De Wildlife is shockin here
Des Higgins
I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
"there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they were
around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them in
daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we are
putting down traps for them next week.
1 month ago we went for a walk around Bray Head (headland 15 miles south of
Dublin). You can walk around the low cliffs and see the seabirds etc. It
was quite calm and you could see anything moving in the water. I saw some
porpoises; at least 2, but it was hard to count them as they were a fair
distance away and tey are fairly small. You could just see the dorsal fins
breaking the surface every so often.
Jack Coostow
-Whitewolf(Ray)
wrote:
>
>I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
>looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
>"there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
>seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they were
>around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them in
>daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
>strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
>reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we are
>putting down traps for them next week.
>
To capture and release them someplace else I hope?
Ray (leave the foxes alone... What did they ever do to you?)
>1 month ago we went for a walk around Bray Head (headland 15 miles south of
>Dublin). You can walk around the low cliffs and see the seabirds etc. It
>was quite calm and you could see anything moving in the water. I saw some
>porpoises; at least 2, but it was hard to count them as they were a fair
>distance away and tey are fairly small. You could just see the dorsal fins
>breaking the surface every so often.
>
>Jack Coostow
>
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OldWiseMan
"-Whitewolf(Ray)" <r...@eirefirst.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:36:24 -0000, "Des Higgins" <fath...@eircom.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin.
> Ray (leave the foxes alone... What did they ever do to you?)
He's worried they might steal his chickens :)
Fr. Des
"-Whitewolf(Ray)" <r...@eirefirst.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:36:24 -0000, "Des Higgins" <fath...@eircom.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
>>looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
>>"there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
>>seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they
were
>>around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them
in
>>daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
>>strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
>>reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we
are
>>putting down traps for them next week.
>>
>
>To capture and release them someplace else I hope?
>
>Ray (leave the foxes alone... What did they ever do to you?)
I was joking.
>
>>1 month ago we went for a walk around Bray Head (headland 15 miles south
of
>>Dublin). You can walk around the low cliffs and see the seabirds etc.
It
>>was quite calm and you could see anything moving in the water. I saw some
>>porpoises; at least 2, but it was hard to count them as they were a fair
>>distance away and tey are fairly small. You could just see the dorsal
fins
>>breaking the surface every so often.
>>
>>Jack Coostow
>>
>
>
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>have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb
>contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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>Website: http://www.eirefirst.com
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Bóliath
> "-Whitewolf(Ray)" <r...@eirefirst.com> wrote:
>>"Des Higgins" wrote:
>>>
>>>putting down traps for them next week.
>>>
>>To capture and release them someplace else I hope?
>>
>>Ray (leave the foxes alone... What did they ever do to you?)
>
> I was joking.
oh no - scarleh
Bóliath
> I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
> looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
> "there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
> seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they were
> around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them in
> daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
> strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
> reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we are
> putting down traps for them next week.
why trap them?
Fr. Des
to have them in me garden.
Fr. Des
Cat
Oh, don't be fooled. He only said that in the face of the impending avalanche
of opprobrium which was about to befall him. Fact is Des is currently involved
in some particularly gruesome vivisection experiments. About checking genuine
celtic foxes for infiltration by rogue germano-british haplotypes.
Cat(h)
kateh
> I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
> looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
> "there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
> seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they
were
> around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them
in
> daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
> strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
> reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we
are
> putting down traps for them next week.
Our urban turkeys have declared that the stupid-ground-hog was wrong and
It's-Spring-By-Gawd!......as they dance under the butternut with their
feathers all poofed out. I've great respect for any wild thing that can
navigate inside the city limits. Foxes are pretty darned fun to watch and
not nearly as smelly as skunks.
kateh
> Oh, don't be fooled. He only said that in the face of the impending
avalanche
> of opprobrium which was about to befall him. Fact is Des is currently
involved
> in some particularly gruesome vivisection experiments. About checking
genuine
> celtic foxes for infiltration by rogue germano-british haplotypes.
Nonsense......he's a scientist. We had seven squirrles at the bird feeder a
few weeks ago and the Fish Dr and kid sat around the table wondering if they
should trap and tag them with radio-tags.......to see where they went. I
pointed out that they went between the tree across the street - to the
bird-feeder - and back again - all day long........and the trapping talk
subsided.
