BLUE TIT LIVE STREAMING RTE BIRD’S NEST
May 1, 2009
A couple of Blue Tits (is that one word or two?) have just given birth to a clutch of Blue Tit eggs here in Dublin and are being monitored on The Mooney Show on RTE Radio. I know nothing about such matters but it apparently will take two to three weeks for these eggs to hatch , in the mean time the birds will eat 18,000 caterpillars each. Well , that’s what Derek Mooney said , I’ve no idea if it’s true or not. Children from all over Ireland will be tuning in to check on their progress….but personally I find it all just boring. I don’t like birds and the only thing I can call to mind on the subject is that as children we would snigger in school as the teacher spoke the word ‘tit’.
I’ll twitter this ( get it ? ) on my Twitter – it’s the sort of aimless/pointless boring bit of non news that should make a perfect Twitter soundbite. I’m not the Birdman of Alcatraz. I’ve never even flown on a plane. I’m a man who beleives in keeping his feet firmly on the ground. “A bird in the hand…..” . Why would anyone want a bird in their hand and why would you want to watch one sitting on an egg for hours on end ? The only book I’ve read on birds was not about birds at all. Bird,s Nest Soup by Hanna Greely and the author was just a little bit mad herself. Big Tits or Blue Tits who gives a flying f***k.
UPDATE: BLUE TIT 2010 …………….update
May 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm
To be perfectly honest, the more I read, the more I’m of the opinion that you’re a terrible old grouch. I don’t have children myself either (as I guess you don’t??) but who could fail to be warmed by a childs wonder at nature? At the glorious expectant 2 or 3 weeks of monitoring these unhatched eggss. The magic of it. And all the inherent, mystical messages it might generate in innocent minds. A child waiting for new life to birth. There is so much pleasure to be gleaned from this world Mr Twit, so much, that you should spent your short time on this earth swimming in it, rather than grouching, grumbling, blaming and pontificating on negativity.
May 28, 2009 at 10:23 am
i am really enjoying following ur comments u certainly know how 2 take the opposition 2 the cleaners! i agree that nature is the mother wonder and it is sad 4 us that we have evolved into a societuy w ho can not appreciate the small things in life.
May 31, 2010 at 10:32 pm
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