😂 Now that we have your attention, this is about BIRDS! The feathered type! So minds out of the gutter. We're just taking the piss! This is a video we have wanted to do for a long time as Natasha is a massive "Bird Nerd" "Birder" or as you would say, "Twitcher." We learn about the British Birds and Natasha teaches some about American Birds. This is definitely a fun, lighthearted and educational episode. Get your binoculars and out and and don't forget to Salute and say, "Good Morning Mr. Magpie, how's the Wife and Kids?" It's time to relax, smile and enjoy nature! 🐦
Natasha and Debbie, I absolutely loved that. I’m not quite a bird nerd but I do take my binoculars out when I take a walk.. have some bird books etc. Nothing quite so beautiful as the sound of birdsong early morning. Thankyou so much for this. I’m not well enough to go out and about at the moment so this really made my day. ❤️
I'm not sure if your aware but many older brits call the ladies "birds" though to be fair not so much these days. but it made me laugh when you passed the comment "this is about birds" making me think ummm so my mind is still in the gutter......glad you have got into the wildlife of britain though which consists mostly of birds these days
In my garden we get blue tires and great tits. On my bird feeder, we also get goldfinches, sparrows , doves, pigeons and a wren. We see wrens too, blackbirds and starlings. The Occasionally the local.sparrows looks for a lunch. I also get visits from a squirrel and foxes. I also get
Thank you girls, you made an interesting and fun video out of a topic that many would ignore. I too, have "called in" birds using sounds from my mobile phone. I was amazed to find that it even worked with woodpeckers, that "knock,knock,knock" is different to each species and they all seem to recognise their own. To "call in" a flock of green woodpeckers is nothing short of spectacular. Thank you. 👍
I have a pond in my garden and each morning the birds queue on the stepping stones of the waterfall to have a bath. Each waiting patiently to take their turn. Near me there is a meadow and during the pandemic when we were on lock down the sound of bird song in the meadow was deafening, no human noise to drown them out. It was glorious, loved your video.
I remember in lockdown there was a bit of a stir in my city when a goose decided to walk into the railway station and lay some eggs in a raised flowerbed.
We keep an eye open nowadays,InWales for the red Kites.Stopping with my brother in France, we were beside a lake when a flock of Canadian Geese flew down,on their way migrating.
Was building and painting a fence this morning and had a Robin come and watch me while I worked , it was happy to sit a foot or two away from me and watch what I was doing , went in in a couple of hours
There's a large rookery just a hundred metres from our western verandah, and at dusk the calls totally overwhelm any other bird calls or songs on that side of the house. Gradually, as darkness deepens, their calls wane, and the only sounds remaining on that side are of robin-chats and barn and wood owls, and the occasional Mackinder owl.
Love Corvids. We have Jackdaws nesting in our chimeys. Wake up call is 04:30 every morning. Jackdaws sqabbling about whos going to be the boss for the day. Love it.
Hello ladies. I’m 70 years old and until a few years ago I had a real phobia of birds so had no interest but then a switch went in my head and all my phobias disappeared. We moved from inland to the coast and now we are surrounded with birds and animals. This was interesting to me too.
Teddy Roosevelt was amazed that the Blackbird’s song wasn’t a Nationally acknowledged treasure. He heard it on a visit to Britain, and loved the song of this species of thrush.
When I see a magpie I salute it and say good day Mr magpie how's your wife and family, there is also a rhythm 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold and 7 for a story never to be told, I just live birds and their early morning song
Fun fact Natasha: Your robin (Turdus migratorius) is more closely related to our black bird (Turdus merula) and song thrush (Turdus philomelos) than to our robin (Erithacus rubecula)! Greetings from a fellow birder :)
This year 2024 we were lucky enough to have Robin's nest in the garden. It was lovely watching the parents feeding them and then we got to see the fledglings leave the nest too. ❤
At the River Tyne in Newcastle, we have a nesting ground for Kittywigs, and it’s one of the only places in the world you’ll find such large groups. They’re all over the place in the summer
I have a lot of options out side of my flat it's a garden and we have massive trees they all go in. Also we have bats. We have smaller birds I hear them but don't see them very often . Love from uk. X
FYI "Chaff" is a waste produce from wheat and barley harvest - in the olden days with less mechanical processing and more horse transport more food was available for the birds to feed on in farmyards.
