Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

peace frog said:
a tale.

i was crossing the taxi ways of Manchester airport, when i saw something on the yellow line of the taxi way(planes follow these lines) i thought it was some sort of fruit, so asked my colleague what it was, (we report any fod( foreign object debris) to the air ops so they can remove it, so my colleague said it was a bird, so i we went to report it to an air ops, when we finally stopped one she said "i know" its a lapwing, its been there for two days(the airport is dead at the moment and this was on a remote taxiway) it apparently was making a head gesture and calling in a certain way that meant it had lost its mate and was mourning it, how fucking sad :(
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That's grim..........
 
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Got one of these guys in my window feeder, he's too skittish to take a picture so borrowed one. First time I've ever seen a BlueJay around here
 
Grey wagtail messing about in and around the stream this morning. Pretty unfussed by me walking a few feet away. Perched on a rock midstream, the colour and sharp contrast against the orange brown sea of ripples of the water, strangely mesmerising. It skipped back on the grass, parading around, bobbing his tail up and down like birds used to do back in the day before I got old and miserable and started to care about such things.
 
Not many badgers about now , too busy shagging and nesting , the two young foxes and their mum are in excellent health , lovely fur . We went through a few years here when they were all covered in mange and we were putting treatment for it in their food , thankfully that has passed
 
We saw a dipper in the river by ours today and as we were doing so another bird took off and flew past. Strange looking thing, looked black but with a flash of electric blue down the middle of its back (think City Eidos kit circa 2000!). Asked my dad and he said it will definitely be a kingfisher. Buzzing I won't lie, this year I've really taken to bird watching.
 
Had regular visits from a sparrowhawk recently. Also spotted two green parakeets in our garden and the woods behind it. Badgers, foxes and roe deer are also regular visitors. We overlook the Roch valley, but amazing to see so much wildlife, when from the end of our garden we can see Roch Valley Way and the town hall in the centre. The nesting kestrals in the tower clock have been seen hunting here a few times too.
 
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