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

[Serial_Apologist]

What? That you didn’t have any there for it to steal to take back to its trophy nest?

Not even a crumb!

[Serial_Apologist]

... and so you should feel - guilty. Watching the telewele in the daytime! Nay, in the morning !!


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Always watch Jeremy Vine Show on 5, heavily unbalanced though its guest list always is towards those with reactionary views. There was a good joke on there this morning - that's apart from Jackie Smith , btw! See the Jokes thread.

[oddoneout]

If you can fight through the clutter of cookies and adverts these images might be of interest https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/peregri...hedral-7943342

[Keraulophone]

Stonechats at Lizard Point on Saturday. Male and female perched atop vertical twigs in the hedge, twittering away (supposedly sounding like stones hitting together). Windy enough that when they took off, they remained stationary aloft.

[Padraig]

I got a present of a feeder and some Buggy Nibbles - high energy protein pellets. The feeder had no takers at first, but when strewn on the ground they went like hot mealworms. However, as a bonus, two starlings, newcomers to this garden, have made repeated visits to tackle the feeder. They make an interesting change to the daily scene from the kitchen window. Long may they linger.

[groovydavidii]

Garden residents today–(a vocal) blackbird, thrush, house sparrows, wood pigeons, and whenever bread is scattered onto moss-ridden lawn, black-headed/common? gulls plus a couple of crows.

[Maclintick]

Stonechats at Lizard Point on Saturday. Male and female perched atop vertical twigs in the hedge, twittering away (supposedly sounding like stones hitting together). Windy enough that when they took off, they remained stationary aloft.

Marvellous ! Oh, to be ensconced in the Polpeor Café, enjoying those magnificent views. Here, a pair of common sandpipers at Farmoor yesterday -- resting on a buoy tethered to a pontoon commandeered by resident cormorants. Hundreds of swifts put on a breathtaking display, while the sandpipers fluttered aloft for a few seconds & then dropped back to their perch.

[cloughie]

Marvellous ! Oh, to be ensconced in the Polpeor Café, enjoying those magnificent views. Here, a pair of common sandpipers at Farmoor yesterday -- resting on a buoy tethered to a pontoon commandeered by resident cormorants. Hundreds of swifts put on a breathtaking display, while the sandpipers fluttered aloft for a few seconds & then dropped back to their perch.

The Polpeor Cafe at that most Southerly point - the crab sandwiches and home made strawberry jam doughnuts with a splodge of clotted cream are well worth the visit. Also on the right day the sighting of a Chough, but with the views, as you say magnificent, make it a very special place.

[gradus]

The Polpeor Cafe at that most Southerly point - the crab sandwiches and home made strawberry jam doughnuts with a splodge of clotted cream are well worth the visit. Also on the right day the sighting of a Chough, but with the views, as you say magnificent, make it a very special place.

We're back in Cornwall later this month so Choughs are I hope in abundance but I shall be on the look out for Orca - and cinnamon buns.

[vinteuil]

We're back in Cornwall later this month so Choughs are I hope in abundance but I shall be on the look out for Orca - and cinnamon buns.

... with paper bags for the "common cormorant (or shag)"?



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[Serial_Apologist]

We're back in Cornwall later this month so Choughs are I hope in abundance but I shall be on the look out for Orca - and cinnamon buns.

Well we know there's at least one clough!

[vinteuil]

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Same here virtual rejection of fat balls and peanuts except for an occasional blue or great tit and even sunflower hearts are not appealing to many, very odd really.

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... exactly the same here in Hammersmith. Most disappointing

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... our Shepherd's Bush birds are clearly a bit slow. There's been good stuff waiting for them, but they haven't realized it.

Happy to report that, a month on, they have finally clicked - and now we have great tits, blue and long-tailed tits all benefiting from the various feeders. All we need now is goldfinches on the nigella feeder and we will be completely happy...

On a radio 3 note - the bird-song identifier on Martin Handley's Sunday programme pointed out that (to contradistinguish it from the collared-dove) the wood pigeon clearly signs itself by singing "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" .

All too accurate, We have such, and now can't stop reciting during their songs - "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon"

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[Serial_Apologist]

On a radio 3 note - the bird-song identifier on Martin Handley's Sunday programme pointed out that (to contradistinguish it from the collared-dove) the wood pigeon clearly signs itself by singing "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" .

All too accurate, We have such, and now can't stop reciting during their songs - "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon" "Wooood pigeon - - pigeon"

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The Wood pigeon's ability to syncopate is also worth mentioning.

[oddoneout]

The Wood pigeon's ability to syncopate is also worth mentioning.

More acceptable than their unmentionable ability to fornicate and procreate...
Each year at work we hope for the return of turtle doves to the farm, but the last 2 years have been no shows and 3 years ago was only a temporary appearance, whether from voluntary moving on or something more unpleasant we don't know.

[cloughie]

Fascinating this afternoon our small a cappella group practice in the garden this afternoon clearly invaded the territorial area of a blackbird whose singing got appreciably louder as we were singing.