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Nurse Ratched
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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."
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"Nurse Ratched 10:38 Fri Mar 27 Good call on the sunbird (olive backed), though wiki says they can be 4.7"" long, which is larger than this bird."
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"The birds around here seem to be hungrier than usual and taking more risks to get a morsel of food. I’ve started putting chicken food on a bird table for then. That seemed to go down very well, but then some collared doves took over the table and would not let other birds approach, not even other collared doves! Anyway, I’ve put a cage over the table so only the little birds can get to the food! I’ll keep you informed on developments as I am sure you will all be interested. Keeps me slightly entertained."
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"Perhaps a type of sunbird, or maybe a common tailorbird? I know bugger all about the tropicals, though, sorry."
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"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."
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And now for some dogging and dogging etiquette...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFFW_Dsdys
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And now for some dogging and dogging etiquette...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFFW_Dsdys
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"This is SORT OF topical in that, unusually for a West Ham website, you can hear a bit of W(H)IN CHAT on this video."
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What the merry FUCK is going on here? There are Ornithology websites galore on the internet. This is a West Ham website. Ne'er the twain shall meet!
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This one delighted me yesterday. Same channel. Great grey shrikes rearing their young. Great footage of the shrike's 'larder' (small rodent prey deliberately impaled on a twiggy spike in a tree for easy access) https://youtu.be/esSYgkN4yMQ
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Is this a thread by a Fat Bird?
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This is brilliant. Thanks for this. Have been appreciating the birdsong more this year than ever before.
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Dunno. Reckon our nurse could accommodate a fluffy backed tit babbler.
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Better to give than to receive.
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would you enjoy a good owling Nurse
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"You missed a prime opportunity to give me an owling, Hugh!"
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"nice,i will listen and view later,THankYou"
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Really?? I had no idea.
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"Cranes can be seen in the UK, breeders in Suffolk / Norfolk. Only seen two overhead once on the North Norfolk Coast. Once in the morning, probably the same pair back later the same day. I ain't no twitcher by the way just a country boy who knows a bit."
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Yes Nurse Not many more handsome than a chaffler on the pull. Followed by a proud wood pigeon. A horny hawfinch. A whitethroat giving it large. Bloody hell a golden oriole. The shit stirring cuckoo. A not so common crane. Some else have a go.....
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