Its a largish dog so hardly a toy but it has the most irritating yap...Its ten past six in the morning and I have just heard its rendition of the Dawn Chorus....maybe I should shoot the owner not the dog
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Its a largish dog so hardly a toy but it has the most irritating yap...Its ten past six in the morning and I have just heard its rendition of the Dawn Chorus....maybe I should shoot the owner not the dog
Its a largish dog so hardly a toy but it has the most irritating yap...Its ten past six in the morning and I have just heard its rendition of the Dawn Chorus....maybe I should shoot the owner not the dog
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No, I think there's a nationwide reduction in the prevalence of sparrows, but no one knows why for sure.
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Hi Jane and Jenny,
I think all the B-----y Sparrows have decided to congregate at my place because after an absence of about 15 years we had a couple of pairs last year and now this year we are inundated with them.
The Jackdaws have also returned this and year one pair have commandeered the Barn Owl box that I have in one of the barns although I have never had a Barn Owl two years ago a Tawny Owl used the box.
Last weekend I had literally thousands of Fieldfares and Starlings passing through on their way back to their nesting place in Scandinavia and all points East and this morning a whole ruck of Redstarts appeared in the hedgerow and stayed most of the day.
The male is such a joy to behold.
The Skylarks are back on station having deserted us during the late autumn and winter and I have 2 pairs of upland Curlews nesting in the 6 acres of set aside. Our Blackbirds are only just beginning to nest which is actually quite late on. I have three pairs of Pied Wagtails nesting. Although I am not sure where the nest is but I have several Long Tailed Tits about. I like to know where things nest so that I can leave them undisturbed if possible.
Yesterdays dawn chorus was magnificent but I was absolutely frozen when I got back inside and it took a mug of tea and a rather large shot of amber liquid to revive me!!( that's my story at any rate)
The Swallows are expected back any time now and I cannot wait for the day. I did have one appear on the 4th March a few years ago but here the norm is the 12th April. The date of the first pair gets recorded.
Time for the wooden hill.
JB.
I think all the B-----y Sparrows have decided to congregate at my place because after an absence of about 15 years we had a couple of pairs last year and now this year we are inundated with them.
The Jackdaws have also returned this and year one pair have commandeered the Barn Owl box that I have in one of the barns although I have never had a Barn Owl two years ago a Tawny Owl used the box.
Last weekend I had literally thousands of Fieldfares and Starlings passing through on their way back to their nesting place in Scandinavia and all points East and this morning a whole ruck of Redstarts appeared in the hedgerow and stayed most of the day.
The male is such a joy to behold.
The Skylarks are back on station having deserted us during the late autumn and winter and I have 2 pairs of upland Curlews nesting in the 6 acres of set aside. Our Blackbirds are only just beginning to nest which is actually quite late on. I have three pairs of Pied Wagtails nesting. Although I am not sure where the nest is but I have several Long Tailed Tits about. I like to know where things nest so that I can leave them undisturbed if possible.
Yesterdays dawn chorus was magnificent but I was absolutely frozen when I got back inside and it took a mug of tea and a rather large shot of amber liquid to revive me!!( that's my story at any rate)
The Swallows are expected back any time now and I cannot wait for the day. I did have one appear on the 4th March a few years ago but here the norm is the 12th April. The date of the first pair gets recorded.
Time for the wooden hill.
JB.
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Better not tell the Londoners about your sparrows Johnboy:
Between 1977 and 2000, house sparrow (Passer domesticus) numbers in the UK declined by 65%.
In London they have almost completely disappeared from the central Royal Parks and most notably in Kensington Palace Gardens numbers fell from around 2,500 in the 1920s to just eight in 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm
Your land sounds like a wildlife paradise.
Between 1977 and 2000, house sparrow (Passer domesticus) numbers in the UK declined by 65%.
In London they have almost completely disappeared from the central Royal Parks and most notably in Kensington Palace Gardens numbers fell from around 2,500 in the 1920s to just eight in 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4743250.stm
Your land sounds like a wildlife paradise.
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Oh, come on, let's hear it for the sparrows. Some of you are lamenting the loss of sparrows, to others they are a nuisance (b****y sparrows).
If we are going to like wildlife, we have to accept the common, or nuisance, such as rats, moles, sparrows, jackdaws, mice, polecats, foxes, voles, rabbits, feral goats (I'm sure someone can add to the list).
Let's try to remember that they were all here a long time before we were, and many of them would be glad to see the back of us destructive pests
It's really not up to us to decide what we like and don't like and kill the latter and encourage the former.
OK, I spent ages this morning listening to the thrush singing, and I love my robins, but they are only saying "This is my f*****g tree, keep off". They're certainly not doing it for our benefit.
Alan
If we are going to like wildlife, we have to accept the common, or nuisance, such as rats, moles, sparrows, jackdaws, mice, polecats, foxes, voles, rabbits, feral goats (I'm sure someone can add to the list).
Let's try to remember that they were all here a long time before we were, and many of them would be glad to see the back of us destructive pests
It's really not up to us to decide what we like and don't like and kill the latter and encourage the former.
OK, I spent ages this morning listening to the thrush singing, and I love my robins, but they are only saying "This is my f*****g tree, keep off". They're certainly not doing it for our benefit.
Alan
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Actually I am very pleased to have the Sparrows back and there is plenty of room for all of them and a load more.
I have been watching birds since my eighth birthday so today is a bird watching anniversary and my great aunt bought for me the newly published Observer Book of Birds. A first Edition which still sits in my collection of bird books which number now several hundred but in 1938 there were very few books of birds published.
JB.
I have been watching birds since my eighth birthday so today is a bird watching anniversary and my great aunt bought for me the newly published Observer Book of Birds. A first Edition which still sits in my collection of bird books which number now several hundred but in 1938 there were very few books of birds published.
JB.