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."

[Crassus]

"Geeps, I'll leave you with the penises, and raise you are rare old display of bollox - which causes me something a of a quandary We back on to open fields, so are used to an influx of rodents post harvest, which goes with the territory, mice and voles Recently the dogs have been acting irregularly and there has been suspicious consumption from the monkey nut feeder - today, it was confirmed, bastard rat sighted But events took a turn, a bloody great rat, size of a Jack Russel, hoovering up beneath the feeders, when a magpie sprung from the shrubbery, unhappy with the rodent intrusion - a stand off, followed by an off The pecking mag hopping and leaping and a startled rodent bobbing, weaving and posturing, culminated in the rat rushing at the bird and jumping at it, mag had it on it's toes and retreated, the buggers were not playing either Good job there was not a Paddy Power on it, I would have lost, the mag was carrying my wager and support. Funny enough, I was not the lone spectator, my mates the finches, tits and sparrows were chirruping and bouncing all around the 'Colosseum' So now, I have to bring in the exterminator and curtail the feeders, which is a bugger in the current season and the regular attendees that I have courted And all along the hounds were taking zzzz's in the house"

[gph]

"Birds are careless. The most primitive species have penises*, but the more derived ones have lost theirs. *strictly speaking, penis-like organs, which may not be erected by using blood, and may only have a groove rather than an enclosed tube to carry semen"

[gph]

"Birds are careless. The most primitive species have penises*, but the more derived ones have lost theirs. *strictly speaking, penis-like organs, which may not be erected by using blood, and may only have a groove rather than an enclosed tube to carry semen"

[Tomshardware]

Greenfinch are suffering from some disease sadly. Long while since I saw one.

[Fo the Communist]

"exile Indeed, mate. Hopefully its natural ebbs and flows of populations but I wouldn't count on it given habitat loss. As I frequently say, to general indifference, if you really want to look at a body that genuinely affects the world around you, then look no further than your local planning authority. Decisions made by those have far more impact on your day to day life and wellbeing than other more topical organisational bete noirs."

[the exile]

"Fo - it's curious how the different finches have fared over the years. When I was a kid, 50 - 60 years ago, goldfinches were pretty rare but greenfinches and bullfinches were dead common. Bullfinches are particularly scarce - I have only seen a couple in the last 15 - 20 years."

[Fo the Communist]

"Ah Crass, proper little players for sure, the robins. Not bird related but while we are waxing bucolic, I saw two adders the week before last while walking on the downs. I hadn't seen one (never mind two) of those for decades."

[Tomshardware]

"Little experiment I've been doing, I challenged the territory of a robin by playing a recording of a robin singing (youtube video on my phone). The robin heard my robin and swooped down nearby to see where it's challenger was before returning to the top of a tree to sing even louder."

[Crassus]

"Fo - Sparrows I had a swarm of them last year, various types too, then in the space of a late month they vanished, completely gone Now they are back, numbers building again. Really not sure what is going on. I did not recognize them as migratory but it appears that they nest around here and then make off. I know that they are nesting as they are taking materials and strategically placed dog hair brushings Love the finches mind but of all, the robins, sound little buggers the robin"

[Fo the Communist]

"Morning Crass. There must be a flock of around 30-40 goldfinches that buzz around the park outside. What is presumably a small offshoot of that mob are regulars in my garden too - though, oddly, only a small patch of it. Again, lovely little things and wonderfully distinctive in flight. I wonder how it came to be that goldfinches are infinitely more common than house sparrows in these parts. Growing up it seemed that house sparrows were everywhere. I hardly see them now."

[Cony Tottee]

The starlings have returned to my garden for the first time in ages which would have been nice had the little bastards not been eating the grass seed I sowed last week!

[Block]

"So, the shit cunts who keep me awake at night are now targeting my car. ITS WAR."

[Crassus]

"Fo Hiya mate, handsome little buggers, a nice spot I have Goldfinches in the garden, they too are a lovely little thing but it's been three years or more since I had a brace of Goldcrests arrive and sadly depart, never seen again"

[Crassus]

"Fo Hiya mate, handsome little buggers, a nice spot I have Goldfinches in the garden, they too are a lovely little thing but it's been three years or more since I had a brace of Goldcrests arrive and sadly depart, never seen again"

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

as appy as a box of burds

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

as appy as a box of burds

[gph]

"In hieroglyphics, an owl may stand for an owl, or for the phoneme em. blueeyedhandsoowleowlan"

[Fo the Communist]

Saw two goldcrests in the park outside my office yesterday. Never seen one (or two ) before. Lovely little things.

[gph]

"blueeyed.handsomeman 6:13 Mon Mar 8 Although there is great pleasure in insulting people in a way they don't understand, but most others do, I think you're missing ""most others"". Or any others."

[Nurse Ratched]

https://youtu.be/wrIt-8tb_C8 This is his best one yet. A pair of Marsh Harriers raising their chicks. Including the male noticing the camera and exploring it.

[Tomshardware]

I have never liked otters.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"nurse always used to keep her heron in her barnet,nowadays she cracks her egglings beneath her wig"

[duffster]

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

[duffster]

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

[Crassus]

"https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/warning-graphic-content-are-hungry-otters-killing-swans-milton-keynes-330122 And all done for the shear fun of it all Some kind of so called wildlife freak was damn near tossing themselves to a frenzy of delight that the bastards had reached their local canal, and a dipshit in Oxford that they had inhabited their small wildlife wetland pond"