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."

[zebthecat]

"Nurse Ratched 12:49 Sat Sep 18 I agree with that. My wildflower front garden has been beautiful and a awash with insects and birds since early spring. Loads of butterflies and moths including Cinnabar Moths, Brimstones (planted an Alder Buckthorn hedge last year) and Hummingbird Hawk Moths that love Night Scented Stocks. Contemplating converting the back garden as well next month."

[Nurse Ratched]

Wild gardens are good. Wild means weeds giving off seeds and providing food and shelter and egg-laying spots for insects. Seeds and insects bring birds and hedgehogs.

[WHU(Exeter)]

Gardeners World...where's Monty Don and Petra got to ? The programmes full of young upstarts now. If it's not Japanese or wild garden theyre not interested.

[duffster]

"im not gonna google it. is a female pochard black with grey embroidery and a grey tail and say"" beep beep"" like roadrunner?"

[gph]

I hope the OP is going to insist on birdwatching tales from Croatia from the returning horde. As compensation for not enforcing a 4-0 scoreline.

[Nurse Ratched]

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[cholo]

"On the hillside /cliff opposite my house we sporadically see a kestrel, a vixen with cubs and a family of badgers going about their evening business. Its all rather Potteresque (Beatrix not Dennis)."

[Russ of the BML]

Thanks for posting. Great footage. The Golden Oriole and Rosefinch are stunning. Those cranes make a racket!

[Mex Martillo]

Some nice fox and hedgehog photos on the BBC this morning. https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-58327374

[Crassus]

"The occasional droppings of a welcome robin are the least of a Londoners concern when considered alongside the dozens of unwelcome Roma, who camped along Park Lane and shat like feral fucking dogs on the pavement and pissed in the gutter - filthy fucking animals"

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Nurse Ratched 1:56 Sun Sep 12 In Poland, such activities are regarded as no different to a restaurant delivering a tale-away meal."

[Eerie Descent]

Ouch.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Your concern is rich, coming from a man who sleeps on another man's semen stains, but thank you for your contribution."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"?ü¶Ö?üí©Yes dear, clearly you‚Äôre being visited by that very special variety of bird that eats but doesn‚Äôt shit. How very nice for you?ü¶Ö?üí©"

[Nurse Ratched]

"There hasn't been any. When it occurs I will clean it up. Should have thought it obvious. Very small price to pay to have wild birds visiting my sitting room, landing on my desk to feed while I'm working next to them."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Birds have no control over their excretions, which is why it is not advisable to have them in your house. What do you do about all the shit, Ratched?"

[Nurse Ratched]

"Update re Bullet the fledgling robin. We've had an interesting couple of weeks. Twice I've seen him land on my homemade squirrel baffles I placed on the horizontal line my seed and suet feeders hang from. They're made out of plastic bottles and act like a 'rolling log' to dump squirrels onto the ground. With predictable results, he couldn't get a footing either time, and he comically hopped on, started to roll, hovered up, hopped back on, etc. He has been eating the hedgehog's biscuits and really seems to enjoy them. He has started coming into the sitting room occasionally to have his mealworms on my desk. All good so far. Except for some reason I don't know (I was in the kitchen washing dishes) he flew through to the hall and upstairs. I only knew because I heard panicked-sounding cheeping coming from upstairs. He was spooked and I thought it best to open windows and let him find his own way out. Except he ignored the windows and eventually came back downstairs and flew out the way he came in. Within a couple of hours he was hopping about on my back garden step again and staring at me in my sitting room. Can birds have ADHD?"

[Nurse Ratched]

What a lovely bird. Those nests look very neat.

[Westham67]

We have a colony of Baya weaver birds that nest in the trees next our house in Thailand which is out in the sticks about 3 km from the village of Sena in the province of Ayutthaya and about 2 hours from the the border with Myanmar https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-male-baya-weaver-ploceus-philippinus-on-his-nest-in-a-weaverbird-137164024.html

[Crassus]

"Top work there Nurse Pleased to say that I now have a robin back in the garden too. Having had a a pair and then their fledgey, they all suddenly vanished It's just not the same without a robin out there"

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[zebthecat]

That is very cool indeed.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Update re 'Bullet', my pugilistic, but slightly dim juvenile robin: today for the first time, he started coming into my sitting room to scoff his mealworms. Like a BOSS."

[arsegrapes]

"Uncanny Zeb, similar vocabulary as a fair few on here."