LUFCTALK

Davycc wrote:

Viduka Hits The Mark wrote:They will be lucky to escape the Rats attention. Very strange to change from their natural habitat. Cambridgeshire does have trees and bushes doesn't it?

I'd say first year mating birds as they are most likely to make such a mistake.

The cat brought this poor wee thing to the door this morning.

That reminded me. Many years ago I went into the back garden just in time to see next door's cat walking down our lawn with a blackbird in its mouth. I managed to free the blackbird which flew into the nearest tree. Its feathers were all ruffled and stayed ruffled. We christened it 'Scruffy'. Whenever I went into the back garden it would fly down and stay on the lawn all the time I was there. It was with us for a number of years.

07:30 this morning we had a veritable feeding frenzy in the garden on the feeders. Three different species of tits, dunnocks, starlings, blackbirds, sparrows, goldfinch, greenfinch & robins. Never seen so many birds in one spot

Slightly off topic and I really shouldn't but couldn't help myself. Whilst away over the last week in Portugal we had Collard Doves cooing every morning outside the villa. My 75 year old mother-out-law said at breakfast after the second or so day that she recognized the call as she heard the same birds back home. I told her not to be daft as these were Portugese birds and had a completely different accent..... I knew they sounded different she said, do the ones from Antrim understand these one..... What like when they are on holiday.

A new garden record of 12 goldfinches this morning.

After not hearing a Cuckoo call for years i'm glad to report that they are thriving in Scotland. Everytime we pulled over to park, whether we had traveled 10 miles or fifty, the first thing that greeted was a Cuckoo call. It was either the same bird following us, or it was a subliminal message.

NottinghamWhite wrote:A new garden record of 12 goldfinches this morning.

We've a few this morning, counted 8.

What we’ve had few of this year are House Martins whether they are in decline or not I don’t know but last few years we’ve had loads hawking around our house.

NottinghamWhite wrote:What we’ve had few of this year are House Martins whether they are in decline or not I don’t know but last few years we’ve had loads hawking around our house.

Definitely not in decline here, just looking out at dozens of them.

NottinghamWhite wrote:https://twitter.com/rarebirdalertuk/sta ... 96864?s=21

That’s incredible