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Nurse Ratched
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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."
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"I've mentioned this before, but earlier this year I saw an very odd conflict between geese and crows. Odd, because there seemed to be nothing for them to fight over. Odder, because it looked like there was a basic conflict between one crow and one goose, but there was another crow and another goose which stood there watching, like seconds at an 18th century duel."
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Jays. Top geezers. Founded the British Empire.
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"Jays. Acorn-hoarding cunts, the lot of them."
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Carrion crow full-on attacking and doing over a collared dove the other day.
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My local ones have very noisy arguments too Nurse. The only others I have seen is the crows attempting to raid the jackdaw nest in my chimney. Luckily Mr and Mrs Jackdaw were determined enough to fend the crows off. See the three chicks fledge was probably my lockdown highlight.
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I've never seen a single conflict between jays and magpies and I've been watching tits like you all my life.
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There's always beef between the jays and mags in my garden. All the other birds get along fine.
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I'm looking for an owl. Anyone got one?
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I'm looking for an owl. Anyone got one?
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gph 9:49 Thu Dec 3 My money is on a trebuchet to settle scores with the neighbouring Jays.
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You should respect your elders Pickle....
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Local hooded crow busy with a walnut in the Lidl carpark today - wish I'd had a chance to take that pic as I was parking.
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"Magpies are corvids - it's probably not building a nest but something more sophisticated, and possibly sinister..."
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My local Tawny Owls are getting very noisy at night. Definitely frisky owl season.
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"Saw a magpie flying with a twig in its beak the other day, seemed odd as I didn't think they nested at this time of year."
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"I moved a hollybush about 5 years ago and this year we have a glut of berries..lovely to see the Fieldfares,Redwings and thrushes filling up yesterday"
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Saw a King Fisher today. I was lovely. Right back to the game.
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"I read somewhere that the only Eurasian bird whose range lies between the pole and the Mediterranean to go extinct since the last ice age* is the Great Auk. Although some have much reduced ranges (e.g., the azure magpie, which used to range from Portugal TO Japan, but is now only in Portugal AND Japan, and a small bit of Eastern China). Great survivors. *colloquial, not technical, version"
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Are they blond haired and muscled? Perhaps an aryan strain?
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Jays have beautiful blue eyes. My jays come really close to my door.
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"Hermit Road..we've had a couple of Jays in our street over the last few months, I love the shade of blue on them. Tried taking photos a few times, but they have a knack of flying off at the precise second that you think 'this'll make a good photo'"
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"Yeah, rookie error."
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"Nurse, you need to log out and back in again"
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"Yes, I read about that. Shame for the locals that the eagles buggered off."
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Here's some infos on the cheeky bastards https://www.roydennis.org/category/sea-eagle/isle-of-wight-sea-eagles/
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