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."

[Mex Martillo]

I like herons as well. What you got against herons Tom? Are you a fishfarmer? I heard they annoy fishfarmers.

[lowermarshhammer]

"Herons are great, they are patient statuesque cunts."

[lowermarshhammer]

Herons have their ecological niche. Humans should never impose their values on those with feathers and that includes pikey feral skanky fucked up toed pigeons.

[Tomshardware]

The heron is a wretched bird.

[gph]

"Unlike parrots, albatrosses are rubbish at language. She obviously misheard me no pause"

[Mex Martillo]

"gph 5:27 Sat Mar 6 I saw that as well gph, they said normal life expectancy of an albatross is 30-40 years. I guess our seventy year old albatross hen having a chick would be the equivalent of a 120 year old woman having a kid!"

[Tomshardware]

I now cherish the sight or song of the chaffinch as it seems rather these last few years.

[Nurse Ratched]

Arf! @ Ur

[Nurse Ratched]

Crassus Indeed. That was going to be my next suggestion if 'bullfinch was blown out.

[Crassus]

"Nurse - do you think they could be chaffinches? I've got them too, reckon mine are chaffs"

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Btw, see UR is in the news today..."

[gph]

"900 years' time, and she'll be the female Genghis Khan of the albatross world"

[gph]

"900 years' time, and she'll be the female Genghis Khan of the albatross world"

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Nurse, just had a look at photos of them and think you're right, the ones I saw resembled the photos of female bullfinch I've just seen. Cheers."

[Nurse Ratched]

Geep - blimey!

[Nurse Ratched]

Bullfinch?

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Sat in the garden and in a tree quite nearby, not quite close enough to see clearer, there's 6 or 7 birds the size of a robin and with a red breast but they're definitely not robins. They're chippey little fellas and flittering all over the tree. Anyone know what type of bird it could be?"

[gph]

"This is some old bird https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56281983#:~:text=Wisdom%20the%20albatross%2C%20the%20world's,Service%20(USFWS)%20has%20said. 70, and still turning out chicks!"

[Mike Oxsaw]

Coffee 7:14 Wed Mar 3 I think you'll find them all in the current Tory party laying off contracts.

[Coffee]

"Pesticides don't just kill little insects. When I first went to Calcutta, there were vultures all over the place, sitting in trees waiting to feast on whatever carrion the night has seen fit to provide. Then in the late 80s and early 90s, farmers surrounding the city started using a new kind of pesticide, which killed off the vultures - all of them. They're ugly as sin, but curiously hypnotic to watch."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Saw a Skylark out walking the brachet today. I was delighted as they've become quite rare of late due to the misuse of pesticides by farmers.

[Side of Ham]

Could it have been the Luftwaffe Pickle saw?

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Heard a sound that could have been a rusty old cement mixer giving up the ghost, looked up and dead overhead was the year's first squadron of Greylag geese flying due north in immaculate V-shaped formation. They were clearly having a wonderful time and what a din!"

[zebthecat]

Alfs 2:29 Wed Feb 24 Thanks I'll look that up. I read the book Other Minds which is all about Octopus intelligence which as close as we can be to a true alien intelligence as their entire body plan (and neural plan) diverged from ours so long ago.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

"theyve found the rabbits and the hole,but to be frank they dont know anything about BURROWS"