"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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Mex Martillo
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"Cricky, an owl smaller than a blackbird! I try my best, but that does not sound easy to spot, would love too though."
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Hammer and Pickle
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"They're tiny Mex, smaller than a blackbird, so you'll have maybe heard rather than seen them. The call is a single sort of submarine sonar-type ""ping"" repeated at intervals after sundown - used to be a common feature of the Med, now sadly rare. Last one I heard was years ago in the Mora de Ebre region."
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Mex Martillo
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"Hammer and Pickle, I hate to say I have never seen an owl in the wild. Would love to. I looked up scops owls apparently their range covers where I live so perhaps one day?"
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Tomshardware
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"This may annoy the twitchers so sorry nurse but I had no idea what great mimics starlings are, friend has raised one they found laying injured on lawn and it's mental the noises it makes. Phone, TV tunes etc. Apparently they can talk so they're trying to teach it"
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"This may annoy the twitchers so sorry nurse but I had no idea what great mimics starlings are, friend has raised one they found laying injured on lawn and it's mental the noises it makes. Phone, TV tunes etc. Apparently they can talk so they're trying to teach it"
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Hammer and Pickle
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Do you have Scops owls Mex? They once used to be a lot more common in their range.
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Mex Martillo
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"Mrs. Jones, I absolutely love the Hoopoe, they come to my garden and eat the poisonous processionary caterpillars that come down from the pine trees. Boy do I hate those caterpillars and boy do I love to see the hoopoe eating them, need a lot more hoopoes in this world. I haven't seen one yet, but I've heard them, they kind of go puput and thats what they call them in these parts."
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Delighted to report the sighting of a pair of black woodpeckers obviously househunting on the edge of the forest. The local raven pair was also out and about. Signs of some big packs of boar as well. Spring is definitely in the air.
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"Good for you Nurse, at least you gave one a fair start, don't know much about hedgehogs but I wonder if they return to successful breeding sites/food sources? We had similar with our rural foxes, Vixen delivered 6x cubs with us feeding them daily For 18 months since she left her brethren, she patiently waited at our fence for supper. Then her fella, and ultimately all eight Then one night, nothing, not to be seen since - most strange. She and the dog used to come to the call, then suddenly gone Not unusual behavior but they routinely return to previous earths and feeding sites but nothing seen since October - absolutely stunning creatures in the picture of health too, mind you, the amount and quality of food we were dispensing it's no shock"
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Nurse Ratched
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"Crass First Tank left us, then her baby Biscuit left us, and neither has returned. We haven't had any hedgehogs since. There are still routes in and out of our garden, so fingers crossed for the future."
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"jack flash - interesting how the finches vary by region. Down here in Herefordshire goldfinches are dead common. A fair number of greenfinches too. Yellowhammers have become noticeably more scarce in recent years. Ref. other comments, plenty of magpies, and numbers of swallows and swifts remain unchanged. Sand martins doing ok too though possibly fewer house martins."
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Tomshardware
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"Never seen an osprey, what I did see today is some Curlews on an arable field. We aren't far from the coast but to see Curlews next to a busy a road was unusual."
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Nurse Ratched
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"I was on my way to work and saw an osprey on the top of a telegraph pole by the road. At first I thought it was a big seagull, but as I past I thought no way thats an osprey. I did a U turn and went back stopping below the beast. I was reaching for my phone to take a picture and it took off, lovely to see it drop down and fly away, but a shame not to get a photo. I'm telling everyone I see!"