HI ALL:
I can see the movie now: "ATTACK OF THE KILLER TURNSTONES"!!!!!
Happy Holidays!

Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
"Rallidae all the way"

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:47:12 +0000
From: Malcolm Ogilvie <MAOgilvie at indaal.demon.co.uk>
To: ukbirdnet at dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [UKBN] Turnstones?

In article <3A473733.21A990E at cableinet.co.uk>, Michael Frankis
<pfne10838 at cableinet.co.uk> writes
>I remember a letter in 'British Birds' a few years ago titled "Is there
>anything Turnstones won't eat", followed by a long list, including soap,
>dead people, etc, etc, etc.
>
"soap, gull excrement, dog food, potato peels, cheese, oatmeal, and the
flesh of dead animals, including birds, sheep, wolf, cat and a human
corpse."

Armed with this information, the letter writer tried out various foods
on Turnstones feeding round his camp in Alaska, and added the following
items: cooked rice, raisins, cloves of garlic and honey-coated oat
cereal.

Have a nice Christmas dinner, everyone :-)

--
Malcolm
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