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."

[Swiss.]

Scurf Face have you ever lived? I mean had real fun? Kissed a girl even ???? Thought not.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Swiss is so involved in wanking off over Disney vids that he hasn't considered the possibility of 'having looked at and noticed what goes on with the shrub (tree, both?) leylandii without being a twitcher' . Not that there's a thing wrong with being a twitcher. The yellow-anoraked, satchel-carrying, sandal-wearing, emotionally-retarded, tinfoil-hat-wearing, 'confirmed bachelor', UFO-spotting, thick, no-mark twat."

[BRANDED]

"BTW, twice in the last week I have walked past a front hedge in London which has been full of sparrows tweeting loudly. Haven't particularly noticed sparrows much for years so this was pretty exciting and unusual round here."

[Side of Ham]

"Says Swiss, who critiques boxsets on Disney+ let‚Äôs hope the late 50‚Äôs sleazy cսnt hasn‚Äôt got it to impress anyone....."

[Swiss.]

Haha Scurf Face is a twitcher. I bet you love Time Team and playing D&D as well. TWAT

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"The only bird I've ever seen that's tough enough to nest in a leylandii is woodpigeon (yes, auto spell correct, woodpigeon, you cսnt). Plenty of creepy-crawly moths, beetles, flies, spiders and other shit though. Ghastly Johnny Foreigner impatient bastard stuff. No-one wants to overlook you anyway, you boring cunts."

[Golden Oldie]

Didn't know where else to post this but birds aren't even real anyway. Here's a dog being all he can be https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1350824797454938112

[Tomshardware]

Zeb it is possible that they are starting though as I've heard of tits nesting in February.

[zebthecat]

It is the males rooting around for twigs and then disappearing into the hedge. They could just be hiding from my cat of course.

[Tomshardware]

"zeb, that's very early for the Blackbirds to be starting to build nests, as normally it'd be March onwards."

[zebthecat]

I have a bouple of blackbirds building nests in the Leylandii hedge in my back garden (the hedge belongs to next door) and the two males are busy collecting nesting material off my lawn. The Tawny Owls are busy calling to each other at night and my chimney Jackdaws are half heartedly collecting nest bits. Fuck knows what the sparrows are doing but it is bloody loud whatever it is. Also saw the Jays out and about today which is a rarity.They are beautiful.

[gph]

"At one point, the biggest raptor in the world lived in New Zealand. Haast's eagle became extinct 500-600 years ago, probably due to the Maoris hunting its most important prey species to extinction. It was also the largest (non-human) predator in NZ. There is no chance it will eat Montieth."

[Nurse Ratched]

Thank you. Sensible and non-fantasised anecdotes about encounters with birdlife in NZ also welcome.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

a great job here nurse

[Cony Tottee]

I've just signed up for the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch and can pretty much guarantee that no birds will visit my garden on the day!

[gph]

Fear of anthropomorphism can be overdone. Darwin himself (PBUH) remarked how close animal emotion appears to our own.

[gph]

Fear of anthropomorphism can be overdone. Darwin himself (PBUH) remarked how close animal emotion appears to our own.

[Coffee]

Do they post on WHO?

[Nurse Ratched]

"Midway through January and already they're getting ready for Spring. Here's what I've noticed in my garden over the last few days: Great tits, blue tits and goldfinches singing. Apart from contact calls and alarm calls, they have been silent for 3-4 months. (At least) two sets of great tits and one set of robins have paired up and are courting. No further sightings of the chaffinch who perched in my goat willow one day in December, studiously observing the activity at my seed feeders. The live mealworms are being gobbled up by the robins, great tits and mags. I have two magpie husband and wife couples. One couple is really chill with each other and appears to be in a happy marriage; the other seems problematic. Maybe it's just anthropomorphism, but they don't feed side by side. One stays a distance away until its spouse has finished eating, and they are always 'chattering' at each other from a distance, which looks very like quarrelling."

[normannomates]

Those cocks & Rooster types at the crack of dawn giving it large when no bod is about.. reminds me of CFC ?ü§°

[zebthecat]

Nurse Ratched 3:45 Tue Dec 15 What the robins say to my cat is unrepeatable even on here.

[gph]

"This is brilliant, And slightly frightening. How far are they behind us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiAoqwsc9g"

[Golden Oldie]

"Birds in the main are simply little people wearing feather costumes having a bit of a lark to wind up the neighbours. Doves however, appear to be legit. I saw one in a Prince video, I think."

[Block]

"Nursey, They are nice for about half an hour, mix that with a screaming 8 week old keeping you up half the night it becomes a nuisance.."

[Crassus]

"Nurse Whats with the magpies lately? After spring they became more solitary and whilst about less obvious, very recently they have been mobbing up to coin a phrase, making a right racket and perching en masse and flying in formation whilst swooping and generally playing up. Acting like airborne yobbos One interesting thing I did see with the mags occurred a month or so back. Never seen this before. There are fields at the bottom of the garden and the immediately adjacent has had sheep, been doing what sheep do and then one morning I noticed a number of mags in the field, on the ground hopping about. Then one hopped in front of a sheep, as to declare it's presence then leapt on the back of the sheep and started pecking. Intrigued as I've never seen this before, I watched for a while and it was happening frequently with the sheep not at all bothered and possibly even moving to the mag gathering I suspect it was one of those symbiotic capers where the mags were removing parasites, but it was fascinating to observe"