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Dennis atherton


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Mark Rigby wrote:

Dennis atherton wrote:

its just nature balancing itself out, it can be cruel sometimes from our perspective cry.gif





If the Guillemot was better at balancingdisbelief.gif, then it wouldn't have fell off!




Thats a bad un riggers smile.gif i almost fell off the chair laughin, but only almost, good job it werent a cliff...








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Mark Rigby


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Dennis atherton wrote:

its just nature balancing itself out, it can be cruel sometimes from our perspective cry.gif





If the Guillemot was better at balancingdisbelief.gif, then it wouldn't have fell off!

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its just nature balancing itself out, it can be cruel sometimes from our perspective cry.gif

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The way all those thousands of birds cram together on them cliffs there, I'm sure that this isn't an isolated incident.

Real shame though.

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Murder

An act where one person (note not applicable to a bird!) kills another, either intending to cause death or intending to cause serious injury.

Poor Gannet. Just trying to have a minute when someone else's kid gets in the way of the feet you were given at birth


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No, not by a peregrine or even a marauding gull, but a gannet.

On Sunday this gannet decided it wanted to sit well away from the main gannet colony, on a ledge where guillemots were breeding, and there was some understandable threat behaviour going on.

Then the gannet's big flappy feet dislodged a guillemot chick which plummeted off the cliff to its inevitable death - shrieks of horror all round!

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