"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
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"They are amazing aren't they Zeb, was sitting in my parents garden years ago and one came in and landed on a silver birch tree, it was only the flash of white that made me see it, as you say they are silent."
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Hammer and Pickle
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Foxes round here come the size of small Alsatians. I know because once I caught one in the headlights as I came home from late one evening after a really heavy coaching supervision. Maybe it was my spirit animal.
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Why would I feed them? The exercise they get from catching their own food helps keep them fit
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Admiral Lard
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"The male is very male, he's straight in on the sunflower hearts in the safety cage feeder. with his long beak he can go where the fat pigeons, Skwirls and Rats cannot get to. The lady pecker is far more cautious, she flies around sussing out the lay of the land, sits atop the feeder, more looking about and once SHE has decided he moment is right she daintily pecks away, Alas past month's rat encroachment led to the removal of the peanut feeder and the GSW's favourite food source. Caught one of the rats in a cage trap and drove it 3 miles away to release into the woods but it's mate hung around so no more peanuts for the GSW's for the time being"
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Nurse Ratched
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"I have both male and female greater spotted woodpeckers on my feeder most days. Also have a bonus, unexpected wilding patch where the feeder stood over the winter. Now full of bird poo (Excellent fertiliser) and dropped bird seed I know have barley and some other grasses growing abundantly. Thank birds for bring your own floral diversity"
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Nurse Ratched
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"Just seen my first two York urban foxes, after living here for over 20 years. Much bigger, and much redder than the ones I used to see in Birmingham. Probably due to them hunting rodents and small birds (sorry) rather than the contents of black bin bags, and being less dirtied by traffic fumes. I suppose, from a fox perspective, York is much more like a village than a city like Birmingham. From a human perspective, York is only inferior to Birminghan in one way - Birmingham has better football teams (but none of them is West Ham, so that counts for fuck all)"
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Hammer and Pickle
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"Now looking at my books and am firmly discounting the Lesser Whitethroat (too grey), the Blackcap (lacks a clear black eye stripe) or Wood Warbler (too green). Saw what at first I thought was a pair of sparrows, then looked again because they were sitting too still. Definite black and white tail with ruddy back and wings as they took flight as I approached."
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Nurse Ratched
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Nurse Ratched
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Nurse Ratched
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Hammer and Pickle
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Yay! Just Google-confirmed a sighting of a Red-Backed Shrike. Tiny little impaler no bigger than a sparrow!
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Nurse Ratched
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"Just returning from a splendid weekend in the CARPATHIAN hills (calling them mountains would be unsuitable). Used Nurse’s app to record this morning’s birdsong and got Robin, Blackcap, Greater Whitethroat, Willow Tit, Marsh Tit, Wren, Chaffinch and Great Spotted Woodpecker. Highly SATISFACTORY, I’d say."
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Aalborg Hammer
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Trevor from 3 doors down knocked on our door this evening inviting us down to his back garden where he has a small wood. We sat with a couple of beers listening to a nightingale singing his little heart out..the only one I've heard before is the recording in s Surrey wood with a 1000 bomber raid in the background..it's on YouTube May 1942 -Nightingale and Bombers