Wildlife April 2010

[fredg]

Last month I posted a picture of a pair of Jackdaws in their chosen nesting site, a chimney stack.
The other day I was watching them and other Jackdaws started arriving in pairs.
They stayed for about 15 minutes.
I've never seen so many gathered on the chimney.

[Maggi Young]

Last month I posted a picture of a pair of Jackdaws in their chosen nesting site, a chimney stack.
The other day I was watching them and other Jackdaws started arriving in pairs.
They stayed for about 15 minutes.
I've never seen so many gathered on the chimney.

How nice..... a house-warming party! 

[fredg]

My thoughts too Maggi.
And they didn't leave any empty cans on the roof.

[Lesley Cox]

If they're clustered round the chimney, more likely a bum-warming party.

[Anthony Darby]

I'd be surprised if anything hot comes out of those chimneys!

[mark smyth]

It's very sad how something so graceful could knocked out of the air by a wind turbine. A good idea would be to have streamers on the blade tips.

[mark smyth]

This just arrived in an email.

Is it a Costa Rican woman helping secure the future of these turtles?

[mark smyth]

No!! They are collecting the eggs for human consumption and to make an alcoholic drink 

[Maggi Young]

Mark, read this and see what you think then....
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/sdrp/tortugas.html


http://www.oceanactions.com/?page_id=95

[mark smyth]

Ah, I see know. 10 million eggs that's a lot a laying. Delete it if you want to.

[Maggi Young]

I think it's better to leave it, Mark, in case others are confused and upset at the initial thought of the destruction.

[Anthony Darby]

Remember the passenger pigeon.

[Maggi Young]

Remember the passenger pigeon.

Not personally, Anthony, no.  The figures for the upsurge in the Turtle numbers look promising though, do they not?

[Anthony Darby]

I suppose the knock on effects should benefit the rarer species, one hopes? My brother-in-law's nephew works with turtles and has seen what poachers do to something approaching the size of the average sofa on a Tobago beach. They hack its legs off and leave the immobile animal for the vultures to peck the still living turtle's eyes out.

[mark smyth]

not so bird brained starling


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