KateH :)
-Whitewolf(Ray)
>
>"-Whitewolf(Ray)" <r...@eirefirst.com> wrote:
>>On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:36:24 -0000, "Des Higgins" <fath...@eircom.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. My daughter was
>>>looking out the window one night at about 10.00pm and she said
>>>"there is a cat with a long nose in the garden". It was a fox and we have
>>>seen 2 of them all over the place in the last few months. I knew they
>were
>>>around the city but I had never seen them before. We have even seen them
>in
>>>daylight. Several times I have been woken up by one of them making weird
>>>strangled baby noises at 5 in the morning. I just read the above and it
>>>reads like a letter to the wildlife page of the Irish times. Anyway, we
>are
>>>putting down traps for them next week.
>>>
>>
>>To capture and release them someplace else I hope?
>>
>>Ray (leave the foxes alone... What did they ever do to you?)
>
>I was joking.
>
Ah! Great! funny thing about text... Often when writing it, there is
one thing in your mind - you were joking, but somehow this eejit mistook it
and thought you were serious and was worried for the foxes... Text leaves
a lot to be desired as a mass medium at times...
Ray
Sage
"Fr. Des" <fath...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=F3liath?= <boliat...@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> >Des Higgins wrote:
> >
> >> I am living in a housing estate 5 miles south of Dublin. >
You've abandoned yer roots . Thats worse than living in Cork.
Have you outgrown de nortside?
K
> Fr. Des
>
Fr. Des
I have developed a decent accent and travel by Dort as much as possible
and watch Laurence Llewellyn Bowen for tips on how to match my earthy
fabric colours with interesting textures and the kids are going to the most
expensive school we can find in the area (3 hours commute each way every
day)
and so on. The northside was just a bit too organic for me. Apart from
Malahide and Howth, it felt a bit too close to the sources of primary
economic production.
I do visit occasionally; I was in Easons only last month.
Fr. Des
Bóliath
>>Fr. Des wrote:
>>>"-Whitewolf(Ray)" <r...@eirefirst.com> wrote:
>>>>"Des Higgins" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>putting down traps for them next week.
>>>>
>>>>To capture and release them someplace else I hope?
>>>>
>>
>>oh no - scarleh
>>
> Oh, don't be fooled. He only said that in the face of the impending avalanche
> of opprobrium which was about to befall him. Fact is Des is currently involved
> in some particularly gruesome vivisection experiments. About checking genuine
> celtic foxes for infiltration by rogue germano-british haplotypes.
or cats with long noses... (not you Cat(h) - the ones his little girl
thought she saw)
Terry McT
wrote:
A nurse shark swam by me while I was diving in the Caribbean earlier in
the week. It was gorgeous.
Terry
Terry McT
I saw some lovely angel fish last week, but they weren't inside a
city's limits. Just had to say that. I drank a lot of rum inside a
city limit, though.
Terry
Terry McT
<nos...@nospammers.sp> wrote:
Of course, he has. The man's a published author. He's gone all posh.
Terry
Bóliath
> I saw some lovely angel fish last week, but they weren't inside a
> city's limits. Just had to say that. I drank a lot of rum inside a
> city limit, though.
more more more, pictures?
kateh
Yes please! Post pics somewhere.......I'll go get the rum drinks with the
little umbrellas! :)
A nurse shark *is* a beautiful creature to swim with........much, much more
beautiful than a hammerhead. There's something wonderful about their color
and the way they move, eh? Especially when they swim just above the sandy
bottom in the shallows and you get that shadow on the ocean floor. Cool.
There's a new tourist industry in the Keys ....swimming with shark tours.
My sister just went. Apparently (insane) people (like my sis) pay to be
allowed to go away out over the reef in a boat, chum the water with blood
and fish-guts and jump in the ocean for a swim.
I'll get the address for ya! :)
KateH
Duke of URL
kateh <kateh_1atcharter.net> radiated into the WorldWideWait:
Being a practical lady, you *have* taken out a large insurance policy
on her, right?
kateh
> kateh radiated into the WorldWideWait:
> > Cool. There's a new tourist industry in
> > the Keys ....swimming with shark tours. My sister just went.
