The only common duck I can think of in the UK that has any real yellow on is the male teal which has a yellow patch on its back end. Steller's eider has a yellow chest but is extremely rare in British waters. Maybe rubber ducks are just mucky Aylesburys- have you seen the state of most duckponds?

While on holiday at Coniston I was kept awake one night by what sounded like a Canada Goose molesting one of the sheep. What this may lead to, I'll bet someone can suggest.

Aaargh, no! You shouldn't mention things like that when PSD is about!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Well I didn't invite him to comment in so many words, though I was hoping he might actually.

I wasn't...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Oh good, does that mean I can instead? Yay!

Coniston Water. And not a drop to drink. Was the sheep being served Canada Dry? Or was the goose drinking Lambs?

Actually, that was particularly baaaaaad, even by my standards, wasn't it? Sorry....

'honk if you're horny...'



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Once I was chased by a family of ducks at the local pool. I escaped by diving in.



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I got attacked by some geese when I was three. (They stole my sandwich!)
I'm now scarred for life.

Once an ostrich stole my friends sandwich and a family of otters stole another friend's hat.



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Ptolemy, you own laderhosen? Someone save him!

from ... okay, you should know by now! :)



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

No it's OK, it was just a passing phase. I grew out of them...

(actually I just love the word! Dunno why, it always makes me laugh though)

*please don't let this become a fashion thread (especially not fashion for ducks and whether ducks wear lederhosen)*



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I got knocked out by a low flying pigeon.

This tale would have more awwww value if I had only been three, but I was 20 or 21 at the time.

I really hate pigeons

You are not the only one. I am even as St Francis in my attitude towards most living things, but show me a pigeon and my eyes start to narrow. It comes of having spent several years living in an inner-city flat where one hung the washing out on the balcony.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

I had to go on a one-day training course last week: Walked out of the railway station closest to the venue, stood under a tree for shade, opened up a map of that neighbourhood (which I'd been sent with the confirmation my place on the course was booked) to check the final stage of my route, and guess what a bloody pigeon did to it... :-(

(Fortunately the written directions also included were clear enough...)

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I've given serious consideration to buying a catapult in the past, to deal with the pigeons that nested on the eave supports of my roof. The porch roof and the top of the bay window beneath were thick with pigeon muck, and I was finding eggs and dead squabs in the garden below. The eaves were netted off about three years ago, but they didn't do the job properly and pigeons simply got behind the wire from the end. It's been done now, thank heavens.

It was just as annoying when the B****rs could get into the roof space above my bedroom. I was regularly woken around dawn by the sound of a dozen pigeons cooing and tapdancing on the other side of the ceiling. That hole got closed up about five years ago, but I felt really sorry for the man fixing the alarms, who had to climb up into that roofspace. It was full of pigeon corpses and muck.

Why do people persist in feeding the bloody things !

When I lived in the old flat, I once caught two pigeons doing what comes naturally on my balcony. They were so engrossed that they didn't even realise I was there until I started indignantly belabouring them with a broom.

Pigeons are normally too stupid to be surprised, but you should have seen these two!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

My friend's dad got crapped on by a pigeon and she told him it was just water, so he rubbed it into his hair! Gross.....

from (guess) :)



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

moy?

Pigeon "Clue, clue!"
Lisa - "Oh, Mr Pigeon, I'd kiss you if you weren't swimming with disease!"

EDIT: Speaking of embarassment, I once fractured my arm at a bowling alley, I slid on the wax. Beat that!



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