T Break thread 2023

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Frankly I determine there are a few big nuts on this thread.

The ones that hold things together or the ones you eat

[Peter Mallett]

Neither

[Willmaz223]

Found this rather hidden away video on YouTube, its a full 45 Mins onboard of a Porsche 962 winning the first of this years Group C races at Spa Classic.

https://youtu.be/-us0-yJOJe4

[justracing]

Originally Posted by Willmaz223

Found this rather hidden away video on YouTube, its a full 45 Mins onboard of a Porsche 962 winning the first of this years Group C races at Spa Classic.

https://youtu.be/-us0-yJOJe4

Good find Will, that's some ride!

[GORDON STREETER]

We have a fair amount of wildlife down here in Spain and we often get the Hoopoe birds on the lawn by the swimming pool after the ants. A good friend of mine who takes amazing photographs "snapped" this one the other day.
Sorry it isn't motorsport related but this is the T Break Thread

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

We have a fair amount of wildlife down here in Spain and we often get the Hoopoe birds on the lawn by the swimming pool after the ants. A good friend of mine who takes amazing photographs "snapped" this one the other day.
Sorry it isn't motorsport related but this is the T Break Thread
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That's amazing, Gordon! No need to apologise.

Much better than my attempts to capture a sparrow hawk going for the kill on a pigeon in my garden recently - until he spotted two cats stalking him!

I've also got a pair of buzzards that live close by & regularly swoop & swirl overhead. Isn't ;ife in the country wonderful (unless you're a pigeon..)?

[delta]

Fantastic photo Gordon

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

That's amazing, Gordon! No need to apologise.

Much better than my attempts to capture a sparrow hawk going for the kill on a pigeon in my garden recently - until he spotted two cats stalking him!

I've also got a pair of buzzards that live close by & regularly swoop & swirl overhead. Isn't ;ife in the country wonderful (unless you're a pigeon..)?

We have several Buzzards in the area , and they like cars .
When they see their favourite one the shout out to each other " KIA KIA ".

[Mike Harte]

When I lived in Spain, I lived at the top of a hill overlooking a "valley" of scrubland with a forest on the other side of the valley. This forest was important to the area for both the animals and birds that occupied it but also as an important absorber of rainfall.

Often when looking out over this scrubland I used to see different types of raptors including golden eagles all circling above the area searching for prey. These all nested and lived in this forest.

However, due to the lawlessness of our local town hall, firstly a local farmer/landowner completely cleared the scrubland which drove all the rabbits, hares and ground nesting birds away as they no longer had any cover from birds looking for food. And then to compound the fact that the birds of prey lost a ready source of food, the town hall, illegally, permitted a developer to cut down a huge portion of the forest to build a new urbanisation.

Even though the police department responsible for monitoring these land grabs stopped the developers from cutting down the trees twice to my knowledge, the developers just carried on the destruction in the dark of the night and by then it was just too late, it was gone. And so were the birds of prey, never to return.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

We have several Buzzards in the area , and they like cars .
When they see their favourite one the shout out to each other " KIA KIA ".

There's a turtle dove here that attempts to read out the football results but only ever gets as far as "Glasgow - six".