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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."

"Nothing to feel guilty about; the bratchet are my iPhone cable the other day, the ungrateful oaf."

"Nothing to feel guilty about; the bratchet are my iPhone cable the other day, the ungrateful oaf."

"Apart from breeding some of them into twisted wrecks, ""we"" haven't down much to dogs to feel guilty about. Personally, I haven't done much to them at all. Although my maternal grandparents did breed Irish setters."

"No, dogs make me feel guilty."

You've been made happier than ever before by your sub-pet hedgehog? Perhaps you should get a dog.

"I love it, David. My favourite is the rufous potoo."

Check out the Giant Potoo

"Lovely. I'd just do the absolute minimum, keep feeding and observe."

"Two nights in a row, emerging almost to the minute, has to be a good sign, don't you think? I think it might be bedding down in my garden. I have a corner with old bits of wood stacked up and old furniture that my ex was going to burn, but never got round to."

You have a visiting hedgehog? I'm seriously jealous.

HEDGEHOG! Two nights in a row now. First spotted last night. This might be the happiest I have ever been in my life. I can hear it crunching its little hedgehog biscuits (God bless Amazon Prime)

"The loudest I have are the sparrows - it is not tht there calls are particularly loud individually but there are loads of them and they never stop. Jackdaws, Blackbirds, Robins and wrens after that. Best nest this year is a nuthatch in among the ivy that climbs Apple tree number one. Love those little guys."

"True. With the crows vs magpies, I'm surprised they find time to eat some days. Which again does sound like WHO..."

To be fair that sounds like WHO.

"80% of the birds in/near my garden this year are magpies and crows, it's the same turf war/racket every day, you'd think after months of the same action every day with no gains made on the who owns which trees and chimneys they'd get bored of it all but I think they go through the same motions every day."

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Pickle and Jakub see 2 wite swons on river today. very taysty

Robins seem to love making their nests in sheds and garages.

"Fo, I live in a run-down part of North London. It's all concrete, noisy mopeds and ghastly fried chicken shops. Nobody is more astonished about the birds I get in my garden than me."

"Liveleak has changed its name to itemfix...its something i check each day for random stuff/news. Got to admit, never heard of the Lyre bird before. Shame we don't them over here. https://www.itemfix.com/v?t=c9s8yl"

"They will have to negotiate all kinds of junk in order to get to the great outdoors as well. You do seem to live in some sort of avian paradise, Nurse."

Wonderful. I can't wait to see robin fledglings. They're dopey looking little buggers. I've had baby/fledgy greenfinches for the last few days.

Wonderful. I can't wait to see robin fledglings. They're dopey looking little buggers. I've had baby/fledgy greenfinches for the last few days.

I have a robin in the garage current sitting on a nest with a couple of chicks already hatched . Me and the family are in and out of there several times each day and the mother (the robin not the missus) is completely unflustered. The nest is on a shelf at about beer belly height right by the door.

"I just found a reasonably local wildlife and ambulance service online and spoke to someone. She advised to leave the hole in the wall till,,,,September, and to give them a call if I find anymore fledglings and they can advise. Apparently it's not the scent from you handling them that scares off the parents but if the parents see a human handling one so I may just put the next one in a shoe box temporarily inside and call that centre. Will look for a more local one on Facebook thanks. The hole has been there for years but I have never ever seen a fledgling in the house so to have two in two days is bizarre, just can't understand where they have appeared from."