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Posted: **27 Mar 2020, 12:27**

"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."

Posted: **12 Sep 2024, 10:38**

Think we will hear a lot more about bird flu in the years to come. Not because it is more prevalent, but because it gets tested for so much more than ever before.

Posted: **12 Sep 2024, 10:08**

Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 06:24 Bird flu. Quite a few dead pigeons around where I live. Seems no explanation to why they die. Could it be bird flu? Anything strange in your area?

Thankfully nothing like this in my area. In fact it's been a brilliant year for the birds here. Hardly any insects, though. These things tend to happen in cycles, don't they?

Posted: **12 Sep 2024, 06:24**

Bird flu. Quite a few dead pigeons around where I live. Seems no explanation to why they die. Could it be bird flu? Anything strange in your area?

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 21:03**

Nurse Ratched" wrote: ↑02 Sep 2024, 19:54
zebthecat wrote: ↑02 Sep 2024, 18:50 It'll take a bit of getting used to but it is nothing like as bad the makeover that the web site I work on has just had. It is an eye-searing, back to the 90s combination of electric blue and canary yellow and the main typeface looks suspiciously like a grown up version of Comic Sans especially the capital letters. It makes my head hurt.

I'm still doing a staggered start.

Same here to build up tolerence.

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 20:55**

Most birds disappear for a while after the breeding season to recover and moult their feathers, you start to see them again once autumn arrives.

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 19:55**

Hammer and Pickle" wrote: ↑02 Sep 2024, 19:12 Saw the local Jay pair today, which is also a relief as they have been quiet. Guess they have teenage sprogs to deal with…

My mags have managed to shake off their 3 offspring from what I can tell.

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 19:54**

zebthecat wrote: ↑02 Sep 2024, 18:50 It'll take a bit of getting used to but it is nothing like as bad the makeover that the web site I work on has just had. It is an eye-searing, back to the 90s combination of electric blue and canary yellow and the main typeface looks suspiciously like a grown up version of Comic Sans especially the capital letters. It makes my head hurt.

I'm still doing a staggered start.

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 19:12**

Saw the local Jay pair today, which is also a relief as they have been quiet. Guess they have teenage sprogs to deal with…

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 18:50**

It'll take a bit of getting used to but it is nothing like as bad the makeover that the web site I work on has just had. It is an eye-searing, back to the 90s combination of electric blue and canary yellow and the main typeface looks suspiciously like a grown up version of Comic Sans especially the capital letters. It makes my head hurt.

Posted: **02 Sep 2024, 07:37**

Coffee wrote: ↑27 Mar 2020, 19:19 "That's fantastic. Amazing how the cuckoo coos without opening its beak. For anyone who knows about tropical birds: I saw a small bird the other day, about the size of hlaf a sparrow, but with a long, pointed beak and a yellow/greenish hue. Any ideas what it is? Calcutta is usually very noisy. Car horns, rickshaw bells, revving motorbikes, people arguing, shouting, expectorating, dogs barking. And that's just for starters. The lockdown has made things eerily quiet. No cars, few people. But for the first time ever, you can hear birds sing."

Coffee could it be a type of Hummingbird?

Posted: **01 Sep 2024, 20:14**

You’re lucky to hear a blackbird , between cats and magpies they ain’t got a chance round here .

Posted: **01 Sep 2024, 19:19**

Was glad to hear a blackbird do its warning call today.

Noticed they had totally stopped singing after we got back from France at the end of July when at the beginning of the month they were at it all the time.

Is this just normal breeding-cycle behaviour, some kind of bird flu or both?

Posted: **30 Aug 2024, 20:51**

lowlife wrote: ↑30 Aug 2024, 20:22 I think tomshardware saw a turtle dove recently.

Was probably hoping for a partridge/pear-tree event.

Posted: **30 Aug 2024, 20:22**

I think tomshardware saw a turtle dove recently.

Posted: **30 Aug 2024, 19:52**

I am visually overstimulated. Having to microdose myself to acclimatise. I wonder how zebthecat's coping.

Posted: **30 Aug 2024, 18:48**

Just checking if this bumps to the top like on the old site.

Yay it does!

This is fun.

Posted: **09 Aug 2024, 22:23**

"Sitting in the garden drinking coffee, watching 5 hoopoe‚Äôs dancing around the trees at the end of our garden. Lovely looking things."

Posted: **08 Aug 2024, 23:34**