I once saw a tree collapse under the weight of herons and egrets. It was a rainy day in the summer and there must have been 20 to 30 birds huddled in the tree. It was a mature tree on the side of an estuary but the weight of leaves, water and birds was too much for it. I wish I could have filmed it.
My favourite photo at the moment. This sparrow doesn't look like she wasn't her portrait taken
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Mrs Duck is back. She has been coming every year around this time since 2016. Sometimes she has a male following her, occasionally two. She will hang around for sunflower seeds for a couple of months, then disappear until the following year.
She has been on the pond two days running. laughing at the neighbours cat who doesn't like wet feet.
Thanks for that insight re territorial singing, @Fire. Very interesting.
"My" thrush (thrushes) stopped singing yesterday and today between 4.30 and 5pm, presumably to eat. Found some bashed up snail shells in the garden today
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@Liriodendron I couldn't find the podcast I mentioned, but this video below goes into some detail. There was a long held belief that "female birds don't sing", where it turns out that in 71% of song birds to female birds do in fact sing, for all sorts of reasons. (A bit of a divergence from the question of your thrush).
That's a fascinating video, @Fire. Thanks again! I suppose I'd just accepted the "received wisdom" that female birds didn't sing, without thinking about the male bias behind the science.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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"My" thrush (thrushes) stopped singing yesterday and today between 4.30 and 5pm, presumably to eat. Found some bashed up snail shells in the garden today