Birds

^It's a "Collared Owlet" or "Collared Pygmy Owl". They are quite small, and as actually wide as they are tall. Quite comical-looking little fellers, tbh. -Unless you happen to be on their menu, I would imagine..
They roost on the houses in our village, but I don't think they nest here. They are attracted by prey, mainly other birds nesting or roosting in alcoves. They are pretty ferocious and don't seem to have a problem taking out pigeons, which aren't much smaller than the owls themselves..
In the morning, we find huge pellets of partially digested pigeon on the ground. Which I suppose beats pigeon shit most days.

Many years ago I lived in Ely, Cambridgeshire and on a Sunday we would go down to a cafe on the River Ouse. At that time the fenlands were being taken over by Canadian Geese, who were chasing off the indigenous wild fowl.

One particular summer Sunday, a solitary swan came gliding up the Ouse and within seconds was swamped and pecked by a group of these aggressive geese. It managed to free itself and take to flight.

Half an hour later about a dozen swans came at speed up the river and set about the geese on the bank. Such was the ferocity of their attack, families were abandoning their outside seats and retreating into the cafe, some children were traumatised. The noise was deafening. The swans seemed to target a couple of geese in particular (maybe the alpha males?) and left them dead on the bank.

The police turned up and several of us adults were joking with them about identity parades. The defeated geese had long gone and the swans showboated back and forward along the river for an hour or two.

The RSPB investigated the incident and it made all the local papers. We never saw any more geese around the cafe after that.

I wonder if it was the same one that made me do the same on Countisbury Hill Hill around the same time ...

Are bats just goth birds?

When I clicked this thread I thought there was going to be a thread discussing arse, not actual birds. What a bitter disappointment!

Do you like discussing buttocks then?

Seriously though, why is Talkpunk so sexless?