bird program

[mac1]

on now bbc1

[DOVEScot]

on now bbc1

 

Cheers just about missed it

[mac1]

its the one jimmy white was on about,think it has pigeons on this week

[Guest]

ANOTHER programme gloryfying the friggin peregrine....why dont they show the way they destroy fanciers pets ,..paul.

[chickadee]

Well on the programme we seen everything else but pigeons, saw a few lurking in the background but he never spoke on them, and because they were so much in the background never got a chance tae see if there was any rings on them. ;D

[Guest]

Clever me decided on making a cup of coffee and the peregrine pigeon piece was right at the beginning so I missed most of it.

 

But what I did see coloured my whole view on these wildlife programmes, because the actors [the animals] are obviously stage managed and the end result of careful editing, what we actually see on TV, is artificial beyond belief. No way can that purport to be a truthful portrayal of nature.

 

Add to that the stage managed dialogue on their version of how peregrine got introduced into inner cities - natural spread me ass, what about the breeding boxes placed on certain buildings, did percy carry these inland on its back when it flitted? And bring their personal bodyguards with them too? I think not.

 

Wait till torn carcases start appearing in Trafalgar Square, or percy starts having lunch on top of Nelson's napper. Soon find out how much the public are prepared to swallow. Churchill's words ... you can fool some of the people some of the time ...

 

 

[jimmy white]

there was a picture in the" edinburgh evening news a few years ago" a hen sparrow hawk eating a pigeon alive  [in front of kids families etc]   photo taken in cockburn street , right in the city centre ,, just wish i could get hold of that pic.  maybe someone able to help?  

[DOVEScot]

be greatful i had put it on at work and had to endure the snide flying rats comments from bloody conservative muppets and try and keep my mouth closed and bear it

 

Too true, even from family we got the "what do you want to keep flying rats for do you know the thousands of diceases they carry" a lot have come round or they say so but unfortunately still a broad view of pigeons

Oh Chickadee gets her back if you call her babies flying rats :X

[Fair Play]

Small article in "The Sun" to-day by the rspb basically telling it's the publics fault for the lack of small birds in the UK we cut our grass too short we have to plant bushes, trees and shrubs because of  the shortage of insects etc etc. Never told you about the hawk diet of thousands of small birds plus ours and the maurading magpies which have also increased in nos. A few years ago we saw very few but they more numerous than a lot of our natural birds.

[thunderboult]

hi valence ,  say something to them gits at work , they're the same down here, quick to shout something bad out ,i stand up and ask them what they know about racing pigeons they normally say nothing cause they know nothing ,i'll say then "just talking through your *expletive removed* again"  lol

[chickadee]

hi valence ,  say something to them gits at work , they're the same down here, quick to shout something bad out ,i stand up and ask them what they know about racing pigeons they normally say nothing cause they know nothing ,i'll say then "just talking through your *expletive removed* again"  lol

 

Aye YOU TELL THEM. It's like anything though if they don't understand the sport they just mock it. :X :X

[Guest]

Fair Play got to agree with you about Magpies. Lived for years in west end of Glasgow and travelled to work by train. At the start, noticed one pair of black & white birds on journey that I'd never seen before.

 

After a few years you could see a pair of them every couple of hundred yards in the trees alongside the railway. Eventually had to ask some of my birdy workmates what these birds were, magpies, tho wasn't told then just how they operated ... in gangs, raiding other birds nests.

 

We are polluted with them here, its a bird I won't tolerate in my garden, and my blackies sure let me know when magpies are around.