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This is a great video idea to do during this lockdown! 10 years ago goldfinches were rarely seen of heard here. They are now everywhere. Some folks put this down to the popularity of garden feeders especially people putting out nyger seed. Keep up the good work.
In the early nineties, I used to take early morning walks at the weekends, late winter and early spring, in North London and I'd watch, helplessly, as - particularly - magpies, would help themselves to the nestlings of starlings in chimneys and sparrows around the eaves of houses. It would be something that I would see, weekend after weekend and - clearly - they didn't let up during the week, when I didn't have the opportunity to see. In the seventies, I was living a few miles north of London and remember seeing my first magpie and thinking how stunning it was, what with the unexpected iridescence, the long - seemingly - unweildy tail and the contrasting plumage. A few months later, I watched as one handily outsmarted my cat in the back garden, lazily taking to the air, just as my big old fluffball pounced, missing by centimetres. Respect! I thought. Canny bugger! Until then, corvine birds had been uncommon in London, to say the least. I suspect that 'global warming' has little - directly - to do with the shocking decline in - particularly - sparrows and starlings, but all the other common songbirds that I used to see in - especially - my part of London. It's been that time of year lately and there's practically nothing to see and hear, as far as songbirds are concerned. The time I got buzzed by a robin, for wearing a bright red sweatshirt under my open jacket, seems a dim and distant memory, having happened some twenty five years ago. Even in the nineties, the dawn chorus was a welcome cacophony in the early mornings, but over time it's become quieter and rarer. If it was quiet, early in the morning, I could go out into the garden, give a whistle or two and kick the whole thing off. Not anymore. Given that the corvids were so uncommon in London, when I was a young man, what - do you think - might have been the cause(es) of their proliferation? Now the place - my part of London - is lousy with crows and magpies. One can sometimes spot a jay in the street, every now and then. My mate even once intervened, as a jay chased a sparrow in flight, at head level. As the sparrow escaped, the jay gave my mate a helluva look. What's been going on in the sticks, to - seemingly - drive the crows, magpies and jays into town? No jackdaws hereabouts btw. Small mercies? Vanishingly small.
Hi from Co. Mayo in the west of Ireland. I've been binge watching your videos. Great info. Well done.... Make more vids about garden birds, please.... Thanks, Maura.... FYI. My son made up the name, Mr grape....
Hi Maura. Welcome to the channel. I'm glad you have been enjoying my videos and hope you continue to do so. I'm currently working on a lot of new videos, some garden birds will definitely be included. Cheers!
I remember my surprise and excitement the first time I saw Goldfinches through binoculars. Initially I thought they were just a flock of mundane looking sparrows to the naked eye from a distance 😁
That made me realise that the general ambient sound of outside used to be chirruping sparrows. A friend went to work in Saudi Arabia in the 90s and he was surprised to find that sparrows even dominated there. I honestly can’t remember the last time I distinctly heard them.
I currently live in the greater metropolitan New York City area. I have never seen ring-necked doves here. However, I have seen them in Fort Lauderdale, FL, when I used to live in South Florida between 1993 and 1996.
I have seen a decline in birds population iver the years, I noticed it since te early 80s. I believe is the lack of insects and worms due to use of pesticides, weed killers, pest control chemicals and deliberate forest fires which destroy everything. In some parts of Spain which I frequently visit is what is been happening. I hardly see starlings or even swallows. Hardly any bats at night. Moths, butterflies. Is all gone.
Question for everyone out there....have you seen a reduction of small birds in your garden, birds like sparrows, Gold Finch, Blue tits, even Blackbirds or Starling? Over the last 3.months I have seen a marked reduction and have not seen any visitors for at least the last month, maybe the odd Wood Pidgeon and Maggie but nothing smaller which is very odd. Anyone else experiencing this?
I have noticed a drop in sightings but I think it’s probably just down to the trees being in full bloom and most birds have finished nesting/rearing chicks so can be more secretive again. I notice a drop in sightings this time every year
There is a small wooded area behind my house and in one particular hawthorn tree, together with my garden, I have seen all sorts of birds at various times of the year. Birds such as wood pigeons (nested), blue tits (currently nesting in a nest box in my garden), great tits, the occasional long tailed tits, collared doves, magpies (nested in the wood), crows (nested in the wood), wrens, bullfinches, chaffinches, robins, dunnocks and blackcaps. A pair of blackbirds also nested this year in my garden, however the nest was abandoned after 3 eggs were laid and these eggs disappeared (presumably taken by crows or magpies). I have also seen at least one sparrow hawk flying over the garden whilst hunting and I have heard what I think is some sort of warbler in the wood.
what I should've pointed out is the oft forgotten mass cullings of starlings in the late 80's. millions were exterminated due to the 'pest' factor on city buildings
Nice one mate, but WOW! Check out the extended upper mandible on one of those Starlings! The left hand one on the aerial from 3:01, and again (same individual?) in the tree from 3:24. I think you should name him "Beaky" (which was what we used to call one of our Biology teachers at school - but not to his beak obviously). 👍😎👍
Well spotted, it’s actually two separate birds, there’s 4 or 5 of them like that in the area. It amazes me that they can feed their chicks with beaks like that.
Hi there im new to your channel, i have to be honest i love it, the reason for the comment is could you please do a video with information like all your videos about the Goldfinch please 🙏 many thanks 😊
Hello. Sorry for the very late reply. Goldfinches are on my list, I can't guarantee when I'll get round to tgem but stay tuned as it'll be in the next month or 2 (I hope). Cheers
Where i lived, Sunflower hearts were gold dust to gold finches. They chose that over niger seed everytime. Plus green finches, chaffinches, coal tits, blue tits, great tits, sparrows, and even red polls one year. Although they were mostly niger seed. So yeah, Sunflower hearts are amazing.
