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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 25 4:10 pm Post subject:
Think people like RSPB and Defra are probably monitoring migratory birds where possible, so if in this country, probably aware. Forgot that I did see wildlife yesterday. A bat along a country lane and a pair of brimstone butterflies as well as several single male brimstones.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 25 1:02 pm Post subject:
at a guess examples of fallen migratorys might still be being tested for bird flu in the usa much of the commercial egg/meat production has ceased hence trump's unfulfilled promise to reduce the price and a new plan to get them imported eggleggers are starting to make free trade imports from mexico etc

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 25 1:48 pm Post subject:
My shouty wee bird was back yesterday.!! The local wren♥️

dpack

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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 25 1:50 pm Post subject:

afaik the local birds have been exposed as a population and possibly as individuals

i have not noticed any sudden drop in numbers, several named ones are not around
i have a feeling i almost saw grin get one of them in flight , something happened ----------- handsom is not about

the usual winter churn of rock doves, i recon 2 to 3 years is a typical lifespan for a wild urban even with free food as well as pavement forage

the sparrows might be about to hatch the first clutch of the year, they are still depleted in terms of numbers to area so difficult to census

the domestic daws are working on emptying a feeder in one go rather than grabbing a bit and shaking a bit out by turns

clever beasts

dpack

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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 25 1:55 pm Post subject:
ps one of the two that fed by landing on my hand when called is still with me hopefully it will bring its children

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 25 9:47 am Post subject:

That would be lovely Dpack, especially if the children fed from your hand too.

Gz, haven't heard a wren yet, but sure to soon. We get them in the garden and the woods.

We were in Chichester yesterday and the gulls were making a lot of themselves. One landed in the road quite close to us, and it was a really large bird. Hope it wasn't going to try to intimidate the people eating just behind us at a pub, but suspect it was.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9057
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 25 11:47 am Post subject:
First queen wasp of the year just buzzed into the kitchen That's what I get for leaving the door open to let the sunshine in

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 25 11:45 am Post subject:
it has been unusually warm here, quite a few critters are taking the opportunity to get an early start to the year the daws are getting good at the deed feeder but are training me to give them meat as i was typing that they manifested onto a bit of pork pie that has been there for half an hour not quite odin's ravens but they will do for me

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 25 6:12 am Post subject:
We had one in the house a few days ago Gz. I managed to persuade it to go out of the back door in the end. It has been warm here, but with a cold wind some days. Hot in the sun, but still need a coat in shade. Have seen quite a lot of butterflies around including a pair of brimstones in the woods.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 25 10:48 am Post subject:
perhaps bears are ok cheese, ham, bear themed beer, polite bears and polite folks getting on with bear and folk things i do have reservations about bears, de-fleshing the white bear head was an education in muscle attachments and teeth one cannot unlearn, they are delux bitey, the polish war bear was loyal and a cool dude after they were nice to him woztek village bears might be a super asset

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 25 7:00 am Post subject:
A lovely story. I knew a goat that was partial to a cigarette; didn't worry if it was lit. My father's fault as he tapped out the dottle from his pipe near the goat, and she got a taste for tobacco. She was quite adept at pinching lit cigarettes from between people's fingers.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 25 1:13 pm Post subject:

it is another warm and sunny day

out of the sun is a splendid plan

one of the gulls called the alarm, a few of the jackdaws joined in, the smalls mostly hid and didn't say a thing, a few gave avian alarm calls

every thing hid and was very quiet

mr and mrs grin were avoided by my local flock

the water end/homestead flock provided lunch, i saw the swoops , they would have risen again if they had missed(or crashed into the floor)

this stuff is fascinating to observe over a decade or so

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 25 6:48 am Post subject:

Hearing more birds now, but the main thing is that spring is springing all over the place. The beech leaves in the next wood to ours are virtually all out, though not fully unfurled, while those in our part are only on the smaller trees and the odd big one. A lovely patch of violets in grass on the way into the wood, the bluebells are coming up to flower, so a haze of blue starting, primroses, barren strawberry, ground ivy and more along the way. Our lawn is covered in primroses, violets and cowslips (and false oxlips) and I have attendant robins every time I do any work in the veg patch.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9057
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 25 8:03 am Post subject:

Spring has definitely sprung...
On Monday I saw Red Admiral butterflies on a stretch of NCR which goes through gorse bushes, and Mare's Tail spore heads coming up on a stretch on the edge of Sand Dunes near Irvine...nothing in my garden yet, but I'm 400' higher and a bit colder.
Masses of sparrows and other LBJs out on Thursday
They are talking if fewer starlings, and although they have started nesting under next-door 's roof tiles, there are a much lower number than usual..they don't seem to have recovered since that very hot summer a couple of years ago.

This morning there was a Queen bumblebee warming herself in the sun on my bedroom window reveal

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9057
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 25 8:03 am Post subject:

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