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Post by naich on Apr 1, 2023 11:12:24 GMT 1
When I'm not throwing money at Elsie, I do a nest cam in the bird box on the wall of the house. It's all kicking off inside because Mr. and Mrs. Beaks have started building their nest. There's a live feed and highlights from yesterday at beaks.live, The camera is really shit because it cost 15 quid for 2 of them, Next year I'll get a decent one, but for now enjoy the grainy low resolution beaks!
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Post by veg on Apr 1, 2023 11:42:02 GMT 1
Got a few bird boxes and feeders in the garden. We get everything incl woodpeckers, owls, robins etc Iām in the countryside and one of my greatest pleasures is my morning fag and coffee outside just listening to the birds sat outside early morning having fed our dogs and cats. š
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Post by andy748 on Apr 1, 2023 11:45:21 GMT 1
Got blue tits in the box outside my bedroom window, I love my garden birds. Andy.
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Post by headcoats on Apr 1, 2023 12:18:22 GMT 1
We have Goldfinches come every year which is nice to see Biggest surprise was a Jay once
We have wrens,blue tits,great tits,coal tits and the usual robins,blackbirds,sparrows,magpies and bloody pigeons ! Have bats too and we aren't in the countryside at all
Fox in broad daylight yesterday too it scared the shit out the cat !
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Post by JonW on Apr 1, 2023 12:38:25 GMT 1
Im woken at 5:30am every day by the laugh of the local family of Kookaburras, they mock the fact Ive woken... b*****ds!
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 1, 2023 13:31:34 GMT 1
So disappointed
Birds, cameras then this š¤£
Steve
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Post by Gitram on Apr 1, 2023 13:53:02 GMT 1
that's a bit of fun, was the vid shot on one of the go pro look alikes or is it something different altogether? still looks alright for the 15 quid..
marti
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Post by naich on Apr 1, 2023 15:31:55 GMT 1
that's a bit of fun, was the vid shot on one of the go pro look alikes or is it something different altogether? still looks alright for the 15 quid.. marti Sorry, I got it wrong - it was 22 quid not 15. It's just a webcam. The important bit was that I could adjust the focus, I started appreciated nature a bit more during lockdown and the wife learned how to tell the birds outside from their cheeps. The bird box has been up for a while but I fancied seeing how cheaply I could get a webcam going in it, I didn't really expect any birds to actually go in it, so I had to knock a site up fairly quick.
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Post by dc on Apr 1, 2023 16:57:38 GMT 1
The video is great. I have a small box in the garden, the odd bluetit looks in but so far nothing happening. I have two blackbirds at the back, regulars, jump onto my window ledge to look in. Last year I saw these two crows, the male on the right, very intelligent. I saw their nest and three offspring have been with them pretty much everday since until recently when the male attempts to send them on their way. Two have now gone. He's a very clever bird, will fly to greet me and hang about, the female too but so so close. Think they are ready for nest building too. Here he is having flown to rest near me, if someone else comes close, he will edge back or move until they have gone.
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Post by donkeychomp on Apr 1, 2023 21:29:41 GMT 1
I get loads nesting in my tree. Right now some Magpies have taken it over. They sound like machine guns going off! But recently more and more Red Kites have been hovering overhead. Massive things and I did see one up close recently. They look black from afar but they are very red indeed. They hunt just about anything.
Alex
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Post by Norbo on Apr 2, 2023 9:30:44 GMT 1
Thats so cool id love to do the same . put a few cams up in the garden i places
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Post by naich on Apr 2, 2023 9:43:58 GMT 1
The video is great. I have a small box in the garden, the odd bluetit looks in but so far nothing happening. I have two blackbirds at the back, regulars, jump onto my window ledge to look in. Last year I saw these two crows, the male on the right, very intelligent. I saw their nest and three offspring have been with them pretty much everday since until recently when the male attempts to send them on their way. Two have now gone. He's a very clever bird, will fly to greet me and hang about, the female too but so so close. Think they are ready for nest building too. Here he is having flown to rest near me, if someone else comes close, he will edge back or move until they have gone. I love crows. You can make friends with them and have a "crow bro". Of course there is a subreddit for them. Apparently if you give them food they will start giving you gifts in return - nicely shaped sticks and other crow valuables. As you say, very intelligent, and they can recognise individual people, even when they are wearing different clothes.
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Post by naich on Apr 2, 2023 10:06:50 GMT 1
Thats so cool id love to do the same . put a few cams up in the garden i places A mate of mine has an Amazon Blink camera and he gets really good footage from it, even at night with infra red. They are about 50 quid and wireless, motion detection, run from an app etc. Absolute piece of piss to set up, apparently.
