Living Dangerously
Here's a very dull photograph of Canal Gardens, Roundhay Park, Leeds, this morning:
It was all a bit dark and overcast and I'm only showing it to you to put the next photograph in context.
As we drew nearer to the fountain, our minds were boggled by this moorhen:
Yes! Great choice of nest site there! Perhaps she built the nest and laid the eggs when the fountain was switched off and then when it came on thought "oh nooooooooooooo!" Or perhaps moorhens don't mind being permanently damp.
Anyway, it's not the dozy bird's fault: it's the dozy Leeds City Council's fault.
There used to be islands in the little man-made canal, where birds could - and did - nest. But the council recently did a big spruce-up of Canal Gardens, and decided to do away with the islands. Why? Some stupid Health and Safety reason. Rats might live on them. Alligators might move here from Florida and take up residence. People might decide to try to wade out to them, and drown in the attempt. Who knows?
For years and years and years children have fed the ducks and coots and moorhens in Canal Gardens and now they don't because there are hardly any of them because some stupid idiots at Leeds City Council have taken away their nest sites. And in these days where we're supposed to have a more enlightened attitude to animals and birds, why the council did such a deeply stupid thing I don't know.
I feel like writing to them but I know what the response would be - - horrendous danger to members of the public from the islands in the middle of the canal so they had to be removed yawn yawn.
By 'eck, as I've mentioned before, it's damned hard to save the world, even a little bit at a time, when it's been staffed with such fools. Homo Sapiens? HAH!
It was all a bit dark and overcast and I'm only showing it to you to put the next photograph in context.As we drew nearer to the fountain, our minds were boggled by this moorhen:
Yes! Great choice of nest site there! Perhaps she built the nest and laid the eggs when the fountain was switched off and then when it came on thought "oh nooooooooooooo!" Or perhaps moorhens don't mind being permanently damp.Anyway, it's not the dozy bird's fault: it's the dozy Leeds City Council's fault.
There used to be islands in the little man-made canal, where birds could - and did - nest. But the council recently did a big spruce-up of Canal Gardens, and decided to do away with the islands. Why? Some stupid Health and Safety reason. Rats might live on them. Alligators might move here from Florida and take up residence. People might decide to try to wade out to them, and drown in the attempt. Who knows?
For years and years and years children have fed the ducks and coots and moorhens in Canal Gardens and now they don't because there are hardly any of them because some stupid idiots at Leeds City Council have taken away their nest sites. And in these days where we're supposed to have a more enlightened attitude to animals and birds, why the council did such a deeply stupid thing I don't know.
I feel like writing to them but I know what the response would be - - horrendous danger to members of the public from the islands in the middle of the canal so they had to be removed yawn yawn.
By 'eck, as I've mentioned before, it's damned hard to save the world, even a little bit at a time, when it's been staffed with such fools. Homo Sapiens? HAH!
posted by Daphne at 2:32 pm
4 Comments:
Ugh, sounds like political correctness gone mad. It's always the local councils/authorities that seem to be the worst!!
Eeeh lass, an' Ah thought they was ra'ht sensible folk up there in that there Yorkshire!!
Oh ffs! Gosh, that kind of thing makes me froth at the mouth.
*has just realised who I get that from*
Homo Sapiens? You can keep it. I plan to be reincarnated as Pan Troglodytes.
A friendly warning to Bun - I have this strange disease that makes me spontaneously attack people with cleavers if they use the phrase "political correctness gone mad".
You're right though.
Lay off the moorhen lady! She made her nest in the dry bit next to the water source. You can even see this in your photos. However, you're right to suggest that if she had had a choice she'd have been far happier on a natural "island". Why do so many people think that "neat and tidy" is always better than "messy"? It is not always the case.
PS Please consider barring Jennyta because of insulting racist parodying of Yorkshire dialect. Most offensive!
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