laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
yapping bird. was the flight fast, but undulating?, very darting. could be a green woodpecker - pointy beak, quite slight.
Birdlifes gone mad round here
- Thread starter gbb
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Green Woodpecker abound round here, almost certainly not one of them. Very distinctive 'laughing' yaffle...whats 'yaffle' mean BTW 
As i write that, i've a Collins dictionary next to me 
. Another name of course for the GW, also imitative of its call. So now i know.
Something occured to me last night...there was a hedge between me and the bird. Who's to say there was'nt a dog running round yapping at the same time ? I would'nt have seen him. Quite plausible.
On another note...colleague is convinced he saw a Puma t'other evening. Sopmething largish and black shot across the road in front of him. As he slowed (he was in a pickup) to the point where it disappeared, he could see its rearend desperately trying to get through the hedge. Definately not a deer (they're very common aabout those parts...ive seen herds of them on some rides)...it got through and as he drove along the hedge, he caught fleeting glances of it (whatever it was) running on the field side of the hedge.
Got home, googled the area with Puma and Panther....look what he found...
http://www.bigcats.org.uk/panthermap.html
Christ, i'd love to see one of those
As i write that, i've a Collins dictionary next to me . Another name of course for the GW, also imitative of its call. So now i know.Something occured to me last night...there was a hedge between me and the bird. Who's to say there was'nt a dog running round yapping at the same time ? I would'nt have seen him. Quite plausible.
On another note...colleague is convinced he saw a Puma t'other evening. Sopmething largish and black shot across the road in front of him. As he slowed (he was in a pickup) to the point where it disappeared, he could see its rearend desperately trying to get through the hedge. Definately not a deer (they're very common aabout those parts...ive seen herds of them on some rides)...it got through and as he drove along the hedge, he caught fleeting glances of it (whatever it was) running on the field side of the hedge.
Got home, googled the area with Puma and Panther....look what he found...
http://www.bigcats.org.uk/panthermap.html
Christ, i'd love to see one of those
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
Lot's of stories about big cats loose in the UK but surely if they were present in any number there'd be a few dead by the roadsides?
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
laurence said:
They certainly seem to nest around the same houses each year but no history where this one was trying to get in. They're all newish houses without the holes and stuff from older buildings. If there are swift specific nest boxes I'd be interested in setting one or two up.
laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
Bromptonaut said:
it could be a new nester (they don't nest for at least three years) retuning to the area where it was born.
the RSPB are asking for swift sightings, etc here...
http://www.rspb.org.uk/thingstodo/surveys/swifts/index.asp
nest boxes here...
http://www.jacobijayne.co.uk/nest-boxes-by-species/swift/
still no idea on the yapping bird (or dog). the only yapping ones tend to be geese. maybe a starling? they are good mimics.
PBancroft
Senior Member
- Location
- Winchester
Bleedin' crows are everywhere around here this year. Right pain in the proverbial they are, make a right old racket and have been feasting on my runner beans up at the allotment.
