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"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 always used to keep her heron in her barnet,nowadays she cracks her egglings beneath her wig"

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

"https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/warning-graphic-content-are-hungry-otters-killing-swans-milton-keynes-330122 And all done for the shear fun of it all Some kind of so called wildlife freak was damn near tossing themselves to a frenzy of delight that the bastards had reached their local canal, and a dipshit in Oxford that they had inhabited their small wildlife wetland pond"

"Otters are the true bastards Utter nonsense of a mismanaged re-introduction and the evil fuckers a re running wild Everything is fair game from swans, warblers, kingfishers etc to any kind of fish from record barbel, massive carp to ornamentals in private gardens to fish farmers and garden centres Strangely, they have not read the green cross code - plenty around my way seem to be found as road kill Can't think why ;)"

True Mex.

"A huntin',shootin' fishin' neighbour has a large fishpond with Koi carp in it. I asked him one day ""Don't you have problems with Herons?"" ""Only once"""

"Tom, not sure if it works? I talk from experience as I’ve been patiently waiting for a massive nest egg to come my way."

"I'm only messing, the heron is a patient bird, I envy it's lifestyle."

"we were interested in signing a 19 year old PLYMOUTH striker named Paul Mariner but thats history,unlike this thread which is hysterical,"

The heron has a special place in gank's heart. Like the albatross in the heart of the ancient mariner.

I like herons as well. What you got against herons Tom? Are you a fishfarmer? I heard they annoy fishfarmers.

"Herons are great, they are patient statuesque cunts."

Herons have their ecological niche. Humans should never impose their values on those with feathers and that includes pikey feral skanky fucked up toed pigeons.

The heron is a wretched bird.

"Unlike parrots, albatrosses are rubbish at language. She obviously misheard me no pause"

"gph 5:27 Sat Mar 6 I saw that as well gph, they said normal life expectancy of an albatross is 30-40 years. I guess our seventy year old albatross hen having a chick would be the equivalent of a 120 year old woman having a kid!"

I now cherish the sight or song of the chaffinch as it seems rather these last few years.

Arf! @ Ur

Crassus Indeed. That was going to be my next suggestion if 'bullfinch was blown out.

"Nurse - do you think they could be chaffinches? I've got them too, reckon mine are chaffs"

"Btw, see UR is in the news today..."

"900 years' time, and she'll be the female Genghis Khan of the albatross world"

"900 years' time, and she'll be the female Genghis Khan of the albatross world"

"Nurse, just had a look at photos of them and think you're right, the ones I saw resembled the photos of female bullfinch I've just seen. Cheers."