Some great wildlife videos shot on the Dodder

For some more on rats, David Attenborough will be speaking about them on Radio 4 this evening at 20.50. It will be broadcast again on Sunday at 8.50.

This series has been excellent and his take on rats should be particularly good.


It might be surprising to hear, but David Attenborough has made it known over the years that rats are not his favourite animal. In this piece, dedicated to his nemesis, Attenborough with great wit and skill tells us of the living nightmare he endured whilst on location in a place infested with them. If that wasn't enough, whilst making Life of Mammals, he devoted a whole programme to them - and to balance his own personal view went to an Indian temple where the rat is revered and even encouraged to swarm in vast numbers. But in a clever twist of the story, as is the hallmark of David Attenborough, in no uncertain way he tells us why they should be respected.
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Paul has a great photograph on the front page of today's Irish Times and a few more on Page 4

For those of you are put off by rats, this is a much nicer picture. The heron is eating a duckling.

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Brendan
 
The poor thing, what a way to go. He obviously didn't "duck" enough when the heron swooped ...ok I'm leavin.
 
RonanC said:
Its called Nature.

People giving out about the heron, while at the same time they munching a chicken/ham/tuna sandwich
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The photographer, Paul Hughes, was critical of the man throwing stones at the Heron, "especially as he was eating a chicken sandwich". I thought that was very funny.
 
RonanC said:
Its called Nature.

People giving out about the heron, while at the same time they munching a chicken/ham/tuna sandwich
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Indeed.
There was no waste with the rat. The whole lot was eaten whole.
Far worse are humans with our plastic, waste, fukushima, oil, landfills, starving people/billionaires etc, etc...
Now that's obscene.
 
Nothing to do with the Dodder, but I went on a bird of prey/falconry experience in Wicklow a couple of years back. The harris' hawk was let off and nabbed a rat in a copse. The rat was screeching for a short while the talons dug in. The hawk started to pick at it, but the handler put the rat in a pouch for the hawk to eat later, otherwise the hawk wouldn't have flew around for us with a full belly.
 
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