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Rat Vs Collared Dove!

  • 24-05-2019 07:50PM
    #1
    Stigura
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    :D Hilarious! I've just been stood, watching them. I'd been hearing the dove for a few days, now. Just spotted him on the wire, above my bait point. Next moment, he's pecking the bait.

    That's when the full grown rat scuttled out of the ditch and came for his share. Dove sharply spun round and raised his wings. Rat bolted back to whence he's came!

    Minute later, rattie's back! Sneaks up and gets a taste. Dove spots him and makes nutting gesture. Rat legs it.

    Back he comes! I'm quietly LMAO, by now! And so it went on.


    Oh! Just looked out. Dove's gone and the rat's filling his boots. That was great fun though. And, on a far more serious note; I've Finally got the Collared Doves coming in! It's taken me years!
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Comments

  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What do you mean by bait point?


  • #3
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭Stigura


    The point I bait.


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Stigura wrote: »
    The point I bait.


    With?


  • #5
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Bait.


    What's Your point?


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just confused. It sounds like poison, yet you watch a collared drove feeding at it. Genuinely confused.
    Stigura wrote: »
    Bait.


    What's Your point?


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  • #7
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Why would I spend years, hoping to attract Collared Doves, just to poison them once they get here :confused:


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    How about cutting out the messing and just explain then? What kind of bait was the Collared Dove pecking at?


  • #9
    Dublinandy2
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    Stigura wrote: »
    Why would I spend years, hoping to attract Collared Doves, just to poison them once they get here :confused:


    Because you never want them to leave (joking)


  • #10
    Dash_Of_Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Dash_Of_Red


    I bet you're glad you started the thread now! :)

    In fairness, misunderstanding obviously.


  • #11
    Dash_Of_Red
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    Bait, as in food to attract the bird so he could view it feeding


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm over 60 years involved with wildlife and never heard food for birds referred to a bait.
    Dash_Of_Red wrote: »
    Bait, as in food to attract the bird so he could view it feeding


  • #13
    jcd5971
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    Jaxen Low Palace wrote:
    I'm over 60 years involved with wildlife and never heard food for birds referred to a bait.

    Well as the saying goes, you learn something new every day.


  • #14
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Calling food (?) put down to attract birds as bait is bizarre - my first thought was also poison.

    ****



  • #15
    magicbastarder
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    me too; bait is something you use to catch something with.


  • #16
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Stigura wrote: »
    Bait.


    What's Your point?

    I think the point is where the bait is :D


  • #17
    bobbyss
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    Bait + Rat = poison.


  • #18
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    Perhaps the OP is channelling Tom Lehrer?:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY


  • #19
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Well, if somebody mentions shooting pigeons your first thought will be "gun", but it could also be a camera.


  • #20
    recedite
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    I'm surprised the rat didn't win, all the same.


  • #21
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    recedite wrote: »
    Well, if somebody mentions shooting pigeons your first thought will be "gun", but it could also be a camera.

    Very true. However the verb to shoot is in common usage in both activities while Bait is not a bird feeding term.


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