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Old 26-03-20, 06:39 PM   #2186
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Default Re: The All New Megathread

Spare a thought for the Red Kites. Here in the Chilterns we have hundreds of them wafting along on the thermals all day. They have short talons and beaks plus they're large and not that agile, so they're hopeless hunters and get most of their food from roadkill. With so few vehicles on the road right now they must be starting to get hungry. They've been known to horrify townie picnickers by the Thames around Henley and Marlow by grabbing the odd unobservant bunny rabbit as they swoop down but they can only get a few of those.

Urban foxes are more likely to be trying to get into bins now too as lot of the takeaways are closed and there are no discarded kebabs from pizzed up revellers to find as the pubs are all shut.

And I saw a pic on my phone's newsfeed today of hungry monkeys in Thailand swarming across a deserted town square. With no tourists feeding them they are starting to scavenge - it looked like a scene from Planet of the Apes!!!! Scary stuff.
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