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."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"If you are feeling socially robust enough, you could try a local city farm for meadow hay. However, you could also be succumbing to the temptation to do too much - it is midsummer and a hay bedding will be more a hibernation requirement."

[Nurse Ratched]

I've spent a good part of this morning searching through hedgehog houses on Amazon. I can't believe I am poised to buy a bag of fucking 'fresh meadow hay' for its bedding.

[gph]

"Perhaps hedgehogs are like certain plants - if they are not killed, they keep on growing. You could be the artchitect of your own downfall..."

[Nurse Ratched]

"It is a WHOPPER of a hedgehog, it's true."

[gph]

"From your description, I'm surprised it doesn't eat cats instead of cat food"

[Nurse Ratched]

Crassus Last night I gave it live mealworms as I had nothing else I could give it as short notice. But apparently it's not goof for them to eat mealworms exclusively. Tonight they had the 'Spike's' brand dried hedgehog food (it's like biscuits) mixed with good quality chicken flavour cat food. Apparently you shouldn't give them fish-based cat food.

[Hammer and Pickle]

*ate

[Crassus]

"Nurse Knowing your attention to detail over these matters I'm sure that you are on top of this 'hog food' situation But for the avoidance of doubt, Mrs C subscribes to all sorts of social media wildlife sites, apparently there are many products advertised as Hog foods that are inappropriate - the best is apparently Tesco kitten food, which when discontinued was re-instated by a campaign from Hog types Which resonates, back in time, when we bought our first place, we had cats, and left food outside for a re-homed feral Tom Yob, anyway, one night I heard a snuffling and upon inspection it was a hog on the tuck, very quickly followed by another, every night on the spot they were there, Mr and Mrs, events followed and we then had a family of hogs and hoglets waiting for their cat food Events moved to today, we are now backing on to open fields and have been feeding rural foxes, absolutely beautiful creatures, chicken, dog biscuits, eggs - they love them all and the Duchess is recording it all upon a field camera that the good chaps of WHO recommended Got to love the natural world ....."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Nothing to feel guilty about; the bratchet are my iPhone cable the other day, the ungrateful oaf."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Nothing to feel guilty about; the bratchet are my iPhone cable the other day, the ungrateful oaf."

[gph]

"Apart from breeding some of them into twisted wrecks, ""we"" haven't down much to dogs to feel guilty about. Personally, I haven't done much to them at all. Although my maternal grandparents did breed Irish setters."

[Nurse Ratched]

"No, dogs make me feel guilty."

[gph]

You've been made happier than ever before by your sub-pet hedgehog? Perhaps you should get a dog.

[Nurse Ratched]

"I love it, David. My favourite is the rufous potoo."

[David L]

Check out the Giant Potoo

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Lovely. I'd just do the absolute minimum, keep feeding and observe."

[Nurse Ratched]

"Two nights in a row, emerging almost to the minute, has to be a good sign, don't you think? I think it might be bedding down in my garden. I have a corner with old bits of wood stacked up and old furniture that my ex was going to burn, but never got round to."

[Hammer and Pickle]

You have a visiting hedgehog? I'm seriously jealous.

[Nurse Ratched]

HEDGEHOG! Two nights in a row now. First spotted last night. This might be the happiest I have ever been in my life. I can hear it crunching its little hedgehog biscuits (God bless Amazon Prime)

[zebthecat]

"The loudest I have are the sparrows - it is not tht there calls are particularly loud individually but there are loads of them and they never stop. Jackdaws, Blackbirds, Robins and wrens after that. Best nest this year is a nuthatch in among the ivy that climbs Apple tree number one. Love those little guys."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"True. With the crows vs magpies, I'm surprised they find time to eat some days. Which again does sound like WHO..."

[Nurse Ratched]

To be fair that sounds like WHO.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"80% of the birds in/near my garden this year are magpies and crows, it's the same turf war/racket every day, you'd think after months of the same action every day with no gains made on the who owns which trees and chimneys they'd get bored of it all but I think they go through the same motions every day."

[Nurse Ratched]

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[Cabbage Savage]

Pickle and Jakub see 2 wite swons on river today. very taysty