Bonnot found that the "area covered by the bed was three inches deep with feathers, wings, and bodies" of the hapless birds. The barnies had so little difficulty catching them that in many instances they simply bit off the heads
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Barnie
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As they do they're encountering barn swallows, and the meeker barnies are suffering.
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BARNIES. Some 80 years ago the 'Transactions of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society' carried an extraordinary account of what was almost certainly a pair of luminous barn owls
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The 'Barnies' as they were more commonly known, were, in the main, deserving pensioners
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