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Post by mangetout on Jun 5, 2023 11:51:33 GMT 1
I'm blessed with the most beautiful array of birdsong in my garden and recently I've been using an app to identify them. This is what I heard in my garden last night at 9.17pm:
Black bird, chaffinch, sparrow, Robin, blue tit, song thrush, great tit, blackcap, greenfinch, marsh tit, garden warbler, golden oriole, wood pigeon, redstart, wood lark.
How wonderful is that. Plus at teatime the app said there was a red legged partridge around, we get them a lot but I couldn't see him. 30 seconds later there he was having a feed.
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Post by mysty on Jun 5, 2023 12:42:03 GMT 1
Bird song is nice but the down side is if you leave the roof down in the car the swallows poop in it  leave it up and they poop on it. |
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Post by mangetout on Jun 5, 2023 13:17:51 GMT 1
I know what you mean. I have a large garage where I keep garden equipment and the birds get in and poop all over everything.
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Post by mysty on Jun 5, 2023 13:34:21 GMT 1
We have swallows back again this year, no idea if its the same ones as they all look the same to me but they built the nest on the usual beam in an out house. I cannot remember if this was last years lot or the year before.  |
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Post by mangetout on Jun 5, 2023 14:11:51 GMT 1
Is there 3 or 4 chics in that nest? Looks like a runt in the right hand corner.
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Post by Polarengineer on Jun 5, 2023 15:12:10 GMT 1
I don't think egg laying animals have runts, this usually comes from mammals where multiple young cram into the womb and one poor sod gets pushed into the corner.
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Post by mangetout on Jun 5, 2023 17:01:09 GMT 1
Often the last to hatch gets less food, and can even be eaten by it's siblings. That's what I mean by runt. Perhaps there's an avian equivalent?
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Post by Aardvark on Jun 5, 2023 17:36:05 GMT 1
We don't get anything exotic around here but there seem to be an abundance of blackbirds (sorry, birds of colour). Their song morning or twilight makes me glad I'm still here to enjoy it.
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Post by jardiniere on Jun 6, 2023 11:26:53 GMT 1
I'm blessed with the most beautiful array of birdsong in my garden and recently I've been using an app to identify them. You are so lucky to have such an array of birds. I just read about these apps last week and thought what a brilliant idea. I'd like one. I read up about a few. Which one do you have? Some months ago on a morning dog walk I heard the same bird 3 mornings running about the same time. It sounded just like a cat meowing which is what I thought it was at first. Once home, I spent a lot of time researching on the internet and apparently there is a bird called a cat bird, moqueur chat, not normally in France but who knows? |
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Post by Stinky on Jun 17, 2023 8:51:25 GMT 1
I use a free bird recognition app on my phone, it is called Merlin, it comprehensive and a doddle to use.
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Post by gigi on Jun 17, 2023 13:24:03 GMT 1
Thank you for the recommendation, Stinky - I’ve loaded the app on my ipad - read a review saying it used up a lot of battery and my phone’s battery isn’t brilliant anyway.
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Post by mangetout on Jun 17, 2023 15:35:17 GMT 1
I use the Merlin app. You only need to run the sound ID for a couple of minutes max to identify all the birds so I think if you use it prudently it shouldn't use up too much battery gigi. What I find so useful is that you can play the song and call of each bird and learn how to identify them. I use it last thing at night and at dawn. I think it's great.
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Post by gigi on Jun 17, 2023 15:42:58 GMT 1
Thank you for that tip, Mangetout. I’m using it while sitting in the garden - mostly Eurasian blackbirds and robins so far.
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Post by Loiseau on Jun 17, 2023 23:42:58 GMT 1
Just downloaded it, on everyone's recommendation. Now that I have got hearing aids I am realising how much birdsong I was missing!
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Post by Polarengineer on Jun 18, 2023 5:25:06 GMT 1
Exactly +1
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leave it up and they poop on it.
