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Message: <blockquote data-quote="palval147" data-source="post: 1347057" data-attributes="member: 49119">I have enjoyed reading this thread again. You have all had some lovely memories of bird & other creature encounters from your childhoods.This one is more recent for me, though I wasn't really into birds at all then.We lived in Cippenham, near Slough when the childen were small. One very cold Winter I spotted an unusual bird in our garden, eating the fallen apples. I had never seen one like it before, got the bird book & discovered it was a Fieldfare, the first one I had ever seen.We had a riding stable in Cippenham village behind our houses, I used to ride there sometimes, anyway they had a tame hand reared Jackdaw. The land went for building & the stable was closed, but instead of taking the Jackdaw with them, they set it free. He was rather a pain, hung around the houses & gardens, begging for scraps, pinched pegs off the clothes lines, even when you were pegging out clothes, swooped down & pulled hair, if you walked passed him, landed on shoulders making you jump, but the most annoying thing was he slept in the corner of our bedroom window, on the outside, on a ledge, all you could hear for most of the night was "Poor, poor Jack!" The stupid people who'd hand reared him, had also taught him to talk.|<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />| He hung around for a couple of years, but then vanished, I think a cat probably caught him, he was far to trusting.</blockquote>

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