Huh?

If you're at the WRONG end of the food chain (ie things eat you) then you are VERY useful to the rest of the foodchain!

Eg - I sit inside in the Highlands watching the swallows (and bats and goldfinches and siskins and and and etc) swooping around and scoffing midges by the bucketload. Then every now and then a sparrowhawk or a buzzard or an owl comes along and scoffes one of the finches (or whatever), which is nice and plump because of the midges.

Posted By: Old Git on June 23rd 2008 at 15:36:20

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I foresee only bad things for Blackbird Junior in my back garden (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 14:59:00
- I have dismembered great tit waiting for my attention as we speak (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jun 23, 15:20:11
  - Great tits (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:37:31
- we've had a bit of a decimation of local bird population (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:04:00
  - I can see to the cats with my nerf supersquirty water pistol (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:09:33
    - Fuckern Magpies.... (General Chat) - snowman, Jun 23, 15:13:52
    - Nature for a cat as well alas (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:11:57
      - Nope (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:14:48
    - We have a pair (at least) of magempies. It's a wonder we get any other birds at all. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:10:42
      - They are the legions of Satan (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:12:40
        
        Nope, that'd be mosquitos (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 23, 15:30:06
        
        Huh? (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:36:20
        
        Hmmm, suppose there *must* be something that preys on mozzies (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 23, 15:45:28
        
        Lots of things eat them........... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:46:38
        
        And then you eat the owl. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:42:31
        
        Very good point. I bow to thee. (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:32:22
        
        Get the gamekeeper to catch them in a Larsen trap (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:21:39
        
        (Gittie: woss a Larsen trap?) (Can't GIYLF, busy doing lead calcs.) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:33:11
        
        Humane cage trap thing which crucially already has a live magpie in it as bait. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:39:49
        
        You can lure them in with eggs or dog food before you catch your first bird (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:48:17
        
        Brilliant way of catching corvids (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:37:06
  - I saw a goldfinch for the first time in donkeys on Saturday. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:06:07
    - saw a lot of those last week (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:07:02
      - Donkeys? (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:07:45
        
        I did see two donkeys as well (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:08:18
        
        Were they lost then? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:08:47
        
        no they live on the alpaca farm (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:10:23
        
        Good. I was worried for said donkeys. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:11:31
        
        They seemed quite content (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:13:43
        
        indeedy. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:14:08

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