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Bird song ID

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "It seems like an awful waste of energy, but I suppose they know what they're doing."

    I have stopped watching butterflies, I get too exhausted. I invite them the sit down and smell the roses, but no, they just flutter, continuously. Nothing else seems to do this (apart from swifts, maybe). It must cost so much to flap those big wings. I suppose moths and butterflies emerge, mate, lay eggs and die in such a short time that they can't afford to take a breather. I never really appreciated the phrase "social butterfly" until now.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I can't understand how butterflies work. Some of them even migrate over long distances. How is that possible when you're just a couple of scraps of paper?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    There is a site that will identify it but it means listening to lots of twits...sorry tweats !!!
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd love to hear a curlew again. I will Google the site. Thanks NB 2
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    This is the one I use B3.  Will take a while to go through them though:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I can't understand how butterflies work. Some of them even migrate over long distances. How is that possible when you're just a couple of scraps of paper?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks BtG
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have heard the Great Tits making this kind of sound, took a while to work out which bird it was had a few choices. 
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LdK6JQUNyw
    If it sounds a bit like this whistling frog then I have one too. No trilling, no warbling just a straight true note. No idea what it is but it sounds a bit like a referee whistle. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2018
    No mine was more measured, at regular intervals and vaguely plaintive.
    Just a few minutes yesterday. I'm pretty sure the keeping in touch with family thing is right, whoever it is.
    That should be called the squeaky bed spring frog @plant pauper
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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