Show us ya birds !

[roboted]

[benedmonds]

These little guys are in a tree we want to retrench...  Makes a difference from pigeons..

[westphalian]

3 hours ago, benedmonds said:

These little guys are in a tree we want to retrench...  Makes a difference from pigeons..

How you gonna get rid? Air rifle? ;-)

Edited June 22, 2018 by westphalian
joke

[benedmonds]

2 minutes ago, westphalian said:

How you gonna get rid? Air rifle?

Captive bred hawks are worth £250 each...Happy to wait a couple of months for these guys to fledge, hopefully in the future they will help keep the pigeon population down...

[westphalian]

Aren’t woodies a bit big for them? One once pinched a collared dove I had shot when it landed in the stubble

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, benedmonds said:

Captive bred hawks are worth £250 each.

Daughter of one of my customers did her thesis on raptor DNA and using it to  prosecute cases of birds eggs taken from the wild.

[Pete W]

Here's an update to our Sand Martins. Although there have been several collapses of the sand 'cliff' the fledglings are doing well.

 

 

 

[nepia]

Excellent again.  I'd be happy to see house martins, yet alone sand martins.  Where are the martins and swallows?  I've seen maybe 30 of both species combined this year.  There simply are none.  What's happened to them?

[Pete W]

15 minutes ago, nepia said:

Excellent again.  I'd be happy to see house martins, yet alone sand martins.  Where are the martins and swallows?  I've seen maybe 30 of both species combined this year.  There simply are none.  What's happened to them?

Locally we have all four, Swifts, Swallows, House Martins and Sand Martins. Although at work (In the Lakes) we only have House Martins the Swallows were a no show, well I saw one but that was never going to stay. The bad weather in early May didn't help.

[David Humphries]

Not great shots as this Marsh Harrier literally flew out of the reeds right next to us and didn't give me much notice to get the camera set.

 

Burnham Overy, north Norfolk.