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  • #62
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Did anyone watch David Attenborough's "Nature's Great Events" this evening?
    The sardine run off the South African coast.... sardines, dolphins, gannets, sharks and whales all at once! It was an absolutely incredible spectacle:eek:

    I can't see it on the rte player and can't access the BBC one. Here's a very short taster of it on youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBd4sNHBnYc


  • #63
    whyulittle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    One of the papers gave away the whole series on DVD a year or two back.


  • #64
    littlema
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 285 ✭✭littlema


    Ditch wrote: »
    Ahh. Sorry. I had the impression the pred' had eaten the head. Decapitation smacks of a Dog, to me. That's just based on strictly personal experience. I've never known anything else to take a head away and drop it ~ unless ye've more 'new' information up ye sleeve for us ....?

    Mink? It's a fallacy that ye only find them beside water. Bucks, especially, will roam for miles across land. Just like otters. Only, mink don't tend to bite off the head. They'd eat it away.

    Didn't the hundred yards of tracks suggest to ye what it was?

    Oooops, didn't mean to make this a Sherlock Holmes case-I didn't explain myself so well the 1st time! The poor old head wasn't "dropped" 'twas gone with the footprints!! These were small enough from what I could see on the ditch, smaller than a dog, so we are possibly back to an impatient fox or your mink as a cat would never carry it that far. If it wasn't for the snow, I would never have known how far it went.
    Thanks for all ye r input, sure tis gone now and I have my "looney-tune" dog to keep me busy instead.


  • #65
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    littlebug wrote: »
    Did anyone watch David Attenborough's "Nature's Great Events" this evening?
    The sardine run off the South African coast.... sardines, dolphins, gannets, sharks and whales all at once! It was an absolutely incredible spectacle:eek:

    I can't see it on the rte player and can't access the BBC one. Here's a very short taster of it on youtube.

    It was excellent wasn't it but I think that I'll feel guilty now every time I eat a tin of sardines - poor beggars! And who would have thought those nice cuddly seals could be so predatory when it comes to young gannets. :D


  • #66
    trebor28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    the first time i watched this i nearly shat myself.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwebVjAEJA


    they had a clip at the end of it on bbc, showing how close the camera man came to getting swallowed.
    apparently they sometimes grab birds from the surface but release them after.


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  • #67
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    My swans are nest building...:)
    Never seen this in February before

    and on another note, mighty wet and windy tonight


  • #68
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    It's a very mild 14.6C out at moment. This could stir things out of hiibernation. It wouldn't surprise me to see a Bumble Bee at a crocus and such like.


  • #69
    ppink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭ppink


    littlebug wrote: »
    Did anyone watch David Attenborough's "Nature's Great Events" this evening?
    The sardine run off the South African coast.... sardines, dolphins, gannets, sharks and whales all at once! It was an absolutely incredible spectacle:eek:

    I can't see it on the rte player and can't access the BBC one. Here's a very short taster of it on youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBd4sNHBnYc

    I was glued to it - would love to see this in real life. It is the most amazing thing ever. The said that thousands of dolphins are in that hunt!! funny how all these things go on and without discovery we would never even know:)


  • #70
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Mothman wrote: »
    My swans are nest building...:)
    Never seen this in February before

    and on another note, mighty wet and windy tonight

    That is early!! Maybe they are making up for last year? Not very scientific, but I did notice a drop in the number of cygnets last year. Anybody else think so too?


  • #71
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    I've just been looking out at my garden waiting for the trampoline to crash into the kitchen window :eek: and realised what a bloomin mess the whole garden is. I think I've lost a lot to the frost so I have some work to do. Ah well.. maybe I can put some more thought into replanting to attract more wildlife... though it won't be on FaL's scale :p

    Suggestions welcome!


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  • #72
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    littlebug wrote: »
    I've just been looking out at my garden waiting for the trampoline to crash into the kitchen window :eek:


    412e026e.gifThat cracked me up! :D Perfectly summarises it though, doesn't it? I was eyeing up the 'drunk' tree again earlier. P!ssed as Piza and only there because a skinny little thing next to it's holding it up.

    I've never yet quite convinced it won't reach those power lines, if she goes ..... :(

    Bloody Hell!!! With that, I've stopped to have another look at it. It's swaying like I don't know what! I don't know how much longer that one's gonna hold the ground.

    Doesn't bother me. Not my tree. But, I don't much fancy those lines coming down! (Do they really lash about like angry snakes, sparks crackling at the ends of them, like in the films? Scary prospect! :eek:)

    Anyway, I digress ..... LittleBug; Get some boxes up! :D


  • #73
    Git101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Git101


    Ditch wrote: »
    Doesn't bother me. Not my tree. But, I don't much fancy those lines coming down! (Do they really lash about like angry snakes, sparks crackling at the ends of them, like in the films? Scary prospect! :eek:)

    If it's one of the 10/20,000 volt lines it will make an ear splitting bang and bright flash but probably won't do the snake thing as they usually trip a fuse along the line. Whatever you do don't go near it , even if it's not sparking, there are no second chances with that amount of power.

    BTW where are you getting the brilliant smilies?

    Word...


  • #74
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    Horror! No fear! No Way would I be getting near one of those things! Jesus; That SOB ever breaks? I'm locking my Dogs in a room, fetching my horses in here and calling the electric people to come sort it out.

    I want to paint this place soon. Only, I have these things on the gable wall out there, were my electric comes from? I've been pondering this for years now: Dare I get near those things? I'm scared to death of them. Might pay someone to paint that bit of wall.


