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."

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"Koch is very good,favours his right foot"

[Nurse Ratched]

Perhaps a hanky.

[Coffee]

A small tent?

[smasher]

Ive woke up with a right fucking LOB ON Could pitch a tent

[gph]

West Ham are reported to be after Freiburg centre-back ROBIN Koch (Koch Robin?). Everything is to do with West Ham.

[Mex Martillo]

Mex Martillo 10:39 Sun Mar 29 Re: For WHO's Birders Just saw my first sparrow type bird on my caged bird table. That was a whole week with no bird risking a visit after I put the cage to stop the collared doves controlling the table! They are timid little creatures aren’t they.

[Sydney_Iron]

"Rilk, FFS!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dO-itjWtI"

[bruuuno]

"I don’t believe I have Sydney. I am, however, familiar with the mating call of the black bird: Come hyere winstaan"

[Tomshardware]

Can't say I have Sydney.

[Sydney_Iron]

"Have any of the WHO Birders heard the song or call of the Rilk, It’s a migratory bird from the North Baltic shores BTW. Whats it like?"

[Far Cough]

"Here you go you Twitchers, 3 hours of non stop beautiful Nightingale songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK2_bcQcoD4"

[bruuuno]

"Lmh that’s something that has always interested me about tube pigeons - are the confused when they get off a few stops down the line? Or do they know exactly what they’re doing and trying to save a bit of wing ache? How do they find their mates again, they all look the same? All these questions I have pondered"

[gph]

Got to keep going for the key workers...

[lowermarshhammer]

"Had a feral pigeon hitch a ride for about 20 (TWENTY) stops from central London to the grim 'burbs. Think they are enjoying the quieter trains. Hopped out twice during that time, my guess is Mr. Feral was shown the door by a punter because both times I reopened the doors and he walked along the platform for a bit before hopping back on. Made a change from swiftly despatching them."

[gph]

I suspect the pigeon below was conned. It thought it was going on a pleasant trip with a handful of corn at the other end.

[Mex Martillo]

"I surprised there’s no mention of the song thrush, beautiful singer, it’s in the name. Blackbird is also a great singer. Don’t think I ever heard a robin or wren sing, but delightful little chaps to see. None can top Mr. Riddle’s pidgeon though. Sorry still no birds on my table, perhaps I did something wrong. Earily quiet here as well..."

[Moncurs Putting Iron]

gank 4:26 Tue Mar 31 Re: For WHO's Birders Heron incident still causing PTSD then gankalicious?

[Moncurs Putting Iron]

gank 4:26 Tue Mar 31 Re: For WHO's Birders Heron incident still causing PTSD then gankalicious?

[Coffee]

Tomshardware 4:22 Tue Mar 31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

[Gank]

What a much of cunts you lot turned out to be in the end.

[Tomshardware]

"Agree lower, the skylark on a early summers day above the field is a beautiful thing."

[J.Riddle]

"Pigeons don’t get the respect they deserve sadly. Ignorants C***s like Ken Livingstone calling them flying rats doesn’t help. 32 Pigeons were awarded the Dickin Medal for services during WWII. They did similar in WWI Cher Ami one of the most famous. On October 3, 1918, Major Charles White Whittlesey and more than 550 men were trapped in a small depression on the side of the hill behind enemy lines without food or ammunition. They were also beginning to receive friendly fire from allied troops who did not know their location. Surrounded by the Germans, many were killed and wounded and only 194 men were still alive and not captured or wounded by the end of the engagement. Because his runners were consistently intercepted or killed by the Germans, Whittlesey began dispatching messages by pigeon. The pigeon carrying the first message, ""Many wounded. We cannot evacuate."" was shot down. A second bird was sent with the message, ""Men are suffering. Can support be sent?"" That pigeon also was shot down. The artillery batteries supporting Whittlesey's men attempted to provide a ""barrage of protection"" for Whittlesey's men on the northern slope of the Charlevaux Ravine, but believed Whittlesey was on the southern slope of the ravine, resulting in a barrage inadvertently targeting the battalion. ""Cher Ami"" was dispatched with a note, written on onion paper, in a canister on her left leg, We are along the road paralell to 276.4. Our own artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heavens sake stop it. As Cher Ami tried to fly back home, the Germans saw her rising out of the brush and opened fire. After several seconds, she was shot down but managed to take flight again. She arrived back at her loft at division headquarters 25 miles (40 km) to the rear in just 25 minutes, helping to save the lives of the 194 survivors. She had been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, and had a leg hanging only by a tendon. Cher Ami became the hero of the 77th Infantry Division. Army medics worked to save her life. They were unable to save her leg, so they carved a small wooden one for her. When she recovered enough to travel, the now one-legged bird was put on a boat to the United States, with General John J. Pershing seeing her off. The pigeon was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages in Verdun. She died at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 13, 1919 from the wounds she received in battle and was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame in 1931. She also received a gold medal from the Organized Bodies of American Racing Pigeon Fanciers in recognition of her service during World War I. The man responsible for training and caring for the pigeon in the signal corps, Enoch Clifford Swain, was given an award for his service. In November 2019 she became one of the first winners of the Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery, bestowed on her posthumously at ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. To American school children of the 1920s and 1930s, Cher Ami was as well known as any human World War I heroes. Cher Ami's body was later mounted by a taxidermist, who discovered that the ""male"" pigeon was actually a female, and enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution. She is currently on display with that of Sergeant Stubby in the National Museum of American History's ""Price of Freedom"" exhibit."

[bruuuno]

"I’m more friendly with the local squirrels, had one with white ears hanging around for a few years burying nuts in my artificial grass the bleeder. When you watch them close up you realise what pukka little animals they are"

[lowermarshhammer]

Toms hardware Robins are great obviously because of their melancholic winter singing at a time when most other are quiet. Wrens belt it out good and proper. Blackbirds amaze me in that you get some who are amateurs and some who are really at the top of their game. Hard to beat a skylark though for me.

[bruuuno]

I listen to positivity birdsong radio quite a lot