birds

[idahoblues]

This has been the w

I used to keep budgerigars for a hobby.
I had released around 100 into the outside aviary and it was a splendid summers evening.
The house backed on to open scrub and moorland.

I had just finished spraying them against the wire with hose pipe and settled back to enjoy their movement.
When all of a sudden out of nowhere dropped a hawk and slammed into the mesh.
Maybe a kestrel but I could not be sure.
It stayed there deadly still for around 10 seconds and then took off back to the thermals devoid of dinner.

This has been the worst winter for several years, all the wildlife's struggling, haven't seen any hawks other than the owl and some baldies

 

[Two Gun Bob]

As a child I was a member of the YOC (Young Ornithology Club) the junior branch of the RSPB
We used to get magazines and freebies though the door.

Used to love watching lapwings at the back of our field as a kid.
Their ariel acrobatics were truly immense.

 

[snorky]

I can hear a cardinal in the backyard right now. Think I'll let the cat out so it can tear it's fucking tongue out.
Fucking racket.

Had to google that too. Its very red isn't it. Shoot it.

 

[andyhinch]

I thought he was talking about me. Anyways we've had a great grey owl hanging around for the last couple of weeks, very cool

It's just an old fucking tawny owl blind twat.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

This has been the worst winter for several years, all the wildlife's struggling, haven't seen any hawks other than the owl and some baldies

For us it has been very mild all considering and we do not get the winters of old.
I used to collect the milk of our doorstep as a child and dissapear into six foot drifts.

When I think of Idaho I imagine sunny open fields and cowboys roaming the prairie with a cacti thrown in for good measure.
Certainly not snowbound roads and ice everywhere.
You are only a few cliks away from Shanes ranch arn't you

Post a real picture of his house if you get chance
It's still there isnt it.

Goodbye little Joe:

 

[idahoblues]

It's just an old fucking tawny owl blind twat.

Eye sight's not what it was, too much something

 

[idahoblues]

For us it has been very mild all considering and we do not get the winters of old.
I used to collect the milk of our doorstep as a child and dissapear into six foot drifts.

When I think of Idaho I imagine sunny open fields and cowboys roaming the prairie with a cacti thrown in for good measure.
Certainly not snowbound roads and ice everywhere.
You are only a few cliks away from Shanes ranch arn't you

Post a real picture of his house if you get chance
It's still there isnt it.

Goodbye little Joe:

The remains of the cabin are still there and I do have some piccies, will dig around for them and post some. It's in Wyoming about 25 miles from me as the crow flies

 

[idahoblues]

looking for Shane's house I got distracted but found these evening grosbeaks that stopped by in January

 

[Barcon]

Had to google that too. Its very red isn't it. Shoot it.

Yep. Red bastards.

 

[Barcon]

The remains of the cabin are still there and I do have some piccies, will dig around for them and post some. It's in Wyoming about 25 miles from me as the crow flies

That's another noisy twat.

 

[snorky]

looking for Shane's house I got distracted but found these evening grosbeaks that stopped by in January

Now that is just a stupid name for a bird!

 

[idahoblues]

pygmy owl on top and Shane's on the bottom

 

[Barcon]

That owl looks a bit sad. You should let it in to warm up and dry off.

 

[idahoblues]

Now that is just a stupid name for a bird!

Ha! agree but they're beautiful birds

 

[Saddleworth2]

On our bird feeders today I have seen: green finch, chaffinch, Siskin, bullfinch, blue tit, great tit, cole tit, long tailed tit, collared dove, wood pigeon and a couple of fly through by our resident sparrow hawk. We also regularly get blackcap and nuthatch with occasional visits from redwing and waxwing in season. Love them all. Less love for the noisy fuckers, jackdaw, magpies and sea gulls that also frequent the area. We frequently have sea gulls nesting on the flat roofs in the area which means they can get territorial and aggressive. Start their bloody noise as soon as it's light - frequently 4am in summer. The things you see when you've not got a gun!

 

[idahoblues]

That owl looks a bit sad. You should let it in to warm up and dry off.

my cat would like that too, he's not that sad, can you see the remains of the sparrow in his claws

 

[Zubrman]

if the housemartins nested in my window i would think it was happy hour again.

Well I got it, if no one else did.

 

[snorky]

On our bird feeders today I have seen: green finch, chaffinch, Siskin, bullfinch, blue tit, great tit, cole tit, long tailed tit, collared dove, wood pigeon and a couple of fly through by our resident sparrow hawk. We also regularly get blackcap and nuthatch with occasional visits from redwing and waxwing in season. Love them all. Less love for the noisy fuckers, jackdaw, magpies and sea gulls that also frequent the area. We frequently have sea gulls nesting on the flat roofs in the area which means they can get territorial and aggressive. Start their bloody noise as soon as it's light - frequently 4am in summer. The things you see when you've not got a gun!

I fuckin hate sea gulls. Noisy, shitting, thieving, ugly bastards. They are the bin dippers of the avian world.

 

[Barcon]

I fuckin hate sea gulls. Noisy, shitting, thieving, ugly bastards. They are the bin dippers of the avian world.

Sky rats.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Funny you should say that because when I saw the badger last night that advert was the first thing I thought of.

You always read about wildlife struggling and its usually something we are doing thats responsible, well here in South Cheshire there is loads of wildlife that seems to be doing very nicely.

Here here, we are infested with Kites around here,seen 4 otters not 100 yds from the house, A peregrin late last year and a pod of dolphins just off shore last autumn. Unfortunately I see a dead badger on the road nearly every day, there must be thousands though. We had to rehouse 3 slow worms in december due to knocking down an old wall, they're all over the place. Loads of frog, toads and newts in the gardens