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Dougal's Pet Corner
The place for your pet stories and pictures, let me have them |
What can I say, the season of
goodwill is now well and truly over, we have all eaten and drunk too much and in many
cases made complete fools of ourselves. I have received a few photographs from friends who
have maybe not behaved quite as well as I would have expected of them. To try to shame
them into behaving next year below are some incriminating photographs I took on the sly.
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I don't actually advise that you let your parrot drink alcohol, but in this case he was
stealing it when he thought no-one was looking!
More next time - Dougal
P.S. What's the difference between a man and a parrot?
You can have a conversation with a parrot.
P.P.S. Two parrots are sitting on a perch. One says to the other, 'Can you smell fish'?
The human body has two ears and one mouth. To be good at persuading you must learn to use
those natural devices in proportion. Listen twice as much as you talk and you'll succeed
in persuading others nearly every time.
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| The human body has two ears
and one mouth. To be good at persuading you must learn to use those natural devices
in proportion. Listen twice as much as you talk and you'll succeed in persuading
others nearly every time. |
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| Help
your local sparrows |
Sparrows have always had an association with people, and particularly their houses, hence
the scientific name Passer domesticus. While there are several possible reasons for the
massive decline that has resulted in the House Sparrow being added to the 'UK Red List' of
birds under threat, one of the factors is likely to be the declining availability of nest
sites.
Once again it is our increasingly tidy life-styles that are causing problems for our
birds. More and more of our roofs are being built bird-proof, and many older properties
are being renovated and the eaves sealed. A recent survey conducted through the Radio 4
'Today' programme showed, among other things, that sparrows prefer to nest in houses built
before 1919! In rural areas the same problems of renovation affect barns, and 'tidiness'
is often the reason for felling an old tree that may have a number of holes potentially
suitable for the even rarer Tree Sparrow.
All is not lost however. In the same way that seeds can be artificially supplied to boost
natural food supplies, so both species can be tempted to use nest boxes. Both sparrows are
quite colonial species, and for House Sparrows, single boxes are available with 3
'apartments', each of which can be used by a different family. House sparrows require a
fairly large entrance hole of 32mm diameter, whereas if you think that you have Tree
Sparrows in your area, a 28mm hole is just what they require to keep their bigger rivals
out.
At our Glanford feeding station up to 6 Tree Sparrows are being seen now, and we will be
putting up nest boxes for them before Christmas, to see if we can entice them to stay and
breed.
Cley-Spy
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