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paulcook
paulcook
May 2022
9:15am, 11 May 2022
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Swifts!
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2022
11:21am, 11 May 2022
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^ heartbreaking ff. the bastards want shooting

Swifts (two) for me too. I’ve given up on cuckoo
phal
phal
May 2022
7:47pm, 11 May 2022
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The Swifts are back here! Dave’s just spotted them - hooray! - and as the back door is open I can hear them screaming too. I miss that sound when it goes…

The Robin activity has also stepped up so I assume they may have hatched. The sparrow’s nest is ridiculously noisy in the roof!!!!
phal
phal
May 2022
7:48pm, 11 May 2022
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Hen Harriers are stunning birds. Makes me very angry too FF.
flanker
flanker
May 2022
12:40am, 12 May 2022
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Shooting, but in the knees and left in the middle of the moor would seem more appropriate.
Hanneke
Hanneke
May 2022
4:37pm, 12 May 2022
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Trapping them is quite good too: noose around the ankle, so they just die of starvation or hypothermia. A long, slow, agonising way to go... Then the kites and corvids will move in and deal with the recycling element...
100s of years from now, a puzzling bog burial ground will be discovered: A strange ritual.of burying people in shallow graves with a metal wire around their ankles...
paulcook
paulcook
May 2022
9:02pm, 12 May 2022
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Another call of a cuckoo tonight, this time on Roseberry Common, at least until some young hoodlums decided to play their music as loud as possible.

As for my own young hoodlum, he said today the baby pigeons had hatched and flown off to play hide and seek! In reality, the mother has been stuck fast to the nest every time I've been past or looked out.
icemaiden
icemaiden
May 2022
9:08pm, 12 May 2022
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Swifts!
jacdaw
jacdaw
May 2022
11:42pm, 12 May 2022
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A lot of depressing reports of bird flu persisting in the Scottish highlands, here:

twitter.com

I've seen reports of a number of buzzards, red kite and ravens affected, presumably scavenging from birds already dead from avian flu.

Bonxies hit hard, too.

I've not known it go into the breeding season before.
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
May 2022
7:38am, 13 May 2022
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Yeah, all commercial birds are being kept indoors e.g. free range chickens, supposedly. Hope it tails off quickly and doesn't affect the wild population any worse.

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