What birds (are you/have you been) watching? What birds have been watching you?

[greenilex]

I would guess there is human nesting behaviour regardless of virus...maybe twittering too, but I avoid that in favour of this bored.

[oddoneout]

I would guess there is human nesting behaviour regardless of virus...maybe twittering too, but I avoid that in favour of this bored.

Folks confined to quarters have to find some way to pass the time...baby boom at the end of the year?

[kernelbogey]

This morning I noticed blackbirds singing when it had been getting light for some time... possibly around 0600. Nothing unusual about that at this time of year, except that I had the impression then that I hadn't been hearing them, as I usually would, from about the second week of January.

Now I may for some reason not have noticed them... but I did wonder whether climate change, and the very wet weather of the recent weeks, might have delayed the timing of their recommencing singing after their winter silence.

I hope some here more knowledgabe than I may have an opinion, or evidence.

A blackbird now singing lustily ( ) from about 0515 now. Very comforting.

[Serial_Apologist]

Folks confined to quarters have to find some way to pass the time...baby boom at the end of the year?

I woud think bringing an infant into this world almost tantamount to child abuse; but we have three pregnancies ongoing in this very block of flats where I live, so I always speak and act tactfully.

[ardcarp]

but we have three pregnancies ongoing in this very block of flats where I live,

You dark horse, SA

[Serial_Apologist]

I would never refer to "birds" however.

[teamsaint]

Dunnocks.

And the pigeons are looking nervous since the meat counters got cleared out.

[gradus]

I enjoyed rabbit stew as a child in that age when chicken was an expensive Christmas only treat.
Just remembered the brook a half mile away still has native brown trout.

[LMcD]

Heard and saw chiiffchaffs while out walking in our local wood this morning.

[Padraig]

I enjoyed rabbit stew as a child in that age when chicken was an expensive Christmas only treat.
Just remembered the brook a half mile away still has native brown trout.

Am I picking up the vision of a figure in waders with net and bag, carrying a light fly rod and trudging the half mile to catch the evening rise and perhaps a brace of lusty trout?

[Serial_Apologist]

Am I picking up the vision of a figure in waders with net and bag, carrying a light fly rod and trudging the half mile to catch the evening rise and perhaps a brace of lusty trout?

Poacher, I would say, rather than gamekeeper.

[Padraig]

Poacher, I would say, rather than gamekeeper.

You disappoint me S_A. Piscator is an artist who treats his prey with the greatest possible respect, and has nothing to fear from the landowners' river watchers. He likes a fair contest and loses as many as he wins. What self-respecting trout would fall for a 'fly' like this?
Piscator gets as much pleasure from making flies, as he does from catching fish, and I hope you too can enjoy the skill of tying a fly.( A useful pastime for confined oldies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Fl2C_sdXc

[ardcarp]

Not birds...but they do fly!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/23/warm-summer-of-2019-gives-flight-to-butterfly-numbers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

We need some good news...and I've posted this also on the Good News thread.

[DracoM]

Forlorn goldfinch in nearby tree top.

[greenilex]

The pigeon outside my front window is self-isolating again, watching me closely if I go into the upstairs bedroom.

We have several broods a year...