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."

[Chigwell]

"A couple of mistle thrushes have commandeered the cotoneaster hedge in our back garden. There are still a few hundred berries on it and even when the thrushes have had their fill, they sit on the nearby fence and chase off any other birds that try to feed there."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Never seen you on this thread before Mong. Thanks for following me.

[Capitol Man]

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 1:00 Tue Jan 19 Re: For WHO's birders ‘Ark at Warren Beatty. You wow them with your grasp of detail and pedant your way into their knickers don’t you.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Swiss 'Have you ever kissed a girl?. Damning enough in itself, but it has added irony coming from a bloke who spends his life drinking alone in bars drooling over 'Hot Marta', while desperately hoping Sanjay doesn't come and serve him first.."

[lowermarshhammer]

"Fieldfare the other day, proper agressive Scandinavian fuckers, the hooligans of the Turdus family, invade the manor and take on allcomers."

[lowermarshhammer]

"Fieldfare the other day, proper agressive Scandinavian fuckers, the hooligans of the Turdus family, invade the manor and take on allcomers."

[zebthecat]

Not birds this time but the first yellow crocus appeared in my little wildflower meadow today and some daffs are beginning to come up too.

[Nurse Ratched]

For Goldie https://youtu.be/Gui3IswQ0DI To sum up: your dog is a dunce. And BIRDS ARE REAL ?üò° It's just bears that are fake.

[the exile]

Just saw a Greater Spotted Woodpecker on my afternoon constitutional. Lovely - one of my favourite birds.

[Swiss.]

"Oh look I spelt ""woodpigeon"" correctly honk honk (makes pig sounds). Can't wait to tell my friends at the Conservative Club. Chortle chortle."

[Swiss.]

Scurf Face have you ever lived? I mean had real fun? Kissed a girl even ???? Thought not.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"Swiss is so involved in wanking off over Disney vids that he hasn't considered the possibility of 'having looked at and noticed what goes on with the shrub (tree, both?) leylandii without being a twitcher' . Not that there's a thing wrong with being a twitcher. The yellow-anoraked, satchel-carrying, sandal-wearing, emotionally-retarded, tinfoil-hat-wearing, 'confirmed bachelor', UFO-spotting, thick, no-mark twat."

[BRANDED]

"BTW, twice in the last week I have walked past a front hedge in London which has been full of sparrows tweeting loudly. Haven't particularly noticed sparrows much for years so this was pretty exciting and unusual round here."

[Side of Ham]

"Says Swiss, who critiques boxsets on Disney+ let‚Äôs hope the late 50‚Äôs sleazy cսnt hasn‚Äôt got it to impress anyone....."

[Swiss.]

Haha Scurf Face is a twitcher. I bet you love Time Team and playing D&D as well. TWAT

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"The only bird I've ever seen that's tough enough to nest in a leylandii is woodpigeon (yes, auto spell correct, woodpigeon, you cսnt). Plenty of creepy-crawly moths, beetles, flies, spiders and other shit though. Ghastly Johnny Foreigner impatient bastard stuff. No-one wants to overlook you anyway, you boring cunts."

[Golden Oldie]

Didn't know where else to post this but birds aren't even real anyway. Here's a dog being all he can be https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1350824797454938112

[Tomshardware]

Zeb it is possible that they are starting though as I've heard of tits nesting in February.

[zebthecat]

It is the males rooting around for twigs and then disappearing into the hedge. They could just be hiding from my cat of course.

[Tomshardware]

"zeb, that's very early for the Blackbirds to be starting to build nests, as normally it'd be March onwards."

[zebthecat]

I have a bouple of blackbirds building nests in the Leylandii hedge in my back garden (the hedge belongs to next door) and the two males are busy collecting nesting material off my lawn. The Tawny Owls are busy calling to each other at night and my chimney Jackdaws are half heartedly collecting nest bits. Fuck knows what the sparrows are doing but it is bloody loud whatever it is. Also saw the Jays out and about today which is a rarity.They are beautiful.

[gph]

"At one point, the biggest raptor in the world lived in New Zealand. Haast's eagle became extinct 500-600 years ago, probably due to the Maoris hunting its most important prey species to extinction. It was also the largest (non-human) predator in NZ. There is no chance it will eat Montieth."

[Nurse Ratched]

Thank you. Sensible and non-fantasised anecdotes about encounters with birdlife in NZ also welcome.

[blueeyed.handsomeman]

a great job here nurse

[Cony Tottee]

I've just signed up for the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch and can pretty much guarantee that no birds will visit my garden on the day!