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RSPB Survey - Big Garden Bird Watch

Black caps still in residence , i thought they weren't coming back this year but the week i put out the fat balls they were back straight away , also an assortment of Tits n the bland but sex crazed Dunnock also attendence

Dunnocks take just one-tenth of a second to copulate and can have sex more than 100 times a day !!:D
 
lol. I thought I was still reading the peevee thread for a minute. :sus:

Impressive that you have black caps!

(And.. weird. I've just remembered that I dreamt we had some weird toucan/ferret/skink hybrids in the garden. They were very colourful.)
 
Since moving from the coast there's been a lack of oyster catchers around - I miss them, they look like they have football tops on. Plenty of urban buzzards, sparrow hawks and kestrels around.

Pleased to have a couple of romantic doves on my eaves. Not much else on the go, but I need to stop and spend proper time looking. Garden Watch booked.
 
kate said:
Since moving from the coast there's been a lack of oyster catchers around - I miss them, they look like they have football tops on. Plenty of urban buzzards, sparrow hawks and kestrels around.
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Really ? Thats amazing, crows are the most exotic carrion bird we get around here.

When i lived in Wales buzzards were drawn to our bird table on winters days which felt like quite a priviledge. Driving to my dads last christams i saw some bird of prey feasting on some road kill in the verge, not sure what it was, might have been a red kyte, if that was the case its the only time ive ever seen one.
 
Really? Red Kites are the most common bird where I live (which, if memory serves, ain't that far south of where you are from).

Saw a brilliant video the other day where they attached 8 cameras to 8 peregrine falcons (fastest bird we know, 200mph in flight when hunting). Anyway, 7 of these camera'd falcons were in the USA where they got brilliant footage of them hunting crows (the crows had no fucking chance). The 8th camera was on a British falcon in Yorkshire. Where they had amazingly sad 15 second long footage of the bird being shot out of the sky by some bastard English farmer. Cunt.
 
I managed to get some photos of the Western Marsh Harrier the other day along with some great photos of a Grey flamingo (usually hard to get that close as they are so skittish).
 
Long-tailed tits are great, and you get a flock of them (they hang around in gangs). My bruv gets them in Manc land too. Only ever seen one flock here, and then that was a venture out into deepest countryside.
 
Oh you!

Not feather sizing or anything but there are a couple of hawks here that look rather like eagles to me. I'm not kidding actually really!

I'd hitch a lift out of near deepest slough to somewhere more celestial but perhaps i'd get all homesick.

Ed: I think ive seen a lone tail tit too!
 
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StoneHappyMonday said:
Really? Red Kites are the most common bird where I live (which, if memory serves, ain't that far south of where you are from).

Saw a brilliant video the other day where they attached 8 cameras to 8 peregrine falcons (fastest bird we know, 200mph in flight when hunting). Anyway, 7 of these camera'd falcons were in the USA where they got brilliant footage of them hunting crows (the crows had no fucking chance). The 8th camera was on a British falcon in Yorkshire. Where they had amazingly sad 15 second long footage of the bird being shot out of the sky by some bastard English farmer. Cunt.
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Kes! :(
 
well i reported this \yesterday and the rspca are coming out to take the body in the morning and make a report i know the is not a lot they can do about it but at least now they know whats going on round here been a few incidents like this of late
 
had to be done ive looked a the body its been shot with a rifle not a shotgun so this wasn't a pheasant shoot accident this was on purpose and think ive a good idea as to who did it .

wouldn't say the bird was that old still quite small compared to the ones i normally see flying around the place
 
So long as it wasn't Mick Easterby FG, LOL.

EDIT That was a joke but I shouldn't really be joking about it. Whoever it was is a bastard of the highest order.
 
no dnt think did it mick lol :) but i think it was his ex manager did he is nasty piece of work violent towards his dog to the point ive almost taking it off him but he seems to of stopped that of late i think someone else has said something about it
 
Marmalade said:
Kes! :(
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Ken Loach , Bath City biggest fan

WE r gonna go 2 da Botanical gadrens n get some fly shit :)

Waxwings n Goldcrest have been spotted a few times n all the wee folks n doves , everything apart from sparrows not a big hedge.

I will put the location as i know how tempting tis to skew it subcon.
 
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swampdragon said:
Hmpf. I have bird envy. The best we have here is long-tailed tits, which are quite cute.
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StoneHappyMonday said:
Long-tailed tits are great, and you get a flock of them (they hang around in gangs). My bruv gets them in Manc land too. Only ever seen one flock here, and then that was a venture out into deepest countryside.
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I thought I'd squirrel about for this old thread to see if we have any current fans of the birds (obvious innuendo does not require a response :p).

Today, for the first time, I noticed a family of long-tailed tits in the trees outside our window. They were very cool. :)

If you look out the window at the right time of day here, you can see all sorts of families paying a fleeting visit. It makes my day when I see a new species.


p.s. come back, Brimz!
 
we tried to rescue a buzzard last year but it died :( poor thing some how was electrocuted all tail feathers were gone phoned rspb and done what we could but by morning it was dead just now we have plenty of graylags about and robins not seeing much else but with this weather they are no doubt hiding out of it.
 
We have a heron %) living on the river at the bottom of the err garden (read trees growing out of control and underbush :\)

The Heron is spectacular, really majestic creature. We watching him fishing.

We have a lot of of squirrels too but they're greys. The town's emblem has red ones on it and we do have reds left but their rare now. Anyhoo the resident fatty squirrels are called Betty n; Bob :D They fight the magpies and wood pigeons a lot.

We see more birds living in a town centre by a wooded area and river than ever we did out at the posh house in the suburbs. It's magic <3
 
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