Birds of Prey in you area

Gorgeous! Thanks, Debs, for the link.
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Your welcome. :)

I hope he shits on them when they step outside!
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Those were my very words that were uttered from my mouth when I was told about it.

It's also worth checking back to that link I posted as it is updated most days. When Springtime finally arrives in Central Park the photos are not to be missed.

N.B Word of warning if you don't like seeing dead things don't look at the link, Palemale is quite the hunter.:ninja:

Amazing news on our local tv today: an entirely new species of bird has been discovered nesting near to Eastbourne. It's apparently rather slow, short-sighted, grey, and hunched in appearance. The discoverer is going to call it Eastbournii Geriatrica.
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Yep, I'll say it again... Mad woman!:lol:
 
Oh, yes, Walsy, it might be the rare African Zimmer. The calls, though, are different, I think. The Geriatrica's is a plaintive "maw-tee, maw-tee-deeer, maw-teee", while the Zimmer is a churring "kaaa-sil-beer, kaaa-sil-beeeer.... ".

Soba - always happy to oblige!
 
That's a great link Walsworth, many thanks. My six year old is a member of the RSPB and visit's the website regular and I just showed him that and he's well chuffed :)
It was his 'take a toy' into school day today, there were Nintendos galore (he left his at home) and what did he take in? A British Wildlife detective book and his bird spotting book... I love it :lol:

I took him here last Summer, fantastic place and he was in Heaven. > http://www.falconrycentre.co.uk/
 
Good for your darling boy, Soba! I bet he was teacher's pet for that, too - nice and quiet, and adding to his reading skills, too. Shouldn't that read 'well choughed' though?!

Here's a game for him to play - see how many birds he can make into dreadful puns: "once bittern, twice shy", "robin the bank", "your favourite hobby", "the engine was puffin" and so on.
 
Loving that game Krizon!

We are travelling to England tomorrow and that is a corker thing to play to keep him amused. We do the alphabet one now, for each letter name a bird/animal etc. but that one you suggested will go down a storm.:)

This is him last year at the place I mentioned, please excuse the brutal haircut as he had hacked it himself one day when nobody was looking and the barber did his best to rescue it!:whistle:


 
Oh, sweet little fellow! He's going to be very independent-minded, isn't he? Hoes his own row, all right - takes what he likes, not what everyone else thinks they should take, to school. Does his own hair (well... nearly!). I imagine he's highly intelligent and he won't choose a boring or entirely ordinary path for his life. Good luck to him, Soba, he sounds smashing.
 
We had some folks from the RSPB in today asking us if we had seen or heard any Barn Owls recently as they had been reported in the area. I hear one on a night time screeching away so that seemed to make them very happy bunnies indeed to hear of that. I didn't realise but apparently they are quite scarce now in Northern Ireland due to lack of housing and prey! So it has turned out they are going to camp out in their cars one night soon in our yard to do a bit of detective work. :ninja:

The RSPB must like us as we also have some ever dwindling Lapwings in one of our fields too.:p
 
I forgot to post here about a new streaming webcam being set up in South Africa re black eagles. When I posted it up on Atacanta, it didn't take, but the address is http://www.blackeagles.co.za/ - the cam wasn't yet quite ready when I first put this up, but it should be a lovely site when it is. I was tickled to see that it was the brainwave of a Ms. Woodcock!

Do let us know about the barn owls, Soba. I've seen very few owls in my time - the most spectacular being eagle owls in the Saudi desert, nesting on rocky ledges in a dry wadi (waterbed). I was out with an ornithologist and a friend and I suddenly caught sight of something gleaming - it was the owl's huge orange eyes staring straight at us. Quite magnificent, but if you were a little desert mouse, not what you'd like to see zooming towards you.
 
Will do Krizon.

Your right Walsworth, the bird folks actually mentioned something along those lines. Something to do with their feathers and how the climate here affects and frays them, in other words rain does not agree with them at all.

My little lad is literally just home from his Grandad's (that's my excuse for being very active online today!) and he has just informed me the RSPB were also at GD's too today, branching out on the hunt for them!
 
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He'll love playing Hercule Poirot with them, Soba! Bless him.
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I actually feel sorry for the RSPB folk as knowing Joe he must have absolutely tortured them today with a million and one bird related questions.:D:D

Getting him to sleep at nights now is going to be a nightmare, as you rightly thought he now wants to do some detective work himself!:blink:
 
More birdy news tonight: the south (of England) is blessed with a way off-course American visitor, a Bonaparte Gull, at the South-East Waters Reservoir, Arlington, near Berwick in East Sussex. Nice view of him flying very fast and low, showing a smart black head. He's smaller than our gulls, and God knows how he's made it all the way over the Atlantic, unless he went passenger class on one of the ships! Twitchers are out in force, foaming at the mouth in ecstasy.
 
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