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Post by NigelMoore on Feb 14, 2018 18:42:07 GMT
I am happy to feed the fish, but I never do it while swans are watching; they are far too prone to peremptory demands at ungodly hours of the morning, if they once see you as a soft touch for food.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 18:47:19 GMT
Fish feeder here too!
We are never on one spot long enough to train swans or ducks 👍
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 14, 2018 18:59:12 GMT
Yes we tend to put food scraps and tea leaves out of the window. I am always a bit unsure about meat /fat scraps but as you say, there are things other than ducks that are hungry.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 19:06:30 GMT
How 'ethical' it is to do so largely depends on the population doing the same. Thames seems to be a bit better after the vast majority of residents rubbish stopped ending up in the river.
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 14, 2018 19:10:25 GMT
I like teasing swans and getting them all bad tempered and hissing. I often let them take bread from my fingers, and I like pulling it back a bit so we can have a tug-of-war. Bad breath straight outta Jurassic Park.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 14, 2018 20:43:44 GMT
Every time I kill a rat in one of my snap traps I throw it in the cut because I figure it will soon be riddled with maggots and the fish will then eat the maggots. Then an eastern European will eat the fish. So I'm just helping out my fellow man really. Circle of life and all that.
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Post by patty on Feb 14, 2018 21:16:48 GMT
Dunno now about the cut but I have made bird tables out of odd bits of this n that and i do put scraps out....mainly jackdaws lots n lots of them come visiting..her next doors gets everything visiting her restaurant..guess she's a better cook than me...
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Post by quaysider on Feb 15, 2018 11:45:07 GMT
I chuck stuff out of the window into the cut - most of the time it's fine but the other day we were moored facing the other direction and I had to go out and pick it up off the towpath! DOH!
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Post by patty on Feb 15, 2018 11:56:36 GMT
I chuck stuff out of the window into the cut - most of the time it's fine but the other day we were moored facing the other direction and I had to go out and pick it up off the towpath! DOH! Has anyone worked out the IQ of 'fire engine blondes?'
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Post by quaysider on Feb 15, 2018 12:15:48 GMT
cheeky - it's just we normally come along side with the bow into the prevailing wind... the other day, I'd turned the boat around when going for water and remembered i had to be somewhere so didn't have time to turn it back around... honest! :-)
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