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


    I can hear geese from my house but I can't find them! How frustrating:mad: There were 20 odd greylag on the turlough a couple of weeks ago so it could be the same birds but they're most likely nestled in some little mini turlough somewhere between the drumlins where I can't get to them without crossing somebodys fields.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    little ma wrote: »
    Something got our bunny, it was in a run, with its cage inside, and almost a full cover over the whole lot...but whatever it was it took poor buns head and left me with the rest ..... Would it have been a stoat or a fox?


    That's grim, Little Ma. Learn from it though. Next time, consider what could come after ye creatures and either proof them out, or else set a pre emptively defensive measure ready for them.

    Regards what got Bun? Mustalids eat from the nose down. Stoat might just eat the side of the skull away and eat the brain out. Take a bloody hungry stoat to eat a whole rabbits head though.

    Badger? Ye'd have known about it. He'd have torn his way into the hutch. Unmistakable. Fox could make a mess. But wouldn't just eat the head off. Dog? No telling how a Dog might react. I've known them leave a rabbit in three bits! Cat's might peel the skin back and eat the flesh. Tend to start at the rear anyway.

    No. I'm with Bogtreader on this one. I'd go for mink.


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


    Ditch wrote: »
    That's grim, Little Ma. Learn from it though. Next time, consider what could come after ye creatures and either proof them out, or else set a pre emptively defensive measure ready for them.

    We had a fox proof pen. Fence is high enough and it is buried....but never considered snow reducing the effective height of fence and a fox got in when the snow was at its highest. The few inches made the difference. Lost 4 ducklings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    Mothman; Have ye now got a couple of strands of electric ~ and other ~ wires round that pen?

    And what of a mink? They're crazy about ducklings.

    I'm a Pest Controller, see? But, I have no urge to kill for sport. That's why I'm not looking in the Hunting section. Same time though, I'm watching what I say in here ;)

    My advice is always to look to ye perimeters. Aim to stop them at ye fences. Then, if they make it in through them? Ensure they have to cross a veritable mine field, before they even get to the Fort Knox where ye valuables are secured.

    Get there? That's where ye'll find them, in the morning.


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


    heres a link on the bbc website of mp3's you can download of birds calls etc with chris packham.

    just right click on the link and save as.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/downloads/mp3s/


    edit.
    only listened to one now, think its aimed at kids.
    sorry


  • Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭littlema


    Ditch wrote: »
    That's grim, Little Ma. Learn from it though. Next time, consider what could come after ye creatures and either proof them out, or else set a pre emptively defensive measure ready for them.

    Regards what got Bun? Mustalids eat from the nose down. Stoat might just eat the side of the skull away and eat the brain out. Take a bloody hungry stoat to eat a whole rabbits head though.

    Badger? Ye'd have known about it. He'd have torn his way into the hutch. Unmistakable. Fox could make a mess. But wouldn't just eat the head off. Dog? No telling how a Dog might react. I've known them leave a rabbit in three bits! Cat's might peel the skin back and eat the flesh. Tend to start at the rear anyway.

    No. I'm with Bogtreader on this one. I'd go for mink.

    Hmmmm, we are on pretty high ground with no river or lake within 2-3 miles of us so I am not sure of mink, it also went back over the fence (almost 3 feet high) with the head ,as I tracked it down the road about 100 mtrs in the snow! There was also some of Bun's (or killers)fur left on the rough fencing where it squeezed through the gap and it was beige-not dark like mink.I Will stick with the dog that comes into the house every night and leave the "great out-doors" to the wildlife out there-no more hutches or coops for me!:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    little ma wrote: »
    we are on pretty high ground with no river or lake within 2-3 miles of us so I am not sure of mink, it also went back over the fence (almost 3 feet high) with the head


    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?


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


    I saw a fox cross the road a bit ahead of me this morning and had just about convinced myself it must've been a dog but glanced into the field it went into and there it was.. just sitting in the open looking back out onto the road! I've never seen one in daylight before... lovely looking creature!


