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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."

"Not keen on otters, the fishy bastards."

Pickle - sadly I've concluded that's what has happened to my birds. So few this year.

"Maybe they are identifying as birds? The bastard otters, not the eco lemons that is…"

"Aalborg - that's an impressive list of sightings - where in the country are you? I take it you're not in Aalborg if you're doing the RSPB thing. Funnily enough I saw a greenfinch on my sunflower seed feeder this morning - first one for ages. Like most people, haven't seen a bullfinch for ages but goldfinches are really common around here."

"Indeed, same here, only saving grace is that it is killing bastard otters too - fuckers are catching infected birdlife, something the eco lemons claim they do not do"

Listening to a boffin on the radio atm - a very nasty case of bird flu going round on a global scale this year apparently

"I took part in the RSPB birdwatch this weekend and am disappointed in the decline of bird numbers this year -I have the usual blue tits,great tits ,coal,marsh and long tailed tits but no finches to speak of. Robins ,wrens and nuthatches appeared fleetingly - a few redwings and fieldfares on our berry bushes.Our usual firecrests ,goldfinches and bullfinches have vanished and we haven't seen a greenfinch,a yellowhammer or a siskin for ages-when we moved in 30 years ago they were common. One first this year,a pair of waxwings appeared briefly on our niger seed feeder earlier this month"

The White-Tailed Sea Eagle I’ve just seen from the window going up the river probably thinks it’s lunchtime and it’s coot or rat on the menu.

Blue tits have joined in now. The birds definitely think it's spring.

"Red kites will see ferrets and dogs as flushers of things like rabbits and indeed will keep an eye on them . The thing is kites will only prey on dead things , things that buzzards kill for example . I recently saw a kite chase a buzzard off a hare that the buzzard had killed . Someone mentioned long tailed tits , yep gorgeous , twitter away in little groups as they work down a hedgerow . Leave them selves open to a sparrow hawk though . Saw a woodcock today ….now they make a hell of a journey ."

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"It's a bloody good thing you have started here Nurse - I really enjoy reading these accounts of birdy sightings and experiences. Not a great deal to report from here in deepest Herefordshire. I don't know what I have done to offend the tits, but they seem to be boycotting the feeder in my garden. But a couple of blackbirds have been having a clumsy go, which is quite funny to watch. I went for a walk by the Wye the other day and saw a pair of goosanders, a little egret which was a brilliant white on a very overcast day - would be good on an advert for Dulux. Also a couple of buzzards, a kestrel and two separate groups of long-tailed tits, which are one of my favourite birds."

"It's a bloody good thing you have started here Nurse - I really enjoy reading these accounts of birdy sightings and experiences. Not a great deal to report from here in deepest Herefordshire. I don't know what I have done to offend the tits, but they seem to be boycotting the feeder in my garden. But a couple of blackbirds have been having a clumsy go, which is quite funny to watch. I went for a walk by the Wye the other day and saw a pair of goosanders, a little egret which was a brilliant white on a very overcast day - would be good on an advert for Dulux. Also a couple of buzzards, a kestrel and two separate groups of long-tailed tits, which are one of my favourite birds."

"Rio, I live in The Chilterns West of High Wycombe and Red Kites are very common up here. Majestic birds. Can often count a dozen of them spiralling on thermals. We have a nest in one of our trees where a couple of chick's were raised a year or so ago. Hopefully it will be used again. Getting some bad press though due to people putting out food for them and consequently the reports of kites raiding picnics and bbqs. Plenty of grub for kites on the roads with squashed pheasants and squirrels. Processed human food not good for them."

"Nice updates, gonna do the birdwatch as well this weekend."

"riosleftsock 12:28 Sat Jan 28 Red Kites are wonderful; the reintroduction scheme has worked a treat. Don't have them here yet but do have Buzzards. They look like bombers circling around for their target. One thing I have noticed is that, once they come closer to the ground, they get seriously hassled by Crows and Jackdaws and just find a thermal and soar back above them."

"We have some red kites here, they are becoming more common, they are majestic soaring creatures hanging around the fields hovering along the A1307 north out of town. They seem to like roads next to fields, we have a huge amount of wild deer and rabbits here."

zeb Wonderful observation and reporting mate - keep them coming please

"I am going to do the RSPB Bird Watch as well. It doesn't feel Springy at all although the first yellow crocuses are out. Some of the birds would beg to differ though. The tawny owls are their call and response thing every nght (I love that), a Wood Pigeon tidied the nest it used last year this afternoon and there was a pair of Collared Doves canoodling in the small beech tree in my back garden. The sparrows have perked up now the sun has deigned to come back and, man, they are noisy. I am so glad I work from home - had a cig break this morning and while I was standing there a wren picking over berries on a thorny plant, blackbirds were feasting on the now thawed windfall apples and I saw a goldcrest. Goldcrests are the closest we to humming birds. Still no nuthatch though; they are my favourites."

"Sock I have a thing about robins and swans The robins 'puff' as a means of insulation in cold weather and become close due to their habit of following wild beasts foraging, so they associate humans gardening with a beast and follow the spade when gardening, by extension, feeders the same - brilliant little territorial creatures, by lad hops close every morning chirruping before sunrise Swans, well, that comes from fishing and a learned way of addressing them, beautiful, graceful and full of character once they get to know you - I kid you not"

"Nurse First in every day are the Robin and Blackbird males Singing away and on the replenished feed before sunrise By sunrise it's an aviary I'm neither birding knowledgeable or a seeker of apparent rare sightings I simply rejoice in seeing the blighters going about their routine on my tab - even the maligned woodies Never ceases to fascinate me how individual birds become recognisable by their habit and individual food preference, irrespective of species Lovely"

"I've noticed growing numbers of Robins up here, but very friendly fat little fuckers that beg like pigeons. Also plenty of Blue tits and song thrushes. Seen two sparrowhawk low altitude mid air intercepts on juicy wood pigeons in the last few years in our back garden, explosion of feathers and not much left after."

"True, Crassus Plus every morning for the last week has seen a stunning sunrise."

"Nurse Me too Wonderful, what a wonderful time to be alive and aware How the blind to such, miss so much"

"Today the great tits started singing/calling. Ah, spring..."