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Post by Gitram on Apr 2, 2023 10:35:41 GMT 1
my Youtube feed is now full of folks making friends with crows...
my dad had a couple of crow "familiars", he didnt like rats so would burn his old food waste in a brazier rather than throw them out and help to feed the rats at the landfill site.. anyway, turns out that crows like a warm meal and would pick through the ashes to find whatever remained of the remains.. they also tagged along when he took the dog out for a walk..
marti
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Apr 2, 2023 10:48:13 GMT 1
Mostly magpies and shagging pigeons around me at the moment
That stuff about crows scares me. I've got an image in my head of me sitting in the garden looking in the window at a crow sitting on my settee watching my TV when it goes too far š¤£
Steve
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Post by dc on Apr 2, 2023 13:18:24 GMT 1
As you say, very intelligent, and they can recognise individual people, even when they are wearing different clothes. That's exactly right. Whenever the see us, they fly to the tree above and guess where we are going and fly ahead. The male lowers his head and makes a clicking noise followed by a purring. I think it's a "hello, pleased to see you" in crow talk. He is like a crow bro just as you say. When they had their nest last year, they would fly off towards Red Kites to send them on their way. Others then join in from other areas. I feel very privileged that he and his family come to see us, they walk alongside us, skipping and jumping along.
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Post by steve h on Apr 2, 2023 19:44:18 GMT 1
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Post by dusty350 on Apr 2, 2023 20:07:16 GMT 1
Got a big gang of Sparrows in my garden. I fill the 5 large bird feeders up, and the greedy bu**ers have usually emptied them all inside a couple of days !! Love watching them. There must be 20 -30 of them at any one time. Costing me a small fortune in bird seed. Next door gets Parakeets roosting in his tree - there are large flocks of them around here. Quite often see Red Kites overhead too. Nothing more exotic than that sadly. Dusty
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Post by veg on Apr 2, 2023 21:23:11 GMT 1
Parakeets are a real London thing. Always amazed that they have survived and actually thrived.
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Post by donkeychomp on Apr 2, 2023 21:49:15 GMT 1
I saw something today but still unsure what. A HUGE bird swooped down onto a chimney. It had a neck almost the same length of it's body and sat there for a while before flying off. Looked a bit like a Heron but it was bigger than that. Big crooked beak too. If I was in Florida I'd have said it was a Flamingo...Mystified.
Alex
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Post by steve h on Apr 2, 2023 21:56:21 GMT 1
I saw something today but still unsure what. A HUGE bird swooped down onto a chimney. It had a neck almost the same length of it's body and sat there for a while before flying off. Looked a bit like a Heron but it was bigger than that. Big crooked beak too. If I was in Florida I'd have said it was a Flamingo...Mystified. Alex Ostrich.
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Post by dusty350 on Apr 3, 2023 7:07:04 GMT 1
Phoenix ?? Stay off them "herbal" teas Alex, they're "twisting your melon man " !!
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Post by naich on Apr 3, 2023 11:08:55 GMT 1
She's started building a nest now. Can't be long until we get some little tweeters!
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Post by steve h on Apr 3, 2023 14:19:16 GMT 1
I saw something today but still unsure what. A HUGE bird swooped down onto a chimney. It had a neck almost the same length of it's body and sat there for a while before flying off. Looked a bit like a Heron but it was bigger than that. Big crooked beak too. If I was in Florida I'd have said it was a Flamingo...Mystified. Alex Dismiss nothing where birds are involved (except ostriches! ) They are the most successful creature on the planet, from the coldest region (Emperor Penguins) to the deserts, not bad for dinosaurs eh? I have seen a Gannet in Bamber Bridge near Preston and an Osprey in Darwen to the west. That bird you saw sounds like an escapee of the crane or possibly vulture family's
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Post by donkeychomp on Apr 3, 2023 21:36:16 GMT 1
It might have been a Crane...
Alex
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Post by Gitram on Apr 4, 2023 5:55:23 GMT 1
I saw something today but still unsure what. A HUGE bird swooped down onto a chimney. It had a neck almost the same length of it's body and sat there for a while before flying off. Looked a bit like a Heron but it was bigger than that. Big crooked beak too. If I was in Florida I'd have said it was a Flamingo...Mystified. Alex Stork, having a rest after delivering another baby... marti
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Post by dc on Apr 4, 2023 8:03:18 GMT 1
The female of the pair I mentioned above. Landed on the window sill early today then jumps down waiting for a snack. The male does it and now a young one. This one is quite mad, one day I thought she was going to fly straight at me through the window. I have to park the bin there now š
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Post by Gitram on Apr 4, 2023 11:09:45 GMT 1
A seagull flew into the GF's window last year and left a perfect image on the glass from the impact with the grease on its feathers rather like a fingerprint on glass.. the gull was undamaged as far as we know but it was a hefty bang when it hit, she wasn't in the same room otherwise she'd have thought the pane was going to explode..
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Post by naich on Apr 4, 2023 11:21:46 GMT 1
The female of the pair I mentioned above. Landed on the window sill early today then jumps down waiting for a snack. The male does it and now a young one. This one is quite mad, one day I thought she was going to fly straight at me through the window. I have to park the bin there now š Wow! She's beautiful.
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