Robins are the first to start singing in a morning and the last to fall silent at night. We also say that when a Robin comes to visit you it’s a loved one who has passed
Thanks, you two, for this reaction. I didn't realise our British birds were declining in such frightening numbers. This is a good time to think about how they will get through the winter. We will put on our 'thinking cap' this week and perhaps be of help.
I’m British married to an American when we lived in California for 20 years I missed our British birds so much especially our Robin.We say when you see a Robin a loved ( deceased) one is near.The other thing I missed was our flowers,snowdrops,and bluebells especially
Love the video ladies, for us the song of te blackbird beats all the others. Loud, slow and melodic, Ialways know when Spring is here when I hear the first one singing in the morning. Stay cool the pair of you.
Robins are wonderful. They won Britain’s favourite bird, as voted by the public. They’re very curious and quite brave - often coming quite close to you and watching whatever you’re doing in the garden. I had a nesting mother in my outdoor electrical box this year. She was so industrious - it was a blessing to see her throughout her preparing for and raising her brood. She got pretty comfortable with me. I hadn’t seen her for a while and had worried as we have avian flu and many birds of prey locally. So, I was delighted when she came to visit me only last week and even came inside and sat on my sofa for a few minutes.
Hi ladies.... just love this video ... there is nothing nicer than listening to the dawn chorus .... so relaxing and peaceful . We have a lot of those birds where I live and I can now match the sound of the birds to the birds .... fabulous
There's actually a small rhyme to do with magpies depending on how many you see altogether: 1 for luck, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 for a boy, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret never to be told
There's also a song that goes with the magpie too 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told 8wish 9 a kiss 10 a bird you'll never miss xx
I have a Robin that appears every autumn. I watch it sit on my gate looking around my garden for food. It appeared a few weeks ago. My favourite birds that visit is my pair of collared doves. They sit on the roof of my summerhouse looking in my living room window to get my attention. If someone comes to my door and the dove sees me it flies down to let me know its here. It waits for me to go in and out to the back garden so I can feed it. I talk to them and I'm almost at the point where it will eat out of the cup of seed. The blue tits and sparrows have started to come and help keep the numbers of aphids down. I've got a relatively new garden and it's taken a few years to attract them in to it. I love watching them. They all love the small bird bath too. My favourite birdsong is that of the blackbird. I love to listen to it and wait to hear the response from another blackbird. Its so relaxing.
The Magpie’s rhyme we used to say in my area West Cheshire for the number of magpie’s seen at once. It’s silly but I always remember it from my childhood I’m now 31. “1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 for a boy, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret never to be told.”
I took up photography and bird watching during lockdown..Great way to get out and relax..I grew up in the 70s back then you would see huge flicks of sparrows hardly see any now..hope you do so more bird videos
During lockdown I was in bed on night and I heardxa couple of owls having a conversation it was so exciting and beautiful I fell asleep shortly after it ended.
Hi Ladies, I admit I'm not very interrested in birds - although I do always salute a lone magpie and say 'Good morning Colonel' :-) But I did enjoy your enthusiasm for the subject. You may like to know that so many parrots (Ring-Necked Parakeets) have escaped or been released that there are breeding colonies in the South of England, particularly in parks around West London. The RSPB have said that this parrot is now a British Bird!
The problem is the majority of new housing developments here in the UK rarely have good sized gardens and enormous amounts of farmland destroyed to make way for housing , destroying hedgerows , woodlands etc
In the UK the magpie has a childs short poem to help with counting. It goes. 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret, never to be told.
I live on the south coast of the UK, we have a large population of Magpies but unsurprisingly our most common type of birds are gulls, feeding them is frowned upon as they are very aggressive and will mob people for their fish and chips, there's little point in having a bird table as all you will get is gulls but within 10 miles of us is the New Forest so we can walk through the forest and hear if not see lots of different birds.
Similar for me, but the other end of the south coast - Bexhill. I gave up with the bird table because of the gulls plus the squirrels. Love the New Forest btw, apart from the hold-ups getting through Lyndhurst, even though I love the town once through the traffic lights.
I’ve always had cats. So most of my childhood interactions with birds were as gifts from the cats. We currently have house cats so that problem is gone. We always see robins. Angry little whatsits lol. I’ve seen then try to attack squirrels and crows
'Angry' is an anthropomorphistic word, applying human characteristics to animals. A robin is merely protecting its habitat, especially where its offspring are concerned.