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


    littlebug wrote: »
    I saw a fox cross the road a bit ahead of me this morning and had just about convinced myself it must've been a dog but glanced into the field it went into and there it was.. just sitting in the open looking back out onto the road! I've never seen one in daylight before... lovely looking creature!

    had a similar experience myself yesterday, though i have seen plenty of foxes before.
    was driving down my road at about 14.30 when i saw a fox on the road go into a field, this was several hundred yards ahead of me.
    i slowed down as i came to the gate, and there was the fox just inside looking out at me within a stones throw.

    wasnt expecting that at all. i waited in my car and just stared at him, i had to leave then when i car came along behind me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭bogtreader


    trebor28 wrote: »
    heres a link on the bbc website of mp3's you can download of birds calls etc with chris packham.

    just right click on the link and save as.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/downloads/mp3s/


    Thanks a million for the link to that.
    I have been looking for a download like this for a good while.
    As my iding for birds leaves a lot to be desired.
    I can now listen on my mp3 at work to hopefully improve it


  • 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=


  • 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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭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.


  • 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


  • 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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  • 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


  • 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.


  • 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=

    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:)


  • 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?


  • 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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  • 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


  • 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...


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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:


  • 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


  • 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 :(


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


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


  • 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....


  • 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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  • 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....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    boneless wrote: »
    my old bones

    :confused:What bones?


  • 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


  • 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 ;)


  • 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!! :)


  • 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?:)


  • 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


  • 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!!


  • 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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


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


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


    2 german sheps and 2 cute mutts:)
    no way they will be going to Mothman's for a visit tho' or chickens would be kiev;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Little fat Cocker Spaniel (though getting slimmer) :D


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


    ppink wrote: »
    2 german sheps and 2 cute mutts:)
    no way they will be going to Mothman's for a visit tho' or chickens would be kiev;)
    :D
    Had a Red Setter, but instinct and Hens were not compatible :(

    Now have a mixed collie. nearly 3yo and only had him about 3 weeks. Did actually catch a hen but I think he knows now and ignores them. Still need to get the cows and the cat used to him, but no substitute for time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭bogtreader


    Three in total Two jack russells one long legged one short legged.
    One terrier mix who thinks she is human


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


    One Kerry blue terrier mix with all the personality of a full kerry blue..... those qualities combined with having (probably) been stuck in a shed :( for most of her 1.5 (approx ) years = quite a challenge. We've had her for 3 months and we're finally making some headway. She has thankfully stopped wanting to kill other dogs but on her list of enemies are cats, small birds, hens (I discovered yesterday :D), and for some strange reason donkeys :confused: We still love her though (some days more than others admittedly:o).


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


    littlebug wrote: »
    and for some strange reason donkeys :confused:
    One kick will sort that out :pac:
    We still love her though
    (some days more than others admittedlyredface.gif).
    :D


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


    No dogs at the minute, but we used to have a black Lab years ago who would catch crows and leave them at the back door.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    Mothman wrote: »
    One kick will sort that out :pac:


    Got a donkey here. :D

    Day I brought him home, I figured I'd best take it careful, with the Dogs.

    Had a mostly different set of Dogs then. All but one's dead now.

    Not the donkeys fault ~ by the grace of god and some nifty foot work from yours truly!


    So; I've got " Donks " here. Muzzled the worst of the Dogs and decided to take each one down to him, on a lead. See how they reacted to eachother and take things from there.

    Then senility kicked in once again :rolleyes: For some 'reason' I shall never, I swear, fathom; I just opened the door and let the f***ing lot out! " Oh, Calamity! "

    Five Dogs. One donkey. Honestly, if I'd filmed this, they'd be paying me good money for the DVD!

    Dogs have charged the donkey. Donkey's laid fertiliser and bolted straight through the hedge. Five mad Dogs after him. Me in hot pursuit.

    Ever seen a Real donkey Really fight a Real Dog, for its life? Quite edifying. Donkey actually picks up a Dog, with its teeth. Pins it to the ground. Then tramples ten bales out of it with his front feet! Kneels on it and all sorts!

    So; There's five Dogs, various. One donkey, vicious. And some half hysterical lunatic, lashing out like Bruce Lee on speed. Kicking, punching, throwing just about anything that came within reach.

    It all got quite 'emotional' .....


    Memories, eh? :)


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


    bogtreader wrote: »
    Three in total Two jack russells one long legged one short legged.
    One terrier mix who thinks she is human

    The shorter the leg the bigger the ego!!! I have a JRT cross that really thinks she is a wolfhound :p!


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


    boneless wrote: »
    The shorter the leg the bigger the ego!!! I have a JRT cross that really thinks she is a wolfhound :p!

    I had a wolfhound when I was growing up. He was the biggest softest sap of a dog ever :D When he died my father got his friend with a digger to dig his grave in the field. Neighbours came to his funeral. Sigh :(

    We also had a turkey that thought he was a dog.


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