We had a hoopoe in our back garden in Edinburgh once...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Cormorants on a pool in Derbyshire ---

Kingfishers on a west Derbyshire river, which I would never have believed if I hadn't seen it.

Oooh, I can get to it now. Want!

Neat website, dante. What I really want is the free pool. Also, they offer bath accessories...perfect for kaz and psd!

Gee, thanks Nicky. that's what you get from being a NURSE, I guess.

Sponge bath anyone? I hear Kaz is handing them out FREE!

No, you have to pay. I'M not as @#$%& as some others inthe gutter!

Just a nickel, then. (Sponge baths and O's)

Told you, we don't have nickles in aus. You have to give me at LEAST $100.00.

Are you sure you're worth it, Kaz?

Bite your tongue! Of COURSE I'm worth it! ask anyone.








Except psd....

<Looks around for psd>

He's not here. He's typeing naked with his.....

DUCK!

A family of ducks once chased me &#8211; I had to dive into the nearby pool to escape.

(I was swimming at the time...)



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If you were swimming at the time, how come you had to dive INTO the pool. surely you were already there?

I meant swimming as the act of being at a swimming pool. I was walking to the deep pool when I interrupted some foraging ducks.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Foraging for what? If they were enough of a menace that you had to dive into a pool to escape from them (and how did that work, anyway, were they actually [although this would seem rather surprising to me, given that ducks are normally thought of as being water-birds] members of some non-swimming species themselves?) does this mean that the ducks where you live are dangerous predators? Were the ones in question members of some 'prehistoric' species of gigantic "Killer Ducks", which has either survived thereabouts [without being mentioned in any of the books that I've read] or been recently re-engineered? :-)

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I think they began with hotdogs - for the bread - but began to like the meat and worked their way up the food chain, eventually sampling children who ventured too near. As a result of their increasing canivorousness, they must have stopped swimming.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

And have they grown dangerously large, on an individual basis, or is it the fact that they've learnt to hunt in packs which makes them a hazard? :-)

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

Australia does have the worlds most dangerous animals: Taipan snake, funnel web spider, bluebottle jelly-fish, blue-ringed octopus. But I didn't realise we had the worlds most dangerous ducks.



Then again, this IS Victoria we're talking about. They're very dodgy there.