Yep - we have multiple feeders, houses and a big garden (about 100ft long and 50 foot wide - in places!) - we usually have crowds of sparrows on the fence waiting for the café to open :) - Sparrow, Great and Blue Tits, 2 Robins, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Starlings, Collared Doves & Wood Pigeons, - have seen a Wren and we have seen Long Tailed Tits and Warblers on occasion
There is a rhyme for Magpies too depending on how many you see 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told. I forget the rest. I know a lot of people don't like Magpies but I actually quite like them. It's this rhyme that the band, Counting Crows took their name from.
Loads of variations depending on where you live! Here's ours 8 for a, wish 9 for a kiss 10 a surprise you should be careful not to miss 11 for health 12 for wealth 13 beware its the devil himself
Love this. Your Carolina Chickadee looks very similar to our Coal Tit. I have them In My garden, along with all the birds in this video, love watching and listening to them.
Since Natasha likes bird watching when you come over to the UK go to Sandy in Bedfordshire it is the Headquarters of the RSPB and for a small fee you can walk around the site, you can also pick up a map showing all their reserve's that you can visit.
Hi ladies, interesting video. I'm always fascinated by your blue Jay's they're so pretty. I'd never heard about them or seen one till I watched The big bang theory which had an episode with one in. Truly stunning bird. Hugs from UK
I fly gliders and there is nothing to compare to having a pair of Red Kites flying around, checking you out. They have fantastic plumage that shows up so well as they dive down at you. Best of all is when they form up on the wing tip and sail along with you.
yes i believe you, it used to be the same in the UK, but the sparrow suffered a some type of illness and all of a sudden they disappeared , when i fly back to the UK to see my parents before they passed within half an hour you would see more than 25 different species that visited the garden as my mother fed them a lot so me and my brothers keep it up, that is one thing i miss about the UK LOL
Great video as always ladies. I'm lucky as I live in the countryside near some woods which are less than 100 yards from my door. I get Sparrows, Starlings, Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Blue Tits, Magpies, Robins, Kingfishers, and my personal favourites, the Common Woodpecker. They are mad as when they're on the ground they hop like Kangaroos. Additionally flying about the place we have Red Kites, Kestrels Geese, Ducks , Wood Pigeons, Swifts and at night, Owls. Thank you again for another of your usual fun, interesting and edumacational videos ☺❤👍
When we moved into our current house in the Cotswolds (a rural area in South West England) we made friends with the robins and blackbirds in our garden - they soon started hopping into our kitchen in the morning if we were late bringing their breakfast out and brought their babies in to meet us a few times. Now we have a giant clumsy rescue dog they keep their distance a bit more but we still love to watch them pottering about
One of the most popular singer and entertainers in the UK during World War 2 was Vera Lynn (lived to 103). She entertained the troops at open air concerts at home and over seas. One of her most popular records was 'White cliffs of Dover'. It begins: "There'll be bluebirds over, the white cliffs of Dover, just you wait and see...." This could never actually happen because there are no bluebirds in the UK. The lyrics were written in the USA where they do exist. The error was just accepted or overlooked.
Starlings look stunning,when they flock,and swoop and prepare to take flight en masse high,in the sky.Then they look like a giant dark streak swooping across the sky.
Where I work every morning there is 2 birds in different trees in different areas will sing to each other, one starts and the other will answer. Best part of my night shift. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Magpies are very intelligent and have been proven to do puzzles and solve problems, they are my favourite bird and their iridescent plumage is beautiful. Good video. 👍
Starlings are very good mimics too And can speak like parrots. Also they gather for migration in huge numbers, and look spectacular as they form murmurations, like a living black cloud changing shape in the air.
Did you know we have large flocks of ring necked parakeets in a certain area of London, Kensington Gardens is a good place. They like apple's. Check out why London has parakeets.
I live on the S.E. coast of England (East Sussex) and we have bird feeders in our garden and so see dozens of birds out there all day particularly goldfinches, blue tits, robins and collared doves but many other types too. Unfortunately there are also sparrow hawks which prey on them but I've thankfully only witnessed one "murder" in our garden.
A friend of mine went wild-camping in The Wye Valley, right on the border between England and Wales. He was so overwhelmed by the dawn chorus, he taped it - I know, showing my age. This has reminded me that I really ought to go there, some day soon. I understand people who are obsessed with birds. I'm not, but I get it. This was a fun and informative watch.
