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Thursday, 15 September 2011

Dear Norris, Is this a Record?


Ah, the immortal words of Roy Castle on Record Breakers.

If anyone can beat this Jackdaw nest for size you're welcome to your place in the Book of World Records....and for the record this was in the roof of a school in the Rhondda, standing nearly 6ft tall and even wider at the base! Estimating its age is always going to be difficult but having visited eagle eyries that were decades old and had been added to year on year by the occupants, I wouldn't be surprised if this nest 'structure' was easily of a similar age if not older.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

no it aint, to determine age dig down to th bottom nest and read the date on the paper you'll find there. Failingb that a nest can also be aged by weighting the milk bottle tops which got lighter with each passing decade. Hope this is of use to you...

Anonymous said...

e_b-t

Slaphead said...

derr Misty your good,feck me its like watching CSI Tonypandy.

Randal M Snowdrop said...

Quincy more like.

Slaphead said...

Ms.Marple?

Anonymous said...

Who would you be Nige, Kojak? I'll bring some Chupa Chups lollies for the next twitch

Slaphead said...

As they say mike "grass does'nt grow on a busy street".

Slaphead said...

Ey up,with banter of this sort you and I will be accused of 'selective bullying' before too long.

I would prefer shaft,a much closer likeness.

Anonymous said...

No probs there is it,bit of banter never got in the way of anything, unless you know who were involved.

MauriceC said...

Great for those kids who want to burn down the school