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• #2427
Cheers - with subjects like these, it’s hard to go very wrong (and I can delete the 90% that are wrong).
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• #2428
Woah.
Thread levelled up. 😎
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• #2429
Brief view of a Little Owl today, also first garden warbler and reed warblers of the year
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• #2430
Blimey, looks like a busy day…great shots!
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• #2431
The swan picture is lovely. We got to watch the Cooper's Hawk eviscerating a small bird today.
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• #2432
Little wander around the Lea Valley near Fishers Green.
Didn't get a picture but the hilight was probably a long tailed tit nest.
Juvenile cormorant had chosen to fish the rapids
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• #2433
New flat is on 6th floor with several mature oak tree canopies right outside the windows. Had a front row seat today of 4 fledgling long tailed tits huddled on a branch about 8 feet away being fed by their overworked parents.
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• #2434
Bird flu changing the colour of gannets eyes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/irises-of-gannets-that-survive-avian-flu-turn-from-black-study-finds? -
• #2435
Nesting pair in bluetit box, much excitement
We had blue tits last year but have since cleared a patch of overgrown buddleia/rose which they used as a lookout before flying into the box so I don't think they will be in there this year. Saw some sparrows inspecting it though so maybe we will get lucky.
Our garden was a bird heaven but completely unusable for anything when we moved in - just overgrown head high brambles everywhere. Feel a bit bad for clearing it but we kep telling ourselves we need to be able to use the garden and will put back things that are good for wildlife. Already got pond skaters and other aquatic beetles in the (new) pond for example.
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• #2436
Just spotted my first swift of the season flying over Peckham
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• #2437
I got excited yesterday evening as I saw the first two of this year over our garden. We’ve put swift boxes up on the local church so hope they may get used!
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• #2438
Brief spoonbill view yesterday but flushed by birders who ignore site rules about access
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• #2439
Brief Lesser Spotted Woodpecker this morning, cuckoo heard, redstart, stonechat, lots of warblers, very nice
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• #2440
Question about birds on my peanut feeders.
Usually they are mobbed by various tits (and a woodpecker) but of late they seem deserted. Are the tits finding proper food to feed their young at the moment?
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• #2441
Possibly the case, maybe the chicks need squidgier food not hard food like nuts (choking hazard maybe or just can't digest?)
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• #2442
Yeah think they don't want to feed there young nuts. We've got birds coming to the feeder for seed and meal worms that never normally come to the feeder
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• #2443
Just spent a good half an hour in the park opposite my house watching an owl (tawny, I think) feed one of its young. The other baby owl was nearby, giving it large with the “where’s my dinner?”
Managed to peg it back home to get the camera, but the light was shit and both batteries ran out pretty quick (turns out I had not charged the spare one like a dumbass) so who knows whether I got anything decent, but fucking hell that was crazy. I was only going to the pub!
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• #2444
Ah, thanks. I'll put out more mealworms :)
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• #2445
Ok, not the best photos but you get the idea
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• #2446
^ brilliant
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• #2447
Love the owls!
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• #2448
Got pi camera on nesting box (at a distance) this morning
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• #2449
Can't get enough Tawnys - great shots.
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• #2450
Found an elaborately assembled pigeon nest yesterday next to a doorway at a factory
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Great pics! Cranes are fucking awesome. Saw a massive flock of them wheeling in South France last year. Mistook them for flamingos at first (justifiable mistake, there were a lot of flamingos in the area), took a while to realise that they were all the wrong shape. Proper giants.