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It is interesting that it isn't just Black Grouse that caught up in fencing!

Andrew

andrew_chick said:

It is interesting that it isn't just Black Grouse that caught up in fencing!

Andrew

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damn did you try to help it? it looks stuck. nice bird

ElCucuy said:

damn did you try to help it? it looks stuck. nice bird

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I'd like to think that the rendering of assistance would be instant and we wouldn't have to ask the Q but I'm not sure it isn't already to late?

andyadcock said:

I'd like to think that the rendering of assistance would be instant and we wouldn't have to ask the Q but I'm not sure it isn't already to late?

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“It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late—
Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
Wrote his grand “Oedipus,” and Simonides
Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers
When each had numbered more than fourscore years;
And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,
Had begun his “Characters of Men.”
Chaucer, at Woodstock, with his nightingales,
At sixty wrote the “Canterbury Tales.”
Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed “Faust” when eighty years were past.
What then? Shall we sit idly down and say,
“The night has come; it is no longer day”?
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress.
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
It is never too late to start doing what is right.
Never.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

with apologies to Mssers Palin and Cleese, Et Al.
'E's passed on!
This crossbill is no more!
He has ceased to be!
'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff!
Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace!
If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory!
'E's off the twig!
'E's kicked the bucket,
'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
THIS IS AN EX-(CROSSBILL) PARROT!!

Nah, he's just pinin' for the fjords.

Got to be a Norwegian Parrot Crossbill