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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."

"blueeyedhandsomeOWL http://www.sci-news.com/biology/article00533.html They DO exist, but are very rare"

No! ffs.

"Where’s blueyedtwat, need his input."

"Ahh, the fabled bearded vulture. If you happen to be strolling along minding your own business and you get totalled by an incoming fumer, you’ll know what to blame."

"Lammergeier, a type of vulture, invented cosmetics. Their body plumage is white, but they dye it orange by bathing in iron-rich pools or by rubbing against ochre deposits. Lammergeier which succeed in dying themselves deeper orange achieve greater reproductive success, although ornithologists are unsure whether this is because orange lammergeier look sexier to other lammergeier, or because ochre has anti-parasite properties. It is at least possible that the use of ochre by our ancestors was inspired by lammergeier, as there is a great overlap between the ancient ranges of Homo sapiens and neanderthalis and lammergeier. Source: one of Clive Finlayson's talks"

"Lockdown birdsong Sexier, apparently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54285627"

Aalborg Hammer 1:32 Mon Sep 7 Lovely video.

Sarcasm? I can't tell ?üòï

I pronounce this Thread of the Decade

"Two massive keys of black crane flew over yesterday on the way to their wintering grounds on the Nile delta (I suppose, though it could be the Danube estuary maybe). Must have been at least 200 individuals. Made a right racket as well."

"Belarusian wildlife photographer does it again. Great white heron breeding season (don't do it to yourself, gank). The chicks are comical and utterly voracious. https://youtu.be/9l9xh5NI1OM"

"The house martins are grouping for their nightly flight here, a sure sign that the summer season is closing as they ready for migration Have a soft spot for the little buggers, reminds me of my youth Meanwhile, it is still feeding frenzies on the feeders, tits galore, sparrows and the usual woodies and robins clearing beneath Thanks to all who ignited my extended interest, I have really enjoyed watching the birds through the seasons and their behaviours"

Wonderful video. I have seen a few swifts (they are still around here). Not may swallows at all though.

Not seen a swift yet ...

Impressive Congratulations for Matt Thanks Aalborg

AH Thank you - lovely to watch

Great video

Great video

It's an absolutely beautiful video.

Morning all...thought you'd like to see this little video that our son-in-law-in-waiting during lockdown...filmed in our garden and took a good four weeks to do.. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCScp5lHxRFgnvl-bP5O6jdQ

"Dunno, didn't come up in my cataract reading!"

"Gph, is that thing true about moths then? That with their eyes when they're flying towards light in their eyes it's darkness they are flying to?"

"When I had my cataracts done, I did a bit of reading about the surgery and its background. In the old days, after a cataract operation, people saw colours they'd never seen before*, as initially they didn't replace the lenses, and you had to use glasses, and then, later, when they did give you prosthetic lenses, initially these were transparent to uv. Nowdays, the lenses filter out uv. *I went up, I went down, I saw colours never seen before All spinning roun' (Pink Fairies, albeit singing about drugs rather than cataract operations)"

"How come you know that gph, bit obscure innit?"

"""Red is the dull end for bees, violet the bright end."" is slightly wrong. I should have said: ""Red is at one of the dull ends for bees, violet is in the bright stretch."" The sensation I get when I see blue might not even be the same as the sensation you get when you see blue, so I can't speculate what sensation bees get when they see it."