There was a documentary on here recently about the tunneling cormorants of South Wales (Phalacrorax Troglodytes Gallensis). It seems the coal miners of the Welsh valleys used cormorants to detect gas when they ran out of canaries, Welsh pits being particularly prone to gas because of all the leeks (no, honestly!), and cormorants being far more common in the wild than canaries down Rrhonddha way.
The cormorant, although stupid, is not nearly as thick as the canary and they quickly cottoned on to the shrinking population, correctly figuring out that in general fewer cormorants came out of the lift at the end of the day than went in at the start. So they took to using discarded pastie crusts to dig their way through the coal face until they hit bare earth, at which point their beaks were up to the job. Living on earthworms and moles' eggs a small population established itself among the slag heaps and flint, earning themselves the local name of slag shags. They have recently been designated by the EU a protected species, earning large amounts of European money which pays for the preservation of their habitat and a large museum-cum-shopping centre specialising in sardines, pilcahards and related fish not noted for their relevance to the coal-mining industry but providing an essential outlet for spare EU cash. Of course, if the miners had realised that cormorants can't count past 5, they could have made sure always to bring at least 6 of the oily-plumed beauties back to the surface, and none of this would have happened. Bob > > as long as there is no mention of cormorants > > LF > > Peter Alling escreveu: > > Better yet a squirrel on a skewer... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > >> From: Bob W <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Jan 25, 2009 12:13 PM > >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' <[email protected]> > >> Subject: RE: GESO: My Attempt to Learn from Godders > >> > >> How about a mole on a wire? > >> > >> > >>> Birds and phone/power lines around here are difficult due to the > >>> prevalence of all underground utilities! :-) > >>> > >>> Thanks for the comments! > >>> > >>> Walt > >>> > >>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Christine Aguila > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> That's a funny sign, Walt, and you gave it a good go with > >>>> > >>> the minimalist > >>> > >>>> GESO--I like the squirrel & cat pic--made me giggle. I > >>>> > >>> think you're off to > >>> > >>>> a fine start! Now go find yourself a telephone wire with a > >>>> > >>> bird on it & > >>> > >>>> shoot it with lots of sky :-). Keep going, & show us more > >>>> > >>> ;-). Big > >>> > >>>> cheers, Christine > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hamler" > >>>> > >>> <[email protected]> > >>> > >>>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >>>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:42 PM > >>>> Subject: Re: GESO: My Attempt to Learn from Godders > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Thanks for the replies and encouragement. > >>>>> > >>>>> Here is one that may or may not fit the category, but I > >>>>> > >>> thought it was > >>> > >>>>> cute anyway and worth sharing. > >>>>> > >>>>> Walt > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> http://walthamler.smugmug.com/gallery/7175892_fhzk3#460789473_ > >>> h84CC-XL-LB > >>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > >>>>> > >>> directly above and > >>> > >>>>> follow the directions. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > >>>> > >>> directly above and > >>> > >>>> follow the directions. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > >>> above and follow the directions. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > > -- > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
