I used to have a great photo of a herring gull (a knee high sized one) catching and eating a rat. I have no idea where that is. Just down the road from Blackpool in Southport.
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I used to have a great photo of a herring gull (a knee high sized one) catching and eating a rat. I have no idea where that is. Just down the road from Blackpool in Southport.
We get the odd Seagull around Halifax and Bradford - if they are partial to be a bit of Rat we could do with mass moving seagulls from the coast to deal with the vermin problem! Fortunately my business has zero problems with vermin, the last two pest controllers we had in said there was no evidence of any vermin and they advised against us having them put traps down - because it would actually encourage something we do not have in the first place. Seems we have nothing in the building they would consider food - and to be fair there are plenty of takeaways up the road from us which are a far more interesting place to hang around.
Yeah you are a bit too far inland really. Currently I'm a about a 10 minute walk to the sea .....cough ......oil terminal.
Coffee beans not as appealing to rats as they are to civets then?
Well the Civets eat the coffee cherries - because on the coffee plant two beans grow side by side in a fleshy cherry - so I imagine they seem like a tasty snack like that. The raw beans we receive have been removed from the cherry - and then dried to a specific moisture level - so they are just dry and hard, nothing you can do with them in that state and not very appealing either. Once roasted we seal it bags straight away, and roasted coffee is not a particularly tasty snack - although we have a few customers who coat them in chocolate....
That's a very fair point about the cherries.
I really like chocolate coated coffee beans. I get big bags of them every now and a again (when I have cash and feeling indulgent) from a company called Speedrange (which is mostly a herbs and spices site). I'm guessing the beans have to be roasted differently - be more brittle.
You aren't thinking of branching out are you?