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"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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"

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.

I listen to positivity birdsong radio quite a lot

"Earily should be a word. For when there's a lot of noise you can't hear. Earily quiet, but the meter's showing the whales are making a racket in the subsonic."

Cat caught one today.

Why did I spell it like that?? What a knob.

Here's a six minute video of a woman and her pet raven..it's a really good mimic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3dOam9Hg4&fbclid=IwAR1aDuPNamT3dBu2HPmRmn2KiNK0BfvlTMk0Qbeoviq-wLhhQS9fYqF9Nqc

"Wrens are panick stricken birds, their song is beautiful. Blackbirds are a old favourite of mine. But the robin has a special place in my heart."

Earily quiet around here today. Barely a chirp.

"No birds on my table today, timid little fuckers. Still it’s a shitty cold rainy day and I’d just stay in too."

"tickle yer bum with a feather, nice and warm sunny weather, do you like peacock feathers nurse please reply in the affirmative"

Few magpies had a decent scrap in my garden earlier. Caused a bit of a ruckus to be sure. I don’t like corvids though so if I lived in the country and they were up to that they would be dispatched to bird heaven via a shotgun pellet or 10.

"Forever getting Ornithologist and Onanist mixed up*. Have been thrown out of a fair few hides because of it. *Tried to associate one to the term twitchers, didn't help."

Just pecking in with a sticky beak on the send button

Just pecking in with a sticky beak on the send button

"my daily walk...halfway there is a pair of blackbirds each day going about their business, doesn't matter how I'm feeling in the day before I get there, they're cheering me up each and every day. Beautiful birds."

"my daily walk...halfway there is a pair of blackbirds each day going about their business, doesn't matter how I'm feeling in the day before I get there, they're cheering me up each and every day. Beautiful birds."

"Peckham, Probably rude to point it out, but you have a terrible stutter."

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"Nurse Ratched 3:22 Sun Mar 29 It'll be even more unnerving next time, when they are both wearing little cut outs of your face..."