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 Ratched" wrote: ↑14 Nov 2024, 14:26
Pied wagtails have a bit of a cult following on here.
It's very strange, I get plenty of them in the front garden but never in the back. Also very strange is I get a grey wagtail in my garden in the winter, despite living half a mile away from the nearest river. For context, that's like living nowhere near a river habitat and getting a kingfisher rocking up in your garden.
I agree, your grey wagtail spot is bloody strange.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 16:42
by One Sunny Day
Nurse Ratched" wrote: ↑14 Nov 2024, 14:26
Pied wagtails have a bit of a cult following on here.
It's very strange, I get plenty of them in the front garden but never in the back. Also very strange is I get a grey wagtail in my garden in the winter, despite living half a mile away from the nearest river. For context, that's like living nowhere near a river habitat and getting a kingfisher rocking up in your garden.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 16:08
by Mike Oxsaw
The semi-resident village crows are back this month, along with a single noisy offspring who they seem to be trying to teach to hunt for him/her/their self.
Also glanced up the other day to see 8 or 9 birds of prey circling on a thermal - they looked like Kestrels, but I don't thing that specie is native here - never noticed such beasts before, but their presence certainly cleared the air below them for a while.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 14:55
by Hammer and Pickle
Yes. Pied wagtails are CHARISMATIC
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 14:26
by Nurse Ratched
Pied wagtails have a bit of a cult following on here.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 13:49
by Hammer and Pickle
How nice but watch out if you find you’re getting the urge to put an apron on and make yourself some scrambled eggs.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 14 Nov 2024, 13:02
by SurfaceAgentX2Zero
Just seen a pair of pied wagtails on my roof. Lovely birds.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 13 Nov 2024, 15:36
by Hammer and Pickle
Can confirm the local raven pair have made it through the summer and are playing house again. Most satisfactory.
Recently back from Mauritus (yeah I know). Anyway. loads of these fellas about. The mohican bird is apparently a red-whiskered bulbul, but the locals all call it a pingu!
No idea what the yellow one is. Lots of small doves too and inevitably many sparrows!
My son recently returned from Canada (work stuff). He absolutely loved the place; raved about it. Helicopter ride over Niagara falls and all that caper. I have a video of him scampering after a porcupine, trying to get it to look at the camera for me.
Was he at Suffield?
A friend of mine went there and loved it.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 07 Nov 2024, 20:38
by Nurse Ratched
The porcupine was a dead ringer for Timothy Spall.
My son recently returned from Canada (work stuff). He absolutely loved the place; raved about it. Helicopter ride over Niagara falls and all that caper. I have a video of him scampering after a porcupine, trying to get it to look at the camera for me.
Porcupines are fun until you have to try and get their quills out of your dog's nose.
Glad he enjoyed himself.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 07 Nov 2024, 20:34
by Nurse Ratched
Hi, IoC.
My son recently returned from Canada (work stuff). He absolutely loved the place; raved about it. Helicopter ride over Niagara falls and all that caper. I have a video of him scampering after a porcupine, trying to get it to look at the camera for me.
Re: For WHO's birders
Posted: 07 Nov 2024, 20:28
by ironsofcanada
Not sure I have peeked in here since we moved to our new-ish place.
As far a birds go, pretty regular variety of crows, robins, starlings but I did see a bluejay for the first time just before our first frosts middle of last month.
Our biggest visitors to the front are deer - muleys mostly. No surprising I guess since the coulees are only a few blocks away but still not something I saw in other urban areas I have lived. Even more than when I grew up on an acreage. And hunting season is upon us.
The visitor I am little worried about is a racoon (family?). They have the habit of making a real mess of stuff.
