Birds ... the feathery ones!!
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
The wildlife here in the Lincs Wolds is pretty amazing.
We have all sorts in the garden, ranging from Goldcrests, Nuthatches, Goldfinches, woodpeckers long tailed tits, Owls & a small group of parakeets.
However there is one bird that drives us crackers. It sings 1 note "Twee....twee...twee..." over & over sometimes for hours on end.
I love birdsong, but it is the most annoying birdsong i've heard.
Anyone know how i can identify it, it doesn't come up in lists of common bird songs?
We have all sorts in the garden, ranging from Goldcrests, Nuthatches, Goldfinches, woodpeckers long tailed tits, Owls & a small group of parakeets.
However there is one bird that drives us crackers. It sings 1 note "Twee....twee...twee..." over & over sometimes for hours on end.
I love birdsong, but it is the most annoying birdsong i've heard.
Anyone know how i can identify it, it doesn't come up in lists of common bird songs?
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The male sparrow in the nest in our guttering makes a very similar call, the fat sod, whilst he's waiting for the smaller missus to fly back and forth around the gardens catching the food for their young'uns.Heysel76 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:11 am The wildlife here in the Lincs Wolds is pretty amazing.
We have all sorts in the garden, ranging from Goldcrests, Nuthatches, Goldfinches, long tailed tits & Owls.
However there is one bird that drives us crackers. It sings 1 note "Twee....twee...twee..." over & over sometimes for hours on end.
I love birdsong, but it is the most annoying birdsong i've heard.
Anyone know how i can identify it, it doesn't come up in lists of common bird songs?
I just played this (below) to check it and, like clockwork, dad and the bins all called out in response to it
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What the actual F??? Lived on St. Martin's for a few years in the 90's, and you would see the 'Twitchers' showing up when something rare was about. But this?prophet:marginal wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:56 am Spotted over the Scilly Isles last week
An Egyptian vulture!
Link to story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-57483562
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
Thanks PM,
It's not House Sparrows, we have quite a few nesting in our pantile roof. They are noisy, but i like it, as it reminds me of my childhood, when sparrows were the main voice in the dawn chorus.
The one i'm hearing, is 1 note repeated, from high up in a tree, i'll try to record it, but not sure how to post it on here?
It's not House Sparrows, we have quite a few nesting in our pantile roof. They are noisy, but i like it, as it reminds me of my childhood, when sparrows were the main voice in the dawn chorus.
The one i'm hearing, is 1 note repeated, from high up in a tree, i'll try to record it, but not sure how to post it on here?
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I read the caption on one of the photo's too quickly and thought it said that the bird was photo'd in a tree at Tesco'svietnammer wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:27 pm What the actual F??? Lived on St. Martin's for a few years in the 90's, and you would see the 'Twitchers' showing up when something rare was about. But this?
Link to story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-57483562
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
I've been lucky enough to go our jarring with a fellow birider the last few nights
That's watching Nightjars amazing unusual bird with a strange call .
Also got pied flycatchers in the woods round here
I'm in the wilds of Exmoor .
Plenty of stonechats and whinchats too .
That's watching Nightjars amazing unusual bird with a strange call .
Also got pied flycatchers in the woods round here
I'm in the wilds of Exmoor .
Plenty of stonechats and whinchats too .
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Saw a white tailed eagle last week, hovering over Chertsey. Stunningly beautiful (the eagle, not Chertsey).
Sparrows, house martins in abundance in our little garden at the moment. Make a wonderful tweety racket while I work.
Sparrows, house martins in abundance in our little garden at the moment. Make a wonderful tweety racket while I work.
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We have one of these, it might be a chaffinch? It is definitely a b*stard. Google “chaffinch rain song”. Then shoot the little ****er in the face.Heysel76 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:11 am The wildlife here in the Lincs Wolds is pretty amazing.
We have all sorts in the garden, ranging from Goldcrests, Nuthatches, Goldfinches, woodpeckers long tailed tits, Owls & a small group of parakeets.
However there is one bird that drives us crackers. It sings 1 note "Twee....twee...twee..." over & over sometimes for hours on end.
I love birdsong, but it is the most annoying birdsong i've heard.
Anyone know how i can identify it, it doesn't come up in lists of common bird songs?
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Man that is awesome. My eldest would have had kittens if he had seen that.DasNutNock2 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:28 pm Saw a white tailed eagle last week, hovering over Chertsey. Stunningly beautiful (the eagle, not Chertsey).
Sparrows, house martins in abundance in our little garden at the moment. Make a wonderful tweety racket while I work.
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Well done, you've nailed it, i read the comments on youtube & it's not only me that it annoys!
Goes on for hours sometimes. Strangely enough, one flew into one of our double glazed units this morning & killed itself stone dead. However, there are more, as i recorded that later
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I was absolutely made up - plenty of red kites round here, and the occasional buzzard, but I’m fairly certain that’s the only eagle I’ve seen in this country.
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
Yes, I was going to say that that's nowhere near as annoying as the sound of a House Sparrow.Heysel76 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:17 pm Well done, you've nailed it, i read the comments on youtube & it's not only me that it annoys!
Goes on for hours sometimes. Strangely enough, one flew into one of our double glazed units this morning & killed itself stone dead. However, there are more, as i recorded that later
Well done, EvilC.
I bet Tenners would have known it as well.
Btw, can you put something on the double glazing to stop them committing hari-kari?..
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
I sat watching the film clip with the sound off thinking 'Well I can't see any f*****g birds.!!!'
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Same here! Didn't find that short clip annoying (give it a chance I suppose) though it could do with widening its repertoire somewhat.
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If you put it on a loop with the sound up for 30 mins you will get the idea!vietnammer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:22 am Same here! Didn't find that short clip annoying (give it a chance I suppose) though it could do with widening its repertoire somewhat.
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Sorry, forgot to say, "turn the sound up", i can't see them, that's why i didn't know what it was
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This is proper once in a lifetime stuff. We are mainly buzzards with the odd red kite, although I have seen a couple of kestrels and heard a tawny owl in the gardens nearby during December, but I didn't see it.DasNutNock2 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:48 pm I was absolutely made up - plenty of red kites round here, and the occasional buzzard, but I’m fairly certain that’s the only eagle I’ve seen in this country.
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Re: Birds ... the feathery ones!!
We (our garden) appear to have been adopted by a pair of Eurasian Collared Doves, over the last week or so. I was puzzled when I first saw it, because it is clearly smaller than a wood pigeon (and sits to one side if one is feeding in our garden), but is also differently marked from a (normal) pigeon, the kind you see in centres of big towns etc.
Anyway, having seen one, to begin with, I noticed a pair of them today, patiently waiting for a chance to come down and get some fat ball down their gregs.
Here's a pic [not my backgarden]
Anyway, having seen one, to begin with, I noticed a pair of them today, patiently waiting for a chance to come down and get some fat ball down their gregs.
Here's a pic [not my backgarden]