Fetch Birdwatchers
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9 Jan
3:08pm, 9 Jan 2024
4,972 posts
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J2R
What's the point in running, Red Squirrel? They can fly faster than you can run, and they can see in the dark.
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9 Jan
3:21pm, 9 Jan 2024
5,724 posts
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icemaiden
We had tawny owl calls the other night at the same time as some foxes were busy making new foxes in the field behind the house. The night is not quiet.
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9 Jan
3:22pm, 9 Jan 2024
23,263 posts
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Red Squirrel
Thanks Jacdaw - little owl is the closest. If it joined up its calls into a steady rhythm for about 6 “bongs” that would be it. It might’ve even been on the window sill! That would also answer my question from years ago when I used to live by a tawny-infested wood near a lake and heard the same thing. This has also made me reflect on the noise that I heard in the middle of the night in Khao Sok in Thailand while staying in remote jungle huts. The hut owners and some other visiting locals thought the noise was a coucal, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t …. unless they’re amazing mimics like lyre birds. I’ve never heard a sound like it and feel like I’ll always remember it. |
9 Jan
3:39pm, 9 Jan 2024
4,060 posts
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paulcook
Fox mating calls are both amazing to hear but also spine-chilling/blood-curdling.
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9 Jan
3:59pm, 9 Jan 2024
4,973 posts
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J2R
The eeriest bird call I've ever heard was a black-throated diver. I was camping on the west coast of Scotland and it was in a little bay not far away from the tent.
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9 Jan
4:46pm, 9 Jan 2024
8,124 posts
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um
In The Times today. Bird ids made easy. If you have $5000 to spare thetimes.co.uk |
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9 Jan
6:34pm, 9 Jan 2024
23,267 posts
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Red Squirrel
0.25 Scary! |
10 Jan
7:41pm, 10 Jan 2024
21,096 posts
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flanker
I can't see why most people would want this bins. Half the fun of birding is using your knowledge, the locale, reference material, etc to work out what the hell you're looking at. And for a tech article, that Times piece was a bit laughable: "Birders often dream: ‘What if I could just capture that view I can see through my telescope, wouldn’t that be wonderful?’ " I'm sure digiscoping with phone attachments has been around for at least a decade. |
14 Jan
5:06pm, 14 Jan 2024
63,705 posts
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Derby Tup
Met a few people by the canal this afternoon who'd been told they had been waxwing there an hour earlier. No sign then, or twenty minutes later passing back past. Great views of barn owl on way home made up for the missed chance. Still no success this season
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14 Jan
5:23pm, 14 Jan 2024
4,982 posts
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J2R
First bramblings of the winter for me today, small mixed flock with chaffinches up near north Norfolk coast. Later on, big flocks of chaffinches and linnets moving around together.
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