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[Mark Bolam]

3 hours ago, Steven P said:

Supply and demand, raptors don't feed on bugs but thrushes do

Why would bugs decline in rural Northumberland though?

It’s sheep and cattle country.

 

No one is spraying glyphosate and herbicides around at any great rate.

 

There are still plenty of blackbirds about.

[Johnsond]

13 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Why would bugs decline in rural Northumberland though?

It’s sheep and cattle country.

 

No one is spraying glyphosate and herbicides around at any great rate.

 

There are still plenty of blackbirds about.

It’s not just what happens here that has an impact on things in regards birds numbers. As for bugs there’s no shortage in rural Aberdeenshire, not that I’ve actually tried counting mind. The front of my ranger seems to confirm this. 

[Stubby]

5 hours ago, Steven P said:

Supply and demand, raptors don't feed on bugs but thrushes do

The song thrush prefers snails when it can get them . When I was a kid I quite often saw a " Thrushes Anvil " Usually a big flat stone surrounded by broken snail shells . The Mistle Thrush will eat slugs , berries and invertebrates . I only see them in the woods . Song thrushes used to be a regular garden bird in my youth . Don't see one now .  🙁

[sime42]

First time I heard a Thrush I thought it was about 10 different birds. Such is their long, varied, random sounding song. They're like the bird version of a one man band.

 

I think they've just gotten very localised. Round my mum's you can hear one without fail walking along a certain path. And John Lennon airport in Liverpool bizarrely. I was staying in a hotel on the old site recently and heard one there, going on and on. They're unmistakable,; saying that though I wouldn't be able to tell between the normal and Mistle versions.

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Mistle thrush has a very harsh almost corvid like call. 
 

Suprisingly big as well. 

[Mark Bolam]

Just that Mick, almost magpie like.

[devon TWiG]

23 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

Mate’s lid after a spin last night.

Northumberland.

 

 

I ride a 125 cc bike and the BACK of my helmet is like that !!!😁

[Johnsond]

Reform takes Runcorn and Helsby from Labour in knife-edge by-election

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After the result was announced, Reform's Sarah Pochin said illegal immigration was a “massive issue”...

Awesome results last night for Reform including up in Northumberland. Mark J will be chuffed to bits. If there was an election today I’d imagine the results might be very very interesting in regards the traditional two party systems demise, especially seeing as Labour have been thoroughly exposed as lying incompetents yet again. 

Reform has put the two traditional parties on notice - and we don't know where this ends

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The significance of this morning's local election results will be argued over for years to...

 

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[Steve Bullman]

Think the people have spoken

 

 

[Johnsond]

A reminder for the left wing libtards if any is needed of why Reform is doing well. I’d imagine if myself a middle aged white male was convicted of punching female police officers in the Face Id currently be behind bars, and rightly so. 

Edited May 2 by Johnsond