Then I felt the bike being pulled backwards as the other tried to get the bag off the rack. So I promptly pedalled off, listening to them trotting behind :-(((((((
Then I felt the bike being pulled backwards as the other tried to get the bag off the rack. So I promptly pedalled off, listening to them trotting behind :-(((((((
Then I felt the bike being pulled backwards as the other tried to get the bag off the rack. So I promptly pedalled off, listening to them trotting behind :-(((((((
H'mmmm... when I was a kid they were common in the Lothians and Fife, for sure - and not that exceptional around here.
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> At this point I was expecting something more like > http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/hoodedcrow_tcm3-20979.jpg and wondered if > you had been on holiday... Those were so common in my childhood, but now they must be practically an endangered species. I haven't seen one in thirty years.
H'mmmm... when I was a kid they were common in the Lothians and Fife, for sure - and not that exceptional around here.
Really? When I was a young man living in Argyll, there was a pretty clear demarcation line when I drove towards Stirling and points east. I rarely if ever saw a hoodie craw to the east of Loch Lomond. Come to think of it, I never saw a magpie there either but they're commonplace now.
Those were so common in my childhood, but now they must be practically an endangered species. I haven't seen one in thirty years.
They are really common in Northern Italy, or at the least the bit I get to spend quite an amount of time in on the west side of the Appennines. They are just about the only member of the crow family I've ever seen there as there seems to be no carrion crows, rooks or magpies in the area, just the occasional jay.
A couple of weeks ago I heard a large amount of aeriel cawing and looked up to see three crows trying to see off a circling eagle by diving at it. The eagle (we have a small colony locally) seemed totally unconcerned and continued to fly in circles, doing none of this common flapping business, while gaining height on each loop. Eventually the crows gave up, presumably the eagle was either no longer considered a threat or had exceeded their maximum ceiling and flapped off. About half an hour later five eagles could be seen lazily flying circles at different heights from about 400ft to over 2000ft.
