"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."
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Nurse Ratched
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"Bullet has a WIFE ?üòç All day they've been together in the garden, playing and skittering about, and sharing a dish of mealworms. As I type this, I can hear him singing."
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Nurse Ratched
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"Bullet has a WIFE ?üòç All day they've been together in the garden, playing and skittering about, and sharing a dish of mealworms. As I type this, I can hear him singing."
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Aalborg Hammer
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Nurse Ratched
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"MMG I can't advise if your phone's a crApple. But on Android I use BirdUp and BirdNerd. These are good for birds you'd commonly encounter in the British Isles. There are quite a few of these types of apps now, and they're a work in progress. The accuracy isn't brilliant, but it's better than nothing. Also, make sure you don't accidentally download one for American birds or something."
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
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"AH No crime in that mate, I have an app too Nurse advised me Always appreciated the natural world being an angler and have hung feeders for a long time but beyond the obvious I hadn’t a clue Still a novice but enjoying the learning Every day a school day chap"
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Nurse Ratched
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Aalborg Hammer
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"much to my shame...I have a birdsong app on my phone...last summer I could not get the bloody thing to identify a particular bird warbling away. I went onto the house to find the 'warbler' was my daughters' bread maker chirping away (OK Nursey,the secrets out now)"
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Nurse Ratched
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"""70% of bird ID and spotting is in the song/call"" Indeed. And closer to 90% when it comes to the LBJs ('little brown jobs') p.s. RIP, J Riddle's pet pigeon ‚ò?"
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azel senior
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"JAC, Another good way to tell the difference is in their song & call. House Sparrows chirrup, while Dunnocks call with a shortish ZZzzzeeee and sing a really tuneful warble like a small Blackbird. 70% of bird ID and spotting is in the song/call."
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"My pet pigeon of 4 years died yesterday very suddenly, she internally hemorrhaged from complications laying eggs, was gone before we could get her to the vet. I miss her everyday and know that I will never have another bird, as she landed in my garden with a damaged wing unable to fly and I would never keep a caged bird. I thought it might seem unusual when I took her to the vet for a x-ray when I found her with a damaged wing beyond repair, but then a lady came in with a pet chicken she had found at the roadside 5 years ago whom preceded to jump up onto her clucking and perched on her shoulder lol. RIP noo noo xx"
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Dunnocks have a grey stripe above their eyes and a sort of grey scarf. Female sparrows have mostly brown heads. It did help that the dunnocks were about six feet away from me so I could get a good long look.
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"How do you tell the difference between a sparrow (hedge/house etc) and a Cumnock? Look the same to me tbh. Saw a couple of those green parakeets flying over Thornton Country Park,should they be culled?"
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Mike Oxsaw
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Aalborg Hammer 6:31 Thu Jan 20 Bet they've got Bird Flu too. Just when we thought it was safe to go back into Waterstones...
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Aalborg Hammer
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"A friend who works at Birdworld in Surrey tells me that a couple of Turkey vultures have made good their escape. So if you have cats or small children in the Farnham area,keep an eye on them!!"
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azel senior
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"They are Tom, not seen one since I was a kid. Must get back down the West Country!"
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azel senior
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"Had a few hours at Cliffe Pools the other day, and saw a murmuration of Dunlin that lasted about an hour. Literally thousands of 'em. Not a peep out of them at times, but still really loud with their swooping. Amazing stuff."
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"Those that meander through oblivious to the natural world are blind to the beauty of life I even saw a bee, Boxing Day, ‘buzzing’ a winter budding shrub, that I have never seen so early"