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."

[Tomshardware]

Agree with that nurse. Prefer birders to twitchers.

[GBHammer63]

"Mex, Agree about the hoopoe, quite common here as are the processionary caterpillars which have apparently started early this year. Hoopoe is one of the only birds that can eat them I was told by a local. Had never heard of processionary caterpillars before but by all accounts are really dangerous especially for pets. Hoopoes the boss"

[lab]

"Hermit , in answer to your question, yes ."

[Nurse Ratched]

"Hermit. Sadly, they have become a nuisance. I have no idea how they will go about culling, but native species must be protected. Meanwhile, I might be wrong, but I don't think there are any twitchers on WHO. I think we are birders. Birders: people who enjoy watching, listening to, and learning about bird behaviour, and may travel away from home to do so, but are relaxed about the sorts of birds they happen to see, and enjoy seeing them all. Twitchers: proper head-bangers who are ticking off lists of spots and are more concerned with seeing rare species than enjoying all birds equally. Highly competitive with other twitchers."

[Mex Martillo]

"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"

[Hammer and Pickle]

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

[Hermit Road]

"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?"

[Hammer and Pickle]

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

[gph]

"""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."

[zebthecat]

Hope go all Alfred Hitchcock on you bolty.

[gph]

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

[Nurse Ratched]

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

[Mex Martillo]

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

[boltkunt]

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

[Hammer and Pickle]

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

[Hammer and Pickle]

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

[Mex Martillo]

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

[Hammer and Pickle]

"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."

[Crassus]

"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'"

[Aalborg Hammer]

"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"

[Crassus]

"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"

[the exile]

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.

[duffster]

"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."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Remarkable bird the Himalayan Parakeet. Beautiful plumage.

[Nurse Ratched]

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