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."

[Side of Ham]

Nurse it's well known Swiss has a Disney+ subscription over in the piss & shit smelling streets of Brussels.....his favourite scene is when Snow White is singing 'A Smile and a Song' with all the little birds..........

[Nurse Ratched]

Child.

[Swiss.]

"There's some right Tits in here. Ooh did I spell that properly...chortle , chortle... Go have you your Winterwatch wank...lol"

[Mike Oxsaw]

"When I was living in The Hague (1998 - 2006), the woods opposite my house had a large flock of parakeets."

[Side of Ham]

Surprised your country has let them in Pickle tbh.....

[Nurse Ratched]

Surf - indeed. Very indeed.

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Blackbird’s song here is noticeably different. Though still undeniably in “Blackbird”, it is, I suppose, much more thrush-like."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Blackbird’s song here is noticeably different. Though still undeniably in “Blackbird”, it is, I suppose, much more thrush-like."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Nurse Ratched 6:22 Mon Feb 1 '1 Blackbird' sad face...

[Nurse Ratched]

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[Bungo]

Nurse Ratched 12:53 Sat Feb 6 This is true. I had a Geordie sparrow in my garden the other day. Couldn't for the life of me understand what it was saying.

[Nurse Ratched]

"I presume you know birds actually do have regional 'accents'? It's been proved by boffins. I had an Algerian minicab driver pick me up from home. While he was waiting for me to organise myself to leave the house (not a simple undertaking) he noticed goldfinches flying in and out of my garden and he remarked on it when I got into the car. He told me that keeping birds is his hobby, mainly finches, and he has an aviary in his back garden. He loves goldfinches and has groups that were caught or bred in Algeria, Spain and England. He said they have noticeably distinct songs according to their 'nationality'."

[Hammer and Pickle]

I love the idea of parakeets developing a cockney accent and not being able to SKWAWK to their Spanish cousins.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Aalborg, they are ring-necked parakeets, otherwise known as rose-ringed parakeets. There are quite a few theories or urban myths seeking to explain how the birds came to be free in London/the South East. Here's a nice article about it, but it's a bit out of date: I've read somewhere recently that an attempted cull is now on the cards in some form. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/the-great-green-expansion-how-ring-necked-parakeets-took-over-london Given how quickly numbers have exploded in the last 30 years, I find it hard to believe they escaped sometime during the 16th century - surely they'd be more numerous than pigeons by now?"

[Coffee]

"Aalborg Hammer 11:33 Sat Feb 6 In about 1990 or 1991, I went with an ex to the Ashdown Forest in Sussex, off the A22. We saw loads of parakeets, dozens of them, perhaps a hundred or more all making an almighty racket. I told family and others about it when we got back, but nobody believed it. I've never seen them there since and there's no mention of them today in the Ashdown Forest's bird club or whatever it's called, But they were there."

[Aalborg Hammer]

Nursery.. I expect you've heard but there's lots of stories about how the parakeets appeared in London...one was that they escaped when they were filming African Queen and another was that they were released deliberately...amazing how they've acclimatised. I used to work in Leatherhead and there were loads there...are they ring tailed ??

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Lots of COVIDAE parliaments this month - jackdaws in their thousands, tens of magpies and seven (SEVEN) jays it what may have been a pear tree."

[Mex Martillo]

I am amazed you get all those birds in Urban London. That is really great and well done to you. Never seen a squirrel in my area.

[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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