tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post6370630281927090338..comments2024-02-24T09:14:44.403+00:00Comments on The Poor Mouth: Call me a birdbrain nevermorejams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-29948512084193376972007-05-01T09:18:00.000+01:002007-05-01T09:18:00.000+01:00Yikes it can't have been too much fun then with th...Yikes it can't have been too much fun then with them either crapping on you or dying on you!Shame they are very attractive birds.jams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-4839673159144403562007-05-01T02:26:00.000+01:002007-05-01T02:26:00.000+01:00Re: what EWBL said, grackles are astonishingly pro...Re: what EWBL said, grackles are astonishingly productive birds. When I was in college in Houston in the late Sixties, we typically carried umbrellas even on dry evenings in grackle season.<BR/><BR/>Worse, for the grackles and for us, in any given season they were liable to contract some fast-spreading epidemic and die <I>en masse</I>, making the campus smell even worse than it did.<BR/><BR/>I have some admiration for the grackles that survived contact with smug, overstuffed university students and professors, and lived to afflict us another year. But I can't say I miss the trips to the cleaners.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-5941729601422090152007-04-30T21:24:00.000+01:002007-04-30T21:24:00.000+01:00They have also avoided inventing concentration cam...They have also avoided inventing concentration camps, nerve gas and Little Jimmy Osmond.. They are our speriors by a long mark Steve! Hey you've ben blogging over 4 years now? that is great going. 4 More Years I say!<BR/><BR/>White wine Bekerkin? Do you know anything about wine? Everyone knows that you drink Beaujolais with corvids!<BR/><BR/>Ah so they are a bit of a pain then Ewbl? I bet they nest there because there's rich pickings from what we discardjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-14024345023193319962007-04-30T12:21:00.000+01:002007-04-30T12:21:00.000+01:00We get an oily feathered version of the crow here ...We get an oily feathered version of the crow here called the 'Mexican Grackle.' They're loud and squawky and fiercely protective of their nests. The problem is that they build their nests in the trees outside public buildings, shopping centers, parking lots. Then they swoop down and attack passer-bys.<BR/><BR/>So Ravens aren't your average, ordinary 'bird brains', huh?elasticwaistbandladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643871078268503643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-49202327149664099892007-04-30T06:54:00.000+01:002007-04-30T06:54:00.000+01:00Oh, and I forgot to mention my own bit of doggerel...Oh, and I forgot to mention my own bit of doggerel about a mythical Blogger who inspired me on 1/1/2006 not to quit blogging. That dog is called <A HREF="http://www.yellowdoggereldemocrat.org/doggerel_200601.htm#200601010010" REL="nofollow">The Ravin'</A>. Enjoy, if that's the right word.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-90702734838740426432007-04-30T02:16:00.000+01:002007-04-30T02:16:00.000+01:00All we see up here in winter are Crows some of the...All we see up here in winter are Crows some of them are almost Chicken size. I will have to ask the locals if they go with white wine.beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-59528109222891208052007-04-30T02:14:00.000+01:002007-04-30T02:14:00.000+01:00"(okay so no Raven is going to be designing a nucl...<I>"(okay so no Raven is going to be designing a nuclear reactor anytime soon but even so...)" - jams</I><BR/><BR/>Now THAT shows "surprising intelligence"! :)Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-83305519006658597122007-04-29T23:15:00.000+01:002007-04-29T23:15:00.000+01:00Hitchcock and Du Maurier ahve a lot to answer for,...Hitchcock and Du Maurier ahve a lot to answer for, Elizabeth!<BR/><BR/>I love Corvids.. I know ravens aren't the prettiest of the family, Pete, but there is something about themjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1399376368806850142007-04-29T16:52:00.000+01:002007-04-29T16:52:00.000+01:00Ravens are big, ugly birds but at least they don't...Ravens are big, ugly birds but at least they don't swoop and hit you like Magpies do in September here in Australia.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624742078679760819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-72667670524591174552007-04-29T16:04:00.000+01:002007-04-29T16:04:00.000+01:00nevermore LOLEver since I saw the movie The Bird...nevermore LOL<BR/>Ever since I saw the movie The Birds I knew they were smart and very freaky/dangerous.....Elizabeth-Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12215621448451413460noreply@blogger.com