summer over

[Guest bigda]

the last two day here in lanarkshire i have seen  frost in the morning  it has come early

the farmers are saying its a bad crop year so you know now

the price of corn is going up again,looking at the dry days we have had this year 3 weeks in total, with the odd flood seems  the weather change has had an affect on the pigeons i used to blame the fair grounds

for the rain  as when the came to my town it always seemed to rain  :'( ;D    

 

 

 

 

[Guest 67ghirl]

Summer Over?

Damn I must have nodded off!

Oh well maybe next year  :-/

lol

[superstar]

Summer is over for me too, spent the last 7 and a half weeks hand rearing a lesser black backed gull chick I found in the street that had fallen from next doors chimney, today he flew off with is own kind. Good luck to you little buddy you'll be missed round here!

 

 

[ChrisMaidment08]

Summer is over for me too, spent the last 7 and a half weeks hand rearing a lesser black backed gull chick I found in the street that had fallen from next doors chimney, today he flew off with is own kind. Good luck to you little buddy you'll be missed round here!

 

nice looking thing that

 

 

[Guest bigda]

nice looking thing that

 

 

thems the type of long distance one cost birds :X

[superstar]

 

thems the type of long distance one cost birds :X

 

Your not far wrong but should have said big cost bird! That bugger ate cat food for fun to start with then got fussy, wouldn't eat normal garbage seagulls do, had to be breaded ham and roast chicken Etc, still it did him a favour and helped my diet lol

[ChrisMaidment08]

dont worry bugger will be back with family soon they are not daft

[Fair Play]

I used to have one that fed off a table outside the office window used to tap the window to get fed would it would fly off for the winter and return 3 months later and tap the window only thing when feeding its young it was back every 5 mins, I was tired out

I was told after I retired it came a few times then never came back,richer pickings elsewhere who says birds are daft - it was me for feeding it

[chickadee]

dont worry bugger will be back with family soon they are not daft

 

Ha ha ha  then you'll have to put on a buffet for them every day, eat you out of house and home. ;D ;D ;D ;D

[superstar]

I have been feeding them for a while now, council here have been on the war path and removed all the nests with eggs and chicks in alike and destroyed them this year, not very nice as there are actually a species on an amber alert but guess if it suits they can please themselves! (pitty we cant with hawks). They do me and my boy a favour when here nesting as the sparrow hawks or any others never venture near beacuse they get mobed. There is a price to pay though, you cant leave anything unattended on the patio table or the big guy that nests on the warehouse at the back will have away with it sharpish! While rearing the little fella he managed to get 2 plastic dishes 2 large galleypots and to my old mothers disgust one of her bone china saucers lol.

 

Heres another pic of my little friend taking it easy

[DOVEScot]

Suoerstar, I like it "Location: In a World of my Own. KEEP OUT!!"   :)

[DOVEScot]

the last two day here in lanarkshire i have seen  frost in the morning  it has come early

the farmers are saying its a bad crop year so you know now

the price of corn is going up again,looking at the dry days we have had this year 3 weeks in total, with the odd flood seems  the weather change has had an affect on the pigeons i used to blame the fair grounds for the rain  as when the came to my town it always seemed to rain  :'( ;D    

 

 

 

 

25 acre of potatoes lost due to excessive rain at the farm where I get my barley, add the frost into the damp grain that has not been harvested yet and we will see another reason for a price hike, another bad year for poor farmers :-/

 

 

[superstar]

Suoerstar, I like it "Location: In a World of my Own. KEEP OUT!!"   :)

 

I was going to be out in the open but saw you there and thought nah! lol (cant do smilies mine dont work) :~(

 

On a serious note though some farmers will be struggling after last years bad harvest and this one being even worse! Cant claim on crops either, classed as an act of God!!!  Big loss to cover all the time, the deep pockets and short arms are suffering for sure!

[DOVEScot]

 

I was going to be out in the open but saw you there and thought nah! lol (cant do smilies mine dont work) :~(

 

On a serious note though some farmers will be struggling after last years bad harvest and this one being even worse! Cant claim on crops either, classed as an act of God!!!  Big loss to cover all the time, the deep pockets and short arms are suffering for sure!

 

The farmers will claim compensation from the goverment and hike the prises as well for the crops they have harvested, it's no win - no win for consumers  :'( :'( :'( mines work fine ;D ;D ;D

[shotgun tim]

the news toay said the corn price should drop because of the good harvest in europe

[Guest strapper]

Summer is over for me too, spent the last 7 and a half weeks hand rearing a lesser black backed gull chick I found in the street that had fallen from next doors chimney, today he flew off with is own kind. Good luck to you little buddy you'll be missed round here!

 

 

 

its a grizzle isnt it lol....not a roland janseen surely not lol

 

[Guest strapper]

i was told by a top grain/corn grower that the goverment has allowed them a bigger size of crop growth this year(13%)...or wot ever the proper name for it is.

[ChrisMaidment08]

like one of it by leg its nice when wild birds are so tame round you

[superstar]

 

Ive picked up a few of the big herring gulls that been injured and bought them home definately very noisy and very aggressive   Get plenty of them in my garden as well which i have encouraged they seem brilliant hawk deterrents which definately dont stay around when they are about not sure what effect they would have on the pigeons but the wood pigeons dont seem particularly bothered with them and they all sit on the roof tops together

 

The only problem I noticed was when nesting the older gulls did take a great dislike to some saddle backs and whites which I had in the past, got rid of them and they have been fine this year. The youngsters didnt take a blind bit of notice of sausage (the gull) he used to walk round with them, must say he did try to peck at the rings on their legs occasionally but they just stepped aside and ignored him. Summer is over as the gulls are no longer at their nest sites but congregating in large flocks away from here more, getting ready to migrate, the ones from round here have been tracked to spending the winter round the Algarve area of Portugal, buggered if I'd come back here if I was them lol. Mr Sparrow hawk has already started to make regular appearences again now they are going