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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."

"There is a puput (Euroasian hoopoe) back for spring in my garden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9dzAkWZEw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe Its a cool looking bird, but I love it because it digs about under the pine trees and eats these dammed poisonous processionary caterpillars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_processionary"

"Look Muppet, you're fucking mad pal, and not in a good way."

"https://www.birdguides.com/news/government-considering-ring-necked-parakeet-cull/ Where do WHO’s twitchers stand on the London parakeet population. For me they have rapidly moved from being an exotic curiosity that I was excited to see, to being a noisy and unwelcome pest. Their population has grown at a rapid rate and is displacing many native species with bats, owls, starlings and many other bird populations suffering. Fortunately, the extended cold spell will help in culling their numbers, if not, should the guns be brought into play?"

Nurse Ratched 9:32 Wed Feb 10 Your talent is wasted on here.

"""I just saw two collared doves mating. I think it may be a good omen for tonight."" Of course it was. We were on course for a Ratched on our way to winning the Cup. However, Bolty catapulted them before his gun arrived."

Hope go all Alfred Hitchcock on you bolty.

"I""just saw two collared doves mating. I think it may be a good omen for tonight."" Bolty catapulted them before his gun arrived."

"Bolty, those are lost and confused gannets, kittiwakes and guillemots. They think your head is Rockall."

"Wrong thread bolty, you should be on the hunting and fishing thread."

Air rifle on order for the little chirpy cunts who keep piping up in the evening.

Goshawk cruised by just now as I was walking the dog. Larger than a woodpigeon it was and very pale in its winter plumage.

Goshawk cruised by just now as I was walking the dog. Larger than a woodpigeon it was and very pale in its winter plumage.

I just saw two collared doves mating. I think it may be a good omen for tonight.

"With the river ice now as quite dense large chunks on the Vistula (round here the width of the Thames at the Isle of Dogs to give you an idea), it is time to go White-Tailed Sea Eagle spotting. They hunt all the way up river from the coast taking advantage of the more difficult take off and landing conditions the ice presents the numerous water fowl wintering inland. And they are a magnificent sight, sometimes being mobbed by a local raven or peregrine falcon pair as they go."

"Had something I have not seen before, a flock of fieldfares descended into the garden for twenty five minutes, must have been twenty or more alone clinging on a shaped shrub no more than a metre cubed, stripping it of the berries. More in the trees and field behind And then with that, they were gone. Beautiful things, quite big and very close to the window Hoping to see them again but suspect that they were just passing through and pulled in for an avian 'Watford Gap'"

"Well,we've seen murmarations of starlings but howabout one of snow geese ?? Filmed in Illinois , I most certainly would NOT like to be under it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFbBT14QtQ&t=39s"

"Exile Fair play to you, Ross is fabulous, been up and around there through to Builth Wells many times chasing chub and barbel Stunning part of the world"

Agreed. They might look nice but they're all mouth and trousers- I can't stand the racket they make. Thankfully they haven't made it to Herefordshire.

"Mex, they look lovely and are amusing to watch, but if they live outside your windows they are incredibly annoying. They just don't shut up and make a real racket."

Remarkable bird the Himalayan Parakeet. Beautiful plumage.

"Mex, I read that their habitat in the wild extends into the Himalayas, so I doubt English winters trouble them much."

There’s loads of green parakeets in Barcelona as well. Quite nice to see them in the trees on the big avenues. I guess parakeets adapt well to city life to be populating large cities away from the tropics.

"Nice news Sold, I was worried you was going to have to make a little trip down there at some point to melt some snowflakes.....wildlife is a wonderful cure for lots of things in life it's only self obsessed sleazy fuckers like Swiss who haven't gathered this in life......everything he's done is superficial tripe things to have as experiences....your daughter sounds like she's tough nut to stick it out."

Daughter is at uni at Reading... every day she will take a walk down to the thames to feed her babies as she calls them... proper doolittle with a family of egyptian geese.... sits diwn there for hours with them feeding them from her hand.... its keeping her sane at the mo.

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