[penance]

Rook shooting day is traditionaly 12th may here.

[Salmo]

That just prooves that it is a good guide. Bristol is further south than Peterborough and so a few days earlier.

[Goosegirl]

Didn't the Two Ronnies do a sketch about a restaurant that only served dishes made from rooks? Rook soup, roast rook, rook curry, rook gateau etc, etc, etc.

[Gwiz]

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[wayne_g]

Similar to one of the other answers - May 8th. It's my grandad birtday and he and his late brothers all swore by it. I get it in the neck off my mother if haven't planted them on May 8th. I think I was planting them in the dark last year as I'd be away all day. The treat of the mother ehh!

[horsepooisgood]

Ugh some people will eat anything, I suppose someone will come up with a slug pasty next

[Salmo]

Funny you should say that. No, we don't eat them, but rub a wart with a big black slug and it will go.

If you are French you eat snails so what is the difference. And there is no shell to have to get it out of.

As well as rooks the other thing that used to be regarded as a treat was lambs tails. In the days when lambs tails were cut off with a knife they were skinned and made into a stew, similar to oxtail but less flavour and more bones.

[Stripey_cat]

Ugh some people will eat anything, I suppose someone will come up with a slug pasty next

Rooks are herbivores, aren't they?  So it should taste OK (unlike, say, magpies or crows).  I thought you mostly shot the branchers because they couldn't fly away when you fired the first shot.

I start my runners in paper pots in April, and stick them out mid-to-late May.