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I wouldn’t be able tell a rook from a crow, tend to just call it a crow regardless, although they’re probably rooks more often than not! I would know a jackdaw, magpie and grey backed crow though… And now a raven
Yes, I was getting my Ravens and Rooks mixed up earlier
Tricky business this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2z-VFSY86M
can you get utube?Thanks Moe, ended up watching five or six different BBC clips there, they sure can do nature footage!
I never thought a vulture could look so cute! A lot of Natural World programmes end up on utube. I found one a few years ago about a wolf called Lobo. Real tear jerker that was.
Blimey. Lobo: that’s a long-forgotten childhood memory rekindled
Was it the Disney film. The Legend of Lobo you saw?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056173/
Might dig it out and watch it again as I too recall it jerking the tears of a short-trousered Drone
No; it was ‘The Wolf that Changed America’, a documentary that had been on the BBC and I’d missed it. Showed how Ernest Seton turned from wolf catcher exraordinaire to wildlife conservationist and
the ‘proper’ founder of the Scouting movement. I hadn’t realised till I did some googling yesterday that Walt Disney had made a film about it. I also found ‘Savage Sam’ on utube a while back; one of my favourite films when I was young; the theme tune had been lurking in the back of my head for over 40 years so it was good to hear it again [although sad to read that it’s [non canine] star Tommy Kirk had ‘come out’ later in his career having then to face the wrath of the film studios he worked for at the time; I was quite in love with him at the time
]. Which then reminds me that I bought ‘Old Yeller’ on dvd ages ago and still haven’t watched it. Stood in front of Greyfriars Bobby’s statue in Edinburgh a couple of years back with tears streaming down my face. Walt Disney has got a lot to answer for…There was also a brilliant documentary on 4 recently called ‘Ic ebound;The Greatest Dog Story Ever Told’ about the use of dogs in the 1920’s to get diptheria antitoxin to a remote settlement in Alaska in the middle of winter when no other form of transport could get through. Fascinating stuff.
No; it was ‘The Wolf that Changed America’, a documentary that had been on the BBC and I’d missed it. Showed how Ernest Seton turned from wolf catcher exraordinaire to wildlife conservationist and
the ‘proper’ founder of the Scouting movement. I hadn’t realised till I did some googling yesterday that Walt Disney had made a film about it. I also found ‘Savage Sam’ on utube a while back; one of my favourite films when I was young; the theme tune had been lurking in the back of my head for over 40 years so it was good to hear it again [although sad to read that it’s [non canine] star Tommy Kirk had ‘come out’ later in his career having then to face the wrath of the film studios he worked for at the time; I was quite in love with him at the time
]. Which then reminds me that I bought ‘Old Yeller’ on dvd ages ago and still haven’t watched it. Stood in front of Greyfriars Bobby’s statue in Edinburgh a couple of years back with tears streaming down my face. Walt Disney has got a lot to answer for…I caught the tail end of that documentary and was annoyed I hadn’t tuned in earlier. I actually ordered a copy of Seton’s book
Wild Animals I Have Known
a couple of day later. I haven’t read about all his encounters yet but naturally the chapter about Lobo the wolf was where I headed first. You an pick it up pretty cheap and I’d recommend it, a good read.
]. Which then reminds me that I bought ‘Old Yeller’ on dvd ages ago and still haven’t watched it. Stood in front of Greyfriars Bobby’s statue in Edinburgh a couple of years back with tears streaming down my face. Walt Disney has got a lot to answer for…- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.