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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lowermarshhammer
1:08 Fri Mar 27
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Yes Nurse
Not many more handsome than a chaffler on the pull.
Followed by a proud wood pigeon.
A horny hawfinch. A whitethroat giving it large.
Bloody hell a golden oriole.
The shit stirring cuckoo.
A not so common crane.
Some else have a go.....
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lowermarshhammer
1:11 Fri Mar 27
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Cranes can be seen in the UK, breeders in Suffolk / Norfolk.
Only seen two overhead once on the North Norfolk Coast.
Once in the morning, probably the same pair back later the same day.
I ain't no twitcher by the way just a country boy who knows a bit.
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Nurse Ratched
1:12 Fri Mar 27
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Really?? I had no idea.
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blueeyed.handsomeman
1:12 Fri Mar 27
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nice,i will listen and view later,THankYou
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Nurse Ratched
1:13 Fri Mar 27
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You missed a prime opportunity to give me an owling, Hugh!
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Nurse Ratched
1:20 Fri Mar 27
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Better to give than to receive.
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lowermarshhammer
1:21 Fri Mar 27
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Dunno. Reckon our nurse could accommodate a fluffy backed tit babbler.
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Hermit Road
1:26 Fri Mar 27
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This is brilliant.
Thanks for this. Have been appreciating the birdsong more this year than ever before.
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joyo
1:30 Fri Mar 27
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Is this a thread by a Fat Bird?
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Nurse Ratched
1:30 Fri Mar 27
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This one delighted me yesterday. Same channel. Great grey shrikes rearing their young. Great footage of the shrike's 'larder' (small rodent prey deliberately impaled on a twiggy spike in a tree for easy access)
https://youtu.be/esSYgkN4yMQ
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gank
1:43 Fri Mar 27
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What the merry FUCK is going on here? There are Ornithology websites galore on the internet. This is a West Ham website. Ne'er the twain shall meet!
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Nurse Ratched
1:51 Fri Mar 27
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This is SORT OF topical in that, unusually for a West Ham website, you can hear a bit of W(H)IN CHAT on this video.
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Sydney_Iron
3:19 Fri Mar 27
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And now for some dogging and dogging etiquette......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFFW_Dsdys
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Coffee
7:19 Fri Mar 27
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That's fantastic. Amazing how the cuckoo coos without opening its beak.
For anyone who knows about tropical birds: I saw a small bird the other day, about the size of hlaf a sparrow, but with a long, pointed beak and a yellow/greenish hue. Any ideas what it is?
Calcutta is usually very noisy. Car horns, rickshaw bells, revving motorbikes, people arguing, shouting, expectorating, dogs barking. And that's just for starters. The lockdown has made things eerily quiet. No cars, few people. But for the first time ever, you can hear birds sing.
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Nurse Ratched
10:38 Fri Mar 27
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Perhaps a type of sunbird, or maybe a common tailorbird?
I know bugger all about the tropicals, though, sorry.
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Mex Martillo
10:39 Sun Mar 29
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The birds around here seem to be hungrier than usual and taking more risks to get a morsel of food. I’ve started putting chicken food on a bird table for then. That seemed to go down very well, but then some collared doves took over the table and would not let other birds approach, not even other collared doves! Anyway, I’ve put a cage over the table so only the little birds can get to the food!
I’ll keep you informed on developments as I am sure you will all be interested.
Keeps me slightly entertained.
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Coffee
11:12 Sun Mar 29
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Nurse Ratched 10:38 Fri Mar 27
Good call on the sunbird (olive backed), though wiki says they can be 4.7" long, which is larger than this bird.
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Coffee
11:16 Sun Mar 29
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Mex Martillo 10:39 Sun Mar 29
Good work, keep it up.
Here, there's a lot less food being thrown out. Street dogs depend on scavenging for food. We regularly feed a group of local street dogs and they've been ravenous the last couple of evenings. Same for birds, I expect, and other urban wildlife. Civets and deer have taken to roaming the city's streets, while dolphins are jumping around close to shore.
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Nurse Ratched
12:50 Sun Mar 29
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More bird news, please! 🙂
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