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Anyone with a heron named Mike?

At this point, anyone posting to this thread must have sundry egrets.

egrets, i've had a few, but then again

no raggretts

I'm just remembering a really weird starling factoid related to my native glasgow:

Glasgow, by the way, once had its starling display, an estimated two and a half million of them swooping through the gloaming above the City Chambers and the Central Station. But the council, in its wisdom, saw them off during the 1960s and 1970s, frightening them with loudspeakers, flashing lights and, memorably, a piper playing on Jamaica Bridge. Edwin Morgan, in 1968, wrote a poem about these efforts, in which he described the birds’ “sweet frenzied whistling” and asked: “I wonder if we really deserve starlings?”

A Glaswegian Guide to Startling Starlings.

U starling, pal?

starlings were imported into North America, where they have become an invasive species crowding out native species. they are considered to be a noisy nuisance at best. they don't belong here

In NYC the top three birds are the pigeon, the starling, and the house sparrow, all of which are imports. I wonder what would be our top bird if we had just left it up to nature.

Oi m8s

oi seaux as they say in france

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Harry Winks is not much better than say Ryan Mason

The red hot chili peppers are good

― Treeship, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 2:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that dumb "how long how loooooong" song came on the radio the other day and i enjoyed it.

With some basic ass birds I'll share
This lonely view

Hey treeship *fist bumps*

the posthumous adulation for Harris Wittels got, at some point, overcooked

gulls are rock, i don't know who's kidding themselves that they can be bullied

grackles are the true worst

Nice one treeship

In NYC the top three birds are the pigeon, the starling, and the house sparrow, all of which are imports. I wonder what would be our top bird if we had just left it up to nature.

― Josefa, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bald eagle ffs. 'which bird would have flourished in this polluted, hyper-urbanised concrete graveyard' <-trenchant social commentary idc

frankly, starlings, sparrows and pigeons are to be commended for their tenacity in the face of an extreme habitat. also they're nice little things and you should be honoured to have them

the most ubiquitous bird in my part of london is the RING-NECKED PARAKEET, a 20th-century introduction from India, but you won't catch me complaining, no matter how loudly they screech. sure they're elegant and bright green, which helps, but this is their home now, and power to them

then again, every bird is beautiful in its way. every single one. *weeps openly*

London's parakeets are all descended from a pair that escaped from the set of The African Queen in 1950. Or from a pair released by Jimi Hendrix from his Mayfair flat in 1969. Honest.

it was the same pair iirc

i got lost in some woods near shepperton during one of those ridiculously hot spells in the summer. parakeets were squawking everywhere, whole thing was straight out of the unlimited dream co.

I've been here for 16 years, I think, and I've never seen one.

But I'm not much of a one for nature tbh.

i love all birds

Sweet sherry is the best alcoholic drink and lots of people are pretending not to like it because they don't want to look like Uncle Monty / their gran. There are much more sickly sweet flavoured ciders and perrys out there which are apparently socially acceptable.

They are refreshing sherry is gloopy

grackles are the true worst

sherry is usually great, ciders and perrys are sometimes great. CAAL otm

Xxxp Different function, you sip at it, don't glug it down. And I would posit that glugging down a strawberry and lime kopparberg would be very far from refreshing.

To be clear, cider and perry = good, putting fruit flavour syrup in them = bad

both good posters imo

lol

also i wouldn't begrudge a grackle introduction to the uk, shake us up a bit

never sip a grackle

"The grackles know your real name!" - most confusing line in Stephen King's IT. brb, googling grackle.

dont show your grouse til may is aus

I fucking hate birds.

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> parakeets

stood at the zebra crossing on south africa road the other day, at dusk, waiting for the lights, i must've seen 200 parakeets fly past. flying from hyde park direction towards wormwood scrubs. low, too, flying around the houses rather than over them. was quite a sight.

generally adults should not wear halloween costumes

Oh great, now you tell me.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gav0xbglpd8e8k4/20171027_203710.jpg?dl=0

I used to work with a guy who dressed like zorro every year and he was the ONLY guy in the office who dressed for Halloween. It was kinda funny, though.. Zorro sitting in front of a computer, typing something, sipping coffee

There's always juan

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