> > Apparently (insane) people (like my sis) pay to be allowed to go
> > away out over the reef in a boat, chum the water with blood and
> > fish-guts and jump in the ocean for a swim. I'll get the address
> > for ya! :) KateH
>
> Being a practical lady, you *have* taken out a large insurance policy
> on her, right?
Hadn't given it a thought. :)
She said she did it once and once was enough......I reminded her that we'd
swam with sharks in the Bahamas when we were kids and she said "Oh mannnn,
I'd forgotten all about that!"
Kate(probably not a bad idea about the insurance, actually)H :)
Terry McT
<boliat...@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote:
I took a bunch, both digital land shots and some underwater ones. I
need to scan the underwater ones, but I'll put them up on my web page
as soon as I can.
I hope you aren't expecting pictures of the rum drinking. I'm old
enough and cagey enough to avoid photographic evidence of such things.
:)
Terry
Terry McT
Nurse sharks are also fairly docile. If you watch action movies (such
as Bond films) where the hero is imperiled by sharks, they'll show fast
moving sharks in the lead up, but then the hero (or his double)
wrassles a nurse shark.
I've been around a fair number of sharks while in the water. You have
to show them great respect and no do anything that might threaten or
frighten them. Same thing goes for alligators. I'm not particularly
afraid of either group (except under certain extreme circumstances),
but a foul natured water moccasin/cottonmouth can make me shake.
Terry
O Siadhail
> I'm old
>enough and cagey enough to avoid photographic evidence of such things.
Ha, not so old or so cagey, I have some photographic evidence of such things!
The bidding is open....
(ll Ynot Tsaflebx)
"The biggest problem in communication is
the illusion that it has been accomplished."
Terry McT
<xbel...@aol.comOSiadhai> wrote:
> >Terry McT
>
> > I'm old
> >enough and cagey enough to avoid photographic evidence of such things.
>
> Ha, not so old or so cagey, I have some photographic evidence of such things!
>
> The bidding is open....
I recall being largely sober on a bridge over the canal while the
camera was in use. Oh, wait, the whole PQ thing. Yikes! I'm getting
a residual hangover thinking of that night. I almost fell asleep
(translation: passed out) on the Metro on the way home. Ok, I'm older
and cager after having spent a certain evening in an Irish bar on
Connecticut Ave, NW, DC, with certain sci'ers!
Sweetie, when are we going out again?
Terry
O Siadhail
>Sweetie, when are we going out again?
Soon, I should think..let me send out another round of emails. Maybe March will
be a better month
Terry McT
<xbel...@aol.comOSiadhai> wrote:
> >: Terry McT
>
> >Sweetie, when are we going out again?
>
> Soon, I should think..let me send out another round of emails. Maybe March
> will
> be a better month
>
I'll actually be in town most of March. Shocking, no?
Terry
Bóliath
> I took a bunch, both digital land shots and some underwater ones. I
> need to scan the underwater ones, but I'll put them up on my web page
> as soon as I can.
>
> I hope you aren't expecting pictures of the rum drinking. I'm old
> enough and cagey enough to avoid photographic evidence of such things.
Ah Terry - that's exactly what I wanted...never mind the underwater ones
will do, I'll print them out and stick them on the back of the fish
tanks to liven up my fish a bit.
kateh
> I've been around a fair number of sharks while in the water. You have
> to show them great respect and no do anything that might threaten or
> frighten them.
I've been in the water with them a few times and I always showed the
greatest amount of respect I could think of........by getting out. :)
> Same thing goes for alligators. I'm not particularly
> afraid of either group (except under certain extreme circumstances),
> but a foul natured water moccasin/cottonmouth can make me shake.
I used to swim at this lake near Tallahassee when I was in school and we'd
swim through this huge weed bed going under it through the tunnels gators
had made. It wasn't till years later that I saw some nature-show of a huge
gator swimming through a tunnel like that...that I said "holy shit!". :)
I know there were some pretty big gators in that lake too. We used to go
out there at night and you could hear them singing love songs.
