"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
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Tony Powell wrote:
I too am a believer in that Nature will indeed tell us what is to come?
For one thing when a Snow Bunting arrived on a local hilltop last year,
it remained for a few days and within days the hills had a crispy layer
of snow, albeit it melted soon afterwards given a bit of sunshine. Watch
your garden carefully if you're into feeding the birds because the
Christmas/New Year period always brings a surprise or two.


My garden is full of fat pigeons (I'm surprised they can fly). What does
that mean?


Erm..they know where their bread is buttered?

"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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Brian Wakem wrote:
Tony Powell wrote:

I too am a believer in that Nature will indeed tell us what is to come?
For one thing when a Snow Bunting arrived on a local hilltop last year,
it remained for a few days and within days the hills had a crispy layer
of snow, albeit it melted soon afterwards given a bit of sunshine.
Watch your garden carefully if you're into feeding the birds because the
Christmas/New Year period always brings a surprise or two.



My garden is full of fat pigeons (I'm surprised they can fly). What does
that mean?




You've been feeding them too much, though at least they'll be easy pray
for cats !

Joe

That would be true Joe, but have you seen the size of the Cats ! They're so
well fed nowadays, they generally say to chasing birds

" Sod that for a game off soldiers!"

"David Mitchell" wrote in message
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Sounds stupid, but some suggest that birds and animals sense a change in
the weather!!
Yesterday and today I just get the feeling that looking at the landscape,
it almost seems ready for snow, as if nature knows it's on the way.
I can't give any logical explanation but I've sensed it before.
Maybe it's the crop circles which look like the letters G, F and S or the
cloud formation with a 1, 2 and 0, or the flock of geese in snowflake
formation.
I'm sure that Lawrence will understand.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.


You know David it's so odd that you mention that. Animal instinct or
behaviour is a very powerful force and should only be ignored at our peril.

For the first time ever at Christmas, whilst shopping at Waitrose in
Beckenham this morning, I shared a queue with some squirrels.
I remarked to them about the possibility of snow for Tuesday next week. The
male squirrel looked at me very concerned and using his uncanny
supernatural instincts said.

"are you sure about that mate?"

I explained to him that the models and especially UKMO are now putting
warnings out !

He turned to his female squirrel partner and said

"Ethel don't stand there go and get half a dozen of those big family sized
bags of nuts from the fruit & veg section - it's gonna snow next week and
things are gonna get rough"

Well the other shoppers heard what the squirrel said, and very soon Waitrose
was out of nuts, all down to sheer animal ability to predict severe
weather.

Uncanny that.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:16:37 +0000 (UTC), "Lawrence Jenkins"
wrote:



You know David it's so odd that you mention that. Animal instinct or
behaviour is a very powerful force and should only be ignored at our peril.

For the first time ever at Christmas, whilst shopping at Waitrose in
Beckenham this morning, I shared a queue with some squirrels.
I remarked to them about the possibility of snow for Tuesday next week. The
male squirrel looked at me very concerned and using his uncanny
supernatural instincts said.

"are you sure about that mate?"

I explained to him that the models and especially UKMO are now putting
warnings out !

He turned to his female squirrel partner and said

"Ethel don't stand there go and get half a dozen of those big family sized
bags of nuts from the fruit & veg section - it's gonna snow next week and
things are gonna get rough"

Well the other shoppers heard what the squirrel said, and very soon Waitrose
was out of nuts, all down to sheer animal ability to predict severe
weather.

Uncanny that.



Nice one :-)
Elizabeth in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
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"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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"David Mitchell" wrote in message
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Sounds stupid, but some suggest that birds and animals sense a change in
the weather!!
Yesterday and today I just get the feeling that looking at the landscape,
it almost seems ready for snow, as if nature knows it's on the way.
I can't give any logical explanation but I've sensed it before.
Maybe it's the crop circles which look like the letters G, F and S or the
cloud formation with a 1, 2 and 0, or the flock of geese in snowflake
formation.
I'm sure that Lawrence will understand.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.


