On 08/01/2024 22:59, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <unhlm7$1lkqj$3@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
> <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Mon, 8 Jan 2024 at 20:24:39 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>> Nicholas D. Richards said:
>>> In article <l02i6gF9h7mU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
>>>> On 08/01/2024 13:16, Tim+ wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not just foxen…
>>>>>
>>>>> https://youtu.be/shkHrqW5bE0?si=jIetHLkbez0qH1gs
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kinnell!
>>>>
>>>> No wonder they aren't frightened when nicking one's chips!
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>> Once they become habituated to humans they can be aggressive ohttref.
>>>
>>> When I worked for the Nature Conservancy I had to walk through a gullery
>>> to get from home to work and vice-versa or is it versa-vice?. They would
>>> dive bomb dropping an evil smelling semi-liquid bomb in my hair. If I
>>> disturbed a Great Black-backed Gull their technique was to dive and drag
>>> their claws through my hair.
>>
>> I visited Handa Island once. Skuas are scary.
>>
> Not been there, however I have watched a Great Skua scaring Comic Terns.
> What they would be like if I was anywhere near their nests wouldbe scary
> to this human.
Visiting the gannet colony at The Chasms on the Isle of Man is scary on
at least two counts!

Chris

On 09-Jan-24 0:58, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> Incidently the Old Man of Hoy has only existed as a structure for some
> 200+ years and is subject to erosion that means it has a limited life
> expectancy.

200 years? Sounds like a decent crack of the whip to me.

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <1qn1l2x.mxw8vd121xdioN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 01:25:28 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> >ISTR a live WWP broadcast of rock-climbers on the Old Man of Hoy
>> >some years ago. IIRC the resident skuas used projectile vomiting of
>> >part-digested fish as a defence weapon.
>> >
>> Probably Fulmars who nest on The Old Man. Their markings make them look
>> a bit like gulls from a distance, but are much more closely related to
>> Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Petrels.
>>
>
>Quite likely, but according to my zrzbel (always a lying jade)
>Mr Beeb called 'em skuas.
>
I have seen it just the once, in 1967, so my memory could well be
fallible. I was very much into bird watching at the time.

You were lucky to have a lying jade in 1967.

"lay lady lay .........."
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

> Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote
> >Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> >[...]
> >> >ISTR a live WWP broadcast of rock-climbers on the Old Man of Hoy
> >> >some years ago. IIRC the resident skuas used projectile vomiting of
> >> >part-digested fish as a defence weapon.
> >> >
> >> Probably Fulmars who nest on The Old Man. Their markings make them look
> >> a bit like gulls from a distance, but are much more closely related to
> >> Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Petrels.
> >
> >Quite likely, but according to my zrzbel (always a lying jade)
> >Mr Beeb called 'em skuas.
> >
> I have seen it just the once, in 1967, so my memory could well be
> fallible. I was very much into bird watching at the time.
>
> You were lucky to have a lying jade in 1967.
>
> "lay lady lay .........."

It was just a roomer, honest.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

Nicholas D. Richards said:
>
> You were lucky to have a lying jade in 1967.

Stoned ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:

> Nicholas D. Richards said:
> >
> > You were lucky to have a lying jade in 1967.
>
> Stoned ?

Gordon is laying low and saying nuffink.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just nodded.

Why?

Brian

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"Mike Spencer" <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote in message
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>
> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> writes:
>
>> Where can we get these tidy-minded rodents, and do they come in capybara
>> size?
>>
>> <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67902966>
>
> The downside of a rodent beset by neat-and-tidytude is the potential
> destination of item tidies away. The reported beneficiary in this
> case seems to have been lucky.
>
> A few years ago, SWMBO determined that the failure of her inkjet
> printer to print was accounted for by the fact that it was full of
> almonds. Scrutiny revealed that there was only one small aperture
> allowing ingress. About a pound of almonds must have been transported
> -- tidied away -- from the adjoining room and inserted into the
> printer one at a time.
>
> --
> Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada