For the birds

[Bruce Rioja]

Last weekend I nipped for a piss in some motorway services. As I was there, merrily urinating, I read an ad by the RSPB offering a free book about how to attract birds to your garden and how to identify them, all you had to do was text them.

I've just had a bunch of chuggers on now asking me to donate £8 a month. Just get me the free book sent, and then go feck yourself!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Last weekend I nipped for a piss in some motorway services. As I was there, merrily urinating, I read an ad by the RSPB offering a free book about how to attract birds to your garden and how to identify them, all you had to do was text them.

I've just had a bunch of chuggers on now asking me to donate £8 a month. Just get me the free book sent, and then go feck yourself!

At first I thought this was something to do with internet dating.. but I guess you meant real birds.

[Bruce Rioja]

I plan to impress the laydeeeez with my burgeoning ornithological knowledge, Monty. Show 'em my sensitive side.

[boltonboris]

So you won't be watching them through your binoculars?

[as]

I was expecting someone to pipe with 'this tipping automatically - it's for the birds'

[seanworth]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

[boltonboris]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

I found a dead pigeon in my back garden

[thebish]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

wow!! you hacve to go to the far reaches of scotland to see those over here - and even then it's usually just a speck 23 miles up into space!!

[Gary the Enfield]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

I found a dead pigeon in my back garden

My two cats have downed and dismembered their second Wood Pigeon this morning. First time they left the wings on the patio and the innards on the lawn.

Today they've done the same, but on next door's lawn.

[Montreal Wanderer]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

wow!! you hacve to go to the far reaches of scotland to see those over here - and even then it's usually just a speck 23 miles up into space!!

Well, Sean lives in the far reaches of British Columbia up near the 50th parallel. For scenery and wildlife BC is hard to beat.

[boltonboris]

I've gone to put the washing on and found a dead bird on top of the clothes in the washing basket..

They're forever doing it. One of the crafty little fvckers left me amazed last summer (was warm so the back door was open). I dropped some bread on the floor and one of the cats legged it over, grabbed it in its mouth and dropped it in the garden. Hid in the bushes waiting for a bird to come and claim it...

It almost got a magpie too!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The dead bird count is escalating.
Two weeks ago: no dead birds.
Last week: one tit, one bird (species unknown due to vile rotten state of remains).
This week: two tits, one robin, one brown blackbird (Mrs), one black blackbird (Mr).
No apparent injury, just dead on my (as yet unmown) lawn and/or balcon de sud.

[thebish]

The dead bird count is escalating.
Two weeks ago: no dead birds.
Last week: one tit, one bird (species unknown due to vile rotten state of remains).
This week: two tits, one robin, one brown blackbird (Mrs), one black blackbird (Mr).
No apparent injury, just dead on my (as yet unmown) lawn and/or balcon de sud.

possibly getting poisoned from an infected bird-table somewhere?? though blackbirds and robins are ground feeders - so not usually affected...

[Enoch]

As a child I used to watch the tits on the coconuts my mother hung up on the trees. It never occurred to me this might be harmful.

Can leave a lad scarred for life, not to mention the unusual peccadillo hangover.

I want some of them coconuts.

[seanworth]

This is the time of the herring runs where I live. Just got up and took the dog out, and boy are the birds active and noisy today. Tens of thousands of gulls squawking away, along with ducks, crows, raven, herons, cranes, bald eagles and golden eagles. All of which were spotted flying above me on a couple minute walk with the dog. Noisier than most mornings and with the eagles soaring above I would says they are anxiously awaiting a run of herring. Didn't hear any sea lions which would normally be present, but it is pretty hard to drown out those gulls this morning.

wow!! you hacve to go to the far reaches of scotland to see those over here - and even then it's usually just a speck 23 miles up into space!!

Well, Sean lives in the far reaches of British Columbia up near the 50th parallel. For scenery and wildlife BC is hard to beat.

Sorry Bish for not responding but hadn't checked this thread out since that post. Golden Eagles are more common in the South of Vancouver Island, but they are seen locally and the herring run brings all the predator birds out. Bald eagles are a daily sight, and we probably have 10-15 that hang out on the beach this time of year. There are fewer around in the summer. Also have falcons and hawks, but my favourite is the Turkey Vulture, as while the ugliest up close, it is the most beautiful to watch in flight. Must admit we are kind of lucky here not only for scenery, but also wildlife.

[Bruce Rioja]

Any chance of you grabbing any photo's, Sean?

[seanworth]

Not a big picture taker but having a look for some for you. Let's hope it works and not offend the real photographers.



Down the beach in front of the home.

[seanworth]

Bald Eagles taken a few kilometers from the house.

Sorry but don't think the last picture worked ideally.

[seanworth]

More Bald Eagles

[seanworth]

Sea Lions a few km's from home.