oddey is a total cock!

[Famous Graham]

Sales of KiaOra gone up in the neighbourhood?

[SirTainly]

so you've been counting crows, do you know a Mr. Jones ?

[mitzy]

Famous Graham said:

Sales of KiaOra gone up in the neighbourhood?

[andygo]

SirTainly said:

so you've been counting crows, do you know a Mr. Jones ?

What?

[merc_man]

You're raven mad.

[SirTainly]

andygo said:

SirTainly said:

so you've been counting crows, do you know a Mr. Jones ?

What?

Whooosh, the sound of one going over your head (a joke not a crow).

Edited by SirTainly on Wednesday 12th November 12:24

[andygo]

SirTainly said:

andygo said:

SirTainly said:

so you've been counting crows, do you know a Mr. Jones ?

What?

Whooosh

Probably a good thing really........

[SirTainly]

andygo said:

SirTainly said:

andygo said:

SirTainly said:

so you've been counting crows, do you know a Mr. Jones ?

What?

Whooosh

Probably a good thing really........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Crows

[carmonk]

Because all your vermin gulls have flown inland and attacked them. Almost every morning there are dozens of the damn things ganging up on the magpies and crows and making a hell of a racket.

[8Ace]

andygo said:

I don't mean the green ones you get up your hooter

I think this must be a Lancs thing. I'd never heard the term before I met my OH.

[Don]

Ah well. Just make sure not to fly with them. It's no fun being shot at.

[central]

andygo said:

And I'm definately not some weirdo bird watching Bill Oddie saddo wannabe either.

[Don]

Mc Lovin said:

I've got no answer, but god Bill Oddey is a total cock!

I assume you refer to Mr William Oddie? Comic genius, avian expert and all round genial chap?

What's wrong with the man? To me he seems the kind of chap one could enjoy a fine walk in the country with followed by a pint at a country inn. One would learn something about wildlife and probably be amused by tall tales of comic adventures in the past.

[OJ]

They come and go from around my way. Hate the ugly, noisy bds. They swoop at dogs, rip all of your plants to bits. They are one up from that most shootable of all creatures, the Cornwall Seagull.

We had hundreds of them constantly fighting making noise a couple of years ago. Go to have a pop at them, take the gun outside and they'd all vanish. Clever bds they are (that wasn't meant to sound like a west country accent, and I do realise that I'm talking about being outwitted by a flying animal that has a brain the size of a walnut).

A friend finally managed to shoot one of the gits, hung it up in a tree and they never came back.

[N Dentressangle]

Famous Graham said:

Sales of KiaOra gone up in the neighbourhood?

Surely this would cause a reduction in the local crow population, owing to the excessive "oranginess" of said drink for the poor birds?

[10 Pence Short]

OJ said:

A friend finally managed to shoot one of the gits, hung it up in a tree and they never came back.

What!? A dead crow killed the trees?

Now that is scary.