My mum was never a gardener but if us kids got a little out of hand she used to say " I'll cut off your head and put on two cabbages" never understood what she meant but at times I've quoted to mine young ones
So, here it is, just watching a huge flock of rooks (ploughing is going on) and I was wondering when tow of them are flying towards each other, how do they decide which one turns right and which one turns left to avoid a head on collision?......
They're piloted by ex Red Arrows pilots - simples
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well I suppose we are right next to the European School of Navigation for Helicopter pilots (ex pupils certain Royal princes who never waved when they flew over) so the birds could be taking lessons from there.
On a similar theme. How come the sparrows can fly into our dense Hawthorn hedge at speed and not spike themselves on the vicious thorns? If I thrust my hand in at that sort of speed I would have to spend hours digging the splinters out, but you never see an impaled bird.
We now have that certain royal prince piloting our air ambulance and as we're close to the big hospital he must be flying over our airspace quite frequently
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Saw an albino magpie yesterday, close up, amongst a flock of about 8 that live in trees next to our allotments. More attractive than the real thing. All white with a few black spots.
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My mum was never a gardener but if us kids got a little out of hand she used to say " I'll cut off your head and put on two cabbages" never understood what she meant but at times I've quoted to mine young ones
Whoops !nothing to do with birds but I thought I would share it with you
Seems reasonable to me Primrose
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
we get murmurations here as they move here in Winter and annoy the dairy farmers by getting among the cows and pooping in their feed.
They're piloted by ex Red Arrows pilots - simples
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well I suppose we are right next to the European School of Navigation for Helicopter pilots (ex pupils certain Royal princes who never waved when they flew over) so the birds could be taking lessons from there.
On a similar theme. How come the sparrows can fly into our dense Hawthorn hedge at speed and not spike themselves on the vicious thorns? If I thrust my hand in at that sort of speed I would have to spend hours digging the splinters out, but you never see an impaled bird.
Was, and it will get worse, the weather is very anti-gardening today.
Mind I can sit here and watch a flock of non-colliding fieldfares strip the berries from a Rowan.
Berghill , looking foreward to the rest of today's observation
Have to say you are spot on about sparrows , we have large hawthorn hedge , which is really a sparrow hotel
Raining here to day lucks like housework day
We now have that certain royal prince piloting our air ambulance and as we're close to the big hospital he must be flying over our airspace quite frequently
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Saw an albino magpie yesterday, close up, amongst a flock of about 8 that live in trees next to our allotments. More attractive than the real thing. All white with a few black spots.