West Ham Online

"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."

There are always the evenings though and Bullet isn't going to forget.

That is crap Nurse - It really helps me. My employer has put the office building up for sale so will be home for the duration.

"zeb I'm gutted to be back in the office full time now, because I know I'm going to miss so much."

Props to azel senior. That is proper hard-core.

Nurse Ratched 7:31 Sun Jan 23 It is rather wonderful. The Jackdaws have decided it is still a bit cold for this nest malarkey. Give it a couple of weeks.

"Best site for bird songs and calls is ""Xeno Canto"", there is also an app. Did a whistle stop couple of hours at Fordwich and Bockhill yesterday first light, and saw the much reported Dusky Warbler and Hume's Leaf Warbler. Both picked out by their call."

"Tell you what, I am really enjoying this Circle of Life caper. It seems like yesterday his harassed parents left him in my garden. He was a typically gormless looking robin juvenile, all scruffy and speckly (though unfeasibly large) and he set about asserting himself in my garden AND in my sitting room. He's mad as cheese."

"Ah, that's lovely."

"Bullet has a WIFE ?üòç All day they've been together in the garden, playing and skittering about, and sharing a dish of mealworms. As I type this, I can hear him singing."

"Bullet has a WIFE ?üòç All day they've been together in the garden, playing and skittering about, and sharing a dish of mealworms. As I type this, I can hear him singing."

"Aalborg, Nurse Cheers"

MaryMillingtonsGhist..it's called Warblr (without the e)

"MMG I can't advise if your phone's a crApple. But on Android I use BirdUp and BirdNerd. These are good for birds you'd commonly encounter in the British Isles. There are quite a few of these types of apps now, and they're a work in progress. The accuracy isn't brilliant, but it's better than nothing. Also, make sure you don't accidentally download one for American birds or something."

Aalborg Hammer 8:49 What's the name of the app fella?

"AH No crime in that mate, I have an app too Nurse advised me Always appreciated the natural world being an angler and have hung feeders for a long time but beyond the obvious I hadn’t a clue Still a novice but enjoying the learning Every day a school day chap"

Damn! Now I have no leverage. ?üòï

"much to my shame...I have a birdsong app on my phone...last summer I could not get the bloody thing to identify a particular bird warbling away. I went onto the house to find the 'warbler' was my daughters' bread maker chirping away (OK Nursey,the secrets out now)"

"""70% of bird ID and spotting is in the song/call"" Indeed. And closer to 90% when it comes to the LBJs ('little brown jobs') p.s. RIP, J Riddle's pet pigeon ‚ò?"

"JAC, Another good way to tell the difference is in their song & call. House Sparrows chirrup, while Dunnocks call with a shortish ZZzzzeeee and sing a really tuneful warble like a small Blackbird. 70% of bird ID and spotting is in the song/call."

"My pet pigeon of 4 years died yesterday very suddenly, she internally hemorrhaged from complications laying eggs, was gone before we could get her to the vet. I miss her everyday and know that I will never have another bird, as she landed in my garden with a damaged wing unable to fly and I would never keep a caged bird. I thought it might seem unusual when I took her to the vet for a x-ray when I found her with a damaged wing beyond repair, but then a lady came in with a pet chicken she had found at the roadside 5 years ago whom preceded to jump up onto her clucking and perched on her shoulder lol. RIP noo noo xx"

Dunnocks have a grey stripe above their eyes and a sort of grey scarf. Female sparrows have mostly brown heads. It did help that the dunnocks were about six feet away from me so I could get a good long look.

"How do you tell the difference between a sparrow (hedge/house etc) and a Cumnock? Look the same to me tbh. Saw a couple of those green parakeets flying over Thornton Country Park,should they be culled?"

Aalborg Hammer 6:31 Thu Jan 20 Bet they've got Bird Flu too. Just when we thought it was safe to go back into Waterstones...

"A friend who works at Birdworld in Surrey tells me that a couple of Turkey vultures have made good their escape. So if you have cats or small children in the Farnham area,keep an eye on them!!"

"They are Tom, not seen one since I was a kid. Must get back down the West Country!"