Bastards of the Bird world?

[Orang Utan]

The Chupacabra?

 

[The Groke]

domesticated birds gone wild

Is that the latest barrel-scraping reality show on Sky One?

Bunch of starlings go on holiday to Majorca, flash their tits at the locals, get wasted on alcopops, puke all over themselves, then go home with the avian equivalent of the clap caught from a Greek pigeon?

 

[mauvais]

The leechbird would never fly. There'd always be too many of them not doing their bit.

 

[story]

The Chupacabra?

Mmmmmm, no the winges were different

 

[story]

The leechbird would never fly. There'd always be too many of them not doing their bit.

The slime holds them together, you know. It's a marvel of co-operation in the inverterbrate world

 

[mauvais]

Yeah, but stuck together or not, the body would be ordering the wings to go to full power, climb to three thousand etc, but the wings would be like "sod this, i'd rather sponge off the NHS and not pay any tax", and they'd all plummit from the sky.

 

[billy_bob]

What a lot of arrogant anthropomophomorphosisising (sp?) about perfectly natural animal behaviour.

I hope none of the people with the "I liked sparrows till one of them pooed on my shoulder, now I shoot them with crossbows" stories actually consider themselves animal-lover, because you seem to be missing the point of animals completely.

[/humourless naturalist rant]

 

[Calva dosser]

Yes Billy Bob. A disgraceful example of discontinuous thinking. Agreed.


But.






'oy you! avian scum, get off my seedlings or you're KFC.

 

[T & P]

Right now there is a bird that sings like an alarm clock that is driving me fucking nuts.

It has taken to the habit to singing at around 4-5 a.m. and it wakes me up every fucking morning.

It really does sound like an alarm clock- bursts of between 8 and 12 'bips' at half-second intervals, with about 20 second breaks between each burst. Bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip'. For up to half an hour non-stop.

I've never heard such bizarre singing until now and I don't care if it turns up to be a endangered species. If the bastard continues to come to my garden to sign in such unholy way at such unholy hour I'm going to get it

 

[purves grundy]

Right now there is a bird that sings like an alarm clock that is driving me fucking nuts.

It has taken to the habit to singing at around 4-5 a.m. and it wakes me up every fucking morning.

It really does sound like an alarm clock- bursts of between 8 and 12 'bips' at half-second intervals, with about 20 second breaks between each burst. Bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip bip-bip'. For up to half an hour non-stop.

I've never heard such bizarre singing until now and I don't care if it turns up to be a endangered species. If the bastard continues to come to my garden to sign in such unholy way at such unholy hour I'm going to get it

Hmmm.... where are you? In London?

There's a koel which is having the same effect on me over here in Burma. It sits in the starfruit tree outside my bedroom window and lets it all out, day or night. Like a cuckoo with anger-management problems. On speed.

'ooooh-awww.OOOOh-AWWWWW.OOOOH-AWWWWOOOO-AWWWWWWWWWWW'

 

[lynne8]

starlings get a bad rap, I never appreciated starlings until I lived in a city with crows.

the size of small cats, wandering around mewling and 'crowing', horrible things.....

 

[AnnaKarpik]

I love that family - the corvids they're called - rooks, ravens, crows, magpies, jays - one of my favourite birds is the jay. They're really quite clever and have sharp, intelligent looking eyes - I know they do evil things but I'm still a fan of them.

I don't really hate any bird - got attacked by an angry cockerel once. That was rubbish.

I like them too, you just have to admire how persistent and and clever they are even if they are a bit evil too.
You forgot jackdaws!

 

[T & P]

Hmmm.... where are you? In London?

There's a koel which is having the same effect on me over here in Burma. It sits in the starfruit tree outside my bedroom window and lets it all out, day or night. Like a cuckoo with anger-management problems. On speed.

'ooooh-awww.OOOOh-AWWWWW.OOOOH-AWWWWOOOO-AWWWWWWWWWWW'

Yes, I'm in London. Annoying as your case sounds at least I guess it sounds like you would expect a bird to sound.

Perhaps my one is waking me up because it sounds rather like an alarm clock.

Indeed, I wonder if we have created a new sub-species of city bird that has adapted to its surroundings.

 

[Pieface]

You forgot jackdaws!

Oh yeah!

I got chased by one when I was little - it was after the shiny zip on my rather fetching terry towelling jumpsuit. Totally fearless and persistent - it landed on the (shiny) handlebars of my bike and scared the fuckery out of me.

 

[selamlar]

There is some kind of real noisy bastard bird in the orange trees behind my house.

It mainly go BINK every 5 second all night. That one and pigeons, again.