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."

[Aalborg Hammer]

Currently ensconced on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. We're overlooking the sea across a barley field..we were delighted to see an osprey hovering over the field this evening. The local press have been touting it as a western osprey although my bird book doesn't mention it .Apparently they had a pair hatch in Poole harbour this year.That's one to tick off

[arsegrapes]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61707476

[gph]

Careful out there https://www.darkododig.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/shark-bird.jpg

[Tomshardware]

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/bird-flu-seabirds-scotland-rspb-b2097369.html Very sad and worrying.

[gph]

Crows as intelligent as 7-yo humans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWL2iEb6y4

[WHU(Exeter)]

"That’s a fair point gph. I’ve known the cat in question for years now, ever since he was a kitten, he used to spend hours watching me gardening. He’s in his later years now and more often than not off his nut on catnip, so I do respect the fact that he’s still “got it”. Just wish he’d stick to mice… ( the robins have been back, the dunnocks haven’t :("

[Tomshardware]

Anyone see the hedgehog eating those Skylark chicks on Springwatch? Never knew they would predate birds.

[Tomshardware]

Anyone see the hedgehog eating those Skylark chicks on Springwatch? Never knew they would predate birds.

[gph]

"""Nature can be very cruel !!"" Strange, if humans do something similar in war, they are usually admired for their tactical astuteness."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Have had a pair of dunnocks visit pretty much daily for the last few weeks. Really pretty birds with a way about them. Also get a pair of robins coming for mealy worms each day. The neighbours cat who on average seems to take out no more than a couple birds a year, was finishing off one yesterday morning. Unidentifiable. The thought that it’s one of the dunnocks or robins has really pissed me off."

[ironsofcanada]

Starlings in the eaves and robins in the garden. Neither than welcome.

[Eerie Descent]

"Did you set that up before or after you transitioned, Capitol They son?"

[Capitol Man]

https://birdsarentreal.com/

[ted fenton]

lab 4:49 Wed May 11 Re: For WHO's birders Magpies do a similar thing here I'm often chasing them off. Nature can be very cruel !! ;-(

[Tomshardware]

Springwatch is back on for anyone interested in nature.

[lab]

"This morning I was at Marble Bay inGuernsey . I could hear a fuss on the high rocks over to my right , an oyster catcher was chasing a crow away , the thing was this crow I believe was a decoy . Another crow swooped on the rocks a carried off a young chick from the wading birds nest . This happened twice while I was there ."

[Tomshardware]

Interesting stuff nurse.

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Tuesday is late in this one, Obi."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"It’s a basic fact belonging to the real world - not something you will be comfortable with, Twundle."

[Lee Trundle]

"""birds cannot be toilet trained"" Zero self awareness."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Humans don’t share their living quarters with wild birds for a perfectly good reason - birds cannot be toilet trained and basically shit everywhere. It is insanitary and, as I discovered when researching into having a pet owl, pretty much impossible to manage indoors if you want to live like a civilised human being. So the social services will surely take an interest when the neighbours alert them about the sanitary hazard; hopefully it really all is just you slipping into the arena of the unwell as you lose sense of the difference between what is in your head and what happens in the real world."

[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."