birds

[KS55]

There are a couple of nests in town, they seem to like baling twine and the odd scrap of Tyvek. This is just a picture from google but you see a lot looking like this
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It’s an artistic impression of the old toilet.

 

[idahoblues]

It’s an artistic impression of the old toilet.

Rag Ospreys !

 

[Saddleworth2]

Now that’s an Osprey nest.
Manton Bay, Rutland Water.

 

[idahoblues]

Sometimes they get caught in the twine, I've seen Fish and Game rescue one before

 

[oddfellows]

they are all up here in the foothills of the pennines, mate.
i've never ever seen so many of them.

funny thing is, there are loads of these large black flies,
huge fuckers with long trailing legs hanging underneath them.
no idea what they are or where they came from,
but the martins, swifts and swallows are gorging themselves.

Yeah seen these black flies they've got a cock and balls too

 

[jrb]

I rescued a baby Magpie 2 weeks ago week in my back garden. Found it flapping around the grass trying to fly. Stopped my cats getting to it. Rang the RSPB. They told me to catch it and to put it in the nearest tree or on a shed roof. Somewhere high up. Eventually caught it. Climd on to my shed roof. Put it in the tree behind my shed, it flapped about a bit, and flew down on to the neighbours shed roof which is covered in moss and plants. The baby Magpie settled down there in safety. It’s mother was in the tree above it. Never went back to it afterwards. Hopefully it managed to fly away with it’s mother?

 

[idahoblues]

Just driving by the river, caught this pair of Baldies ( no, not @Blue Mist) drying themselves out in the wind

 

[Blue Mist]

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Just driving by the river, caught this pair of Baldies ( no, not @Blue Mist) drying themselves out in the wind

Always loved your piccys

 

[Bill Walker]

Got this yesterday, I think it's an Osprey but not sure

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Dont know if it's been mentioned but what's happened to all the Housemartins these days, weve not had any for the last two or three years now, there use to be a richness of them in the summer