Aquatic Warbler ‘FEW NOW HEAR THEIR ENCHANTING TYPICAL – Warbler Whistles.’ ‘Dependence on vulnerable breeding habitat’ – Trotted out as to reasons? Aquatic Warbler – ‘All 12-14 Warbler Species’ – “Rare at Risk.” ALL Extinct – “When…?” Cetti’s Warbler + Dartford Warbler + Garden Warbler + Grasshopper Warbler + Leaf Warbler + Reed Warbler + Savi’s […]
Continue reading...Friday, September 9, 2011
DOLPHINS – New Studies Show A Dolphin Brain “HAVE BEEN FOUND TO POSSESS SPINDLE NEURONS.” ‘Along With Those Of Other Cetaceans’ – Relatively Enormous Cells – That Allow Rapid Communication Across The Brain And Play A Role In The Development Of Intelligent Behaviour.2011 September 9th Photos: Reed Warbler – “Unluckily – Cuckoo Host Species…” Feeding ‘baby’ cuckoo…! “This […]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 16, 2011
Marsh Tit Smart well defined black bib glossy black cap. Acrobatically feeds with hoarding food away if finding a good supply. Only distinguished from willow tit as a separate species in 1897. Little Marsh Tit totally different song with a higher-pitched jaunty call.Distinguish by their calls and no white nape like the Coal tit. “Recent […]
Continue reading...Friday, July 8, 2011
“I TOO AM HORRIFIED IN THE YEAR OF ‘2011’ – AT THE SHOCKING CARNAGE IN MY GARDEN” THIS YEAR ! – 2011 July 8 – A nest of fledgling blackbirds in the honeysuckle has just been pinpointed by a pair of sparrow hawks and I have now found an additional three dead adult blackbirds, presumably all with […]
Continue reading...Friday, March 11, 2011
Whitethroat GORGOUS – ‘Distinctive Little White-Throat’ With A Very Distinctive Manner Along With A LOVELY White-Throat – Chestnut Grey-Brown Mantle Pinkish Breast And Then A White Eye Ring AND Belly – And Also – ‘Their Orange-Caramel Brown Wings.’ Darting Rapidly In And Out Of Cover – ‘Flicking And Cocking Their Long White Edged Tail.’ Male builds deep cup-shaped […]
Continue reading...Monday, January 3, 2011
Wren= Irresistible shy captivating dinky Wrens weigh same as £1 coin. Rich russet plumage mottled many shades of brown. Cream stripe over eyes. Fine flicked toy cocked tail. “One of Britains smallest songbirds but what they lack in size make up for in energy and noise – Swivelling bobbing singing their tiny little hearts out.” […]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 30, 2010
2010: House Sparrow Grey crown – “Numbers Dead 90%…!” Bustling Perky Gregarious jolly little House Sparrows. From 1840 Taken All Over USA Boston New York and ‘Around the World.’ Photos. ‘They’ All Manage – To Retain British Sparrows! – Cheerful chirpy song Cockney chirrups. Not killing them all off? Maybe ‘they’ just kill off – Keep […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 2, 2010
RACE BAN CALL AS ‘500’ HORSES DIE – 2010 April 2 Metro: More than 500 race horses have died in the past three (3) years after either collapsing on the course or being put down from bad injuries.The country’s largest animal rights group has claimed.Animal Aid said four horses died at the recent Cheltenham Festival and with […]
Continue reading...Monday, March 29, 2010
Don’t ‘Prey’ On Songbirds.” Daily Mail: 2010 March. The RSPB’s Mark Avery professes to be a bird lover but wants people to love the sparrowhawk. The biggest butcher of all our songbirds. Perhaps he likes seeing a sparrowhawk eat a songbird, which takes half an hour to die as it is gradually eaten away. The […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sedge Warbler Devotes time effort proudly singing their little hearts out frequently heard at night. “Impressive powerful sonorous mimics never the same twice imitating blackbirds great tit chaffinch linnet pied wagtail.” Song flight rises with fluttering wings almost perpendicularly in the air turning rapidly making a slow spiral descent with outspread wings and tail. Striking […]
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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