One hopes you're all remembering to feed the birds?

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03-01-2018, 11:19 AM
Sir C

One hopes you're all remembering to feed the birds?

If you don't have any commercial wild bird food, you can leave out muesli, nuts and grated cheese. They really need help in these conditions.
03-01-2018, 11:27 AM
PSRB

Well, we've just had a gender pay gap review, so I think they can ****ing feed themselves
03-01-2018, 11:32 AM
World's End Stella

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Originally Posted by Sir C

If you don't have any commercial wild bird food, you can leave out muesli, nuts and grated cheese. They really need help in these conditions.

What sort of nuts? Macadamia is the king of nuts, of course. Pistachio and cashews fight it out for 2nd and 3rd imo. The lowly peanut, especially the salt n vinegar variety, should not be under-estimated, of course. But the rest of nuts are all pretty rubbish.

And, of course, anyone who has their nuts unsalted is a proper deviant and no mistake.
03-01-2018, 11:32 AM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by World's End Stella

What sort of nuts? Macadamia is the king of nuts, of course. Pistachio and cashews fight it out for 2nd and 3rd imo. The lowly peanut, especially the salt n vinegar variety, should not be under-estimated, of course. But the rest of nuts are all pretty rubbish.

And, of course, anyone who has their nuts unsalted is a proper deviant and no mistake.

And most nuts aren't in fact nuts
03-01-2018, 11:51 AM
Monty92

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Well, we've just had a gender pay gap review, so I think they can ****ing feed themselves

I like it when they conplain that airlines have a 96% gender pay gap because all their pilots are men.
03-01-2018, 11:54 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Pokster

And most nuts aren't in fact nuts

Yep. They're actually berries and mammals. I saw it on QI.
03-01-2018, 12:13 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

Are these the same little cÃºnts that wake me up at four in the

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Originally Posted by Sir C

If you don't have any commercial wild bird food, you can leave out muesli, nuts and grated cheese. They really need help in these conditions.

morning all summer with their incessant warbling? Fack 'em!

Joking aside, as I get older I have come to listen in raptures to the dawn chorus believing that it can only be some kind of sacred and beautiful gift bestowed upon us by a benevolent deity.
03-01-2018, 12:24 PM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

Joking aside, as I get older I have come to listen in raptures to the dawn chorus believing that it can only be some kind of sacred and beautiful gift bestowed upon us by a benevolent deity.

Whereas what they are actually doing is cheeping "All your tweets are fÃ¹ckin shÃ*t" and "fÃ¹ck off to that tree, cos this tree is mine" to each other.
03-01-2018, 12:35 PM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Sir C

If you don't have any commercial wild bird food, you can leave out muesli, nuts and grated cheese. They really need help in these conditions.

Fat balls apparently.
03-01-2018, 12:43 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by Ash

Whereas what they are actually doing is cheeping "All your tweets are fÃ¹ckin shÃ*t" and "fÃ¹ck off to that tree, cos this tree is mine" to each other.

I've been noticing lots of these around here recently. I don't think I've ever seen them before.
I'm not sure they eat fat balls tho'

https://radnorshirebirds.files.wordp...ieldfare-1.jpg
03-01-2018, 12:44 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Fat balls apparently.

Did I ever mention the time I made Bunny Guinness eject white wine out of her nose by talking about Bill Oddieâ€™s fat balls?
03-01-2018, 12:47 PM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Burney

Did I ever mention the time I made Bunny Guinness eject white wine out of her nose by talking about Bill Oddie’s fat balls?

Eh no. I am reasonably sure this is a conversation and set of quite unique circumstances which I would recall for ever.
03-01-2018, 12:48 PM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

I've been noticing lots of these around here recently. I don't think I've ever seen them before.
I'm not sure they eat fat balls tho'

https://radnorshirebirds.files.wordp...ieldfare-1.jpg

A mandarin duck if I am not mistaken.
03-01-2018, 12:54 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Eh no. I am reasonably sure this is a conversation and set of quite unique circumstances which I would recall for ever.

We were in an Italian restaurant in Armagh on a press trip with the Westland peat compost people. Ms. Guinness was the Telegraph’s gardening corespondent at the time, I think (as well as her regular appearances on Gardener’s Question Time). Anyway, we got talking about the various celebrity endorsements for gardening products, of which I stated that the one I found most difficult to write about with a straight face were Bill Oddie’s Fat Balls. Anyway, she laughed helplessly and, from that moment on, she was as putty in my hands.
03-01-2018, 02:05 PM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Burney

We were in an Italian restaurant in Armagh on a press trip with the Westland peat compost people. Ms. Guinness was the Telegraph’s gardening corespondent at the time, I think (as well as her regular appearances on Gardener’s Question Time). Anyway, we got talking about the various celebrity endorsements for gardening products, of which I stated that the one I found most difficult to write about with a straight face were Bill Oddie’s Fat Balls. Anyway, she laughed helplessly and, from that moment on, she was as putty in my hands.

This made me feel sad.
03-01-2018, 02:12 PM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by SWv2

A mandarin duck if I am not mistaken.

:hehe: Vg, sw
03-01-2018, 02:47 PM
Billy Goat Sverige

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Originally Posted by Sir C

If you don't have any commercial wild bird food, you can leave out muesli, nuts and grated cheese. They really need help in these conditions.

Weâ€™ve had a record number of crashes involving vehicles and moose/deer because they canâ€™t find any food in the forest and venture onto the roads to get about and scavenge in residential areas. What should I feed those beasts?
03-01-2018, 02:49 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige

Weâ€™ve had a record number of crashes involving vehicles and moose/deer because they canâ€™t find any food in the forest and venture onto the roads to get about and scavenge in residential areas. What should I feed those beasts?

wes is the moose expert, b. But he has a record of feeding them Rohypnol, I believe :-(