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Re: Raven's stealing golf balls.

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Subject: Re: Raven's stealing golf balls.
From: "Karen Pearson" <>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:35:24 +1000
While my dog wasn't looking today, a raven flew down and nicked off with his precious marrow bone! Quite a hefty haul for a bird.

I'm still having ravens constantly coming to the birdbath with lumps of bread to soak. I found out where they are getting it - a neighbour regularly gives her horse a bag of stale bread from the bakery left-overs!

And there was my previous egg-heist story. I used to put the hen eggs down to do odd jobs on my way back to the house and then they'd just disappear. I was forever thinking I'd forgotten where I'd put them! After losing an awful lot of eggs and realising it wasn't just my bad memory at play I left an egg out in the open and hid in the carport to watch. Didn't take the bird long at all. They must have been watching me as soon as I left the chook house!

The only thing that turns out I shouldn't have been blaming on them, but had for a long time, was mystery golf balls constantly turning up in my paddocks. I always put it down to ravens until I started catching one of my neighbours teeing off from the high point of his property! I now collect them to give to my farrier who plays golf.

Karen.
Warrandyte South, Vic.


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