Birds in your garden/nearby
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rossub said:
Only Cuckoo I’ve ever seen was there.
Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
Ha! Yes, of course the cuckoo! Bloody loud. Didn’t see it but heard it! We hear one from our house too. It wasn’t until we moved that I found out they ‘dump’ their children on other birds. Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
That last line above made me chuckle. Balls of steel or stupidity?!
mrsshpub said:
rossub said:
Very impressed with the Merlin App. First try and it picked up 8 types in 1 minute.
Looking forward to just letting it run for a while on a nice day.
I agree, it's great — but make sure you've got location turned on or you might get some strange results.Looking forward to just letting it run for a while on a nice day.
"Hey, Bluetit, have you tried Shazam and GoogleTranslate?
You just hold it near the human, and you can see what they are saying an what music they are listening to !! "
"Cheers, Chaffinch, I'll give them a try "
te!I found Merlin to be quite interesting. I tried it with the basic pack of birds installed to identify a photo i'd taken of a bird of prey that had eaten a rabbit and left half* of it in my garden.
It said 'owl'. NOPE.
Downloaded any and all packs I could find for the area and it correctly identified Swainsons hawk color morph.
* The inside half.
It said 'owl'. NOPE.
Downloaded any and all packs I could find for the area and it correctly identified Swainsons hawk color morph.
* The inside half.
rossub said:
Only Cuckoo I’ve ever seen was there.
Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
There is a video of a woody walking into a peregrines next box whilst it is sitting on eggs.Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
The peregrine is looking like,wtf.
Beak and talons are used to point out the pigeons error.
General Price said:
rossub said:
Only Cuckoo I’ve ever seen was there.
Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
There is a video of a woody walking into a peregrines next box whilst it is sitting on eggs.Meanwhile, balls of steel Wood Pigeon was sitting 3ft from our Sparrowhawk this morning.
The peregrine is looking like,wtf.
Beak and talons are used to point out the pigeons error.
I've always thought pigeons are exceptionally thick birds.
rossub said:
That's pretty hilarious tks for the link. Wood pigeons (at least in cities where a lot of peregrines are these days) actually seem to be very seldom taken as prey by peregrines though unless they essentially gift themselves the way that one tried to as they are a lot larger than feral pigeons (which are very regularly caught).
rossub said:
It's the few seconds before the carnage where the falcon is just looking,thinking.Jeremy Beadle will be here in a second.isaldiri said:
RizzoTheRat said:
A friend recently put me on to the Merlin app, it's great isn't it.
I mainly see jackdaws, blackbirds and herring gulls around my house, but in the general are we have a lot of Canada and Egyptian geese (currently with very cute fluffy chicks), grey heron, coots, green parakeets, greeb and the occasional stork. I've also seen what I think is a Marsh Harrier a couple of times on my cycle to work.
I also see a lot of smaller birds but was never good at identifying them Merlin. Apparently we have a lot of robins, switfts, chiffchaff, redstart, starlings and quite a few others. I'm starting to get better and spotting them and identifying them thanks to Merlin, I love that once you've identified something you can play various recording to learn what to listen out for.
a lot of redstarts?! damn that's pretty awesome..... I mainly see jackdaws, blackbirds and herring gulls around my house, but in the general are we have a lot of Canada and Egyptian geese (currently with very cute fluffy chicks), grey heron, coots, green parakeets, greeb and the occasional stork. I've also seen what I think is a Marsh Harrier a couple of times on my cycle to work.
I also see a lot of smaller birds but was never good at identifying them Merlin. Apparently we have a lot of robins, switfts, chiffchaff, redstart, starlings and quite a few others. I'm starting to get better and spotting them and identifying them thanks to Merlin, I love that once you've identified something you can play various recording to learn what to listen out for.
P.S and yes the merlin app is really quite neat..
The Oyster Catchers on our office roof are sadly down to 1 chick from the original 3. Someone printed off a couple of pages of factsheet about them and put in on the windowsill so I'm clearly not the only one who's been watching them
rossub said:
It's gone bonkers with me at the moment - they're going through 4 feeders of Sunflower Hearts a DAY.
Loads and loads of youngsters being fed by their parents, although nothing particularly exotic!
Lovely to know I'm responsible for helping to sustain so many new lives though.
Interesting it’s gone bonkers with you - we felt we were going through a quiet patch this past month. Maybe ours have just flown over to yours as they’d heard they get better quality of food and service there Loads and loads of youngsters being fed by their parents, although nothing particularly exotic!
Lovely to know I'm responsible for helping to sustain so many new lives though.
Have you added up how many kgs of food you go through a year? We did. Frightening. We’re on about 140-150kgs of nuts etc a year. (Birds, reddies and pine martens)
We’ve begun talking about rationing!
General Price said:
rossub said:
It's the few seconds before the carnage where the falcon is just looking,thinking.Jeremy Beadle will be here in a second.Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff