West Ham Online

"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."

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.
 

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."

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

 

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?

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

I think tomshardware saw a turtle dove recently.

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

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

Yay it does!

This is fun.

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

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

Saw a turtle dove last week. Beautiful looking bird. Also today saw dozens of swallows on a telegraph line.

"norwaytips- take a walk up to Tennysons Monument and take a look at the resident ravens -they're big bastards too. On a separate note -if you like burgers/steak etc. make sure to visit The Cow ,not far from Freshwater on the Newport road and the Blacksmiths pub at Carisbrooke-great food and views out the back"

"Just seen a white tailed sea eagle, in Compton bay, Isle of Wight. First one I’ve seen here and they are big buggers."

"Just taken a photo of one of the wild flowers, and it’s a gentian. Well chuffed."

"A few of the wild flowers I planted have come up on the last week, well pleased. My street and a couple nearby are also covered with lots of Mexican flea bane. It’s amazing how they can grow quickly, with next to nothing to grow in. They truly are proliferate. Ahem…"

I saw a nice pair of tits in my garden.

Forgot to add: Loads of swifts in the streets around my home. Also an area I know locally for house martins is absolutely swamped with the little beauties.

"Spotted flycatcher. FMOB Merlin has been trying to tell me all morning and I thought ""Nah"". Now a confirmed eyeball. Best Spring I can remember for birding in a long time. All I'm missing is my woodpecker but maybe I've not been available to watch the garden early enough or just been unlucky with timing. Also: a jay and many baby bluetits."

"My Merlin app has recorded a single Nightingale and, interestingly, a Golden Oriel at the same time. Playing it back there is a single liquid trill, which seems to have been attributed to both. Could it be Merlin is as reliable as an over-keen ornithologist?"

The local bird warden says it's possibly a lone male on his way through to Sussex..he'd not heard one for ages..my Merlin app confirmed the 'spotting ' hope to try again tonight

"Currently staying in a 500 year old brew house on the Isle of Wight...we're somewhat out in the sticks here with water meadows and some lakes..so far we've seen a barn owl fly over the lake (with fieldmouse) chiff chaff ,Jay's, wren ,long tailed tits, buzzards, red kite , moorhen , grey heron , loads of red squirrels and a fox..my Merlin app has been very busy recording a bearded tit, Reed warbler and tree creeper..last night, the icing on the cake was a nightingale giving it rice in the nearby wood..I haven't heard one since I was a teenager..Happy days"