tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post5351974746750463370..comments2024-03-27T19:59:10.159+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-70436096279337775822017-01-29T21:11:59.851+00:002017-01-29T21:11:59.851+00:00Wish I'd appeared on the scene in time to see ...Wish I'd appeared on the scene in time to see the extraction.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-33161298528656395582017-01-29T21:04:16.328+00:002017-01-29T21:04:16.328+00:00Perhaps their tiny muscles are like ours? Capable ...Perhaps their tiny muscles are like ours? Capable of an enormous max effort when desperation is sufficiently dire.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-11672961585724337002017-01-29T20:42:07.641+00:002017-01-29T20:42:07.641+00:00What baffles me is how the tiny Pied Wagtail manag...What baffles me is how the tiny Pied Wagtail managed to pull the worm out of the ground. It's a visible effort for a Blackbird to do it.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-32589053416587522912017-01-29T20:24:45.360+00:002017-01-29T20:24:45.360+00:00I don't think I'm going to be able to look...I don't think I'm going to be able to look at a Wagtail the same again. What a prodigious worm it is eating.<br /><br />Are there police Swans, I wonder? What might have the poor female Swan done? It looked like serious punishment.<br /><br />I don't know who would come out on top in a small Gull vs. Coot war. All bets are off. What Coots lack in intelligence they more than amply make up for it with insane, dogged persistence.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.com