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."

[Bungo]

"yngwies Cat 7:54 Mon Apr 6 Definitely. I live nearly as close to Heathrow as you (TW16), and we now look up when any plane goes over (as we used to for Concorde), as they are fairly rare at the moment."

[Coffee]

Mike Oxsaw 8:54 Sat Apr 11 That's a question for the NETWORK.

[Mike Oxsaw]

"How many Jacob's Cream Crackers does a pair of Mynah Birds require each day? There's a pair who own the communal gardens at my apartment complex and they're quite tuneful, so I'd like to encourage them to sing from my window-cill."

[Tomshardware]

This evening I saw a peregrine again perched on a tv aerial on a nearby rooftop.

[JAC]

Ive never seen/heard so many Skylarks as I have over the last few days taking the dog for a walk. Today I counted at least a dozen ans we wandered across fields. Its truely amazing listening and trying to spot the little fuckers.

[gph]

The crows are manufacturing tiny megaphones for the other birds. Part of project CORVID-20.

[Nurse Ratched]

Mrs Cat has it right.

[yngwies Cat]

"I have a question birders. We notice the bird song a lot more since there's hardly planes around, as we are under the flight path. It's very nice actually. I made the comment to Mrs Cat that the birds were being particularly loud one morning. She commented that because of years of living in urban areas and having to compete with noise there bird song has in fact got louder? Interesting? What do the Who residential birders. Think? Is my bird talking bollocks or is there some truth in this that Bill Odie and yourselves would concur with? Many thanks Y Cat Hounslow"

[wd40]

"Famous words from Mr Banks after Michael asked if could feed the birds . ""What do you get if you feed the birds-fat birds "" Then again I do run out in my pants most morning to scatter the pigeons away from the bird table with my other half shouting -leave them they count as birds as well idoit."

[lowermarshhammer]

"Saw a LOT of deer (25+) on the A12 at 0100 two nights ago close to Brook St Junction 28. Absolute car crash about to happen, pulled over & made a 999 call to make plod aware. Just after the call a barn owl flew over the A12. Lots more barn owls about in Essex compared to when I was a kid."

[Tomshardware]

Was lucky enough to see a peregrine falcon the other day.

[Mex Martillo]

"Zeb, a flock of great and blue tits must be a sight to behold. You’ve all inspired me to get the seed on the table early and see what the day holds."

[Alfie]

Crows know GPH - that is why. They are allied to the Russians and Chinese. Their beady eyes are all knowing. Their beaks are streamlined to fuck. Their plumage is black as deepest space. They are just waiting for us to not be looking - and they will fucking swoop and peck into us through our most vulnerable area - our noses: they will peck our fucking noses in mate: leave them looking like an inverted glove

[gph]

"Why have I got an explosion in crow numbers? Instead of better singers? Crows in ones and twos are fairly silent, but in larger gatherings they get very vocal. And they get up about four hours before me. I admire their intelligence, but they are beginning to annoy me now."

[Alfie]

"Done a little bit of birding myself this day. I composed these lines the better to tell you all about it - I espied a most wondrous site earlier upon the larch tree, Blackbirds - three were consorting Cohorting and planned to swoop Into my garden amongst my fruit Patch out the back: bastards - I shot them - with a blunderbuss crack."

[Peckham]

Has Alfie contributed his far superior bird and beak knowledge yet.........................

[Nurse Ratched]

"I agree, it is very surprising. I heard it, though, didn't see it."

[lowermarshhammer]

"Nurse 1022 Amazing you've not seen one for 25 years. When I was in Brixton Hill our flat overlooked a car park with a paltry amount of greenery. Would get the occasional blue tit and great tit., blackbirds there were good singers. Pied wags and the very occasional grey wag on the flat roof of a storage unit. A wren belting out wren tunes was most welcome. On the other side of the road a fair few trees on at most 30 metres wide piece of land, probably being a remnant of common land I would think. Occasionally in winter immense charms of goldfinches on that the like of which I've never seen in the sticks.Easily 200 plus and maybe close to double that. Once found a dead goldcrest next to my motorbike there, must have flown into a window on the 4th, 5th or 6th floor. Just seeing a cheeky flyover cormorant was something living there."

[lowermarshhammer]

"Nurse 1022 Amazing you've not seen one for 25 years. When I was in Brixton Hill our flat overlooked a car park with a paltry amount of greenery. Would get the occasional blue tit and great tit., blackbirds there were good singers. Pied wags and the very occasional grey wag on the flat roof of a storage unit. A wren belting out wren tunes was most welcome. On the other side of the road a fair few trees on at most 30 metres wide piece of land, probably being a remnant of common land I would think. Occasionally in winter immense charms of goldfinches on that the like of which I've never seen in the sticks.Easily 200 plus and maybe close to double that. Once found a dead goldcrest next to my motorbike there, must have flown into a window on the 4th, 5th or 6th floor. Just seeing a cheeky flyover cormorant was something living there."

[Nurse Ratched]

"I heard a jay just today, coincidentally. I didn't see it, though."

[lowermarshhammer]

Blue tits have moved into one of my two swift boxes. Cheeky squatters.

[zebthecat]

Saw a pair of Jays chilling on the oak over the back of my garden yesterday. Yes I know they are crows but very pretty. ones.

[zebthecat]

Nurse Ratched 10:14 Sun Apr 5 Just a few here but then they have the fat Wood Pigeons for competition.

[zebthecat]

"Nurse Ratched 10:22 Sun Apr 5 I have a mixed flock of great and blue tits that forage together. Also loads of sparrows this year (they have overwintered weill obviously). When they decide to move it fun watching them. One goes first follwed but another couple and then. whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh etc as all the others tag along."

[Nurse Ratched]

Hehe...