Your day's wildlife

[Illaveago]

I think it might be a warbler of some kind, it is loud and contains a few phrases. It has stopped now so I'll see if I can spot it another day. I spotted a Blackcap the other day. I haven't seen or heard a Chiff Chaff around here and their song is quite distinctive.

 

[Illaveago]

I have listened out for the bird this morning and it isn't singing. So far there has been a Blackbird, Bluetit, Starlings, Wren, Goldfinches, Dunnock , and a Robin, but so far not a peep. I listened to some recordings of birds but nothing quite like it.

 

[rich p]

I have got a bird singing away at the bottom of the garden hidden in the trees that I cant identify. It has only recently started singing. The song consists of short sharp bursts, a bit like it has entered a sheep trial and the sheep are not listening. I'll try to find it later.

It'll undoubtedly be an LBJ

 

[nickyboy]

It'll undoubtedly be an LBJ

I'd be quite surprised to find him singing in a tree at the bottom of my garden

 

[Dave 123]

Just hatched this morning in work

Taken by Tim (no credit to me)

 

[rich p]

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I'd be quite surprised to find him singing in a tree at the bottom of my garden

What was his middle name?

 

[Fnaar]

What was his middle name?

Kwesi

 

[coffeejo]

Put a load of dried mealworms on the windowsill earlier. Didn't take the blackbirds long to clear the lot.

 

[Fnaar]

They're only sheep, but they aren't run of the mill sheep.

 

[summerdays]

Put a load of dried mealworms on the windowsill earlier. Didn't take the blackbirds long to clear the lot.

My robins come and pester me for mealworms ... the blackbirds don't get a look in! I guess if you ask for some then hoover up immediately there isn't any evidence that some was available for anyone not in the know!

 

[Dave 123]

[QUOTE 4274259, member: 9609"]Have they got far to go?
Sometimes they nest stupid distances from water and as the young are not fed by mum they have to walk to water. I remember some that nested on a garage roof, they would have all needed to fall the 12' to the ground before walking half a mile to the river - I wonder if any of them made it.[/QUOTE]


A couple of hundred yards, but not the most straight forward journey. It's quite a famous annual event in college. Here is the story from 2015.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Pic...ey-Cambridge/story-26612544-detail/story.html

I think one of the students took some video footage that might get onto youtube eventually.

 

[Dave 123]

They're only sheep, but they aren't run of the mill sheep.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwartbles

 

[Fnaar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwartbles

Thank you
My fact for the day

 

[summerdays]

There are two bats flying around outside.

 

[coffeejo]

Heard the hedgehog this morning