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]

"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"

[Nurse Ratched]

Damn! Now I have no leverage. ?üòï

[Aalborg Hammer]

"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)"

[Nurse Ratched]

"""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?"

[azel senior]

"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."

[J.Riddle]

"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"

[zebthecat]

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.

[JAC]

"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?"

[Mike Oxsaw]

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...

[Aalborg Hammer]

"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!!"

[azel senior]

"They are Tom, not seen one since I was a kid. Must get back down the West Country!"

[Tomshardware]

"Up in the Trossachs at the moment and saw a dipper yesterday, lovely bird."

[zebthecat]

Crassus 7:50 Thu Jan 13 I have seen a few as well. The big bumble bees fly whenever it is warm enough but I have a few honey bees on the winter jasmine as well.

[azel senior]

"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."

[Crassus]

"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"

[zebthecat]

The sparrows here are always noisy and there are loads of them. Also saw a pair of dunnocks today scouting the hedge.

[zebthecat]

The sparrows here are always noisy and there are loads of them. Also saw a pair of dunnocks today scouting the hedge.

[Crassus]

Blimey Two pairs of roe - bloody predictive text

[Crassus]

"It’s all happening here too The resident robin has upped his security game, blackbirds in tandem, the yob squad of starlings climbing all over the feeders, wood pigeons feasting, tits galore, sparrows a plenty and a little wren hopping nervously A recent arrival of a pied wagtail and above red kites circling like bloody Dorniers Still feeding the fox family at night and deer have appeared, the small muntjacs and two pairs of toed As observed elsewhere, spring plants are shooting and the days getting longer What a time to be alive!"

[BillyJenningsBoots]

This is all very nice and relaxed Nursie.... Top work! Yes blackbirds pairing up in the garden today 2's company 3's a crowd and lots or sparrows making a lot of noise!

[ray winstone]

"Pesky fucking Parakeets in Upminster screeching every afternoon, cunts."

[Tomshardware]

"Saw 2 robins fighting at dusk yesterday, Blackbirds are singing quietly at first light."

[gph]

"Some of the poor little bastards will think it's breeding season all year round. They'll be falling out of the trees, exhausted."

[zebthecat]

Reckon so - saw a couple of bats on the hunt this afternoon as the light faded. Also the jackdaws have started nest building in the chimney again.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Definitely, have got tulips coming up already and I think every year before they haven't shown for weeks after this lot."