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Uses of bustard in Wiltshire #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
1) Some bustard has made a crop circle in my bottom field. Arrrr.
2) etc.
Wiltshire welcomes clutch of Great Bustards
20kg? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
Sounds like there's some good eating on one of those!
Can I just say... #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
that I always welcome great-busted chicks.
Yes, the dirty mac. Cheers.
How many.. #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
...times can someone mention 'Bustard' in such a short story..?
Anyway, that aside, can I be the first to welcome our newly introduced, slightly-naughty-sounding-named, ornithological overlords.. etc..
Never mind the vultures! #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
Lets have a British bird on the Reg!
Next thing you know... #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
...there'll be a complete pack of bustards!
Or is that flock?
Hmmmpf ? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
Have any of the green wellied bird brigade actually wondered WHY a bird that builds nests on the open ground in an otherwise emptyish plain has become rare ?
I, for one, welcome our new feathered overlords. #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
They look delicious!
"The Great Bustard (Otis tarda) is the world's heaviest flying bird" #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
That is one fat bustard.
Bustard #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 11:58 GMT
I'm a little unclear on the IT angle here - is there some link between a bustard and a freetard? Or does the term bust refer to Miss. Hilton's chest area (which anyway I assume would not be free but paid)?
Government in waiting #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 12:02 GMT
Can they run for election? They'd have to be better than the current set of b*stards in the House of Commons.
I for one welcome (cont p94)
Re: Slow News Day??? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 12:02 GMT
In bed with your mum, AC. In bed with your mum.
Dry Spell #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 12:02 GMT
"to see Great Bustards breeding after an absence of 177 years is brilliant"
Wow that's a LONG dry spell!
Is there any real need to explain the PH icon here?
So SpringWatch is now a news feed? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 13:40 GMT
It's "Gert" Bustard round here anyway.
What - again? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 13:40 GMT
What happened to the last lot then? There was a re-introduction of this same species back in the 70's when I lived in Wiltshire
@Peter R #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 13:40 GMT
"Have any of the green wellied bird brigade actually wondered WHY a bird that builds nests on the open ground in an otherwise emptyish plain has become rare ?"
Nothing to do with their nesting habits, I suspect. There are many other birds with similar nesting habits, however they don't weigh 20Kg. Could their local extinction be something to do with them being hunted for their meat? After all a 20Kg bird is going to feed more folk than a brace of pheasant.
A flock of bustards ? #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 13:47 GMT
.... That'd be a parliament then.
Yeah, the one with the gravy stains down the front.
BOFH #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 13:47 GMT
Bustard Otis From Hell? Looks like Simon has some competition......
ahem #
Posted Wednesday 3rd June 2009 15:07 GMT
"the project releases between six and 32 young birds reared from eggs"
Don't you mean the project releases between six and 32 young bustards?
Will it blend #
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 22:27 GMT
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