What Bird can you hear just now? (1 Viewer)

[WalterRayle]

Well at this moment the 'bird' I can hear is Miranda Hardy from the CD player, outside the window it's a combination of Robin, Wren, Chiffchaff, House Sparrow and Herring Gull.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Can hear Swallows calling

 

[Euan Buchan]

Tonight I’m listening to a Blackbird

 

[SueO]

West Mexican Chachalacas (heard this earlier today, but it took forever for my terrible internet connection to download video)

 

[Leafbringer]

I can hear rainbow lorikeets calling.

 

[Richard Prior]

Black Redstart and Wryneck singing and Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming 09.30.

 

[Farnboro John]

Greylags over while I was brushing my teeth: Chiffchaff and Blackcap both singing while I went through the moth trap.

John

 

[angusmcoatup]

The Sparrow chatter (mostly House, some Spanish) has become a constant loud backdrop. Over that is a singing Eastern Olivaceous Warbler a few trees away from a Blackcap

 

[SueO]

Common Pauraque 5:42am

 

[SueO]

Tropical Kingbirds, Eurasian Collared Dove
The Kingbirds are bouncing from our rigging to other boats on our dock. The image is the top of our neighbor's mast.

 

[SueO]

So, I'm below, playing bridge on the computer and I hear so much chatter and bickering going on that I pop my head out the hatch to see what's happening. The Tropical Kingbird has morphed into a Social Flycatcher! What? Did I really hear/see a Social Flycatcher rather than a Tropical Kingbird this morning? I look at my photos again. No, I saw and heard a Tropical Kingbird. I grab the bins and camera and see that lower down on my neighbor's mast at his radome, is a nest. One of a pair of the Socials is on perched on the mast light just below the radome. Can't believe I didn't notice that when I looked at the Tropical Kingbird at the top of the mast, but the Socials were not present then and the nest isn't that obvious. Well, it is now that I've seen it, but I can understand why I didn't notice it. I considered going onto my neighbor's boat and knocking on the mast to discourage the nest building, but I thought that maybe they were already finished building it. I haven't seen them bringing in material. The owner is in Alaska now and the birds will be gone by the time he comes back (I think). He really keeps his boat in bristol condition, and I know he would appreciate me chasing them off, but I think it's too late to interfere. Why would the Tropical Kingbirds be perched at the top of that mast and looking down? Why are they such busybodies regarding the Social's nest? Would they eat eggs? Calling warning signal? Anyway, sorry for going off topic. I will keep observing the Myiarchus drama. I don't leave until the 18th.

 

[SueO]

Mystery solved. The Tropical Kingbirds have a nest on the radome of a boat three slips down from the Social Flycatcher's nest. They were most likely making sure that the 'neighbors' weren't a threat.

 

[Richard Prior]

Black Redstart and Blackbird, so loud I could hear them even with the windows closed! I can see a Black Grouse displaying on the mountain across the valley but on opening the window and listening I can’t hear its bubbling calls- 2.75km is too far unless the wind is blowing from that direction

 

[YuShan]

From here behind my computer right now, I can hear a Blackbird and Collared Dove singing nearby and a Magpie calling. Also a Robin and a Great Tit singing in the distance (difficult to hear).

Edit: and just after posting this, a couple of Herring Gulls flying over, with loud calls.

 

[SueO]

Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, White-winged Dove, Tropical Kingbird

 

[Euan Buchan]

Earlier Heard a Nuthatch down in Cramond.

 

[SueO]

Golden-cheeked Woodpecker

 

[SueO]

Ringed Kingfisher, Golden-cheeked Woody, Social Flycatcher, and a distant Great Kisskadee.