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That's sad A, we all love our cheerful Robins but we must not be sentimental or anthropomorphic when it comes to wildlife. It is kill or be killed in most cases.
I remember cursing the Magpie that robbed a Blue Tit's nest of five chicks in 20 minutes, or the Crows plucking out a newborn lamb's eyes. It's life, or Wildlife. We may not like it and we may shed a tear but would you rather shoot the Magpies or the Crows?
As for Squirrels, well, it quite the nouvelle vague amonst the Orlandos and Mirandas of South Ken to serve Squirrel at dinner parties. Squirrels are the New Ethic of Meat Eating, only £3.50 per squirrel, low in fat and cholesterol, and by eating the little buglers you are saving our Native Red Squirrel. It is the on-dit that these former NuLabourites in their knitted muesli jumpers who banned hunting another so called pest, the fox, are single handedly saving the planet from a new pest, the squirrel, having given up from saving us all from Gordon Brown.
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« Reply #271 on: 21:57:19, 27-06-2008 » |
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I am sentimental about all animals, I wouldn't shoot anything, including crows or magpies
I ignore those horrid comments about squirrels, sorry.
I don't really feel it is my place to say which type of squirrel should be eaten or saved. I wouldn't ever knowingly eat any animal.
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« Reply #272 on: 22:07:11, 27-06-2008 » |
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Anty, I think you'll find it's mostly James's in South Ken these days, and perhaps Chloe's. Miranda and Orlando are SOO 1990s. Also, squirrels seem to be out, wood pigeon back in (to get vaguely back on-topic):  Although I'll confine anything else to What's Burning...  |
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« Reply #273 on: 22:09:16, 27-06-2008 » |
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Please do Mart! This thread was , I thought, for bird lovers who like them alive and flying around their garden not on a plate A  |
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« Reply #274 on: 22:15:20, 27-06-2008 » |
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Please do Mart! This thread was , I thought, for bird lovers who like them alive and flying around their garden not on a plate A This is not about birds on a plate but about the pests that are squirrels I thought? I love all birds, would not do then any harm. But birds do other birds harm and that is the truth. |
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« Reply #275 on: 22:32:47, 27-06-2008 » |
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Well I'm very tempted, Anty. The local Seikh run general store does humane squirrel traps, but I don't have an air pistol, so would have to use the head method of dispatch. "What would the neighbours say?"
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« Reply #276 on: 22:36:30, 27-06-2008 » |
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Sorry, I like squirrels, I feed squirrels and would never harm them . The thread is called Twitchers corner... birds? not squirrels and how to eat them.
I am not saying anymore about this sort of thing. To be honest it upsets me.
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« Reply #277 on: 22:37:19, 27-06-2008 » |
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Nature red in tooth and claw, much as it may pain us humans. Now, on to happier ornithological matters ...
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« Reply #278 on: 22:53:29, 27-06-2008 » |
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Well I'm very tempted, Anty. The local Seikh run general store does humane squirrel traps, but I don't have an air pistol, so would have to use the head method of dispatch. "What would the neighbours say?"
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« Reply #279 on: 23:19:00, 27-06-2008 » |
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I like squirrels too - and not to eat! I'm not a sentimental veggie, I just don't like eating meat. I'm also not averse to killing things which seem to me to be pests eg slugs, rats, greenfly, etc. How about a squirrel that "flies" for Twitcher's Corner?  |
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« Reply #280 on: 23:21:50, 27-06-2008 » |
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« Reply #282 on: 23:35:23, 27-06-2008 » |
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Sorry I took us down a route that upset you, A,
Please can we revert to discussion on live birds?
To get us going I heard a Green Woodpecker the other day. Not its banging against a tree, but its actual call. It was flying about on the village green going Peep-Peep-PEEP.
I didn't realise they even had voices.
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« Reply #283 on: 23:39:40, 27-06-2008 » |
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Well the final verse expresses my sentiments on the matter in hand. I too intend to feed squirrels - to guests at dinner. Tommo, your description of the call fits the Greater Spotted Woodpecker's, not the Green's, which is a right laugh. |
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