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."

[Nurse Ratched]

Arf!

[Crassus]

*to the bin

[Crassus]

"Haha, I’ll refrain from comment there my lady I did download another visual app, Bird Picture, what a load of shite that is, did it at night and so tested upon my dog - size of a German Shepard, long haired male, very similar breed appearance but coloured like a fox - poxy app came up with some form of Asian parrot! Tried it from six foot upon a house sparrow - came back with another parrot Consigned you the bin"

[Nurse Ratched]

"Glad to hear it, Crassus. I'll give that one a go myself. I tried the BirdNet one, but it told me (in the midst of loud blackbird song) that I had a Ural Owl. In broad daylight. In a garden in a grotty part of London. It said 'almost certain'. I beg leave to differ. It did cause even more amusement, however. I turned round to say something to my daughter before she went out, and it recorded me thus: ""Human. Homo sapiens. Uncertain"""

[Crassus]

"Fo How goes it with the feeders mate? Had developments my end, since the rearrangement the magpies have buggered off and taken the crows with them. Seems the principle of lines of least resistance have worked. I still hear them about but not in mine. Interestingly, the starling horde has gone too. Now I'm not sure that is related to the feeder situation, but they appear to have vanished, just the odd one now, and that is a curious thing. Read a while back that they were reducing in numbers and that although of the same species, some migrate and others remain, a mystery as to why, would my absentees have gone that way? Nurse Followed your advice and downloaded Chirpomatic, what a thing that is. Now whilst I can't be sure of its absolute accuracy it was well reviewed and is throwing up some interesting things, most of which I have identified, but some not seen and mistle thrush is a constant so your identification of my mystery bird was right. Bizarrely, I have had a new appearance on the app, and it has been around for three days, a ring necked parakeet! Now it could obviously be a misreading but it's obviously a new bird in the area and they exist here, so my eyes are peeled for a green bird.... Tom I am not so sure now that these sparrows I have are Trees, they match the broad images on the net but their heads are not quite so definitive in the chestnut cap, so I reckon I am looking at something else yet to be identified"

[only1billybonds]

As much as they are bothersome i still marvel at their agility and acrobatic prowess. The bastards.

[only1billybonds]

As much as they are bothersome i still marvel at their agility and acrobatic prowess. The bastards.

[defjam]

Ronald_antly 4:09 - Ha! Not something I'd normally do but I can't see my neighbours garden due to a line of bushes so nature will do it's job and no one will be none the wiser! *Taps nose*

[Hammer and Pickle]

"We have the cute red variety here. Lovely, clever, agile and playful creatures they are."

[Nurse Ratched]

"Ha! Trouble is, they have a cunning rat brain in the body of a supreme athlete. They are a formidable foe. When the bastards descend, my first defence will be to smother the seeds, mealworms and suet balls with hot chilli powder. Squirrels have capcasin (?spelling) receptors, but birds don't."

[gph]

"In the ten minutes of Gardeners' Question Time I've listened to in my whole life, the question was about a cunning squirrel which worked out how to get to a carefully situated birdfeeder. The answer was ""wait"" - squirrels only live a couple of years, and the clever one would be replaced by stupid ones."

[Nurse Ratched]

Bit of handbags between a greenfinch and a goldfinch. Goldfinch brave under the circumstances.

[Ronald_antly]

I LIKE squirrels.

[Nurse Ratched]

"The squirrels haven't found my feeders yet, so I'm dreading that day myself. Apart from those umbrella-type baffles you can buy for feeder poles, I read something about someone who threaded through/attached a metal slinky toy to his feeder pole (I expect you would have to do this before setting the pole into the ground, or before attaching the table part). Therefore when the squirrel's weight lands on the slinky, it immediately drops down. The Tom & Jerry-type images amused me rather a lot. Someone should manufacture a feeder pole with an integrated slinky."

[only1billybonds]

"Nurse. Not including heavy weapnary,do you know of an effective way ro keep squirrels off my bird feeder,have tried all the usual stuff,wd40 on pole etc. Ours isnt a cheap one either but all the food gets scoffed before the birds even smell it. Oh and one of our woodpeckers has made an early start,must bo on double time as its Sunday. :-)"

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Much to my delight, the swallows and swifts are properly back now."

[Nurse Ratched]

"I love my woodpecker. She helpfully announces her arrival by shouting her head off. Then she cartwheels down through the branches of my tree, then flies over to the suet ball feeder. She stabs at the suet balls, causing bits to shear off. Stays for long enough for me to admire her, then buggers off. The robins love her even more, because she scatters bits of suet onto the ground, where they are far more comfortable feeding."

[Fo the Communist]

"Side of Ham 12:21 Sat May 16 Royston Vasey? It's not as cosmopolitan around here as that, mate."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"""Was quite a profound moment, to be honest. I think it also meant a bit to Blake cause he still sends postcards regularly to this day."" A truly magnificent dragon!"

[Coffee]

Ôø?Ôø?Ôø?

[westhammerer]

"Say what you want about birds, and IÔø?ll say mine. They both fascinate and frighten at the same time. Imagine if enough birds got together then they could take out any one of us. Sheer force of number. Would make HitchcockÔø?s Ôø?The BirdsÔø? seem like being licked by a puddle of poodle puppies. They got beaks, feathers, and the power of flight and we got nothing but Jujutsu, logic, drones, and a 50plus aged Mike Tyson comeback. Mike and I go back a while. ItÔø?s widely but erroneously accepted that Gus DÔø?Amato taught him the peek a boo style, but of you check out the Barking and Romford Advertiser local newspaper for around 1985-7 youÔø?ll see in microfiche the classified adverts from me promoting my school of fight Ôø? the way of the exploding way - and gym beneath the Church Elm Pub in the cellar. It read: Want to fight? Hate birds? Worried if ever birds communised and attacked? Call here: (01)

[Ronald_antly]

"""So I put it on card aided with a broom and chucked it in some bushes next door ..."" I would've thought your next door neighbours might have been a tad annoyed by that, deffers, Unless they're Polish."

[defjam]

gph 1:14 - ag ag ag

[Hammer and Pickle]

This is what you do when you have property. Bru.

[bruuuno]

When you were having a piss?