What might this be? ... I do know, but do you?

[toolsntat]

It was on display at Carlton Scroop Tool event on Saturday. I asked what it was, to be told it was a Lark Attractor.
Naturally I thought the guys were winding me up, so I made it my mission to find out what it really is..... It is in fact.... A Lark Attractor!

Lark lure is the one that trips of the tongue more easily.
The larks are drawn to the flashing reflections from the reflective discs let into the timber.
By the way this wasn't mine, my display was by the door , did we speak at all mc281 ?

 

[Daniel2]

More to the point, can we smoke it ?

 

[mc281]

Lark lure is the one that trips of the tongue more easily.
The larks are drawn to the flashing reflections from the reflective discs let into the timber.
By the way this wasn't mine, my display was by the door , did we speak at all mc281 ?

Apparently the one at Scroopy was of French, origin, so I guess anyone who eats Frog's legs will find a use for Larks Tongues too.
I understand that the little mirrors reflect the sunlight and yes the hunter (?) hides in a bush or hedge and works the string. The one in the video is spun like a horizontal Yo-Yo it seems.

 

[Crazy Dave]

Amazing.
Every day's a school day.
Thank you for sharing that, maybe we should have a weekly guess the object topic.

 

[MikeJhn]

I thought it was a barrel spike.

 

[mc281]

Amazing.
Every day's a school day.
Thank you for sharing that, maybe we should have a weekly guess the object topic.

What a great idea!

 

[Tris]

Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze and scare me! How on earth did someone work out that flashing mirrors would attract birds?

On second thoughts.. best not go there

 

[niall Y]

I have to confess to eating 'alouette pate' in the past.

 

[Cabinetman]

I remember seeing tinned songbirds in a shop in France years ago. But that’s the French for you.
I suppose it’s no different to tinned sardines but you wouldn’t get me eating them thank you very much.

 

[paulrbarnard]

I remember seeing tinned songbirds in a shop in France years ago. But that’s the French for you.
I suppose it’s no different to tinned sardines but you wouldn’t get me eating them thank you very much.

Different cultures… a small deep fried bird on a stick is a common road side snack in China.

 

[Stevekane]

Different cultures… a small deep fried bird on a stick is a common road side snack in China.

Thanks for that thought, but I will stick with an egg McMuffin thanks,,,,

 

[pgrbff]

As a child my dad used to go to his uncle in the mountains. I believe they used to keep songbirds in tiny cages in the dark. When they brought them out they would sing like mad. A tree was constructed and covered in glue. They would collect the birds, pinching the heads to kill them. Something like that anyway. Nets too I believe. It wasn't a delicacy, they were poor and it was a source of food.

 

[stuart little]

OK, I'll bite - and show my igerence in the process no doubt

Assuming the lark is the little birdie we all know of, how on earth does that thing attract them/scare them away?

Does someone have to stand there pulling the string so that the head wizzes round?? If so how do we know that it's not the person standing there frightening the larks away and not the head spinning round?? And why do we want to frighten larks away anyway? OR attract them?

("Puzzled of Tunbridge Wells")

I thought it's double 'g' in - 'iggerence'!

 

[AES]

I thought it's double 'g' in - 'iggerence'!

Depends entirely where you come from mate!

 

[mc281]

Depends entirely where you come from mate!

The more 'g's....
The more igggorant?

 

[pat from Marck]

Here's more information...

After watching that I thought kids toy for the garden but if it's a lark attractor my curiosity is now nagging me as to why larks would be attracted (may be sex angle with the shiny bit of metal)

 

[MF1000]

Larks were also used as a pie filling and a lot of other dishes as well. One dish involved grinding the bones up in a pestle. Doubtless there are YouTube videos telling you how to cook them. Of course you can’t do that in the U.K. any more.

Wiki even has an entry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark#:~:text=Larks, commonly consumed with bones,highly valued as a delicacy.

Larks tongues in aspic jelly was a Victorian delicacy