I love the birds. (except pigeons). Lots where I live in a built up area with many trees. I have a visiting Robin that sits on my balcony and stays when I go to see him. Originally I call him Robbie 😁. x
We gave our birds affectionate names such as Jenny Wren, Robin Redbreast, Jack Daw, Mr or Mrs Magpie etc and there’s an old English poem about the Robin. Our Robin Redbreasts are much loved, as are the Wrens, Blackbirds, etc. If you’re out digging the borders, the friendly Blackbird will often closely follow you around to grab any worms. The Robin Redbreast will often visit you after the loss of a loved one. Many people have commented they were frequently visited by a Robin after the death of a loved one. It’s as if they’re comforting you. For the past few nights I’ve been hearing a Robin singing, though many mistakingly think it’s a nightingale they’re hearing because it’s at night. As beautiful as the Robin sings, the nightingale’s song is spectacular, though rare. I can vouch on the demise of sparrows and starlings. I remember the garden covered in them and I’m not sure why, but there are a lot of cats, plus their habitat is slowly disappearing.
I sometimes see wood peckers .Even in my garden. They are very small with a red top to their head .Walking through woods they can be heard hammering into the trees looking for grubs. Great vids girls.Good work.
I'm very fortunate to live in the countryside and have most of these birds in my garden, in the summer l love sitting in the sunshine and listening to the woodpigeon cooing it very relaxing.
When I was young I volunteered for the RSPB on a sanctuary, it was an amazing experience and I was in the local newspaper 📰 ♥ Living in the French countryside I get plenty of bird songs and the occasional murder of crows at the end of my large garden. Loved this video 😍😍😍
Back in the 70s, many people had a particular phone called a Trimaphone. The problem was that starlings would imitate the ringing tone. Where I live, in the winter the starlings arrive to spend the night under the pier. The murmuration as thousands gather and fly their synchronised display against a back drop of the setting sun, is amazing. 15 years ago when I fished the London canals, when the sparrows had their young, they would come right up to me to steal some of my bait. There are no sparrows in central London anymore.
Sounds like we have birdwatching in common. I had a Carolina wren family start on my porch in a plastic cup. It was so amazing. I filmed the stages of their growth. The entire family, including the chicks still live in our yard. Cardinals also have a family in our yard and we discovered the mom cardinal while trimming trees . We immediately stopped trimming and they were so friendly they brought their young son over and now visit us daily. They started eating bananas I left out on the porch to ripen. I was surprised that cardinals are a type of finch, they do have a lot of similar behaviors. We have some tiny wrens and blue grey knatcatchers too. They are so cute, they sometimes take sand baths and regular water baths, and the Carolina wren flew right up to the window and was talking with our Congo African Grey ❤Recently I found out that crows have the intelligence of a seven year old child. I used to rehabilitate animals at a wildlife rehab, we had many blue jays. They are so individual in their personalities and super smart. There is a lot of folklore about magpies in the UK culture. Some people get super terrified when they see one. We have collared doves too, I saw one recently without any others and was worried. It’s cool that we have some of the same birds as the UK. I love the BirdNET app I have identified many birds with it.
I enjoyed that ladies, well done. A thing that people do here (though not as much as they used to) is cross British Finches with canaries. I had two Goldfinch X Canary a few years ago and they were lovely song birds. I love to go out to the local countryside where I live, or simply sit in my garden watching/listening to the birds.Ive had wood pigeon, collard dove, starling, sparrow, robin, great tit, blue tit, dunnock and blackbird nest and raise chicks in my garden which I felt very honoured to experience. Am I right in thinking that a chickadee is what we call call a tit One thing along the lines of how sparrows and starlings numbers have gone mental in the states. Ive got an old bird book that my dad bought me when I was young. In the back theres a section on "rarities" and one of the rare birds listed was Collard Dove. Now they are one of our most common birds, where I live we started getting Little Egrets on the marsh land outside town. Bird watchers (twitchers) were coming to the marsh from far a field to get a look at them. Now its getting hard not to see one and they're slowly spreading up the country and now we've started regularly getting spoonbills coming in. thats the way nature works.....and its great
Rescued a few birds over the years favourite was a juvenile seagull, transported him home in a bag with his head poking out through the zip. It demolished a plate of pilchards in about four seconds. Never seen anything eat so fast!
