Nurse Ratched
12:50 Sun Mar 29
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More bird news, please! 🙂
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Mike Oxsaw
12:53 Sun Mar 29
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*WhatsApps video to local Chinese restaurant with a "What can you make of this?" request.*
Kill or cure! Kill or cure!
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lab
1:01 Sun Mar 29
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When I’m out with my Labrador I often get a red kite come really close . I think they associate the dog with the shooting community and look to see if there is a dead bird they can grab. I’ve been told the kite will not kill but scavenge, whereas a buzzard will kill and sometimes get chased off their prey by a kite. Not related but I saw a hare at full speed across a field yesterday,a few days before I startled three fallow deer close to me,and even closer ,about three yards a muntjac. I love being out.
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lowermarshhammer
1:56 Sun Mar 29
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Nurse 1250
Not recently but last summer I was fishing a small pond with a trees all around it and a small copse on one side.
Sparrowhawk was attending to a nest about 5 metres to my left and maybe 8 metres up. I am sure it was unaware that I was so close and it came down and flew right in front of my face, so close I could feel the air turbulence from it's feathers.
A short while later a grass snake swam past the rod tip.
Some idiot has released a teenage mutant ninja terrapin into that pond. Silly cunt.
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Bungo
2:01 Sun Mar 29
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Nurse Ratched 12:50 Sun Mar 29
Been pressure washing the patio.
A Robin keeps hopping around nearby, presumably looking out for worms I've disturbed?
That was a bit crap really wasn't it?
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lowermarshhammer
2:03 Sun Mar 29
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Saw a lapwing for only the second time whilst driving the train the other week.
Best spot I've had whilst at work was possibly a cuckoo.
Or 6 Whooper swans in formation. Little owl. Tawny. Peregrine.
Once had a kestrel fly parallel and alongside the cab for a few seconds. That's easily the most exciting thing that's ever happened at work.
One freezing winter's day years back there had been an overnight irruption of redwings and fieldfares. Absolutely 1000s of them flying everywhere all day thatbtime. as they got disturbed by the train. I would imagine in the wilds of Scandinavia they don't see any trains so they must be petrified by them.
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Hermit Road
2:34 Sun Mar 29
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Seen a load of Red Kite recently. I’ve probably seen tons of them before without knowing what they are.
Saw a Goldfinch in my garden a couple of years ago and haven’t seen one since. I’m a bit gutted about that they are incredible birds.
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Nurse Ratched
2:37 Sun Mar 29
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All lovely stuff.
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lowermarshhammer
2:37 Sun Mar 29
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Hermit Road
Sunflower hearts in one feeder.
Nyger seeds in another feeder.
Patience.
You'll get goldfinches eventually I'd think.
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Toe Rag
2:41 Sun Mar 29
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I am sat by a river as of this moment watching kingfishers going backwards and forwards.
Busy little things they are as well. Seem to be disappearing into the banks so I guess they’re nest building.
Lots and lots of brown jobs flitting about. No idea what they are. Various types of warblers I guess?
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lowermarshhammer
2:58 Sun Mar 29
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Toe Rag.
Maybe wrens? UK's most numerous bird, often overlooked.
Always seem them by the riverside when I'm fishing.
A little bit too early for most warblers I'd think. Heard a few chiff chaffs recently.
LBJ's sort out the twitchers from the merely interested. They are hard as fuck to identify and they never keep still for long enough to compare them properly to a picture in a book.
I'm ok at telling some of them apart by song but they aren't really much to look at. Same goes for some, but not all, of the waders , I'm clueless on the ID of some of them look a like fuckers.
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Nurse Ratched
3:01 Sun Mar 29
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"LBJ's sort out the twitchers from the merely interested. They are hard as fuck to identify and they never keep still for long enough to compare them properly to a picture in a book."
Yep. Feckers.
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Mr Anon
3:05 Sun Mar 29
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Might not be in the spirit of the thread but I wonder if city centre pigeons have started canabalizing yet?
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lowermarshhammer
3:12 Sun Mar 29
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Dunno about that but I have wiped out beaucoup pigeons with the train.
Thump.
Once half volleyed one into the chest of a punter waiting at a platform. Oof.
A colleague took out two in one hit once whilst they were copulating.
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Mr Anon
3:15 Sun Mar 29
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Who wouldn't want to go out like that if they could choose!
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Coffee
3:16 Sun Mar 29
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lowermarshhammer 3:12 Sun Mar 29
Last line - your colleague or the pigeons?
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3:18 Sun Mar 29
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Who was your colleague copulating with?
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Mr Anon
3:18 Sun Mar 29
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Sorry for "derailing" thread Nurse..
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Nurse Ratched
3:22 Sun Mar 29
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My office has a wide window sill and it's high above ground. I secretly feed the birds, but it's almost only pigeons who take me up on the offer. They recognise and memorise human faces, so they are becoming more comfortable around me, even though I habitually leave the window open (the room smells weird). I had a pair make love on that sill. I turned to see what all the rustling and warbling was about and he mounted her and they made love, albeit briefly, as these things are with pigeons. All the while they both stared me full in the eyes. That bit was a little unnerving.
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Mr Anon
3:24 Sun Mar 29
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Didn't you half volley one into the chest of a colleague?
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