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dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



splodgedaw and dawminor

sorry best i could do through a less than clean and optically less than perfect window

dawminor might be one of the pair of youngsters that came down the chimney

the daws are ok with me outside but do not like the door to open(see dog ) so daw snaps depend on right place with camera at the right time

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ps i will have a go at mealworm time

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am sure during WWII very few British people would have known about those herbs and spices, and they would have been very hard to get hold of anyway.

Heard something odd up the woods overnight on Saturday/Sunday. A toowhit toowhit, repeated a lot of times. I know that is the call of one sex of tarny owl, but have only heard it repeated once in the past, so not sure if it is tawny, and can't find any other owl with that call. Also, we were rather late yesterday evening as one of the kilns went on a bit, and heard two pairs of tatwny owls making their presence known to each other.

Did a flora survey and found the wild angelica up. Also an unknown plant; think it was there last year too, but it has now developed a woody stem. Best guess is rowan, but not sure about it.

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

female, the chaps go woo

it is possible to upset or attract them by joining in, if there is one it might come to check you out, if they are a pair one may come with hostile intent

the females can get shouty with a variety of phrases, the chaps only seem to go woo

Slim



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We heard some loony tunes yesterday as we were leaving the pond we went to to beat the heat. Had seen the loon about 30 feet from us earlier that trip, but it didn't get noisy until later
Think very early daffy duck cartoons

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

iirc you pointed at recordings, pretty good calling from daffy

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

this chap has recorded some

ace critters, i expect they worried folk when they first heard that as strangers in the boonies

Slim



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 22 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The Daffy duck noises are not as rare as the focus on their long lonesome wails may suggest. They're more like the second half of this one: https://youtu.be/sVJHQo6yQr0

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 22 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have never heard the female make more than one or two tuwhits, which I why I wondered if it was something else, but no other owl makes that noise, so must have been a female tawny.

Interesting noises the loons make. I don't think I have ever seen the early Daffy duck, so didn't sound much like the ones I have heard.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 22 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Slim wrote:
The Daffy duck noises are not as rare as the focus on their long lonesome wails may suggest. They're more like the second half of this one: https://youtu.be/sVJHQo6yQr0



dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 22 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

these are a little disturbing in the dark, me in a hammock, it doing bug flying things under the tarp is no way to be introduced to them

dpack disturbance rating 4/5, for comparison a badger eating my bacon sarnie 1/5, both were about the same distance from my face

nocturnal noises are loads of fun

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 22 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

birdtown news

approx 7 justinson sparrows, all working hard
several tweeds
quite a few "plain ladies"

young bracket might be helping to feed the next clutch

the daws are rather fun

the townie pigeons seem to be "my flock" of maybe 8 adults and a few kids
at times they bring, or attract, a family party of about 20 to join them for breakfast. flappy. they do not come often so i can tolerate that when they do

grin might have got an air to air kill a couple of days back, pained squawks and more than a few floating feathers is my only data on that, it was very fast, probably a pigeon from the feathers and noise

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 22 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We sometimes see cockchafers, and they are big. Sounds as if your birds are doing well. I have had a few peregrine dropped pigeon kills for dinner when they get dropped in the garden. L leave the ones that are badly damaged; something else always clears them up, but a dead one just fallen and in good condition is worth having

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 22 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i missed out the woodies, skinny ankles is still here, fat ankles is mia assumed fallen

there are assorted other random visitors, the wrens are the most regular but there are tits and finches about

the diks might have been chased from the village by the locals, they can be a bit abrasive

the magpies only pop by for a polite snack, messing with nests etc will get a large mixed flock on them, so they have a few mealworms if they need them

today i was up a hill for a while, the kestrels were nice to watch from fairly close, they were teaching the young one to hunt, they got tea in about an hour after a few missed tries

fun to watch, getting snaps might take a bit of practice

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 22 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I saw a red kite yesterday in a place I had never seen one before. We get them fairly frequently over the woods now, although we can't often see them through the canopy at this time of year, and in other places around us, but this was further east.

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