For WHO's birders

[Nurse Ratched]

"I thought you might like this video.



It's a compilation of different birds singing. Beautiful photography. If you expand the 'title' under the video it gives a list of species and the times they pop up in the video. Most of the species are familiar to us in the UK, but there are some 'exotics' (the cranes - wow, what a noise!) It was filmed in Belarus. The guy has a channel you can subscribe to. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and maybe it'll take your mind off you-know-what for a few blessed minutes."

[lab]

"When I’m out with my Labrador I often get a red kite come really close . I think they associate the dog with the shooting community and look to see if there is a dead bird they can grab. I’ve been told the kite will not kill but scavenge, whereas a buzzard will kill and sometimes get chased off their prey by a kite. Not related but I saw a hare at full speed across a field yesterday,a few days before I startled three fallow deer close to me,and even closer ,about three yards a muntjac. I love being out."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"*WhatsApps video to local Chinese restaurant with a ""What can you make of this?"" request.* Kill or cure! Kill or cure!"

[Nurse Ratched]

"More bird news, please! ?üôÇ"

[Coffee]

"Mex Martillo 10:39 Sun Mar 29 Good work, keep it up. Here, there's a lot less food being thrown out. Street dogs depend on scavenging for food. We regularly feed a group of local street dogs and they've been ravenous the last couple of evenings. Same for birds, I expect, and other urban wildlife. Civets and deer have taken to roaming the city's streets, while dolphins are jumping around close to shore."

[Coffee]

"Nurse Ratched 10:38 Fri Mar 27 Good call on the sunbird (olive backed), though wiki says they can be 4.7"" long, which is larger than this bird."

[Mex Martillo]

"The birds around here seem to be hungrier than usual and taking more risks to get a morsel of food. I’ve started putting chicken food on a bird table for then. That seemed to go down very well, but then some collared doves took over the table and would not let other birds approach, not even other collared doves! Anyway, I’ve put a cage over the table so only the little birds can get to the food! I’ll keep you informed on developments as I am sure you will all be interested. Keeps me slightly entertained."

[Nurse Ratched]

"Perhaps a type of sunbird, or maybe a common tailorbird? I know bugger all about the tropicals, though, sorry."

[Coffee]

"That's fantastic. Amazing how the cuckoo coos without opening its beak. For anyone who knows about tropical birds: I saw a small bird the other day, about the size of hlaf a sparrow, but with a long, pointed beak and a yellow/greenish hue. Any ideas what it is? Calcutta is usually very noisy. Car horns, rickshaw bells, revving motorbikes, people arguing, shouting, expectorating, dogs barking. And that's just for starters. The lockdown has made things eerily quiet. No cars, few people. But for the first time ever, you can hear birds sing."

[Sydney_Iron]

And now for some dogging and dogging etiquette...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFFW_Dsdys

[Sydney_Iron]

And now for some dogging and dogging etiquette...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFFW_Dsdys

[Nurse Ratched]

"This is SORT OF topical in that, unusually for a West Ham website, you can hear a bit of W(H)IN CHAT on this video."

[Gank]

What the merry FUCK is going on here? There are Ornithology websites galore on the internet. This is a West Ham website. Ne'er the twain shall meet!

[Nurse Ratched]

This one delighted me yesterday. Same channel. Great grey shrikes rearing their young. Great footage of the shrike's 'larder' (small rodent prey deliberately impaled on a twiggy spike in a tree for easy access) https://youtu.be/esSYgkN4yMQ

[joyo]

Is this a thread by a Fat Bird?

[Hermit Road]

This is brilliant. Thanks for this. Have been appreciating the birdsong more this year than ever before.

[lowermarshhammer]

Dunno. Reckon our nurse could accommodate a fluffy backed tit babbler.

[Nurse Ratched]

Better to give than to receive.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

would you enjoy a good owling Nurse

[Nurse Ratched]

"You missed a prime opportunity to give me an owling, Hugh!"

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"nice,i will listen and view later,THankYou"

[Nurse Ratched]

Really?? I had no idea.

[lowermarshhammer]

"Cranes can be seen in the UK, breeders in Suffolk / Norfolk. Only seen two overhead once on the North Norfolk Coast. Once in the morning, probably the same pair back later the same day. I ain't no twitcher by the way just a country boy who knows a bit."

[lowermarshhammer]

Yes Nurse Not many more handsome than a chaffler on the pull. Followed by a proud wood pigeon. A horny hawfinch. A whitethroat giving it large. Bloody hell a golden oriole. The shit stirring cuckoo. A not so common crane. Some else have a go.....