KateH
Terry McT
<boliat...@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote:
I've got a certain bias to my photography. I'm more likely to snap a
picture of a lovely tube worm or colorful anemone than I am of a fish.
It's a byproduct of all those years teaching invertebrate zoology labs.
Terry
Terry McT
How cool. I'd like to see the tunnels.
Were the gators singing on key?
Terry
kateh
> kateh wrote:
> > I used to swim at this lake near Tallahassee when I was in school and
we'd
> > swim through this huge weed bed going under it through the tunnels
gators
> > had made. It wasn't till years later that I saw some nature-show of a
huge
> > gator swimming through a tunnel like that...that I said "holy shit!".
:)
> > I know there were some pretty big gators in that lake too. We used to
go
> > out there at night and you could hear them singing love songs.
>
> How cool. I'd like to see the tunnels.
It was and we had some danged good times out there at that lake.
> Were the gators singing on key?
Sent shivers down MY spine........and made me get out of the water! :)
KateH
Terry McT
> "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > kateh wrote:
> > > I used to swim at this lake near Tallahassee when I was in school and
> we'd
> > > swim through this huge weed bed going under it through the tunnels
> gators
> > > had made. It wasn't till years later that I saw some nature-show of a
> huge
> > > gator swimming through a tunnel like that...that I said "holy shit!".
> :)
> > > I know there were some pretty big gators in that lake too. We used to
> go
> > > out there at night and you could hear them singing love songs.
> >
> > How cool. I'd like to see the tunnels.
>
> It was and we had some danged good times out there at that lake.
Did you go to college in Tallahassee?
>
> > Were the gators singing on key?
>
> Sent shivers down MY spine........and made me get out of the water! :)
Anything that's 10 ft long and looking for love SHOULD send shivers
down your spine.
Terry
kateh
> Did you go to college in Tallahassee?
Damn....it's all a smokey haze.
Kate(FSU....art major)H :)
Terry McT
Way to go! Did you drive a parental unit crazy by majoring in art?
Terry
O Siadhail
>I'll actually be in town most of March.
that's a start now all we have to do is see if the busy woman, PQ, Sweeney and
leona are up for it. If not, sure you and I can set something up and let the
rest know when to be there. I'll email ya this weekend
Terry McT
<xbel...@aol.comOSiadhai> wrote:
> > Terry McT
>
> >I'll actually be in town most of March.
>
> that's a start now all we have to do is see if the busy woman, PQ, Sweeney and
> leona are up for it. If not, sure you and I can set something up and let the
> rest know when to be there. I'll email ya this weekend
> (ll Ynot Tsaflebx)
>
Sounds good. I'm going to Tallahassee on Sunday, but will be checking
email.
Terry
kateh
> kateh wrote:
> > "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > > Did you go to college in Tallahassee?
> >
> > Damn....it's all a smokey haze.
> > Kate(FSU....art major)H :)
>
> Way to go! Did you drive a parental unit crazy by majoring in art?
Two. :)
KateH
Terry McT
> "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > kateh wrote:
> > > "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > > > Did you go to college in Tallahassee?
> > >
> > > Damn....it's all a smokey haze.
> > > Kate(FSU....art major)H :)
> >
> > Way to go! Did you drive a parental unit crazy by majoring in art?
>
> Two. :)
...and now karma is threatening to tweak you a bit?
:)
Terry
kateh
> kateh wrote:
> > "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > > > Kate(FSU....art major)H :)
> > >
> > > Way to go! Did you drive a parental unit crazy by majoring in art?
> >
> > Two. :)
>
> ...and now karma is threatening to tweak you a bit?
In spades.
KateH :)
Terry McT
> "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > kateh wrote:
> > > "Terry McT" wrote ...
> > > > > Damn....it's all a smokey haze.
> > > > > Kate(FSU....art major)H :)
> > > >
> > > > Way to go! Did you drive a parental unit crazy by majoring in art?
> > >
> > > Two. :)
> >
> > ...and now karma is threatening to tweak you a bit?
>
> In spades.
I'm planning on helping my nieces to annoy their parents. Actually,
I'm laying the groundwork now while they're young. :)
Terry