20:12 Blue Tits are lovely - we often have them nesting in a disused condensation pipe in a neighbours wall overlooking our garden. When they first fly the nest in spring, they're *tiny*, about the size of the average 12-yr-old's thumb. We have a little bird bath and the way they all fluff up to bathe is just... roly poly feathery goodness. Add to that the cherry blossom that fills the bird bath and they often get little pink blossom hats too...
I live in a Manchester suburban area of with lots of trees and front and back gardens. There is a dawn chorus featuring a variety of bird songs starting in the Spring and throughout summer. I was aware of the decline in sparrows, but I didn't realise it was in such numbers. Twenty years ago sparrows were the most common bird we would see in the garden, now they a rare sight. The main ones now are blue tits, magpies, robins and wood pigeons. I have also noticed there are occasionally flocks of seagulls that fly in from the coast and circle overhead, which was something we never saw this far inland several years ago.
Which blows our minds! We have over 7 million here!!! As I type this there are over 50 in our backyard and at least 20 in the front. They are EVERYWHERE here
great post. i was a big bird lover, when younger. i'd spend a lot of time in the countryside and was a member of the RSPB. my favourite birds are the Barn Owl, Kingfisher, and Puffin
Very nice video and reaction. Mainly garden birds were featured. For songs and sounds, here in the UK, I have got to also mention the skylark, a songbird of open heath and moorland, and the curlew, a wader that winters by the coast but nests in open hill country with a wonderful song and calls - my favourite bird sound. Nightingales are uncommon summer visitors to the south of Britain, but one of Europe's favourite songbirds.
My Mum has a whole bunch of hedge sparrows, a pair of Wood pigeons (one has a limp, so naturally, I've nicknamed it Limpy Pidge) - and a variety of Jackdaws, Magpies, Blackbirds and at least 1 Robin, in her back Garden. Unrelated but she also has a Hedgehog that wanders round the garden/driveway. My Aunt also participates in a project that deals with seabirds found dead on the beaches in the area, where she'll bag them and hand them over to a researcher who dissects them looking for plastic in their stomachs, so as to report back on the damage being done. Every night where I am, there's usually a Crow vs Jackdaw stand/fly off, over a set of trees. It usually starts with a couple of Crows and Jackdaws calling at each other, then more and more arrive and it ends up being a whole inter-locking mass of birds, cawing and flying overhead for about an hour.
When I was a kid living in Canada I absolutely loved the Bluejays. Such beautiful birds. I missed them when we then moved to Ireland, though we had other lovely birds.
That was 👍🏼 I love laying in bed on a lazy Sunday morning in the spring and just dozing as the dawn chorus hits full pelt, so so relaxing. There are beautiful birds around the world and each are great to watch. When I was volunteering in South Africa I spent a morning at the water hole bird watching and loved it. Well done ladies, glad you enjoyed doing this xx
We tend to be bird lovers here in the UK, I believe we spend more money per capita feeding birds, than any other country in europe. In the UK, although starlings and house sparrows are widespread, they are nowhere near as common as they used to be. One of the factors has been the use of UPVC trim on houses, which effectively seals the edge of the roof and reduces the availability of nest sites. Natasha, you may not be aware, but two of the featured species, the great and blue tit, both were known for stealing the cream from milk bottles. In the past, most British households had milk delivered in glass bottles, and left on the doorstep most mornings. These birds learned to peck through the foil top, to get at the cream which settled in the neck of the bottle.
We love that you do! We have most of the World beat here. American adults spend approximately $3.8 billion a year on food, feeders and related accessories! We need even more people helping all the wildlife!
Thanks for a very entertaining video. I imagine you must be members of the Audubon Society. Often I use a CD of birdsong from Australian Forests as a sleeping aid. One of my Queenland grandsons said they'd used it during an overnight school field trip. Surely, a great way to get kids to appreciate nature. My gramps told me of some very onomatapoeic bird names in Welsh, eg sgrech y coed for Blue Jay, titw tomos las for Blue Tit, nicw for Goldfinch. One of my favourite bird songs is that of the curlew. When I lived in VA, I was oft awoken by the song of the whipporwill (spelling ??). BTW, in the UK one North American bird which has become a pest is the Canada Goose.
