Nurse Ratched 12:27 Fri Mar 27
For WHO's birders
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I thought you might like this video.
https://youtu.be/I7dYd-Ra8bk
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.
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Nurse Ratched
3:33 Sat May 18
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Swifts screaming their heads off in the air over my garden and a hovering red kite who most obligingly slowed and circled long enough to give me a good view of his underpinnings via my bins.
FMOB.
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Nurse Ratched
3:09 Sat May 18
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I became a little tearful earlier. Brilliant day in my garden. Not only are the coal tits back after a 3(?) year absence, but twice one came in to my sitting room to take worms. On top of that for the first time ever I've seen long-tailed tits on my feeders! I got to watch a parent feeding bits of suet ball to its fledgie. I love these little tsee-tsee-tsee-tsee feckers, but until today they've eluded me. God bless these mild winters.
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Nutsin
5:39 Sat May 18
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I live next to a park, there is a family of birds that are the size of a sparrow only they are blue. Beautiful looking birds. It’s called an Indigo Bunting. Nice looking bird.
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Tomsdad
5:19 Sat May 18
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Went to see a Frigate bird sanctuary on the isle of Barbuda yesterday. They are massive with a 1.8 metre wingspan.
Also see some humming birds.
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Nurse Ratched
12:00 Sat May 18
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Three lovely spots, chaps.
Been a good spring so far.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:08 Fri May 17
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First swifts sighted just now :)
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Jasnik
12:04 Thu May 16
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Just had a hummingbird outside my window.
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Tomshardware
11:17 Wed May 15
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Saw a cuckoo today, heard it and then located it to top of a dead tree.
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Nurse Ratched
1:53 Sat May 11
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Arf! Gen X-ers...
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WHU(Exeter)
10:04 Fri May 10
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4 days of beautiful weather.
I keep thinking there's a trick lying just round the corner.
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WHU(Exeter)
10:04 Fri May 10
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4 days of beautiful weather.
I keep thinking there's a trick lying just round the corner.
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lab
9:49 Thu May 9
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Less and less swifts and swallows each year .
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Hammer and Pickle
2:31 Thu May 9
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Yay, just seen the first swallows. Yes, it’s their feeding that keeps the blackfly in check, or at least seems to. They follow the insects so tend to fly low when air pressure is falling and it’s about to rain.
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Nurse Ratched
1:55 Thu May 9
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That sounds horrible, but I'm not a gardener so can't give suggestions.
Swifts don't feed off plants. They eat insects that are airborne at height. They don't land on plants or hover near them to feed. In fact the only time their feet touch something other than air is when they enter and exit their nests during the breeding season. The rest of their lives (feeding, sleeping, mating) they are flying, usually at a height significantly higher than rooftops, because that's where the insects are that they feed on.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:45 Thu May 9
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Oh maybe it’s a coincidence but every year there is a time, just before the swifts and swallow arrive, when the blackfly get especially aggressive. It’s terrible for the cattle and horses; some actually die.
So we really do tend to scan the skies for swifts and swallows this time of year.
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Nurse Ratched
11:08 Thu May 9
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Sorry about your blackfly, but I don't think swifts would help with that.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:57 Thu May 9
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Damnit! None here yet and the blackfly really could do with a proper cull
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Tomshardware
1:13 Tue May 7
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Nice one, we had Goldfinches in the garden today eating the seedheads of dandelions, house sparrows were on the roses eating aphids.
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zebthecat
1:06 Tue May 7
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I had a Barn Owl fly over the garden this evening.
It cheered me up a lot after today's remorseless deluge.
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Aalborg Hammer
7:26 Thu May 2
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Reminds me of our neighbour..very much a country yokel-he put in a nice big fishpond and I said "Don't you have problems with herons" "Only once" he said
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