| Today's nature observation 08:34 - Mar 25 with 1959 views | GeoffSentence |
Blue Tits really are aggressive little bwggers aren't they. Yesterday I saw a couple of males so intent on killing each other, one was pinned down the other was pecking at it as vigorously as it could, that they didn't notice me standing right over them. Today my resident Great Tit has been given a hard time by one of the local Blue Tits who, though half the size, isvmercilessly hounding him out of my garden. |  |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:38 - Mar 25 with 1937 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Work has had the added bonus of watching some very show offy lapwings over a neighbouring field over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Anybody spotted any martins or swallows yet! |  |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:43 - Mar 25 with 1920 views | GeoffSentence |
| Today's nature observation on 08:38 - Mar 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Work has had the added bonus of watching some very show offy lapwings over a neighbouring field over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Anybody spotted any martins or swallows yet! |
None here yet. As a lad Lapwings used to be ten a penny where I was, there were great flocks of them. Now I am lucky to see an occasional one or two of them. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:44 - Mar 25 with 1916 views | Herbivore |
| Today's nature observation on 08:38 - Mar 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Work has had the added bonus of watching some very show offy lapwings over a neighbouring field over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Anybody spotted any martins or swallows yet! |
Love a lapwing. |  |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:45 - Mar 25 with 1908 views | factual_blue |
| Today's nature observation on 08:38 - Mar 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Work has had the added bonus of watching some very show offy lapwings over a neighbouring field over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Anybody spotted any martins or swallows yet! |
You work in a field? Are your Ted? Or Ralph? |  |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:47 - Mar 25 with 1897 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Today's nature observation on 08:45 - Mar 25 by factual_blue |
You work in a field? Are your Ted? Or Ralph? |
You are closer with that imagery than I would care to admit! Take a wild guess. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 08:55 - Mar 25 with 1880 views | factual_blue |
| Today's nature observation on 08:47 - Mar 25 by BanksterDebtSlave |
You are closer with that imagery than I would care to admit! Take a wild guess. |
Do you have feelings you don't fully understand for a bewhiskered rural worker? | |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:12 - Mar 25 with 1858 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
The various tits in our garden (great, blue, coal and long-tailed) seem pretty placid. It's the starlings that are aggressive. |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:25 - Mar 25 with 1846 views | WeWereZombies |
| Today's nature observation on 09:12 - Mar 25 by The_Flashing_Smile |
The various tits in our garden (great, blue, coal and long-tailed) seem pretty placid. It's the starlings that are aggressive. |
I would love to see starlings much more often than the occasional visitor to the bird table that I get at the moment, but I have been fascinated lately by the absolute order that chaffinches observe in waiting for their turn at taking bird seed. Always eating alone and they wait on the developing branches of a willow sapling that is just behind the table. Still trying to figure out if they take their turn based on size, gender, aggressiveness, age or just sheer despertion. |  |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:32 - Mar 25 with 1835 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Today's nature observation on 08:55 - Mar 25 by factual_blue |
Do you have feelings you don't fully understand for a bewhiskered rural worker? |
Nailed it. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:33 - Mar 25 with 1833 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Today's nature observation on 09:25 - Mar 25 by WeWereZombies |
I would love to see starlings much more often than the occasional visitor to the bird table that I get at the moment, but I have been fascinated lately by the absolute order that chaffinches observe in waiting for their turn at taking bird seed. Always eating alone and they wait on the developing branches of a willow sapling that is just behind the table. Still trying to figure out if they take their turn based on size, gender, aggressiveness, age or just sheer despertion. |
Haven't seen a starling for a while to be fair. Don't get many chaffinches either, but now and again.
I'm inundated with tits though.
Lots of robins too. When the big birds like the parakeets, woodpecker and occasional jay turn up, all the tits and robins lurk around waiting for their turn.
