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."

[Mr Kenzo]

"If I get hold of them them Pickle, I can send over a food parcel for you and your family if you want ?"

[Hammer and Pickle]

Move into a house with no wheels and a proper roof?

[Mr Kenzo]

"Without shooting the cunts, any ideas how to stop Pigeons from doing the riverdance on your roof at 4-6am every fucking morning. Thanks in advance"

[Tomshardware]

"You're lucky to see tree sparrows. As for that bird you saw, fieldfare? Nurse may be right though. The flight sounds like a bit like a wag tail though."

[Crassus]

"Nurse thank you, I never saw the chest but the back and profile looks spot on Would they take to a suspended feeder? If so I think you have it"

[Nurse Ratched]

Crassus - mistle thrush?

[Crassus]

"Tom I am pretty sure I have Trees in the garden, marginally bigger than the House and with a brown cap rather than the grey, acts like the House with feeding and general flitting about I'll keep observing, to fully confirm, but caution that I hold no 'birding' credentials You may be able to help me - I had a bird slightly larger than a starling, brown and fawn elements in body/wings, shaped akin to a blackbird, it was feeding upon a suspended feeder, shot off when I arrived but it's flight was the most notable aspect, it bobbed up and down over 20 yd peaks as it went across the field to a hedgerow, side on would appear like a heart machine screen - unlike any other flight from the usual attendees Fascinating thing this bird business, aside of the constant shit clearing, the little buggers are swarming now and emptying five feeders a day, would do more if I refilled twice daily and I am convinced that they are watching and waiting for me to fill, and when I do swoop down whilst I am close, as if they know I am no threat"

[Crassus]

"Tom I am pretty sure I have Trees in the garden, marginally bigger than the House and with a brown cap rather than the grey, acts like the House with feeding and general flitting about I'll keep observing, to fully confirm, but caution that I hold no 'birding' credentials You may be able to help me - I had a bird slightly larger than a starling, brown and fawn elements in body/wings, shaped akin to a blackbird, it was feeding upon a suspended feeder, shot off when I arrived but it's flight was the most notable aspect, it bobbed up and down over 20 yd peaks as it went across the field to a hedgerow, side on would appear like a heart machine screen - unlike any other flight from the usual attendees Fascinating thing this bird business, aside of the constant shit clearing, the little buggers are swarming now and emptying five feeders a day, would do more if I refilled twice daily and I am convinced that they are watching and waiting for me to fill, and when I do swoop down whilst I am close, as if they know I am no threat"

[Hammer and Pickle]

Click now it's suppertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdezYfZdYT4&fbclid=IwAR2wCDlfEpmqI13Bv8P6A5az5ezOzhskUjynHmNAopvaPi5DD4dQ1j69sAk

[Nurse Ratched]

HappIEST

[Tomshardware]

"Swifts arrived here 3 days ago, great to see and hear them."

[gph]

Didn't you once say only stupid people are happy?

[Nurse Ratched]

I haven't seen swifts yet. My woodpecker and goldfinches are back today. And my jay. This is possibly the happiest I have ever been.

[Hammer and Pickle]

Still only seen a single swallow twice this season and no swifts at all (don’t get martins here). Anyone else notice they are late?

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

rockin robin-------------------------------------jackson 5

[Crassus]

"Tom I'm going to see, have just studied the difference and will report back It's borderline Hitchcockian out there at the moment"

[Tomshardware]

Coal tits are up there as one of my favourite birds. Has anyone seen any tree sparrows? I don't think I've ever seen one.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

WOODY WOODPECKER SONG-------------KAY KYSER AND HIS ORCHESTRA

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD-------------JOE COCKER

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

ALBATROSS--------------------------------------- PETER GREENS FLEETWOOD MAC

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

WINGS----------------------------------- TIM BUCKLEY

[gph]

"Until I read the Wiki article on woodpigeons, I didn't know they are known in the South-East of England as culvers. Which is odd, as I spent the first 18 years of my life in Essex, and probably another decade in bits of London, on and off."

[zebthecat]

"I have loads of Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons. Wood Pigeons have to be the the most inept animals, given there name, at actually coping with trees. They are spectacularly clumsy and sort of crash land with a lot consequent wing thrashing to get their balance."

[Crassus]

"Oh and collared doves cooing on the fence, bless them"

[Crassus]

"Brilliant thread and very informative As a consequence I can now differentiate between blue, great and coal tits Of the confirmed garden views since lock down I am now up to the following, but have others I am not sure of Definite Blue, coal and great tits Robin Wren Blackbird Starling Goldfinch Lesser Spotted woodpecker Pheasant Wood Pigeon Canada Geese Swan Red Kite Magpie Sparrow Hawk Unknown Various sparrows, not sure which, house hedge or otherwise, but they are almost certainly nesting in a shrub of mine A variety of little brownish flighty buggers Long tailed individuals, that I reckon may be LT Tits And a fuck off great solid black condor impersonator, crow I reason, but cant confirm. totally black and menacing but double shrewd - I found two of the fat ball feeders upon the ground, blamed the mags, so wired them on to a branch, but caught the villain at work. hopped along the branch and having failed to have them away, flipped the lid of the suspended feeders, impaled the first ball and flew off with it, back in five, off went the second. that's fucked him I thought, even that beak won't get down to the third and it did not, he just blinked and lifted the bottom and emptied it to claim his prize - had to admire his intuition so let him return to the second formally grounded feeder to repeat the process, now with wire secured lids and longer wire suspension A couple of dramas, a ground feeding woody facing off a magpie who promptly retreated to a fence and called in support, big bugger arrived and the two of them saw off the game woody and then the brutal extraction of a starling from the eaves by a sparrow hawk, he put up a fight but it was all in vain, hawk was not giving up his quarry Loving this bird based caperage and noting the fact that most of the sightings involve paired couples, apart from the starling swarms of course"