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Bird call experts. 15:01 - May 23 with 3626 viewsjeera

Chatter out loudly in flight and sound like squeaky toys.

Swallows?

Housemartins?

How else to tell?


*And no, none of them look like Paul Heaton before someone starts.

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Bird call experts. on 22:40 - May 23 with 780 viewsfooters

May I ask why this has become an actual twitching thread instead of a bird pun one?

Some of your are giving jeera way too much real information.

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Bird call experts. on 22:41 - May 23 with 780 viewspositivity

Bird call experts. on 22:37 - May 23 by jeera

They fly several feet over my head Vic!

In twos and threes. I'd notice if they were almost 5 feet across!

They're not bloody buzzards - I know what buzzards are.

I can spot a buzzard from a red kite at distance.

You lot are a nightmare.


have you considered cranes, they're quite squeaky?

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Bird call experts. on 22:43 - May 23 with 774 viewsjeera

Bird call experts. on 22:41 - May 23 by positivity

have you considered cranes, they're quite squeaky?


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Bird call experts. on 00:44 - May 24 with 748 viewsWeWereZombies

Bird call experts. on 22:40 - May 23 by footers

May I ask why this has become an actual twitching thread instead of a bird pun one?

Some of your are giving jeera way too much real information.


Well this is auk ward...

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Bird call experts. on 12:00 - May 24 with 696 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Bird call experts. on 18:47 - May 23 by GeoffSentence

Strictly speaking wind direction is the biggest factor influencing their arrival. Our cold weather has been borne on winds mainly from the north and north east which holds up their arrival.


Whoosh.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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Bird call experts. on 12:01 - May 24 with 691 viewsfooters

Bird call experts. on 00:44 - May 24 by WeWereZombies

Well this is auk ward...


Could say this thread's taken a tern for the worse...

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Bird call experts. on 12:02 - May 24 with 688 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Bird call experts. on 12:01 - May 24 by footers

Could say this thread's taken a tern for the worse...


Poor old jeera's giving everyone the bird.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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Bird call experts. on 12:04 - May 24 with 684 viewsGeoffSentence

Bird call experts. on 12:00 - May 24 by The_Flashing_Smile

Whoosh.


Too subtle for me dollers, I still don't get it.

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Bird call experts. on 12:09 - May 24 with 677 viewsgordon

The easiest way to tell apart House Martins and Swallows is that House Martins have a really obvious white rump and Swallows don't.
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Bird call experts. on 12:39 - May 24 with 661 viewseireblue

Bird call experts. on 12:02 - May 24 by The_Flashing_Smile

Poor old jeera's giving everyone the bird.


Not to pour petrel on this thread, but having a lark with bird puns, is trickery than fish, and is driving me into being a bit of a babbler.
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Bird call experts. on 13:03 - May 24 with 647 viewsVic

Bird call experts. on 22:37 - May 23 by jeera

They fly several feet over my head Vic!

In twos and threes. I'd notice if they were almost 5 feet across!

They're not bloody buzzards - I know what buzzards are.

I can spot a buzzard from a red kite at distance.

You lot are a nightmare.


Well that’s a whole lot more info than you gave us in your OP!

Tell us about the colour, shape of wings and tail. What environment are you in - rural, suburbia, urban.

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Bird call experts. on 14:03 - May 24 with 632 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Bird call experts. on 12:04 - May 24 by GeoffSentence

Too subtle for me dollers, I still don't get it.


Geoff: I think the cold weather has held them up.
Dollers: Really, I always thought it was warm weather that holds them up.




As in thermals (currents of warm air that many birds use to avoid flapping).

It wasn't that great a joke to have really bothered with this explanation, if I'm honest!

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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Bird call experts. on 14:09 - May 24 with 618 viewsmrshallisfit

Bird call experts. on 16:07 - May 23 by Chondzoresk

Swifts.


Yep - likely swifts.
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Bird call experts. on 14:10 - May 24 with 617 viewsCotty

Round about here that would most likely be parakeets
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Bird call experts. on 14:12 - May 24 with 615 viewsSwansea_Blue

Bird call experts. on 12:09 - May 24 by gordon

The easiest way to tell apart House Martins and Swallows is that House Martins have a really obvious white rump and Swallows don't.


A trained ear can pick out the subtle differences in their sounds too.




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Bird call experts. on 14:15 - May 24 with 612 viewsjeera

Bird call experts. on 13:03 - May 24 by Vic

Well that’s a whole lot more info than you gave us in your OP!

Tell us about the colour, shape of wings and tail. What environment are you in - rural, suburbia, urban.


It's all in the thread Vickers, it's all in the thread.

You're right though, I should have pointed out more clearly that they could only be one of swallows, housemartins, swifts, or emus.

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Bird call experts. on 15:12 - May 24 with 598 viewsWeWereZombies

Bird call experts. on 14:03 - May 24 by The_Flashing_Smile

Geoff: I think the cold weather has held them up.
Dollers: Really, I always thought it was warm weather that holds them up.




As in thermals (currents of warm air that many birds use to avoid flapping).

It wasn't that great a joke to have really bothered with this explanation, if I'm honest!


For this forum you would have been better off explaining how something so small can be blown off course by a bit of wind...

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