Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@Victor-Meldrew we had a bird of prey land in the backyard and sit on the fence, curiously trying to figure out how to get into the yew tree, immediately after a couple of sparrows had flown in there. It was pretty cool....but I'm now not convinced it was a sparrow hawk - they look too dark. Pretty sure it was a kestrel - eventually dove straight into the middle of the tree and took after after the sparrows.
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@Bones We get Kestrels but not many, think they eat mice & such more than small birds. Plenty of Buzzards soaring on the thermals though - fun to watch the Crows and even Swallows chasing them away
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah, guess it just looked too "golden" in colour for what I've seen in pics of sparrowhawk - but just found this of a juvenile. It definitely had the sparrowhawk tail IIRC.
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@Catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@MiketheSnow Not funny. Mrs Cato insists on feeding the birds out in our back yard so we get a few sparrows and the like spilling seed all over the place and then the fucking pigeons come strutting around eating up the spillage and shitting on all the cars.
Net position here is that I am paying for birds to shit on my cars and then paying the local Polish guys to wash it off.
So. Not funny.
Probably killing off the birds anyway.
Lots of our birdseed has neonics. Lots of counter arguments though, mostly from companies that produce them.
Huge decline in songbirds linked to neonicotinoids
Neonics—pesticides introduced to plants at the seed stage—act like an appetite suppressant for birds, making them lose weight within hours.
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207K views · 2.1K reactions | Prof Jim Dale has been posting a lot of...
Prof Jim Dale has been posting a lot of cool bird videos on social media. Here is his latest one of a Tūī. You can find more of his videos at https://twitter.com/jamesdale68 and...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Awesome stuff you see on the balcony...
Female Kestrel by the look of it.
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@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Female Kestrel by the look of it.
We're not 100% sure what it was TBH. Resident avian expert, Mrs M, thought the banding on the tail feathers looked more Sparrowhawk than Kestrel. If it is a Kestrel, it was poss. a juvenile. As you say, looks to be female.
Other small possibility is it was a migrating Merlin. Which would be awesome.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Female Kestrel by the look of it.
We're not 100% sure what it was TBH. Resident avian expert, Mrs M, thought the banding on the tail feathers looked more Sparrowhawk than Kestrel. If it is a Kestrel, it was poss. a juvenile. As you say, looks to be female.
Other small possibility is it was a migrating Merlin. Which would be awesome.
NERDS!!!!!!
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@Siam said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Crucial said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Female Kestrel by the look of it.
We're not 100% sure what it was TBH. Resident avian expert, Mrs M, thought the banding on the tail feathers looked more Sparrowhawk than Kestrel. If it is a Kestrel, it was poss. a juvenile. As you say, looks to be female.
Other small possibility is it was a migrating Merlin. Which would be awesome.
NERDS!!!!!!
BIIIIRDS!!!!
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Not really awesome as such but mother natures power is...8 weeks ago we were at the tail end of the worst drought in decades, last nights rain described as a 1 in 500 year event.
Whangarei Dam got to 100% capacity after a significant downpour on Wednesday.
Then we got more rain last night.
Here’s a mind blowing fact. The Hatea River at Whareora Road peaked at over 500 cubic meters of water per second at 10pm last night. That’s half a million litres per second!
To put this in comparison, the Huka Falls near Taupo is flowing at 200cu/m/s and the average flow for the whole Waikato river is 340cu/m/s.Anyone that's been the Whangarei, this is the Riverside BP last night
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@taniwharugby sitting up on our hill looking at Ngunguru estuary, looking very high but I don't think it's going to flood the village at high tide. Fingers crossed
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@Machpants seems very isolated pockets of flooding in town, with Rathbone Street flooding, Porowini Ave under water last night, but I spoke to a few clients this morning in Finlayson St, Lower Dent, Reyburn, Lower Cameron St and the Cafes in the Basin are all ok.
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@MiketheSnow We are all going to hell for laughing at that. I even know where they are and he has they same fucked up sense of humour as everybody else around there - like my father in law.
