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."

[zebthecat]

"It is bedlam here. There is big crowd of Starlings and their fledgelings flying about and shouting at each from the oak trees. Had 35-40 on my lawn today rooting for worms. Ditto the house Sparrows, they went quiet for a bit but their fledglings have arrived and the lot of them barely stop moving. There are obvious some nice juicy insects living in my apple trees. Second brood of Jackdaw chick still here (squeek, squeek, squeek). Also saw a Heron flying over this afternoon pursued by mobbing Crows and Magpies. The Heron was not happy with that situation one bit. So glad I am not the office."

[Nurse Ratched]

Anyone else found it's gone a lot quieter over the last few days?

[eswing hammer]

"Watched at least 3 blue tit chicks fledge today , first time I’ve even watched it , they flew onto the roof then over the woods , l think there’s still at least one more in the box , l don’t know if they come back for the night or what but l will miss them , they have been so entertaining!"

[Hammer and Pickle]

Two nightingales going at it now. No cuckoos yet though once the nightingales start that’s just a matter of days.

[Tomshardware]

I witnessed a magpie attacking an injured squirrel yesterday. The squirrel appeared to have something wrong with its legs and was unable to climb. This magpie had several goes at it but the squirrel defended itself and the magpie moved on.

[J.Riddle]

https://youtu.be/-sYrRUJNHCU This is now my favourite

[J.Riddle]

https://youtu.be/pV7t28Ufc5w https://youtu.be/OtUPrdOKIZo

[lab]

Watched a couple of lapwings today. I think it’s the male that does a roll in a low flight.

[J.Riddle]

This is my favourite https://youtu.be/lymQjNqR1t8

[Nurse Ratched]

Goldie 2:07 I've watched that many times. It's actually my favourite video on YouTube. Here's another: https://youtu.be/Qt-pB1R64mI

[gph]

"""Human. Homo sapiens. Uncertain"" Lots of Neandertal in your genome?"

[Golden Oldie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBlYfTbA44

[Coffee]

Bouncing Ludo 1:18 Mon May 18 Thanks.

[Hammer and Pickle]

One of the chicks is practicing run-ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdezYfZdYT4&fbclid=IwAR1ZJJ-BB41s5PSlJAUyZP0rnDP_1xD1U5EDZgvuPX47lPY25SdSzNqoXxs

[Hammer and Pickle]

One of the chicks is practicing run-ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdezYfZdYT4&fbclid=IwAR1ZJJ-BB41s5PSlJAUyZP0rnDP_1xD1U5EDZgvuPX47lPY25SdSzNqoXxs

[Bouncing Ludo]

"Coffee 12:05 Mon May 18 Simple explanation here https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/natureshomemagazine/posts/swift-or-swallow My neighbour has Housemartins that return every year to nests in her eaves, which is good because I get to see them without the inconvenience of piles of bird shit on my windowsills below the nests"

[Moncurs Putting Iron]

"What's the difference between swifts, swallows and housemartins? Swift's had 5 number 1s in the US Billboard Chart The Swallows only a number 9 with Will you be mine in 1952 The Housemartins - Have never charted in the US but did have a UK number 1 in 1986 with caravan of Love."

[Coffee]

Behave.

[Ronald_antly]

The spelling.

[Coffee]

"What's the difference between swifts, swallows and housemartins?"

[zebthecat]

Saw Swifts for the first time this year today.

[Crassus]

"Tom Interesting that you say that, I thought the same but I reckon not I've checked the web and whilst I have dunocks, pick them up on chirpomatic too, its not them as I have had them both in the garden and the mystery birds are not grey around the head these are proper shades of brown You have though solved one thing, when I was a kid there were tree house and hedge sparrows, and I was wondering why I could not find any of what I knew to be hedges mentioned, cheers mate, everyday is a schoolday! Fo Your cd thing - I have solar lights about the garden and one day found a panel dangling from a pergola section, it had been up there for years and taken every storm throughout. The only way of removing it was by pulling it straight up from my fixings, I was mystified. Replaced the same thing happened a few days later and the detachable stem had gone but latterly found at the other side of the garden Then the penny dropped, Mags! Would have seen the sun reflecting off it and tried to have it away, so tread carefully if you head down the cd route Nurse That app is very interesting, it has a distress call identifier too, so I am picking up smaller birds squawking away whilst the mags or crows are about upon the same reading, oh and that bloody parakeet which was absent last night has returned, I am desperately trying to identify the call that is triggering the reading but it is bird bedlam out there - it is a morning thing, so parakeet or otherwise, it is evidenced then and either shuts up or buggers off thereafter"

[chajonbubble]

"Being visited daily by a Jackdaw who is pushing the pigeons off the bird table. Which is fine, except at 4:30 this morning it had a very loud squawk with another Jackdaw for bloody ages, until I got up, went downstairs and scared them off. Bloody noisy buggers...."

[Fo the Communist]

"Crassus 5:56 Sun May 17 Morning Crass. No magpie news, I'm afraid. Found myself bimbling about on other garden chores this weekend. I have though made a connection between the magpie invasion and reinstating a birdbath recently. I read that birdbaths are a bit of a corvid magnet so I might try to reposition that in a less accessible spot of the garden. I also read that stringing up a few old cds in the trees spooks them a bit as they don't like the way they reflect the light so I might try that, the risk of my garden then resembling a tinker's yard notwithstanding.. The things we do for love. eh?"

[Sydney_Iron]

WHO Birders meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMOJU26EsU