The Bird Thread

does this suggest that birds have regional accents or dialects

This has been written about... Will see if I can link to it.

Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-16154490

Imagine that on your bird table
https://twitter.com/ukrbbp/status/1389219231519084546

Moreover, how you gonna catch it?

I saw a moorhen's feet for the first time next to the Olympic stadium yesterday. Pretty rank.

Also a family of swans. There is still one egg left in the nest, presumably abandoned

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I saw a moorhen's feet for the first time next to the Olympic stadium yesterday. Pretty rank.

The water? Not the lovely/strange dinosaur toes, surely!
Coots' toes are even better, like willow leaves.

They looked like a bunch of grey sausages. My daughter and I both said 'eurgh', we saw one building a nest out of the water

Coming soon...

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Saw a song thrush fledgling with a hurty wing on my run just now. Didn't seem too bothered by me and I was able to get really close and have a good look. No phone on me unfortunately so no pics. As I moved on the parent I hadn't noticed in the bush started going mad calling to it.

Cygnet Day pt.1 mobile pics

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Cygnet day pt2 dslr:

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T'other birds today - the coot chick was very hard to get a view of, and I'm gutted the duckling is slightly out of focus, it looked ok on the viewfinder.

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Coots' toes

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Toes like leaves!
Love how both moorhens and coots look like someone zapped dinosaurs with a magic wand rather than a long evolution. They both retain so much dinosauriness and look a bit startled that they woke up like this.

There was a coot chasing off a mallard today. I'd always assumed that they were pretty low down the ahem pecking order.

There was another swan family round Stadium Island in the QEOP, my favourite new 1 mile running loop

Heard another Cetti’s warbler this morning. Swifts are here. Sedge warblers very visible. Nice buzzard.

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Swifts are here

I am missing the swifts. This cold weather isn’t going to be encouraging them north any time soon.

Given how few insects are around, I do wonder what the recent arrivals are going to eat

I left the dslr at home, so quality not great. Live hatching moment!

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Robin nesting by the drainpipe and saw a woodpecker in Finsbury Park yesterday. That ‘Why do birds suddenly appear?’ line from the song is about me.

'You're so vain'?

More marsh turkeys (local nomenclature).

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Thanks for all those swan family pictures, rhb and Colin. I just love waterfowl chicks, even if cygnets are supposedly ugly ducklings.

Starling parents are being kept busy outside our window

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I have a horrible feeling that I am retreating from the horrors of sleaze, war, climate crisis etc and focussing on small furry and feathered things.

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Awesome shot