Milk bottle tops - Do the birds still peck into yours?

[Malt_Vinegar]

I always remember when I was a kid that we often found little holes that had been pecked into the tops of the milk bottles in the morning.

Recently, i was thinking about this randomly when getting the milk in, and it seems that it never happens anymore??

Does anyone still get this? Perhaps with the decline of delivered milk, the generations of birds that learnt this little skill died out, and it was never passed on..

(yes, random thread!)

 

[Sukh]

Magpies probably killed all the birds capable of doing it.

 

[Rich_L]

That was PedoNeighbour putting the aidz in ur milk

 

[JBuk]

Not unless they can get into my fridge

 

[Tr Insanity]

Maybe the material used for the lids has been changed ?

 

[Jokester]

I haven't seen milk come in glass bottles with foil tops since I was a kid.

 

[LizardKing]

There was nothing worse at 11 than waking up in the morning to find a beak sized hole in your chocolate milk!

 

[BFCTom]

That's weird, I remember that it used to happen more often than not. Now it never happens!

 

[Van Hellseek]

I haven't seen milk come in glass bottles with foil tops since I was a kid.

 

[aslco]

I haven't seen milk come in glass bottles with foil tops since I was a kid.

We have a milk delivery 3 days a week which are glass bottles with foil lids

 

[arknor]

they dont add a later of cream at the top of the bottles anymore do they?

 

[Jokester]

I don't think they ever did, it's just homogenised these days.

 

[tom_e]

The glass bottles I see these days come with bottle caps like beer

 

[daveydave]

glass bottle foil top is still very popular, but most people have a little box that their mik gets put in with a lid to prevent the whole bird pecking thing taking place.

 

[Rroff]

Never got that far - some **** always used to nick our milk before we got to it - even when the milkman would hide it for us - so my parents started buying it from the supermarket instead.

 

[J1234]

I haven't seen milk come in glass bottles with foil tops since I was a kid.

This.

And people still get milked delivered!?

 

[dannyjo22]

Never got that far - some **** always used to nick our milk before we got to it - even when the milkman would hide it for us - so my parents started buying it from the supermarket instead.

Sorry about that. I always liked a pint in the morning when I did my paper round

I don't know anyone that still has milk delivered. Even when they looked at restarting rounds in cambridge it was too expensive.

 

[SHEDDER1uk]

Milk got expensive from the milkman so supermarket for me now.

 

[Dark_Angel]

I haven't seen milk come in glass bottles with foil tops since I was a kid.

Neither have I, and even when I was young it was rare.

 

[St.Josh]

I still get my milk delivered and have never seen this.