good when you can hear a woodpecker in a park or somewhere and you walk around for ages looking for it but can’t work out where it is

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How long are you prepared to walk around looking for it, out of interest?

Birds are amazing

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Can’t be too sure it isn’t machine gun fire though. Please be careful shrewbs.

Please could the mods change this persons user name to Aviary?

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20 minutes

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/doesn’t live near seagulls

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Is it true that birds really get going when they see a cat prowling around?

Seagulls aren’t technically birds.

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Sure do! Two nesting on the house opposite right now. Just don’t bother me in the same way they seem to bother other people.

Love hearing the birds when I’m staying at my parents. Seagulls can fuck off though, as can birds in the countryside who start belting it out at 3am

Actually this is quite harsh, I wouldn’t like any bird to eff off, imagine a world without birdsong :frowning: :baby_chick::bird:

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I love birdsong, just love it, gbob

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I can spend a very long time indeed trying to locate a bird I can hear. Particularly obsessed with greenfinches, which are very elusive indeed.

Greater spotted woodpeckers actually make quite a racket even when they’re not hammering.

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Big fan of the blackbirds we hear about tea time round our way (a pleasant distraction from the seagulls)

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Since mowing the grass we seem to have 2 blackbirds making a home in our garden which is very nice.

That birdsong just as the sun’s going down is very nostalgic, reminds me of being a kid out playing and having to come home before it got dark :slightly_smiling_face:

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That’s probably it - a throwback to when the days seemed to last forever and you didn’t have a care in the world. No wonder the sound evokes happy memories.

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A parakeet just disturbed me, then hid for ages squawking and hiding. SHOW YOURSELF

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Songbirds will start calling to eachother in alarm if there’s any kind of predator about, but not sing any louder.

Sometimes they will even get together and ‘mob’ a predator such as a bird of prey. Always fun to see a load of goldfinches flying after a buzzard.

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