grumpy birds

[erastes]

I have a very aggressive little robin in the front garden this morning.  I bought a packet of "song bird mix" which is probably like caviare to birdies, and he's been guarding the bird table all morning!  Every time the sparrows try and get some he charges at them. I knew that they were territorial with other robins, but I'd never seen them chase other types before.  I'll have to put some up in a different spot so the sparrows have a chance - and hang some peanuts up.  It's nasty weather now, so they need the help.

I've been trying to do more editing--I say "trying" because the furry monsters are driving me mad. everytime i sit down at the table one or other of them joins me, sits on the warm pile of paper and then flops onto their side and bats their eyelids at me.  Severus was patently BORED this afternoon and kept biting my free hand as if to say, Don't keep doing that, tickle me!!!

I wish I had a camcorder so I could record it for you lot, like that chap did with the cat on his shoulders when he was trying to write.

Most amusing line found in the editing so far: He left the kitchen to see to the livestock. Now while this makes sense in a literal way, if you read it the other way it's hilarious. I doubt the kitchen will be any help with the livestock at all. When Jonathan comes back he's going to find the cows unmilked and the chicken unfed. Kitchens can't do animal husbandry!  No thumbs!

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[erastes.livejournal.com]

Good god, there's another person in Norfolk with a computer?? *dies*

My bird table had a roof, and my collared doves could get in with a bit of hummingbird flapping, but the woodpigeons can't - I'm surprised they can even get off the ground they are so fat.

[reya-starck.livejournal.com]

Aye. The aethernet has wound its way 'round the loke, as t'were ;)

The wood pigeons are horrendously fat. Little wonder they're supposed to make for good eating (not that I've tried pigeon) but then all they do is eat. Mine have taken to patrolling the floor beneath the bird table when the other birds that do have access are up there. The blackbirds, especially, tend to chuck their food about, so it always rains bits of seed and bacon rind and other goodies down on the pigeons.

I don't mind the collared doves. For me, since a childhood in Fakenham with a lot of trees alongside our bungalow, their cu-coo-cu-ing always reminds me of summer.