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."

[Tomshardware]

"Little experiment I've been doing, I challenged the territory of a robin by playing a recording of a robin singing (youtube video on my phone). The robin heard my robin and swooped down nearby to see where it's challenger was before returning to the top of a tree to sing even louder."

[Crassus]

"Fo - Sparrows I had a swarm of them last year, various types too, then in the space of a late month they vanished, completely gone Now they are back, numbers building again. Really not sure what is going on. I did not recognize them as migratory but it appears that they nest around here and then make off. I know that they are nesting as they are taking materials and strategically placed dog hair brushings Love the finches mind but of all, the robins, sound little buggers the robin"

[Fo the Communist]

"Morning Crass. There must be a flock of around 30-40 goldfinches that buzz around the park outside. What is presumably a small offshoot of that mob are regulars in my garden too - though, oddly, only a small patch of it. Again, lovely little things and wonderfully distinctive in flight. I wonder how it came to be that goldfinches are infinitely more common than house sparrows in these parts. Growing up it seemed that house sparrows were everywhere. I hardly see them now."

[Cony Tottee]

The starlings have returned to my garden for the first time in ages which would have been nice had the little bastards not been eating the grass seed I sowed last week!

[Block]

"So, the shit cunts who keep me awake at night are now targeting my car. ITS WAR."

[Crassus]

"Fo Hiya mate, handsome little buggers, a nice spot I have Goldfinches in the garden, they too are a lovely little thing but it's been three years or more since I had a brace of Goldcrests arrive and sadly depart, never seen again"

[Crassus]

"Fo Hiya mate, handsome little buggers, a nice spot I have Goldfinches in the garden, they too are a lovely little thing but it's been three years or more since I had a brace of Goldcrests arrive and sadly depart, never seen again"

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

as appy as a box of burds

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

as appy as a box of burds

[gph]

"In hieroglyphics, an owl may stand for an owl, or for the phoneme em. blueeyedhandsoowleowlan"

[Fo the Communist]

Saw two goldcrests in the park outside my office yesterday. Never seen one (or two ) before. Lovely little things.

[gph]

"blueeyed.handsomeman 6:13 Mon Mar 8 Although there is great pleasure in insulting people in a way they don't understand, but most others do, I think you're missing ""most others"". Or any others."

[Nurse Ratched]

https://youtu.be/wrIt-8tb_C8 This is his best one yet. A pair of Marsh Harriers raising their chicks. Including the male noticing the camera and exploring it.

[Tomshardware]

I have never liked otters.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"nurse always used to keep her heron in her barnet,nowadays she cracks her egglings beneath her wig"

[duffster]

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

[duffster]

"Theres a Heron that hangs out at Camden and eats starlings. He waits til they get close, grabs them, dunks them in the canal until they've drowned, and then gobbles them whole. As for swans, they are genocidal bastards, I often see them wiping out whole clutches of goslings and ducklings in a fit of pique. The worst parent bird I observe are the Egyptian geese, they just wander off and leave the goslings to the mercy of the gulls and swans. They hardly ever seem to raise any into adulthood. Another curiosity I have witnessed is herring gulls using their poop as bait for small fish, they circle round in a figure of 8 and by they time they get back to where they pooped, they often swoop down and grab a little fish."

[Crassus]

"https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/warning-graphic-content-are-hungry-otters-killing-swans-milton-keynes-330122 And all done for the shear fun of it all Some kind of so called wildlife freak was damn near tossing themselves to a frenzy of delight that the bastards had reached their local canal, and a dipshit in Oxford that they had inhabited their small wildlife wetland pond"

[Crassus]

"Otters are the true bastards Utter nonsense of a mismanaged re-introduction and the evil fuckers a re running wild Everything is fair game from swans, warblers, kingfishers etc to any kind of fish from record barbel, massive carp to ornamentals in private gardens to fish farmers and garden centres Strangely, they have not read the green cross code - plenty around my way seem to be found as road kill Can't think why ;)"

[Tomshardware]

True Mex.

[Aalborg Hammer]

"A huntin',shootin' fishin' neighbour has a large fishpond with Koi carp in it. I asked him one day ""Don't you have problems with Herons?"" ""Only once"""

[Mex Martillo]

"Tom, not sure if it works? I talk from experience as I’ve been patiently waiting for a massive nest egg to come my way."

[Tomshardware]

"I'm only messing, the heron is a patient bird, I envy it's lifestyle."

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"we were interested in signing a 19 year old PLYMOUTH striker named Paul Mariner but thats history,unlike this thread which is hysterical,"

[Coffee]

The heron has a special place in gank's heart. Like the albatross in the heart of the ancient mariner.