Chris Packham at it again !

[glasshouse]

I spent most of 1984 ( a very Orwellian year ) working in Communist Poland and used to be almost awestruck by the vast flocks of crows (rooks) that could be seen undulating across the dawn skies, heading west. Like a fantastically wide, black, ribband they swept across the sky in an almost unending flow.

It looked, at the time, as though the birds were escaping the communist rule in the country but they always came heading back at dusk. I often wondered where the crows came from, where could so many crows roost at night, and where were they heading for in their dawn flights; the DDR, or perhaps West Germany?

Did they do work in the capitalist west during the day?

 

[Christoph1945]

Probably harvesting thrown away food from the capitalists' rubbish dumps. There used to be so many of the darned things I imagine they could have stripped a sheep faster than a shoal of piranhas.

 

[essexpete]

A friend of mine did a few envelope calculations and worked out that if every person on the planet had Chris Packham's carbon foot print and then attempted to offset with suitable green planting then another four plannets the size of Earth would be required. I may not have friend's exact figures but that is the gist.
Is everyone aware that Michaela Strachan lives in South Africa and commutes on an almost weekly basis?

 

[Christoph1945]

Whatever happened to video conferencing?

 

[Dry Rot]

Just for the record and to clarify some facts, carrion crows or 'hoodies' do sometimes congregate in flocks. When I lived in Gloucestershire, there was a communal roost where hundred of carrion crows would congregate at dusk. I assume these were 'bachelors' who couldn't get a territory as crows are aggressive birds, which is why Larsen traps work. But, yes, mostly solitary or in pairs.

Some people consider that rooks also do good in eating various pests of crops (wireworms?). But that is probably balanced out by the harm they do as they are almost as good as the other corvids in finding nests and eating eggs and young.

Just the facts. My opinion is the same as others here.

 

[Henarar]

A friend of mine did a few envelope calculations and worked out that every person on the planet had Chris Packham's carbon foot print and then attempted to offset with suitable green planting then a other four plannets the size of Earth would be required. I may not have friend's exact figures but that is the gist.
Is everyone aware that Michaela Strachan lives in South Africa and commutes on an almost weekly basis?

FFS
but I dare say that a lot of these high profile environmentalist bull sh1ters would be like that, a case of do as I say not as........ or perhaps one rule for one and another for every other bugger or perhaps some are more equal than others, packham defiantly is