Thief in the garden

Well, I hope she appreciated it! Wrong size? Wrong colour?

Lol,Steragram..wonder if this is where'feathering your own nest' came from ? ..A very enterprising,and devious bird...but I feel sorry for the victim..

LOL !

What a wicked bird - still I hope she was impressed - birds are so amusing to watch !

What a rotter! I believe penguins do this with their stone-built nests, too.

I felt sorry for the victim too Bloomer. She didn't seem to object at all Ojibway - she obviously know which side her bread is buttered.
Well Gattina. if all they have is pebbles You can understand any desperate attempt to improve matters!

LOL!

hahahahaha...love it!! :))))))))))

Very funny - I've seen penguins doing this. What sort of bird was it?

They were rooks Sheilar. Didn't know they had penguins in Sunderland!

Ha ha Steragram - I meant I'd seen it on the telly! lol (to my knowledge, there are no penguins in Sunderland, just the chocolate biscuits!)

Sheilar I saw the penguins do this too, they were pinching each others rocks from their nests it was hilarious! Love this story Stera, birds can be so cruel to each other can't they?

Ah the telly - haven't got one so missed that prog.
Thanks Grandmage - I guess people can too sometimes - runsthrough creation unfortunately!

:~(

Cheer up, so does kindness!

A lot of animals cheat by stealing other animals' efforts - I suppose if it helps the survival of the thief's genes, it's worth trying. This is "survival of the fittest" - more "thief" genes will be passed on until every member of the group has those genes, and then I suppose things will grind to a stop as every member will be aware of the risk and stand guard to prevent such behavour

:~))

A gloomy prospect - we all finish up suspecting each other!

lol nature don't care much, so long as the best genes survive - and "the best genes" are defined as "the ones that survive". Don't think it applies to humans, though; we're "advanced" enough to take ourselves out of the loop of natural selection.

I'm not so sure about that!

in our case, it's "the geek shall inherit the earth"

Certainly looks like it at present.

It certainly does, Fran - HOW much was Facebook valued at the other day? $400 billion? And he graduated from medical school a day or so before, THEN he went off and got married. Does the geek never rest?

*s* I'm going to get a new email footer: "I'm not on Facebook or Twitter - follow me and I'll have you arrested".

The prob is that it's not *real* money - it's just numbers on a bit of paper, which don't mean anything - other than what people decide it'll mean. And only for as long as they decide ...

the problem with a house of cards is when one of the ones at the bottom starts to come loose ...

I got it wrong - it was only one point something or other billion (oh no!) and the share price has been falling ever since, so he'll probably be signing on for the dole sometime soon.

lol, Gattina, I'd settle for only a tenth of that "only"!