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."

[gph]

"I like wolf spiders. They have tiny brains, but they use them well. They are cannibalistic, so having different behaviours when they meet other wolf spiders of varying sizes is quite important. And they do have different behaviours. But scientists can't (yet) figure out how the small number of neurons at their disposal can support this."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"lab 12:46 Tue Sep 27 'AH, I didn’t catch the eagles on the IOW last week,' It's not surprising, 'last week' isn't due on the IOW for about 20 years."

[Nurse Ratched]

"I agree they are quite lovely, Tom. Meanwhile it's spider season and I could swear there are more than usual around this year."

[Tomshardware]

"The pied wagtail, a bird that cheers me when I see them."

[Tomshardware]

"Saw a pair of house martins the other day, seems late for them to still be about. Plenty of robins about and vying for territory, same goes for wrens."

[Aalborg Hammer]

"Lab..if you go the cafe/restaurant 'Off the Rails' (superb fish fingers and chip baguette btw) its quite near the Yarmouth ferry,theres some really good tracks through the wetlands there where you can see loads of birds."

[Aalborg Hammer]

"Lab..if you go on the Yarmouth to Ryde Road,there's a NT bird reserve at Newtown with hides and loads of wildfowl (PO30 4PA) Worth a visit..great to see the ravens. Currently in North Yorkshire..it's lovely to see the Curlews on the recently furrowed fields..up on the moor ,Black Grouse are everywhere, males with their entourages!!"

[Northern Sold]

That Golden eagle section in the Frozen Planet was staggering stuff... OK not so sure the mountain sheep/goat or whatever they were thought the same as they was being dropped from a very great height...

[lab]

"AH, I didn’t catch the eagles on the IOW last week, saw a pair of ravens ,plenty of sea birds and as I was up early I loved seeing Canada Geese ,several flocks coming over from the mainland low over the sea and settling near Yarmouth,in the afternoon you could see them returning . Where I stayed there was a Buddleia in flower which attracted humming bird hawk moths . Just had a nice surprise up at Blackbushe airport ,a small group of lapwings near the runways ."

[Aalborg Hammer]

I see that an American Nighthawk has made the journey across the Atlantic and is attracting a lot of twitchers to a housing estate near Didcot..same family as a nightjar

[Tomshardware]

Would love to see a bearded tit.

[Nurse Ratched]

"In Kent, with rellies. Over the last couple of days: mixed flocks of swallows and house martins; moorhens; coots; mallards; water rails; Marsh harriers; kestral; buzzard; hen harrier; various other BoP I could not ID; pied wagtails; BILLIONS of starlings and house sparrows; a juvenile goldfinch feasting on a teasel (couldn't open my camera app in time!); meadow pippit; bearded tit (got a bit tearful over that spot); brent geese; jackdaws; avocets; little egret; turnstones; partridges; and many more. Naturally I am in heaven."

[ted fenton]

Just watched that ! God nature can be so cruel.

[J.Riddle]

"Speaking of Eagle's. Golden Eagle's picking up mountain goats and carrying them back to their nest and dropping them off the cliff. Amazing filming, worth watching to the end if not seen the like before. https://youtu.be/Yz7FFlFy8eM"

[Aalborg Hammer]

Lab..Tennysons monument and above the golf course above Freshwater Bay

[Aalborg Hammer]

Lab..Tennysons monument and above the golf course above Freshwater Bay

[lab]

"Aalborg..I’m over next week ,where did you see them ?"

[Aalborg Hammer]

Currently on the Isle of Wight and was lucky to see the 3 Ernes (sea eagles) over the weekend..very impressive

[ted fenton]

"Why are thousands of our wild birds dropping dead? As an avian flu outbreak wreaks havoc across the UK and sparks increasing concern from the Government, GEOFFREY LEAN asks what will happen next and does the disease pose a threat to human health. Feathered carcasses litter beaches on islands off Scotland and the east coast Reserves, including one named after Sir David Attenborough, left devastated The Government is increasingly concerned that the bird flu, as it is more commonly known, may mutate and cause another pandemic in humans. Huge expanses of bare rock have appeared along normally thronged stretches of British coastline, emptied by the death of thousands of birds. Feathered carcasses litter beaches on islands off Scotland and the east coast. And, in Brighton, seagulls have been dropping dead out of the skies. A total of 23 Scottish islands have been closed to visitors. Precious wildlife reserves, including one named after Sir David Attenborough in Nottinghamshire, have been devastated. And dozens of pheasant and partridge shoots have been called off before the season has started. It is all down to an outbreak of avian flu among our wild birds that some experts say is the deadliest variant so far recorded not just in Britain, but worldwide. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has called it 'heartbreaking' while the National Trust says the mass deaths risk 'undoing decades of hard work to restore nature'. And the Government is increasingly concerned that the bird flu, as it is more commonly known, may mutate and cause another pandemic in humans — perhaps one far more deadly than Covid-19. After all, that is what happened with so-called Spanish flu at end of World War I. It was caused by a similar strain of the virus to that now in circulation among birds (H5N1) and although estimates vary greatly, the former is thought to have killed 50 million people — about one in every 35 of those alive at the time. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11074689/Avian-flu-outbreak-leaves-thousands-wild-birds-dead-sparks-concern-Government.html"

[Nurse Ratched]

Niiiice

[Crassus]

"Exciting observation 5.45 and there was a right old racket, airborne racket Screeching birds, and I mean serious screeching, woke my daughter I went to the garden to investigate and four birds, bloody great things swooped majestically over the garden and out over the fields, travelling at some pace and very agile Watching them for a few minutes it was obvious that they were a parent pursued by its two offspring with the other parent taking up the rear Never seen nor heard the like before, big birds and distinctive call. I grabbed the phone and the birdsong app, could not believe what it came up with, tried it 4 times and the same result, checked out the web for images and yep, supported the app. Still disbelieving, I searched the existence in these parts and yes, a breeding pair existed in Aylesbury, around 10 miles away Peregrine Falcons ffs in N Bucks"

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Blue tits make a right racket when they're near food which I've never really understood, I suppose it might be a call to others that foods on the go. To my next door's cat though it's more ""I'm here, try and get me""..."

[plankton]

"J.Riddle 3:16 Tue Jun 28 Re: For WHO's birders https://tinyurl.com/2bm3ury8 The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!"

[gph]

Hearing is the least important sense when it comes to tits. None are in the top ten for singing. https://www.bl.uk/the-language-of-birds/articles/the-top-10-british-birdsongs

[Nurse Ratched]

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