In the UK we have a nursery rhyme along with a superstition for magpies. 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told. Magpies mate for life, so its seen as bad luck to see one on its own. Regards, Kaylee Smeaton, Autistic & Proud, Northumberland.
i highly recommend looking for documentaries/books by Bill Oddie and Chris Packham, both famous british twitchers for your personal gratification on more info on birds as well as other wildlife animals of the British Isles, these are the chaps that gave me most of my (limited) knowledge on them. and Sir David Attenborough does birds/animals from around the planet but you probably already knew that one
So the bluejay is similar to the polar bear, their skin is black, and the white is an illusion as well. Where I live there is a massive colony of magpies, they are very clever, and very confident, I put mealworms out for them everyday in the autumn and winter, that probably answers my observation earlier, that's why there are tons of magpies, I've counted about 30ish.
One thing this reminded me of is that hedgerows are just not a thing in the US, even in colonial times fences were preferred whereas here hedgerows to divide fields etc have been used to divide fields for millennia - and they’re a home for so many birds like robins. There’s always one sat on the hedge by a path I often take
'Over the centuries, numerous hedgerows were planted to keep in grazing livestock, and some of today's are as historic as many old churches, dating back as far as 800 years.' I suspect you mean hedges, which are indeed extremely old.
Takes me back to my childhood, I used to be over the fields, all the time awashed in Bird calls or Music 🎶. Didn't realise how much I miss, This Music 💔. I remember 1st time I went to Spain, sat on a beach ,I sat up and realised I couldn't hear any seagulls, found it abit unnerving,
I have all of those birds on the video that visit my garden. My favourite is the robin, I had a baby robin who I got to feed out of my hand. I also have alot of owls, that become very vocal at night lol. The worse bird in my neighbourhood is the crow. They have become a pest... attacking cars( pecking at the rubber seals around the windows) and window frames in properties. They are not scared of any other bird, even a bird as big as a seagull
I own a burger van and I do enjoy feeding the local crows and magpies any spare bread buns. I also have blackbirds and Robins visit my garden. Love watching them. That Carolina Chickadee is so adorable. I love them too now!
I love birds, and have been a bird 'parent' for over 25 years (parrots). I'd like to share a story I was told at school as a young child if I may? I was about 8 years old at the time. My teacher told me a story of God's paint box. All the animals of the world, lined up to receive glorious colours, magenta, purple, yellow, blue etc. At the end of the queue was the blackbird. God looked inside his paint box and saw that most of colours had gone, except for tiny amount of black and a drop of orange. The blackbird was sad, so God said to him, to make up for your colours, I will give you the most beautiful singing voice. The biackbird, now coloured black, with a beak of orange then sang, and it was the most beautiful song ever to grace the earth and the blackbird was very happy. I never forgot that story.
I am in S E England and in the 10 years I have lived in this house (near the edge of the town, close to woodland and countryside, with several Oak Trees in the garden) and have seen perhaps 5 House Sparrows in the garden. As a child they were always in the garden (edge of London and then next town to where I now live). I haven’t seen a Collared Dove for years and very rarely see Starlings. What I do get are loads of Wood Pigeons, Herring Gulls and a few Magpies and Crows.
I had a Magpie walk into my house through the patio doors jumped up on the coffee table and looked at me as if to say no bread today then turned round jumped back down and strolled out into the garden again .
@Timmi: Summer, 1997, London Hyde Park - a day I will never forget: A pigeon p**ped on my head. It was so bad, I couldn't wash it out, not even with the help of my friend. Had to get a haircut the next day to get rid of it. Not a fan of pigeons since then...
I just love all of our precious animals, either Furred or Feathered. There is an upsurge of Kestrel`s and the likes coming back into urban areas. I often see them amongst The Dock warehouses and Factories where I live. I used to work at a place that had a Bird sanctuary on it`s vast landscape and we used to get the Canada Geese visiting when they were on their Migration. It`s so relaxing, not to mention rewarding just observing these Beautiful Creatures.
My grandmother could imitate any bird call. She was in the entertainment army corp. Entertaining the troops with her abilities. My grandfather, he had a large avery in the garden. (And thought it hilarious to shut us in with a lot of birds drive bombing us.) I am obsessed with magpies, I have a family, every year, nest in the chimney outside my window.. And I always salute and ask “how’s the wife and children?” Greeting from Essex
A starling murmuration is something to be seen. The most amazing phenomena of nature. You may be able to find out the best places and time of year to see them on the internet. It’s definitely worth the effort to see one at least once in your life.
