Birds being murdered in Crystal Palace Road?!?!

[Sue]

It's half past ten.

There's a massive wild life commotion!

Anyone care to venture an idea as to what it is?

[camberwell70]

A murder of crows?

[JohnL]

They're warning there's a cat stalking ? :)

[Sue]

It didn't sound like the usual fox/cat commotion.

Did nobody else hear it??

camberwell70 - :))

[TheArtfulDogger]

Strange title to this thread, if it's a fox or cat then it's nature not murder

[Muley]

I live on Crystal Palace Road.

Yesterday I came home with the decapitated corpse of a chicken.

Then I ate it's liver with some fava beans and a fine Chianti.

[mancity68]

Parakeet influx?

[Sue]

mancity68 Wrote:

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> Parakeet influx?

They'd all be in bed at that time, surely?!

[DulwichFox]

TheArtfulDogger Wrote:

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> Strange title to this thread, if it's a fox or cat

> then it's nature not murder

Murder only applies to the unlawful killing of a human being by another human being..

Foxy

[intexasatthe moment]

Yes ,yes but sometimes when there's a lot of noise one does use the colloquial expression " sounds like murder " .

I'm guessing Sue understands the distinction between murder and nature .

[Alan Medic]

Could it have been snoring? Just askin' like.

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> TheArtfulDogger Wrote:

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> > Strange title to this thread, if it's a fox or

> cat

> > then it's nature not murder

>

> Murder only applies to the unlawful killing of a

> human being by another human being..

>

Poetic licence, Fox ..... :))

Many words are not used according to their original meaning.

Have you never heard the expression used by a hungry person "I could murder a (insert name of food item here)", for example?

Anyway apologies, maybe I should change the thread title to "Birds being very loudly killed in Crystal Palace Road?!?" but somehow it just doesn't have the same impact .....

[Elphinstone's Army]

Sue, 'birds being slaughtered' : even more dramatic : two weeks ago before the tree outside the nursery leafed, I saw a little bird sitting on a branch minding its own business, until a crow flapped down, scooped it up and flew away with it.

[camberwell70]

Maybe they were chugged.

[Sue]

Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> Sue, 'birds being slaughtered' : even more

> dramatic : two weeks ago before the tree outside

> the nursery leafed, I saw a little bird sitting on

> a branch minding its own business, until a crow

> flapped down, scooped it up and flew away with it.

:(

A few years back a bird of prey got a starling in my garden.

I used to have loads of starlings and now none come.

Weird, eh? That poor starling made a lot of noise, but it was in broad daylight not after dark!