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]

"Oh, and parts of London are overrun with pesky parakeets!"

[Nurse Ratched]

"Mex I live in a run down, very urban area of London, but crucially there are two large areas of trees/bushes and weeds that have been left to grown along the railway line and also alongside a fenced-off stream nearby with vegetation overgrowth. Both are a short flight away for birds who know my garden provides reliable access to seed feeders, suet balls and LIVE mealworms. The woodpecker is a prize, but those overgrown areas I mentioned are probably full of rotting trees, which are prime 'pecker real estate. Regarding uses for your air rifle: squirrels. Absolute bastards. Theyre just rats with better PR."

[Mex Martillo]

"I have to say Nurse that is impressive, all in an hour! You must be in the country side, but what were those parakeets doing in your garden? On a very different angle, Bolty, I have invested in an air rifle, nice bit of kit I think. Wanted one since I was a kid and was told NO! Anyway, I have a tree in the garden that has a kind of fruit that seems of no use, sticky little berry that just stays up there when the leaves drop off. One night the dog would not shut up, barking at the tree. I went and got a torch and the tree was full of rats eating the berries, easy 10-15. I had a massive rat problem! Partly I blame some advise to leave the dog food open for the hedgehogs, now where did that come from? Stopped that nonsense there and then. And I went out and bought traps, poison and an air rifle. I was well up for shooting the little buggers. But the day I bought all this, it turned cold and wet, even had some snow and I have not seen a live rat since making my purchases! However, the traps are the business, killed 23 of the little fuckers! Poison, not used it, don't really like it and bought it as a last resort. Not catching any rats now and suppose I have killed most or all of them. Not sure what to do with my gun. I have a few targets to shoot for fun. Kids are different these days aren’t they. I thought it could be a nice father daughter thing to do some target shooting, but my daughter said I was mental! Not sure why?"

[Coffee]

"Way back, I asked about an unidentified bird with a flashing red arse. I now know what it is - a Fulvous Breasted Woodpecker."

[Chigwell]

"Sorry Kenzo but you only have to look at a staffie's jaws to know that it has been bred to fight and kill. I accept that they can make good pets, but it's that fighting physique and breeding that makes them so popular with the scum. My border terrier was attacked by a staffie and nearly killed - would have been if I'd not punched it several times in the face and put my fingers in its eyes, to get it to release its grip on my dog's throat."

[boltkunt]

"If these robin RED BREASTS keep chirping, I might have to invest in a fucking air rifle."

[Nurse Ratched]

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[Lee Trundle]

*giggles at great tits*

[Nurse Ratched]

I did the RSPB BGB My hour's count was as follows: 9 goldfinches 5 greenfinches 2 robins (obviously a courting pair because there was no aggression) 4 great tits 3 blue tits 2 mags 1 woodpigeon 1 great spotted woodpecker 1 blackbird 2 jays 2 ring necked parakeets

[Aalborg Hammer]

Sorry to be an anorak but did anyone do the RSPB birdwatch at the weekend?..we were pleasantly surprised by a flock of Redwings and Fieldfares that descended on our well stocked holly tree. The bird count was definitely down on last year -no sign of the wren or gold finches.I haven't seen a greenfinch for years - any unusual sights this year?

[Aalborg Hammer]

Sorry to be an anorak but did anyone do the RSPB birdwatch at the weekend?..we were pleasantly surprised by a flock of Redwings and Fieldfares that descended on our well stocked holly tree. The bird count was definitely down on last year -no sign of the wren or gold finches.I haven't seen a greenfinch for years - any unusual sights this year?

[Aalborg Hammer]

Crassus - my old man was born in Bromsash/Linton. Great part of the world

[the exile]

Crassus - Ross-on-Wye.

[Nurse Ratched]

Oh my word...

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"50 starlings on your fatballs, eh? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-55870828"

[Tomshardware]

Had a mob of about 30 starlings on my fatballs yesterday. Lovely winter plummage on them.

[lowermarshhammer]

Throw in about a dozen bullfinch as well.

[lowermarshhammer]

"Decent As a kid in the 70's was not that unusual to see LSW, GSW, greenwoodpecker, nuthatch and treecreeper in the same day. Didn't really think much of it at the time."

[Crassus]

"Exile - Wye Valley I'm hugely envious, stunning part of the world, which part?"

[the exile]

"The other day I saw a nice triumvirate of greater spotted woodpecker, nuthatch and tree creeper, near where I live in the Wye Valley."

[Swiss.]

Has Scurf Face had his Winterwatch Wanker yet?

[lowermarshhammer]

lose = pose

[lowermarshhammer]

"Lab 9.24 Goldcrests are very unafraid of.humans they just know we lose no threat. About 10 years ago I found a dead goldcrest next to my motorbike, almost certainly it had crashed into a window somewhere between the 4th and 6th floors of where we living. Gave it a little burial with my toddler kid at the time. Rang up the old dear LMH to tell her and freakishly the same day she'd had a goldcrest kamikaze into a window. Fortunately after a few dazed minutes in her hands it fucked off to the tree tops."

[lowermarshhammer]

Pickle 1243 the lack of self awareness is worthy of academic research as is the fact that goldfinches in my garden go nowhere near the niger seed feeder which they are supposed to get addicted to and demolish the sunflower hearts instead.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Side of Ham 12:53 Thu Jan 21 'you know this Pickle so stop being a cսnt' Good luck with this request fella.