The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #170230   Message #4116601
Posted By: Senoufou
15-Aug-21 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Funny Joke
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Joke
Ah Malcolm, that almost exactly describes the wildlife around here too! Being on the river Wensum and having several small lakes as well, we get loads of dragonflies (had a hawker in the front garden only yesterday - not a salesman, a large, dark-brown dragonfly!) and all those birds you mention. Not to mention cock chafers (now there's a cue for a joke!)
It's funny how people from different regions attribute different words to the call of the wood-pigeon. Here it's "My toe bleeds, Betty!" which is their dawn chorus. The "Food Food!" is only when I appear later and scatter breadcrumbs for them.
Husband hates their racket early in the morning. His personal dawn chorus is, "Ces bloomin pigeons m'amerdent! Eh-boh dah!" (These bloomin' pigeons annoy me. F*** off!" (Mixture of French, 'Norfolk' and Malinke. He's trilingual)