Nice pose for you. The 'front door' robin was a bit slow yesterday, and sat on the drive beside the truck as we pulled out begging for us to feed it, but as we were on our way, I am afraid we didn't stop.
The blue tits are still using the fore end loader tube, but don't seem to be going in and out so much. We think there is also a robin nesting somewhere near, but haven't been able to find any nest. Blackbirds still singing away, particularly in the evening.
mouse town seems busy
tweed is still feeding somebody, as i cant observe the nests without being intrusive to the neighbours i have no idea if she is feeding one nest or anything with a gaping beak
a new clutch was out first time today, to keep track of em all needs more skill than i have or a good AI recognition system and lots of images,video to work with
justin's bro has 3 and one who i don't have a name for has 2, but they do all get a bit muddled up, like under 5s in a playground:lol:
pyjamas poking out of the school uniform is quite funny but it makes id tricky for more than a day or two
boy eye makeup looks a decent marker but girls and kids need a similar definitive
it might be feet, i will observe and report
neither me or they want to hang about in the rain
perhaps i need to "waterproof "the camera and run it by wifi, makes sense for winter as well.
i know a placcy bag with glass at the front is rain proof( other things can be improvised as well) but i need to sort tripod, lighting and angles to get decent observational snaps of them for id etc before i pop a brollie in a clamp.
sparrow town is full of youngsters
another clutch are out today
tweed might be "maiding" for king justin, hard to tell but he seems to have her back if owt kicks off
there was a vicious fight between two boys this aft, "you looking at my wife's beak might have been the issue as one was a "stranger", ie from half a block away
I had a robin, probably the 'down the garden' one, accompanying me yesterday while I was weeding. It got very close; within a foot or two at one point, and seemed to be communicating with me, although I didn't hear any actual soft twittering.
dik can be very communicative with trusted people.
the bracks are feeding youngster/s
the first sets of sparrow fledglings have sorted out feeding themselves and are perhaps taking food home for their younger siblings which is interesting
i need to get some snaps but i want to up my game on that with a good tripod etc now the shops are opening. support your local camera shop seems a good investment rather than "that looks nice" and have it posted to me.
little bracket just went shopping, a beak full of mealworms just like mr brack
that is something i did not know, but it does make sense as a tactic
birds are pretty good at that sort of thing , see handmaids, but to see it with another species makes me consider how many types have similar arrangements
Interesting observation, and I wonder if it has been documented elsewhere, or if others haven't spent as much time as you in watching.
I have had a robin 'talking' to me in soft chirping before now, but usually they just seem to trust me enough to come close and look at me in a knowing way. When I am helping them to feed they tend to open their wings very slightly, I think in the same way as a young bird does when an adult feeds them. Perhaps it is a 'begging' sign.
little bracket and mr brack are shopping together, as mrs brack only pops in for a drink and her choice of snack now and again it seems very likely that there is a new bracket in the nest.
many baby sparrows ranging from a couple of weeks out to today's newest
hard to count them but maybe 20 so far from what i recon might be 6 or 7 nests with a duke of the castle in charge
as far as i can tell tweed is handmaid to king justin, she often is shopping when he is and she is not mrs justin 2 and she has not been sitting
justin is being very butch and defending the food/my girlfriends beak etc
hard core sparrow scrap early yesterday morning
another clutch is out and being tended by more than 2 parents
i need a proper look at this lot over the next few days
a chum of a chum was thinking the locals were moidering some of her cats( i know cats but etc) then she got an ace snap of a harpie in her garden on a phone,
well huge and scary, 3 to 9 kg is pretty big for a flying raptor with night and day is capability
i thought grin hardcore , these are awesome
one of these iirc but not her snaps
i think i know what might have happened to half a dozen pusses
Not quite sure what that is, or what you suspect is going for the cats. One of the Isle of Wight white tailed eagle owls has gone on holiday to the north I understand, but not sure where.
Now a camel in the city would be rather interesting and would attract attention even more than a full face mask.
I think, from the noise, we may have a blackbirds nest with several young in some bushes near the bottom of the garden. Great tits still in and out feeding, but not sure if it is first or second clutch. Haven't seen the first clutch flying, but could have happened when we weren't there one or two days.
buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 20 9:31 am Post subject:
dpack's sweet little budgie is a Harpy Eagle, quite capable of felicide.
I assume his chum's chum is not a UK resident, or else a zoo has been careless, and the RSPB are missing a trick!
in rural france near limoge, i wonder how it got there, pet perhaps, some folk do keep odd raptors as pets/or for hawking.
it had no rings or jessies so it is probably wild/feral
i had never seen a picture before , spotting that in the garden might be a bit much for me, i think i would hide rather than take snaps.
iirc they can drop deer so it is a very good contender for the puss killer.
huge and beaky with gigantic talons
grin is a bit scary up close but those harpies are apex avian predators
Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 20 3:54 am Post subject:
As upsetting as it must be for the owners, it does seem only appropriate that a bird reciprocates some of the damage that domestic cats are inflicting upon the populations of its feathered friends.
Not the sort of bird you would ever want to meet I would think. Even a sparrowhawk eyeing you with evil intent is quite scary, although they are small.
As for feathered friends and predators, there are plenty of them. Sparrowhawk, magpie, squirrel and peregrine spring to mind as well as cats. A bird the size of the one Dpack pictured would take more than a cat I would think. As Dpack says, they can drop a deer, so think dogs, babies or even children.