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."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Halcyon days...

[the exile]

"I got a nice pic of a kingfisher the other week by a stream that runs into the Wye, near where I live. Very special birds - stunning bright colours on a very grey day. I put the pic on a local Facebook page and got over 500 likes - never had that before."

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

i knw not of a bird named a galkeeper

[Nurse Ratched]

"Lovely, Mex."

[Nurse Ratched]

"Lovely, Mex."

[Mex Martillo]

"Very nice Nurse. The other day, I had a Sardinian warbler (male) fly into our window and it sat a good few minutes in the window box before it flew off. I was amazed that it could turn it’s head through 180 degrees and look directly behind it’s self! I took a few great photos, but now regret not making a video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinian_warbler"

[Nurse Ratched]

Surely you should be spamming my threads with YouTube videos of goalkeepers?

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

aa pub named the feathers in hook norton

[Nurse Ratched]

"https://youtu.be/1LNEOapPPb8 He's done it again, and it's a corker! Red backed shrike parents and their chicks in the nest. Some comical moments including chicks swallowing whole bees and moths, and the mother chasing her tail trying to remove a bit of sticky cobweb. Never seen a bird do that before! This guy is amazing."

[Mex Martillo]

A small flock of about 8 gold finches went past me in the morning as I was cutting up some wood. Lots of flashes of yellow and red as the hopped and darted through the long grass and bushes. Lovely sight.

[gph]

"If crows get any more intelligent, they'll be sending sparrows to the abattoir, and shuddering when people pick their lobster in fish restaurants..."

[Aalborg Hammer]

Waiting for an early bus one morning and there were crows and seagulls sifting through the litter..a female house sparrow flew down and starting looking for some grub...a crow just picked her up and flew off..something horribly primal about it..*shudder*

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

I agree with you. Don't I? I think so. Anthropomorphism of wild animals is a stupid and dangerous thing. I blame Walt Disney. The cսnt.

[lowermarshhammer]

"Surface 1255 Sweeping generalist statement opening gambit there. Magpies are only doing their thing, got no issues with them. Clever corvids, always enjoy seeing them terrorise a domestic cat. The huge UK deer population (estimated at 2 million) is the highest it's been since the Ice Age. They are by far a bigger problem than magpie's ever will be. Deer cause significant detrimental habitat change in woodlands and this has a massive effect on songbird populations. Too many bambis. Not enough poachers."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Why do birders think it's OK to kill magpies, who are not only beautiful but only doing what they were made to do? Sure, they love a baby blue tit, but so what. Would it be OK to kill mouse-slaughtering owls, baby rabbit-murdering rooks, snail-bashing song thrushes or fish-killer kittiwakes? Not to mention any of the hawks that take other birds on the wing."

[zebthecat]

"lowermarshhammer 12:20 Fri Dec 4 Saw that a few years ago. Crow crash landed on the dove, stamped on it and then dispatched it with a single peck through the chest. It looked around for a bit and flew off with the dove in its claws. Brutal but impressive."

[JAC]

"Nurse,had an injured wood pigeon in the garden 2 weeks ago,I my must got to it...anyway I thought I would do the right thing and get the air rifle out but before I could a Sparrowhawk came out of the bushes and really fucked up the pigeon ( I replayed it on the CCTV). Out of nowhere 8 magpies turned up,noisey fuckers. Sparrowhawk didn't give a fuck,I managed to hit one of the magpies, happy days.Hour later ,I went out to clear the mess uo ,the dead magpie must have been eaten by the others as it was more mangled than the pigeon. My garden was a killing field for that hour."

[gph]

"I've mentioned this before, but earlier this year I saw an very odd conflict between geese and crows. Odd, because there seemed to be nothing for them to fight over. Odder, because it looked like there was a basic conflict between one crow and one goose, but there was another crow and another goose which stood there watching, like seconds at an 18th century duel."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Jays. Top geezers. Founded the British Empire.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Jays. Acorn-hoarding cunts, the lot of them."

[lowermarshhammer]

Carrion crow full-on attacking and doing over a collared dove the other day.

[zebthecat]

My local ones have very noisy arguments too Nurse. The only others I have seen is the crows attempting to raid the jackdaw nest in my chimney. Luckily Mr and Mrs Jackdaw were determined enough to fend the crows off. See the three chicks fledge was probably my lockdown highlight.

[Hammer and Pickle]

I've never seen a single conflict between jays and magpies and I've been watching tits like you all my life.

[Nurse Ratched]

There's always beef between the jays and mags in my garden. All the other birds get along fine.

[Hammer and Pickle]

I'm looking for an owl. Anyone got one?