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."

[Nurse Ratched]

?üòä

[ted fenton]

Nurse that's amazing.

[Nurse Ratched]

"As you know, I have encouraged the birds to come into my sitting room to feed from a dish of live mealworms on my desk. I've observed some interesting things over the last few days. When there were no more worms in the dish, the great tits hopped around on the desk, over my keyboard, behind the monitor, dropped down to the floor, etc, then when they'd realised there were no more worms in the area, they flew straight out the door. When the same thing happened with the robin (it was the current Mrs Bullet) and she encountered an empty dish, her reaction was very different. She didn't waste time searching the rest of the desk for worms. She turned to face me, frantically bobbed up and down, then flew to a chair closer to me, bobbing and flapping her wings. I am certain she was trying to alert ME to the situation. What is interesting is that the great tits really wanted worms, but did not direct any of their behaviour towards me, but the FIRST action of the robin was to alter its posture, movements and proximity to draw attention to itself to me. Another interesting development is that the robins and great tits are now coming to perch on my open window sill in my bedroom when I am there, presumably associating 'open window/door' in my house with food. Or maybe, at least in the robin's case, to alert me that they're hungry. Lastly, Mrs Bullet just coughed up a pellet on my desk. Nice. I'm going to get my hand loupe and see what's in the pellet, which has a greenish tinge. Wish I still had my microscope."

[Tomshardware]

"Nice one Ted, glad it all worked out for them."

[ted fenton]

Billy Blagg 3:40 Thu May 5 Re: For WHO's birders ted fenton 2:07 Thu May 5 WHO's very own Chris Packham Hahaha ;-)

[Billy Blagg]

ted fenton 2:07 Thu May 5 WHO's very own Chris Packham

[ted fenton]

I'm pleased to say that the Robins that I put back into the nest after knocking the box off the wall all made it and have left the nest.

[ted fenton]

I'm pleased to say that the Robins that I put back into the nest after knocking the box off the wall all made it and have left the nest.

[Tomshardware]

Heard a cuckoo yesterday.

[ted fenton]

:-)

[lab]

"Yes, remember that as a youngster . Few moons ago now Mr Ted ."

[ted fenton]

Yeah I saw that a while back lab they also after a while take them out of your hand.

[lab]

Nice one Ted . If you’re anywhere near a pet shop that sells live mealy worms the parents will love them for the young uns.

[ted fenton]

I accidently knocked a bird box off the wall in my back garden last week and the young Robin chicks were on the pavement I quickly put them back in the nest and replaced the box It actually really upset me but the good news is that they must of survived as the parents are in and out feeding them.

[gph]

"That's the point. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are a subset of reptiles. So you have to define at least one of these categories in an odd way to avoid deducing birds are reptiles."

[zebthecat]

Birds are dinosaurs

[gph]

Perhaps dikas realise this. Dikas and croc vs monitor lizard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAOnPvNyQI PS No idea where monitor lizards fit into the bird-reptile family tree

[gph]

Birds pose a huge problem for a consistent definition of reptiles. Because crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to turtles.

[lab]

"We have a Robin here that gives us a song before 4:30 in the morning , and now it’s dark at 7:45 pm he/ she is at it again ."

[zebthecat]

Nurse Ratched 9:42 Sun Mar 6 Wow. Big mistake. The chimney Jackdaws are back - noisy argument this morning as to which pair gets the nesting spot.

[Tomshardware]

Garden I was at yesterday there are already great tits and blue tits busy building nests in the boxes.

[Nurse Ratched]

https://youtu.be/__Gs_vMXMlY

[Fo the Communist]

The mob of goldfinches who frequent the park outside my office returned this week. Nice little sign of spring being on the way. Lovely little birds are goldfinches.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"That's brilliant, something about gaining a bird's trust to the point they do something like that."

[Crassus]

https://twitter.com/Gambit59830470 I don't have Twitter (how apt in this context) so have tried to lift a link - it's worth it! Scroll down to the third image Beautiful vt images of a tit upon a Ukrainian serviceman The plumage colouration adds to the moment God bless them both