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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:03 am Post subject: We've got Ravens in the chicken run...
...and my goodness they're big b*ggers! They seem to be co-existing with the chooks okay though.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:07 am Post subject:
Will your empire come to an end if they leave? Nice piccie, by the way.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:09 am Post subject:
They are beautiful (in a slightly tatty sort of way)

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:11 am Post subject:
We sometimes get a unkindness/conspiracy/whatever of ravens in the run. Apart from nicking the food they do no harm.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:12 am Post subject:

You appear to have the Grand Canyon in the garden.

We went there on our honeymoon and while unloading the car into the chalet left a bag of food on the porch. I came out 5 mins later to find 6 of these had opened the bag up and quite easily managed to extract the food from it packaging. I was most impressed by the one that managed to get 1/2 lb of cheese out of it packet and eat it in the five mins.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:14 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Nice piccie, by the way.

Not mine - got it from Google images...

Behemoth wrote:

You appear to have the Grand Canyon in the garden.

...as Behemoth has obviously spotted!

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:16 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

We sometimes get a unkindness/conspiracy/whatever of ravens in the run.

Isn't it also sometimes called 'a murder of ravens'?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:19 am Post subject:
Isn't it a murder of crows?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:20 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Isn't it a murder of crows?

You're probably right. I have no idea at all...

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:21 am Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

You're probably right. I have no idea at all...

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 10:25 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Mary-Jane wrote:

You're probably right. I have no idea at all...

As I often say to my students (when they ask me some obscure question, on a subject about which I know absolutely nothing) I'm not a walking encyclopaedia you know.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 12:30 pm Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Mary-Jane wrote:

You're probably right. I have no idea at all...

As I often say to my students (when they ask me some obscure question, on a subject about which I know absolutely nothing) I'm not a walking encyclopaedia you know.

Don't shatter my illlusions about you - I need to believe

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 12:30 pm Post subject:
This has troubled me all morning.

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 1:16 pm Post subject:
will the ravens not eat your eggs as magpies and crows do?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 08 1:19 pm Post subject:
She doesn't know. She doesn't know!

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