For the past few months I've been ferrying one of my g-kids to do shifts at a local Tesco store. She graduated last year and is, sensibly, just 'filling in' until life and the job market gets back to something approaching normal. But I digress! Three nights a week I bring her home at around 11.15pm. The road is a country lane with hedgerows and a smattering of trees either side. Every so often (probably on average once a week) a barn owl is caught in my headlights as it slides silently across the road dipping up and over the hedges. It's usually in the same place along the road, so it must be resident nearby. We really love seeing this ghostly white apparition.
What birds (are you/have you been) watching? What birds have been watching you?
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No its a hedgehog... first time out this Spring here, and it got its usual reward of a dish of cat food...(while the cats looked on...)...
Then a female pheasant approached.....such was its gentle curiosity, I wondered if this was a youngster from last year, who'd never seen such a strange ground-dwelling being before...
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Is anyone else mad enough to try to hold a conversation with a blackbird?
I love whistling back to one that frequents the back garden, who is so tuneful when he's not castigating me for being late with the mealy worms, and he (not sure if it's the same one each time!) seems to enjoy the exchange.
I just hope that I never 'say' anything rude or offensive.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostIs anyone else mad enough to try to hold a conversation with a blackbird?
I love whistling back to one that frequents the back garden, who is so tuneful when he's not castigating me for being late with the mealy worms, and he (not sure if it's the same one each time!) seems to enjoy the exchange.
I just hope that I never 'say' anything rude or offensive.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostIs anyone else mad enough to try to hold a conversation with a blackbird?
I love whistling back to one that frequents the back garden, who is so tuneful when he's not castigating me for being late with the mealy worms, and he (not sure if it's the same one each time!) seems to enjoy the exchange.
I just hope that I never 'say' anything rude or offensive.
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I heard the telling "kew".... then the buzzard appeared soaring.... then another......
5 Buzzards and 2 Sparrowhawks in the thermal currents over the garden! It could almost be The Bosphorus.....
Higher and higher they rose into the haze....then a Sparrowhawk dashed low, to try and seize a passerine...
But then I found the Hedgehog, not especially thin or small, that I'd been feeding cat food the last few days..... dead, curled up in a tussock. No obvious sign of trauma or disease. Very sad.....I'll find some spot for it, deep in the shade...
Better get back out there....see whats new....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 30-03-21, 15:43.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostI'm sure you would have checked, Jayne, but was the hedgehog definitely dead? In winter months their respiration rate can at times approach zero when they are in a state of semi-hibernation.
I nestled it under one of the thick shrubs the Hogs always like here, so one can only hope....!
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In recent days, while relaxing in a little secluded clearing among the Rhododendron ponticum in a nearby Crown Estate commercial woodland area, I have noted a Red Kite landing in the top of one of the pines a few times. This particular pine has a bit of a kink in its trunk, a little below the top. I'm hoping the kite is sorting out a nesting site. Fingers crossed.
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