    My smileys? I'm a bugger for them! :D Can never resist a good smiley. I just nick 'em. You can too. I use Firefox. I right click a smiley. Save image as. Load that up to my Photobucket and then copy the BB and HTML codes to notepad, which I keep on my desk top ~ saves me having to constantly open and search through the bucket.

    So, if ye like, say, " 412e026e.gif "? Help yeself. Or, be bone lazy. Just copy this " http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n201/ptpc/412e026e.gif " and enter it into the box we get for showing an image. That's all I'm doing thgrinning-smiley-003.gif


  • #75
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    boneless wrote: »
    That is early!! Maybe they are making up for last year? Not very scientific, but I did notice a drop in the number of cygnets last year. Anybody else think so too?
    Plenty Cygnets with me last year with 4 making it to Autumn


  • #76
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Moved mine and Ditch's last posts to the nest box thread... I thought they were off topic in here.... in the off topic thread :confused:


  • #77
    Git101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Git101


    Ditch wrote: »
    I want to paint this place soon. Only, I have these things on the gable wall out there, were my electric comes from? I've been pondering this for years now: Dare I get near those things? I'm scared to death of them. Might pay someone to paint that bit of wall.

    If it's two separate wires going to insulators on your gable then send up the wife or hired help for the painting ;)
    If it's just a single line, the more modern bundle, then it will be grand, if you don't swing off it or stick your tongue in the connection.

    Thanks for the smilies, when I figure them out I'm going to pepper the A/R/T forum with them :D


  • #78
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    Git101 wrote: »
    If it's two separate wires going to insulators on your gable then send up the wife or hired help for the painting ;)


    eusa_doh.gif That's all I need then! Just been and looked: Two separate, big wires coming to two antiquated and sinister looking insulators. Scared now :(


  • #79
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Do you know what? Today feels like the first day of spring to me :)!! What a glorious day!


  • #80
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    boneless wrote: »
    Do you know what? Today feels like the first day of spring to me :)!! What a glorious day!
    I had a very frosty start, but saw first Bumble Bee of season today.
    My swans have left for now, probably to get their fix of Johnson, Mooney and O'Brien....


  • #81
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    boneless wrote: »
    Do you know what? Today feels like the first day of spring to me :)!! What a glorious day!

    ya whah now? I was slipping and sliding all over the place out at 8am. The rest of the day was just cold and drizzly :(

    This evening I was driving (very slowly) over quincentennial bridge watching a huge group (murder ;)) of crows... i'd swear they formed a heart shape at one point:D It put a smile on my face after an otherwise horribly stressful day :)


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  • #82
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    littlebug wrote: »
    ya whah now? I was slipping and sliding all over the place out at 8am. The rest of the day was just cold and drizzly :(

    This evening I was driving (very slowly) over quincentennial bridge watching a huge group (murder ;)) of crows... i'd swear they formed a heart shape at one point:D It put a smile on my face after an otherwise horribly stressful day :)

    We had some nice mild air, after a frosty start alright, in the Capital yesterday :). And the chill was not in my old bones which had been there all winter....


  • #83
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    boneless wrote: »
    my old bones

    :confused:What bones?


  • #84
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Ditch wrote: »
    :confused:What bones?

    If you read it again you'll see that he says that the chill was not in his bones which had been there all winter.... implying that the bones are not there anymore... thus he's boneless :p


  • #85
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    :D Actually; " Boneless ", I think, struck such a chord with me because ~ aside from what he said ~ because I still almost wet myself when remembering a certain 'Troll' post which I read else where!

    It concerned some utter nonsense about, " My Dog Has No Bones ..... "

    Best bit of complete nonsense I've ever read on line. The handle, " Boneless ", reminded me of it and made me 'laugh'. Plus, the person behind the handle genuinely just seems a good egg ;)


  • #86
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    ^^^ I have bad bones :D! They may as well not be there... and I'm a real mean person!! :)


  • #87
    ppink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭ppink


    did anyone see Eden last night with Attenborough and the bower birds

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbWJPsBPdA

    aren't they amazing little birds?:)


  • #88
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    boneless wrote: »
    Do you know what? Today feels like the first day of spring to me :)!! What a glorious day!


    So; It was you?!? God, I could've throttled ye today! Your pronouncement has haunted me since I read it! :D

    Day ye've come out with that? I'm taking a hay delivery and discussing the peeing in rain in my shed, just as the heavens opened ~ again and illustrated my point.

    Today? Out in search of 'Spring', I've been creeping and cringing about in The Most merciless south westerly flurry of razor blades! It was Freezing out there! icon_eek.gif

    And, all the time, I'm thinking about that happy wombat who seemed to have found personal Nirvana, a few days ago :rolleyes:

    Buy ye a drink some time, Boneless! :D


  • #89
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    It's a glorious glorious morning here! I've just had a long walk past the past the turlough. I could hear lots of birds but not see them as it was still quite misty out there but the sounds were great.... I could make out lapwing and whooper in the distance but couldn't figure anything else out bar various ducks and squawks! I was also hearing lots of coal tit song around... probably because it's one of the few that I recognise.
    Best thing of all this morning was that the dog tried to play with other dogs we met instead of trying to kill them. Progress!!


  • #90
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    I recently got a dog, still need to make sure it doesn't kill our hens.....but then hens eat frogs....
    I'm sure our dog knows to leave the hens alone, but not not totally 100% that the instinct may not take over.
    it's not a dog killer though;)


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  • #91
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    What Dogs ye got, peeps? Got five here. My life revolves around my Dogs :)


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