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The Wildlife Garden Puzzle Corner

By Ruth D'Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener

It's been a strange month in the Wildlife Garden. Last week I was wearing a T-shirt and potting up cucumber seedlings in warm sunshine. This week, a chilling northerly wind and wintry showers are keeping this frustrated Wildlife Gardener indoors. Seeing as there's little to report, I thought I'd set my loyal readership a couple of puzzles:

Puzzle 1 - Do Owls Have The Wit to Woo You?

Some commercial radio stations are running an ad for a certain vehicle breakdown service. It goes something like this:

'You've broken down at night. What sounds are you likely to hear?'
(Sound effect: Whoo-wooo! Loud flapping of wings)
'An owl'
(Sound effect: rustling of leaves, snuffling)
'A badger'
(Sound effect: chug of diesel engine, handbrake going on)
'A certain breakdown service turning up'.

Question: what is SO zoologically WRONG with this advert?

Puzzle 2 – Fairyland?

Question: Look at this picture. What was happening in the Wildlife Garden?

Please blog me your thoughts. Answers next week!

5 comments so far, see them and add yours here!

Posted on 22nd March 2007 at 10 21 pm
by The Wildlife Gardener
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Categories: Roads and transport, Notes from a Wildlife Garden

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Comments:

Comment from: Wendi

Ok, you'd never hear wildlife near a road for a start unless everyone else had broken down! Roads much such a racket its a wonder anyone can hear anything.

And the picture..I assume its snowing or did I miss something?

Permalink 23/03/07 @ 13:50

Comment from: alison rhodes

owls fly on silent wings

Permalink 24/03/07 @ 20:09

Comment from: Richard · http://honesthypocrite.blogspot.com/

I am trying not to look at the other anaswers as I try to guess your quiz.

#1: Owls don't make any sound when they are hunting? Or they don't hoot at night? Not really sure on that one. I have definitely heard the diesel truck thing. Usually scares the owls and badgers away.

#2: It looks like it is snowing.

Permalink 26/03/07 @ 00:10

Comment from: old man rich · http://oldmanrich.blogspot.com/

Badgers near a road make a sort of heavy thud, changing to a splat if you catch them square on with a tyre, owls are a sort of feathery whumph noise and a sprinkling of breaking glass if they teak out a headlight. The breakdown service helpfully tells you your membership expired at midday.

The photo apppears to be two magic plant people dancing with a complete disregard to their dandruff problems.

Permalink 26/03/07 @ 21:38

Comment from: Ruth D'Alessandro

To put you all out of your misery on the puzzle:yes, alison, owls do fly on silent wings. The actual ad uses a rubbish sound effect of Trafalgar Square pigeons taking off.

It was not actually snowing in the Wildlife Garden; these were hailstones as big as marbles that fell one afternoon in March and showed up weirdly in the camera flash.

Permalink 01/04/07 @ 09:35

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