You know David it's so odd that you mention that. Animal instinct or
behaviour is a very powerful force and should only be ignored at our
peril.

For the first time ever at Christmas, whilst shopping at Waitrose in
Beckenham this morning, I shared a queue with some squirrels.
I remarked to them about the possibility of snow for Tuesday next week.
The male squirrel looked at me very concerned and using his uncanny
supernatural instincts said.

"are you sure about that mate?"

I explained to him that the models and especially UKMO are now putting
warnings out !

He turned to his female squirrel partner and said

"Ethel don't stand there go and get half a dozen of those big family
sized bags of nuts from the fruit & veg section - it's gonna snow next
week and things are gonna get rough"

Well the other shoppers heard what the squirrel said, and very soon
Waitrose was out of nuts, all down to sheer animal ability to predict
severe weather.

Uncanny that.

Ahh! I wondered where the squirrels had gone. I hadn't seen them for a while
and there are no nuts on my Beech tree this year, so I new they must have
found another source.
Apart from that their Volvo's not been parked in the village either.
--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Joe Egginton wrote:

Brian Wakem wrote:
Joe Egginton wrote:


Brian Wakem wrote:

Tony Powell wrote:


I too am a believer in that Nature will indeed tell us what is to
come? For one thing when a Snow Bunting arrived on a local hilltop
last year, it remained for a few days and within days the hills had a
crispy layer of snow, albeit it melted soon afterwards given a bit of
sunshine. Watch your garden carefully if you're into feeding the
birds because the Christmas/New Year period always brings a surprise
or two.



My garden is full of fat pigeons (I'm surprised they can fly). What
does that mean?




You've been feeding them too much, though at least they'll be easy pray
for cats !



Yeah they've certainly been eating a lot. I haven't fed them though,
they
eat the nuts off our many huge beech trees. This year has been a very
nutty year and the pigeons come by the dozen and just eat for hours on
end
each day. They are like footballs with tiny heads.




You must get a lot of pigeon sh*t, have you tried firing off a gun to
scare them away?


hmmmmmm they must live elsewhere as there isn't much sh*t here. I suppose
they wouldn't want to sh*t on their dinner.


--
Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png

The senses of animals are much stronger than Humans

Hardly surprising when we slump in front of tv screens every night.
We listen to bland music in our mp3 players.
We play mindless games on our playstations
We put junk food into our microwaves

Our senses have been stumped, by modern life

Heard someone on the radio once, that mentioned a summer drive across
Dartmoor
The children in the back of the car, kept playing their laptop games
the whole time, and possibly didn't even glance out the window. The
family didn't get out of the car, take a walk or anything. I mean
what's the point?

You want to come to North West London! That's where all the squirrels have
gone... Gunnersbury Park where I work is swarming with them, and back home
in Wembley area one of them keeps digging up the bulbs and plundering the
conker tree.

-Mike

"David Mitchell" wrote in message
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Ahh! I wondered where the squirrels had gone. I hadn't seen them for a
while and there are no nuts on my Beech tree this year, so I new they must
have found another source.
Apart from that their Volvo's not been parked in the village either.
--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

"David Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Sounds stupid, but some suggest that birds and animals sense a change in
the weather!!
Yesterday and today I just get the feeling that looking at the landscape,
it almost seems ready for snow, as if nature knows it's on the way.
I can't give any logical explanation but I've sensed it before.
Maybe it's the crop circles which look like the letters G, F and S or the
cloud formation with a 1, 2 and 0, or the flock of geese in snowflake
formation.
I'm sure that Lawrence will understand.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.


:-) I know what you mean. Its that long, calm, cloudy, quiet, not too mild,
and dry, but not too cold temps. It gives that sign. I know the feeling and
I know what you mean.

Gavin.

In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 at 11:46:45, Brian Wakem wrote :

My garden is full of fat pigeons (I'm surprised they can fly). What
does that mean?

Pigeon instead of turkey for Xmas dinner?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham