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[Cazikins]

I keep hearing a tawny owl in the evenings lately. The one that goes twoo not twit - I think it's the male of the species.

Falcon attacks flock of starlings, Amazing video of peregrine swooping through the middle of the flock.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-46610171/falcon-attacks-starling-murmuration-at-rspb-minsmere

[CLKD]

I saw the headline but didn't watch yet Cazikins ......... right time, right place for 4 spectator.

[Joaniepat]

Cleared up cat crap from the garden this morning  . On a more positive note, the snowdrops are coming up 
JP x

[CLKD]

I saw daffs with 'heads' on  .  That's way TOO early.

Cat crap - I found to keep visitors off our newly turned soil that if I put a litter tray in a sheltered border they would use that - I don't mind emptying into the bin rather than 

[jillydoll]

We used to have that a lot outside in the front garden Joaniepat,
My god, it's horrible, we got so fed up with it, we bought this anti cat device.
It stands on a spike, so it's easy to stab into grass, or dirt, and when a cat, or anything else, comes about 8feet in the area it emits a high pitch sound, and they don't like it, so they run off. It's that good, we don't have any cats out there now, they know, they bypass our house don't even walk on the wall. Lol. 💁‍♀️😂😂
I can just imagine what they say to each other, our house must be like a house that we see in a horror film, ‘No,! don't go in!!!' 👹👹👹.

                                                         

                                         
                                   

[Joaniepat]

Brilliant jillydoll, I'll have to look into that if I get too much 💩! At the moment there's only one that comes into the garden so I can cope with that, but if he starts bringing his mates round, I'll know what to do!
JP x

[CLKD]

Water pistol  ..........

[jillydoll]

We got one of them too.😉
OH shoots them off our flat roof on the extension, the cat poo up there was horrendous.😡
Now we've put one of those sensors up there tied to a pipe.
Just have to remember to check the batteries every now and again.
It's stopped them anyhow.
Now we're poo free. 😀😀

[Two hoots]

Before going to bed last night, as I always do I put the outside lights on and look at the garden, all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once ...... I had a Tawny owl perched in the tree

 

I couldn't believe my eyes, I dashed upstairs so I was level with him, he was having a good look around but when I went down and opened the kitchen door it flew off. I've heard tawny owl calling but never actually seen one, until yesterday 

I don't know if you are aware of this but I LOVE owls,

Two hoots 

[CLKD]

How lovely.  Haven't heard ours recently. 

[Gangan]

Lovely.
We had a Fieldfare in the garden about a week before christmas. Had to get the book out to look it up as we have never seen one before.

Gangan x

[CLKD]

They tend to arrive in flocks along with others in the thrush family.  They blend really well along hedgerows.

[Taz2]

Two Hoots is it a female? My male Tawny sits in our tree hopefully calling for a female each night..

Taz x

[ariadne]

Lovely.
We had a Fieldfare in the garden about a week before christmas. Had to get the book out to look it up as we have never seen one before.

Gangan x

Same here! I had to look one up too as I'd never seen a Fieldfare before. I think it was a Fieldfare but could have been a Redwing.

Have a little wren frequenting our garden at the moment. I have named it Sophia 😉

My son and I were trying to identify a beautiful spotted bird yesterday. Thought at first it was a Thrush but it  was spotted all over. Spent ages with binoculars and a bird book. It turned out to be a STARLING!  And I always thought they were nondescript birds. But it's winter outfit was just so lovely.

Ariadne xx

[Two hoots]

Two Hoots is it a female? My male Tawny sits in our tree hopefully calling for a female each night..

Taz x

I haven't heard any hooting, but I'll be outside every night looking and listening