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27-07-2009, 10:19 PM
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| | | dunnock down the drain.
hello to anyone who reads this. as i was having lunch sat in my van today i noticed a dunnock come out of some ivy and onto the floor . seconds later it went down a grid at first i thought had it been blown down as it was windy moments later up it popped with a bit of food . has anyone else ever seen strange behaviour like this. this was in the centre of manchester. rossy rochdale.  |
27-07-2009, 10:40 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
Ooh! I'm glad it has a happy ending... when I read the title, I wondered what hooror story was about to unfold. I've not seen anything like that, but birds soon learn where there's a good supply of food. Remember the days of milk bottles, and the blue tits who would peck through the silver foil lids to get at the cream? (OK so I'm showing my age... If you haven't got a clue what I'm on about ask someone over say 40  ) |
27-07-2009, 10:42 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
Incredible how they learn! Never witnessed anything like that, but I seen on the news a while back a herring gull that went into a shop every day for a packet of Doritos :-) |
27-07-2009, 10:47 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by FUDGEY  Incredible how they learn! Never witnessed anything like that, but I seen on the news a while back a herring gull that went into a shop every day for a packet of Doritos :-) | I hope he paid for them! |
27-07-2009, 10:58 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by Jonners Ooh! I'm glad it has a happy ending... when I read the title, I wondered what hooror story was about to unfold. I've not seen anything like that, but birds soon learn where there's a good supply of food. Remember the days of milk bottles, and the blue tits who would peck through the silver foil lids to get at the cream? (OK so I'm showing my age... If you haven't got a clue what I'm on about ask someone over say 40 ) | I remember that mate and im only 25, used to love watching the blue and great tits doing that from the kitchen window. My mum was never best happy that I never stopped them tho lol. |
27-07-2009, 11:29 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by forestwildlife I remember that mate and im only 25, used to love watching the blue and great tits doing that from the kitchen window. My mum was never best happy that I never stopped them tho lol. | Hey, nice one FW |
27-07-2009, 11:48 PM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
Infant and Junior school, Winter, Cold, 1/4 pint bottles of milk in wire crates, frozen milk, urgh! Tits and milk bottles bring back horrible memories of short trousers, silly caps and misery.
I have a Dunnock who scraps with my Robin and 50% wins!
h |
28-07-2009, 07:21 AM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by rossy hello to anyone who reads this. as i was having lunch sat in my van today i noticed a dunnock come out of some ivy and onto the floor . seconds later it went down a grid at first i thought had it been blown down as it was windy moments later up it popped with a bit of food . has anyone else ever seen strange behaviour like this. this was in the centre of manchester. rossy rochdale. | Hi Rossy,
Dunnocks will creep into all sorts of crevices and cracks when searching for food - sometimes to their detriment. A fisherman used to store his creels (similar to lobster pots) by our garage when I lived in Argyll. We had to make sure all the doors were open otherwise dunnocks would inevitably become trapped in them when they entered looking for scraps of left-over bait.
Cheers
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28-07-2009, 07:42 AM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by tcvarlh Infant and Junior school, Winter, Cold, 1/4 pint bottles of milk in wire crates, frozen milk, urgh! Tits and milk bottles bring back horrible memories of short trousers, silly caps and misery.
I have a Dunnock who scraps with my Robin and 50% wins!
h | We used to fight for the frozen ones...instant iced slush drink but God...those short trousers  |
28-07-2009, 07:50 AM
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| | | Re: dunnock down the drain.
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Originally Posted by tcvarlh Infant and Junior school, Winter, Cold, 1/4 pint bottles of milk in wire crates, frozen milk, urgh! Tits and milk bottles bring back horrible memories of short trousers, silly caps and misery. | Lol - remember that only too well! Coming out of a freezing classroom and huddling in the corridor round the crates! Was at school the year they ended it. Poohbear, we used to fight for the ones that appeared to have the most cream on top!
Milk left by the milkman (and bread and bacon!), all bottles in the cul de sac where I lived as a child, with holes pecked in the top.
Dunnocks are remarkably adaptable too - seen them on car radiators pecking insects off the grill from cars just arriving into the car park! | | | |
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