Funniest thing is a fat pigeon who tries to land on the feeder perches but they don't stick out far enough for him and his belly gets in the way. He ends up scavenging on the floor looking embarrassed, the fat fooker. | |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:33 - Mar 25 with 1833 views | Herbivore |
| Today's nature observation on 09:25 - Mar 25 by WeWereZombies |
I would love to see starlings much more often than the occasional visitor to the bird table that I get at the moment, but I have been fascinated lately by the absolute order that chaffinches observe in waiting for their turn at taking bird seed. Always eating alone and they wait on the developing branches of a willow sapling that is just behind the table. Still trying to figure out if they take their turn based on size, gender, aggressiveness, age or just sheer despertion. |
They draw straws. If you watch them for long enough you will observe it. Very unusual behaviour for birds and far more advanced than anyone could have thought. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 09:36 - Mar 25 with 1822 views | WeWereZombies |
| Today's nature observation on 09:33 - Mar 25 by Herbivore |
They draw straws. If you watch them for long enough you will observe it. Very unusual behaviour for birds and far more advanced than anyone could have thought. |
Ah, that explains them checking their phones all the time - looking for a result update on the app, innit? | |
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| Today's nature observation on 10:22 - Mar 25 with 1784 views | StokieBlue |
Most animals are savage to each other. We tend to think it's a human trait but it in general it's an animal trait. There are of course exceptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
Watching animals in the garden is always excellent.
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| Today's nature observation on 12:16 - Mar 25 with 1741 views | Chondzoresk |
They are indeed. Brazen and bolshy. I have several on my feeders. The only interesting species I saw this am was a Meadow Pipit....and a Buzzard helping himself to a Fox road kill near Mellis. Carrion Crows were not amused. I hear the Ring Necked Parakeets are in evidence at The Old Cemetery, Ipswich.... |  | | |
| Today's nature observation on 15:47 - Mar 25 with 1699 views | Cotty |
I've been really enjoying watching the birds in the garden the last couple of weeks.
I've got a window mounted bird feeder on our bifolds with no back on it, it's great for watching the birds. Does anyone know of a set up where I could mount a motion activated camera onto the window on the inside? |  | | |
| Today's nature observation on 15:52 - Mar 25 with 1689 views | Herbivore |
Had a bullfinch out the back at lunchtime. Lovely little birds. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 15:54 - Mar 25 with 1681 views | GeoffSentence |
| Today's nature observation on 15:52 - Mar 25 by Herbivore |
Had a bullfinch out the back at lunchtime. Lovely little birds. |
They are indeed. Sadly, very infrequent visitors to the Sentence household, lucky if I get more than one garden sighting a year. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 16:11 - Mar 25 with 1667 views | WeWereZombies |
| Today's nature observation on 15:52 - Mar 25 by Herbivore |
Had a bullfinch out the back at lunchtime. Lovely little birds. |
Every few years a bunch of them fly down the Glen in springtime and predate half of the buds off the tree and bushes. They look lovely but can wreck your hopes of a splash of colour from early spring flowers. | |
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| Today's nature observation on 16:19 - Mar 25 with 1662 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Today's nature observation on 15:52 - Mar 25 by Herbivore |
Had a bullfinch out the back at lunchtime. Lovely little birds. |
Weird. I had a ham and cheese wrap. | |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Today's nature observation on 16:30 - Mar 25 with 1656 views | NthQldITFC |
| Today's nature observation on 15:52 - Mar 25 by Herbivore |
Had a bullfinch out the back at lunchtime. Lovely little birds. |
I like that birdwatchers' trait of "having" a species rather than "seeing" a species - I know it's common and not limited to birdwatchers, but it is a strong tendency in that community, of which I am a very amateur and very peripheral member.
My dad used to work with a committed twitcher, a very excitable fellow who liked to report what he had seen over the weekend. Apparently, one day he came in to work on a Monday morning and informed his workmates that he had "had a shag in the sea off Cromer" at the weekend. He also regularly used to talk about what had been 'roasting' on the beams of his storage shed, but then again I think he was from Norfolk, so that could have just been pronunciation. |  |
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