For all our friends in warmer parts!!

tonymadge · Post by **tonymadge** » 08 Feb 2007, 14:47

Bloody heck Notts is only up the road and were at white out in Tamworth! Just cleared the drive now white again! Like the bird pics, I have a couple of nice ones that landed on my bird table last year
Mind you the table suffered..

I fed my two on Mc Donalds seems to work for me

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 08 Feb 2007, 14:54

Argh, was eating my lunch then and all!

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 08 Feb 2007, 15:02

Aagh, my eyes! :shock:

Rob, don't worry still time for it to get to you!

We've had a bit of a thaw dahn sarf, but the temperature has started dropping again now, so the net result will be beautifully icy roads and pavements!

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 08 Feb 2007, 21:52

That should be plastered up in every mcdonnalds with the caption;

"waring eating too much junk food can make you look like this, instead try the healthy fruit on offer!!!"
Fruit contains only 01.1% of real fruit

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 08 Feb 2007, 22:00

Jonesey - I like the sparrowhawk. We have one (or two?) of those here.

And the occasional pile of feathers on the lawn with just a beak left :shock:

Still no more snow in Notts

Rich · Post by **Rich** » 08 Feb 2007, 22:58

It has been going right down to +6c at night up in the mountains sometimes with frost.

I am down close to the coast around 50ft asl so we go down to around 21.

Philippines.

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 08 Feb 2007, 23:00

Heh there are 2 that I know of, the one chilling out in the photo and also a smaller one that I reckon is a young-un. I was watching some Finches on the feeders when they all shot into a nearby bush, down swoops said little hawk and trys for about 5 minutes to scare them out!
Ive also seen a poor Collard Dove being pulled apart at the end of the garden by one last year.

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 08 Feb 2007, 23:14

You might have a pair of Sparrow hawks there. I think the female is much larger than the male (certainly one is bigger than the other: one has orange eyes and the other yellow eyes). The bigger one goes for blackbirds, etc. The smaller one for finches/sparrows.

Those finches were lucky - sparrowhawks will sometimes follow birds into bushes.

thehappyotter · Post by **thehappyotter** » 08 Feb 2007, 23:51

tonymadge wrote:Bloody heck Notts is only up the road and were at white out in Tamworth! Just cleared the drive now white again! Like the bird pics, I have a couple of nice ones that landed on my bird table last year
Mind you the table suffered..

I fed my two on Mc Donalds seems to work for me

I had to quote this instead of just replying as there's not enough hideousness on page 2...

It seems to have just missed us, my mate's at Chesterfield which isn't all that far away either and he built a massive snowman in his garden this morning.

Then he tried to de-ice his car and fell over... maybe the lack of snow isn't too bad!!!

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 09 Feb 2007, 00:13

Arggghhh please Lord smite my eyes :shock:

Leif