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"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."

"tickle yer bum with a feather, nice and warm sunny weather, do you like peacock feathers nurse please reply in the affirmative"

Few magpies had a decent scrap in my garden earlier. Caused a bit of a ruckus to be sure. I don’t like corvids though so if I lived in the country and they were up to that they would be dispatched to bird heaven via a shotgun pellet or 10.

"Forever getting Ornithologist and Onanist mixed up*. Have been thrown out of a fair few hides because of it. *Tried to associate one to the term twitchers, didn't help."

Just pecking in with a sticky beak on the send button

Just pecking in with a sticky beak on the send button

"my daily walk...halfway there is a pair of blackbirds each day going about their business, doesn't matter how I'm feeling in the day before I get there, they're cheering me up each and every day. Beautiful birds."

"my daily walk...halfway there is a pair of blackbirds each day going about their business, doesn't matter how I'm feeling in the day before I get there, they're cheering me up each and every day. Beautiful birds."

"Peckham, Probably rude to point it out, but you have a terrible stutter."

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"Nurse Ratched 3:22 Sun Mar 29 It'll be even more unnerving next time, when they are both wearing little cut outs of your face..."

Peckham Very appropriate that you should post on this thread.

"It is West Ham related Gank , WHO has one of the worlds finest Ornithologists - Alfie."

"It is West Ham related Gank , WHO has one of the worlds finest Ornithologists - Alfie."

"It is West Ham related Gank , WHO has one of the worlds finest Ornithologists - Alfie."

lowermarshhammer 2:37 Sun Mar 29 Thanks for that. I’ll give that a go.

"No bird going near the caged bird table, I think they have freaked out, scared of the transformation in their environment. I guess they’ll get used to it. Have to say my favourite bird in these parts is called a puput, (hoopoe in English = Upupa epops) they look a bit like a jay gone wrong, nice looking bird, but what I really like is they come every spring to eat the processionary caterpillars that come down from the pine trees. These caterpillars are poisonous, give me and my dogs allergies, fucking hated them and love anything that eats them."

"Hmmm, I shall now refer to the whole lot of them as “sparrows” haha"

Might be dunnocks. They are everywhere as well. I'd describe their song as 'scratchy.'

No! ?üßê

"Could be wrens in amongst them yes. There’s a LOT of brown jobs though and as you say, they don’t stand still. Chiff chaffs and chaffinches are very noisy around here even with this bloody wind roaring through the trees."

Didn't you half volley one into the chest of a colleague?

"My office has a wide window sill and it's high above ground. I secretly feed the birds, but it's almost only pigeons who take me up on the offer. They recognise and memorise human faces, so they are becoming more comfortable around me, even though I habitually leave the window open (the room smells weird). I had a pair make love on that sill. I turned to see what all the rustling and warbling was about and he mounted her and they made love, albeit briefly, as these things are with pigeons. All the while they both stared me full in the eyes. That bit was a little unnerving."

"Sorry for ""derailing"" thread Nurse.."

Who was your colleague copulating with?

lowermarshhammer 3:12 Sun Mar 29 Last line - your colleague or the pigeons?