Kinda hoping that waxwings come here this year. 60 reported outside Debenhams in Eastbourne today, not so far away...
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
they look kinda chill i guess
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
BEST BIRDS
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the waxing trend"
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1918Two.jpg
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
peace god
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those birds look like they're wearing deal with it shades from afar!
― ENBB, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw today I discovered the worst thing in the world
― acoleuthic, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's up with these birds falling out of the sky?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9432186
― O Permaban (NickB), Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm kind of bird phobic, I think. I mean I like birds to look at and from afar but up close, wiggins central. My sister in law has an eclectus parrot and though v cool to look at I don't like being near it. The one time it sat on my shoulder I spent the whole time staring straight ahead praying that it wouldn't peck my eyes out. Plus I was chased by a goose once so I have a general distrust. Sorry birds. Nothing personal
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
birds are great but having one of those psittacotic freaks on yr shoulder does not sound like fun
don't get me wrong parrots r basically chill but mainly for sitting in cages and listening to coal chamber
there are loads of birds here at night, guessing nightingales? never see them but <3 their songs
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland not urban greenfield
probably robins, mebbe songthrushes
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw you shd all look at my link a few posts upthread
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like the sound of birds at night.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
LJ are you a bird watcher / ornithologist?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
in my early days I was much more devout, but yeah I guess
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lapsed Ornithology still pretty cool IMO
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
may the bird be w/ u
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Go in peace and love to serve the birds
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
damn feels so weird now lj knows i'm not akshly in ldn but a delapidated fortress in a slovakian birch forest ;_;
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
u shd host a vibrant, classico-noise-based alternative to exit festival
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like birds and always have done, but i've never got any sort of knowledge about them....just like to observe the local fauna yknow
it feels so weird that nobody knows why all the sparrows have disappeared
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow, 68%
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
ime it looks like more than that even
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
they're a v gregarious species and depend upon colonies - scarcities of food, disease or any kind of downward fluctuation (usually caused by changing agricultural procedures) means that entire colonies will subside
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/biologicalsciences/falcon/
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
they're falling out of the sky in the US.
― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland
Read this first as "delicious woodland."
― children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Us bird massacre due to fireworks (apparently) Happy new murdering birds eve (maybe) you lot >:(
Now happening in Sweden...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12118839
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 6 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12170571
Fancy that!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
they know
they know it's time
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've heard of birds getting drunk on fermented berries before (waxwings iirc). Never heard of them dying from it though. RIP starlings
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuckers be optin' outta the foodchain
rip starlings, sorry i called you shit birds upthread
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've heard of birds getting drunk on fermented berries before (waxwings iirc). Never heard of them dying from it though
In the version of this nth-hand anecdote that I heard, they did die
was going to chatter idly about my own bird-spotting news but will keep it off this doomed thread of bird deaths for fear of jinxing my new feathery palz
― agrarian gamekeeper (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
DO IT
(red kites again? lol)
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lots of recorded instances of it, so maybe they sometimes do :(
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, did I talk about red kites on here already? I do not remember. The other half's father (who takes birds v seriously) is coming to visit soon and is most insistent on being taken to east Oxfordshire to see them, though. Hope they put on a good show.
No, this week's bird news is that there's been a leucistic Egyptian goose hanging around my walk to work all week. I had never seen the like before. Fed some ducks this lunchbreak and had it eating birdseed out of my hand. Wait, real birder types wouldn't approve of that at all, would you? Ahem.
― agrarian gamekeeper (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was the shadow of the waxwing slainBy vinous pomace and fermented grain
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Egyptian goose
FAKE GOOSE
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wasn't familiar with that Nabakov couplet, thanks ledge!
Last leucistic bird I saw was a snow white blackbird.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, did I talk about red kites on here already? I do not remember.
think it was you who affirmed my claims of their chiltern ubiquity!
also, handfeeding migrant rarities is some sort of heady fever-dream of twitching which could only happen to a casual birdwatcher
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Apparently Norfolk has a lot of Egyptian geese. Don't think I've seen a full-colour one outside a WWT centre, never mind the small patchy pale brown + white thing (with bright yellow eyes!) tagging along with the greylags who are winter regulars on the path to work has been making me happy all week. Thank you, little guy.
The bigger, hissier geese don't quite seem to know what to make of it, but it's never far from them, so it seems to have half-joined the gaggle.
I hate collective nouns, so I don't know why I used that one. But yeah, did wonder if its readiness to hand-feed means it came from one of those WWT places (don't know if they all do hand-feeding but the one near Belfast does). It's not ringed or anything is all I know.
And yes, no red kites here in Oxford itself but almost as soon as you leave the city to the east you start to see them. At least, that's been the case so far. Probably when we take the in-laws to see them we will be stood on a windswept hill for a week staring into empty skies.
― agrarian gamekeeper (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
God that was long. Do some work, spacecadet!
a passing of spacecadets
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
LJ you need to rank the finches, buntings, sparrows, tits and larks.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
imo
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
broadly,
pipits > buntings > tits > finches > larks > sparrows, and I *like* sparrows
will rank individual birds at some point
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
that'll take some time.
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink