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."

[ted fenton]

Yeah I saw that a while back lab they also after a while take them out of your hand.

[lab]

Nice one Ted . If you’re anywhere near a pet shop that sells live mealy worms the parents will love them for the young uns.

[ted fenton]

I accidently knocked a bird box off the wall in my back garden last week and the young Robin chicks were on the pavement I quickly put them back in the nest and replaced the box It actually really upset me but the good news is that they must of survived as the parents are in and out feeding them.

[gph]

"That's the point. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are a subset of reptiles. So you have to define at least one of these categories in an odd way to avoid deducing birds are reptiles."

[zebthecat]

Birds are dinosaurs

[gph]

Perhaps dikas realise this. Dikas and croc vs monitor lizard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAOnPvNyQI PS No idea where monitor lizards fit into the bird-reptile family tree

[gph]

Birds pose a huge problem for a consistent definition of reptiles. Because crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to turtles.

[lab]

"We have a Robin here that gives us a song before 4:30 in the morning , and now it’s dark at 7:45 pm he/ she is at it again ."

[zebthecat]

Nurse Ratched 9:42 Sun Mar 6 Wow. Big mistake. The chimney Jackdaws are back - noisy argument this morning as to which pair gets the nesting spot.

[Tomshardware]

Garden I was at yesterday there are already great tits and blue tits busy building nests in the boxes.

[Nurse Ratched]

https://youtu.be/__Gs_vMXMlY

[Fo the Communist]

The mob of goldfinches who frequent the park outside my office returned this week. Nice little sign of spring being on the way. Lovely little birds are goldfinches.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"That's brilliant, something about gaining a bird's trust to the point they do something like that."

[Crassus]

https://twitter.com/Gambit59830470 I don't have Twitter (how apt in this context) so have tried to lift a link - it's worth it! Scroll down to the third image Beautiful vt images of a tit upon a Ukrainian serviceman The plumage colouration adds to the moment God bless them both

[Tomshardware]

Driving home yesterday at dusk I saw a lonesome heron flying over the road and across the fields.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Crassus, can vouch for them storing food. Occassionaly have them 'rooting around' right outside the bedroom window in the early hours. Really wish they could stash their supplies further up the f'ing garden..."

[Crassus]

"Blimey No bears here, Christ knows where that came from"

[Crassus]

"Blimey No bears here, Christ knows where that came from"

[Crassus]

"Zeb We have owls too, wonderful listening although that’s as far as it goes, never seen one in flight here Have you tried hooting back? I kid you not, I regularly set mine off for some distance too on a clear quiet night Read about a while back and one night after a drink may have been taken, the kids got me at it - got a bear instant response An unexpected one from my lad too, he captured the moment and whacked it on SM much to his mates amusement!"

[zebthecat]

Sound wise it all about the sparrows during the day and owls at night. I did have a Robin following me while I was doing some weeding last weekend. He gave me a Paddington hard stare while I was wrestling some brambles up.

[Crassus]

"Toms Yes they can dig - apparently they do so to cache food Ever wily, when times are plentiful they will bury excess Conversely, in times of limited food they dig for worms, may be that a cultivated and well kept garden has an abundance Another less savory habit is defecating in their food bowls. Apparently scent marks their feeding station We don't bother with such niceties, just fling it out into the field behind, chicken pieces/eggs and wrapped loose offerings in rice paper to a tangerine size"

[DaveT]

Haven't had the variety of birds we had last winter but have got a pheasant that makes hell of a noise until I take some more feed or to him. Also got a robin that comes to the doorstep each day as I open up and then pops in as I put the seed tray down for him. Noticed more whooper swans though in the fields this year

[J.Riddle]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/magpies-birds-tracking-devices-remove-b2021264.html Magpies teaming up to remove tracking device harnesses.

[Tomshardware]

I like foxes but they can do a lot of damage in a garden. Someone I work for in Colchester had one regular fox visitor which kept digging holes everywhere which was a pain in the arse.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Crassus, completely agree. I live in a part of Bristol where back in the 70s the BBC (I think did a mini series or maybe just one~off) about urban foxes, literally a stones throw, so these are ones who are more or likely descendant right from ones I was watching on the TV over 40 years ago, they lived here on this street before me! If I’m working from home and get wound up with it can be looking right at a fox within seconds if I’m lucky and they have that other worldliness and intelligence about them and it’s genuinely calming. Their colours aren’t so obvious either, a lot of them have more brownish and silvery colourings to them rather than the usual red/orange white. The cat is so skittish and weird it would either a) attack a whole pack of them on it’s own daily, b) scared off the rest of its life c) dead (I’m hoping b and coming back)""……"