*squeeee*

Okay.

:lol2::lol2::lol2:

Reminds me of Eric.

Eric is a naughty bird.



And he doesn't like the scary fish.

Bird Buddy...

https://www.facebook.com/rogiane.rod...3936069404424/

That is a very British sign.



However, as a typography perfectionist, it really bothers me. The font is "Johnston" which is, basically, the London Underground font. But the kerning here is all wrong. The tailed lower-case l does not fit neatly in the words; there is too much gap (mind) between where the l stops and the next letter starts. Other letters have similar problems; in the word "Warning", there is too much space between the W and the a.

Also the vertical spacing between the "Level 5" headline and the text underneath it is too small. The "g" in Warning and the "f" in platform almost touch.

This sign was not created by a signage professional, and I question its legitimacy.

It's all typographically jacked.

Perhaps it's the work of a group of goose signage counterfeiters.

Bound to be some. Somewhere.

Want to watch penguins hatch, live on your screen?

Bird poop on your Rolls? This will not stand!

I've seen that on buildings, but don't recall seeing that on trees. They should have painted them black, it wouldn't look so bad and nobody would notice them.

If they were black the birds wouldn't have early warning and might get the shit scared out of them at the last minute, which kind of defeats the purpose.;)

The story moves on...

Thousands oppose anti-pigeon spikes in Bristol trees

We had a similar brouhaha in a nearby town when a large flock of migratory starlings arrived in the area to take advantage of large crops of berries on the trees.
The inevitable fall out on cars caused one local resident, in high dudgeon, to demand that the trees the birds nested in should be chopped down.
It was winter, the flock would move on when the food ran out and the trees they nested in were in Germany and Poland.
Never let a few facts get in the way of righteous indignation. Or should that be self-righteous indignation?
I never know.

There's another story at your link.
From the IOtD on Passenger Pigeons.
Sounds like they have the option of cutting the trees down.

We've upset the balance and knocked down their predators, now the flocks will grow like Topsy.

What a load of crap.

C'mon! Somebody had to say it. :p:

As I mentioned Starlings in post 135, I thought that it might be worth including this video showing the behaviour of a large flock of the species (a murmuration) prior to roosting for the night beneath Aberystwyth pier on the west coast of Wales.

The resident population of the bird has declined dramatically in recent years to the extent that it is now on the Red List of endangered species and winter numbers are boosted by flocks from Scandinavia and Central Europe.

The flight patterns they make are something of a spectacle. Worth a few minutes of your time.



There's more here:

Aberystwyth Starlings

A conga line of drunken feathered revelers. :haha:

We must maintain the pecking order...

I think this looks photoshopped...

Snake didn't seem to think so.

ETA: I don't know if this helps - https://translate.google.com/transla...fe&prev=search

Looks as 'shopped now, as it did then.

Awful crisp detail in the latest iteration. :eyebrow:

Chuck Testa, mebbe?

Yellow Cardinal in Alabama...

A yell-whutnow?

~Somebody

Kinda blew m'mind a little bit.

Rare, one in a million genetic distortion.

My experience with turkeys as a lad, makes me doubt this is real.

He's choking both of his turkeys at once...

...when I was that age I was barely choking my chicken.

From a not-so-recent Photo Safari, a boid:

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It's the woid, y'know...:cool:

:D

A bloo boid:

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Through a filthy triple-pane window.

Pretty!

A racing pigeon arrived in our back garden last Thursday and has been more or less resident ever since.
Given his role in life he's rather more athletic looking than the Wood Pigeons that shuffle around the place.
The Woody is a bird so corpulent that it is astonishing how it ever manages to leave the ground.
It probably has a wake turbulence category similar to an A380.

The new arrival has two coloured rings on each leg which should provide ownership details.
I took a couple of photos a few minutes ago in the hope that I could glean some information but he thoughtfully decided that it was time to rest one leg.
Seconds later he put it down and took off.

Anyway, FWIW...

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Given that he's been resting here for five days I suspect that his racing career is over. Not much gets past me.
Even if I could catch the bird with the prospect of reuniting him with his owner, I don't think I would.
Prospects are bleak for pigeons in such cases.

Coming at ya Bro...

When I saw the thread title, I remembered this:

I found a birdy in the snow
He'd broke his wing and could not go
I kept him warm and fed him bread
And then I stomped his little head

Mantis takes a hummingbird...

Who knew the Secretary Bird has lashes to die for?

But does she take dictation?

Her shorthand looks like chicken scratches.

Bravo.

The Tailor Bird is amazing...

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present, the Funky American Woodcock!





Bonus point to the dwellar that can identify the soundtrack.

Found in Costa Rica...

:lol2::devil:Thank you so very much for that video.

That soundtrack sounded familiar. It makes me think of Primus' Mr. Oysterhead, but I know it's prolly not.

Are the lyrics to that song, or some of them, sung through a fuzz box? It's familiar, but, I just can't place it.

Wild Stab: Is it Parliament/Funkadelic?

Did the bird nest in an old wasp nest?

Yes, punched a hole in the side and built a nest. I would presume the wasps had left first.

that was cool

those cliffs look crumbly

not many bunnies or little critters suitable for eagle snacks in that area

1 -- you're welcome, I love that video

2 -- I don't know, that's why I asked. I even put my pet google assistant on the job "Ok Google, what's this song".... "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"


grrrrrrrrr

Birds? How about a Wall of Birds?

What the fuck, they don't show a picture of the fucking wall? :eyebrow:

They show part of it:

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I'm betting ya saw that though...





ETA:

I'm not sure it's finished:

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