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You awake thoughts of Edgar Allan Poe in me.

"Once upon a midnight dreary"

I no the poem refers to a Raven, same family.

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Ravens aren't common in this area; used to have many more crows, but all the Corvidae were devastated when West Nile Virus spread.

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We dont see many up here either, we haveJackdaws, very messy birds, Oh for an air gun. Annie

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We don't have jackdaws. Åre they messier than the common pigeon?

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You should be so lucky darlin' - try Herring Gulls - as big as some chickens and when they crap, you certainly know it!!! In addition, they raid the rubbish bags people have left out for the dustmen, with the result that that rubbish bag is destroyed and rubbish is then strewn across the pavement and road. They also next amongst the chimneys above and around me, and their screeching at dawn wakes me up.

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I'm not so keen on the gulls or the wood pigeons, but I do quite like the jackdaws - very intelligent birds with blue eyes. My daughter once came home with one on her arm. She found it down the fields when she was walking the dogs. It must have been tamed at some time because it had no fear and it was quite used to humans. We kept it at home and it stayed around in the garden. We fed it raw mince and it often slept in the shed. I agree that they are messy though.

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Fortunately we're too far from water so we don't get herring gulls in the City; I remember them well from the days we used to go to the beach; loud and messy! What a nice story about the jackdaw, Åerolor.

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Oh they are clever birds, you can almost seetheir minds working.We live in the grounds of a castle and they live in the ruins, but a couple of years ago the castle was repaired byEnglish Heritage and the birds took to the trees, we have a beech treein the garden and next door they have a copper beech so they perch in that.We have wood pidgeons as well but I like those, most of the birds are tame as we feed them. Annie33.

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Sorry for resurrecting another topic, but I've learned my lesson from starting a new one when one has already been used. I wasn't on this forum when this was started and I almost started a new one - again!

Anyway, I know this may sound a bit odd, but who paints their door numbers on their wheelie-bins? I think probably most folk do, but there's no way I'll paint my door number on mine because my door number is 6, so I refuse to paint 666 on me bins.

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LOL, I did put my house number on my wheelie bin before I moved here to the retirement community. I'm not particularly nervous about the Number of the Beast myself, but every so often there's a piece in the newspaper about someone refusing a license plate or similar because of it ....