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Nurse Ratched
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"I thought you might like this video.



It's a compilation of different birds singing. Beautiful photography. If you expand the 'title' under the video it gives a list of species and the times they pop up in the video. Most of the species are familiar to us in the UK, but there are some 'exotics' (the cranes - wow, what a noise!) It was filmed in Belarus. The guy has a channel you can subscribe to. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and maybe it'll take your mind off you-know-what for a few blessed minutes."
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Exactly Oh ffs
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Noisy great tit spotted skulking about in unusual habitat.
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Oh ffs.
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Hammer and Pickle
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So you condone the killing of protected species by Staff owners like you. Wonderful. I'm sure you have some delightful friends.
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"Your mission, Double-O Pickle is to infiltrate WHO and get as many threads locked as you can. Big gold star and a bag of Swan & Otter crisps for you if you succeed."
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261044/Slaughter-swans-As-carcasses-pile-crude-camps-built-river-banks-residents-frightened-visit-park-Peterborough.html
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"Boasting ? Far from it, i've condoned it. We got the dog as a rescue, he is brilliant with people and is the perfect pet and wouldn't swap him for anything else. If anyone is to blame it was me for not having him on a lead. And don't talk to me about protected species as your nationals kill and eat them and your digging a dog out for it, oh the irony"
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"Yes. One good reason for having cats is they keep the vermin in check. Not so sure what your reason for having a Staff is now that you have come on here boasting about how it has killed a badger, which happens to be a protected species."
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"Cats kill mice, are they vicious cunts as well ? Don't get into yet another topic you know fuck all about"
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"So your Staff just killed the badger in its spare time, right?"
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"Maybe i should have had him on the lead, but i like to go out early doors so he can stretch his legs without many people walking the dogs. I certainly don't condone people training their pets to kill other animals. Despite the bad press, Staffy's aren't bred to be killers, they are great family pets, its the owner that turns them into vicious cunts."
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"Years ago my family had issues with badger baiters, fucking nasty trespassing scummy cunts who don't give a fuck about their dogs or the badger. (NOT accusing Kenzo of.this, don't know the facts of course.)"
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"LMH - Totally unscathed, i didn't actually see him do it as he was off the lead and shot off over to it, just heard the commotion, maybe it was already injured or something, i'm not sure, but it was making a racket, not nice to see."
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"Staffs are a race specially bred to hunt and kill - best keep it on a leash when out walking in badger territory skthe.police.uk/content/Q31.htm#:~:text=Badgers%20are%20a%20protected%20species,and%2For%20an%20unlimited%20fine."
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A healthy badger isn't going to go down without a scrap. How did the dog fare? I wonder if the badger was either very very old or perhaps pre injured by a car.
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"Staffordshire Bull Terrier it was early morning, it was up in the Chiltern Forest, a lot of wildlife up there"
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"Staffordshire Bull Terrier it was early morning, it was up in the Chiltern Forest, a lot of wildlife up there"
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"Mr Kenzo ...really ? What dog you got ? Unusual to find a badger about in daylight , Ravens or Carrion crows ?"
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"Morning , Willtell, Yes,it's an old (1993) 900 Trophy...it's a lovely bike to ride but a bastard to start if it's hot...I can't shut it off if I'm stopping for a paper - it just won't start ! give it 30 minutes and it's fine again. As someone said ""Bike British,you might not get there but it's fun trying"""
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"Is that a Triumph motor cycle Aalborg? I have a Sprint ST1050 I hardly ever use. 2008 model with all the luggage kit and I only use it for long distant rides to moto GP events mostly. Covid has put paid to that but last outing was to Italy at Misano. Only has 28,500miles on clock."
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"My dog killed a badger on his walk on Sunday Morning, after looping back about 45 mins later, came across it on the way back to find it being pulled apart by half a dozen Ravens, never realised they were that big up close."
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Good work Willtell. Nice story Aalborg.
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"Willtell,I was taking my Triumph for an MOT a couple of years ago and going down a country lane,I disturbed a couple of crows dining on a dead rabbit..there was also a Buzzard in the verge.He flew up and hit my offside brake lever snapping that and an indicator off - he managed to coat my legs in Buzzard shit too....and it stinks. I came back from an expensive MOT to see him sitting on a fence post looking a bit bedraggled and shaken!"
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"When we moved to our home over 12 years ago my wife was disappointed that we had few birds around the house. Over the years we’ve planted something like 50 trees (removing 6 big cedars) and 75 bushes. The difference today is amazing. We have sparrows by the score; red starts; long tailed tits; blue tits; great tits; wrens; wagtails; thrushes; hoopers; magpies; jays; robins; doves; egrets; wood pigeons; curl buntings; gold finches; chaffinches; lesser spotted woodpeckers; green woodpeckers; blackbirds; starlings; tawny owls (a family successfully raised a brood of 3 young and we hear them each night but not sure how many survived. Of course we regularly see sparrow hawks and buzzards that circle us but won’t come too near the house. I almost hit a buzzard last week in my car. It skimmed the car as it flew up out of a ditch as I drove past on a quiet lane. They’re common here and keep the mice and small mammals under control. I find it amusing for all the birds that sit on our wall around our terrace calling for seed which my wife puts out daily. We also have a large bush that’s called “the tenament block” which is full of sparrows that suddenly stop cheeping as you walk by... I’m also fed up with putting bird boxes up in the many trees, the car port and outside workshop and garden store."
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Crassus and Cap I envy you both: I never see raptors where I live.
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