The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87684   Message #1823758
Posted By: Rusty Dobro
31-Aug-06 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Birdwatching Challenge
Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching Challenge
A quiet month at Dobro Towers.

Blackbird
Song Thrush
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Chaffinch (left it late - only showed on last day of the month)
Greenfinch
Collar Dove
Woodpigeon
House Sparrow
Robin
Rook
Magpie

but more than compensated for by seeing a Barn Owl in a lovely valley about a mile from home. I've driven that road for many years, and never seen one there before.

Incidentally, why are owls supposed to be so wise? Barn Owls never make it off the endangered list in the UK, while woodpigeons, which are stupid, fat, slow, inept at flying and to cap it all, taste really good to eat, are everywhere with numbers increasing rapidly.