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An extended family of wagtails has chosen Silkie as their preferred evening rendezvous in Balvicar Bay. While they are charming creatures in themselves they are also over-generous with their little calling cards.

I understand that a revolutionary new wagtail scarer is currently undergoing beta testing at a mooring on Scotland's delightful west coast. Does anyone know when this device will be available?

No connection etc., except as a potentially interested purchaser.
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We need more detail here me old cocksparrow.
Are they Pied or Grey Wagtails - (Thank god there is no green wagtail) and would you post an image of the calling card.
We at Wagtailscarerandpissoffandshitonanotherbuggersboat work to ISO9000/2000 and this detail is mission critical and would form a key element of our method statement.
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Morrisons selling Four Crown again? Told you before to lay off that stuff.

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They're pied wagtails.

I don't have any pictures but if you'll send me your address I'll happily post a representative selection of this material to further your research. I'm pleased to note that your organisation is also pursuing a solution to this problem but I believe that a rival group may be closer to a workable deterrent.
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This reference to rival companies is causing some concern in R&D. If you could shed any light or give further information, we would gladly make financial recompense for such information
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Strictly entre-nous..

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..industry sources tell me that Rock and Shattered Pottery Developments Inc. are working on a solution based on threatening visual cues.

The time-honoured well-stuffed manilla envelope will be acceptable.
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Threatening visual clues - dastardly - I think we can get them under the terms of the Geneva Convention Section 112, subsection 6, Para 94
'and clues visual, hereinafter considered threatening....'
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This is well past your bedtime, surely?
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Aye it was - but I do hope you are up, about and ready to face the challenges of the new day by now.
Been in work for exactly 23 mins.
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Och aye. Deleted my first 6 spammers already.

Correction. That's 8 now.
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Silkie wrote:An extended family of wagtails has chosen Silkie as their preferred evening rendezvous in Balvicar Bay ................... a revolutionary new wagtail scarer is currently undergoing beta testing at a mooring on Scotland's delightful west coast.
Thanks for that update. The trials are clearly going well and we hope that the wagtails have settled comfortably into their new abode.

All a bit hush-hush at the moment though. More later.
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Only posting this because it gives me a clean sweep in the right hand column.
I really should get oot mair
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