Thank you , sadly I don’t see many hiuse sparrows but do see tits blue and great in my garden I feed birds seeing finches starlings go crazy for the mealworm feeder they are very entertaining birds !
Random question: why do i often see woodpigeons perch particularly on ash trees, usually to chillax and eat on it. Are they're particularly attracted to ash?
If you have just enjoyed watching this video then be sure to check out my latest video, taking a look at the European Water Vole: ua-cam.com/video/T0Y2aHoEGbM/v-deo.html
Great video, my other half puts up well with my constant playing of wildlife videos. Keep them coming
I loved the addition of the birdsong to the clips. It really helps identify the birds when you can't see them. I'm trying to learn, but it's not easy!
EXCELLENT !!! LIAM , ALL IN A NUT SHELL!!! THANKS ! FROM U.K. (2022).
Wonderful and very informative. People should remember to safely clean bird feeders. to avoid avian flu. water sources too. Thank you.
This is a great video idea to do during this lockdown! 10 years ago goldfinches were rarely seen of heard here. They are now everywhere. Some folks put this down to the popularity of garden feeders especially people putting out nyger seed. Keep up the good work.
In the early nineties, I used to take early morning walks at the weekends, late winter and early spring, in North London and I'd watch, helplessly, as - particularly - magpies, would help themselves to the nestlings of starlings in chimneys and sparrows around the eaves of houses.
It would be something that I would see, weekend after weekend and - clearly - they didn't let up during the week, when I didn't have the opportunity to see.
In the seventies, I was living a few miles north of London and remember seeing my first magpie and thinking how stunning it was, what with the unexpected iridescence, the long - seemingly - unweildy tail and the contrasting plumage.
A few months later, I watched as one handily outsmarted my cat in the back garden, lazily taking to the air, just as my big old fluffball pounced, missing by centimetres.
Respect! I thought. Canny bugger!
Until then, corvine birds had been uncommon in London, to say the least.
I suspect that 'global warming' has little - directly - to do with the shocking decline in - particularly - sparrows and starlings, but all the other common songbirds that I used to see in - especially - my part of London.
It's been that time of year lately and there's practically nothing to see and hear, as far as songbirds are concerned.
The time I got buzzed by a robin, for wearing a bright red sweatshirt under my open jacket, seems a dim and distant memory, having happened some twenty five years ago.
Even in the nineties, the dawn chorus was a welcome cacophony in the early mornings, but over time it's become quieter and rarer.
If it was quiet, early in the morning, I could go out into the garden, give a whistle or two and kick the whole thing off. Not anymore.
Given that the corvids were so uncommon in London, when I was a young man, what - do you think - might have been the cause(es) of their proliferation?
Now the place - my part of London - is lousy with crows and magpies. One can sometimes spot a jay in the street, every now and then.
My mate even once intervened, as a jay chased a sparrow in flight, at head level.
As the sparrow escaped, the jay gave my mate a helluva look.
What's been going on in the sticks, to - seemingly - drive the crows, magpies and jays into town?
No jackdaws hereabouts btw.
Small mercies? Vanishingly small.
Hi from Co. Mayo in the west of Ireland. I've been binge watching your videos. Great info. Well done.... Make more vids about garden birds, please.... Thanks, Maura.... FYI. My son made up the name, Mr grape....
Hi Maura. Welcome to the channel. I'm glad you have been enjoying my videos and hope you continue to do so. I'm currently working on a lot of new videos, some garden birds will definitely be included. Cheers!
I love your videos and information. the blackbird is my favourite bird song.
I remember my surprise and excitement the first time I saw Goldfinches through binoculars.
Initially I thought they were just a flock of mundane looking sparrows to the naked eye from a distance 😁
Great video - thanks.
Cheers!
That made me realise that the general ambient sound of outside used to be chirruping sparrows. A friend went to work in Saudi Arabia in the 90s and he was surprised to find that sparrows even dominated there. I honestly can’t remember the last time I distinctly heard them.
I currently live in the greater metropolitan New York City area. I have never seen ring-necked doves here. However, I have seen them in Fort Lauderdale, FL, when I used to live in South Florida between 1993 and 1996.
Nice documentary again!!! You make it so interesting!! Great work 👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate!
Hello, I'm glad you wrote the text below the video. so that I can read along and understand English better.
Thanks.
Greetings Jacq
I hear the morning songs of blackbirds as I leave work after a night shift. Beautiful.
FANTASTIC AND BEAUTIFUL THANKS FOR THE CHANNEL IS FANTASTIC OK 👍🤗🆗💯
Used to feed the birds outside my bedroom window on a flat roofed extension back in the 70's. There must have been a hundred sparrows came every day!
Beautiful, hi from Roma 👍🙋😘🇮🇹
🎯🙏🏆 I've watched all your videos but haven't commented on most of them
Very informative. Thanks for sharing 🐦👍
Wood pidgeons have proper munched my lockdown broccoli 😂
Yea the cabbage white butterfly’s have destroyed lots of my cabbages but haven’t had much problem with the wood pigeons
@@theotheseaeagle living up to their name I guess 😭
Brilliant video very helpful, thanks for sharing.
i love wood pigeons. every morning my window has a loud sound
pigeons: GRUUUU GRUU GRUUU
They also adore sunflower hearts and if you have room will use a hanging feeder as a to themselves with green finches while sparrows use the others )
Interesting and informative, thank you 👍
I have seen a decline in birds population iver the years, I noticed it since te early 80s. I believe is the lack of insects and worms due to use of pesticides, weed killers, pest control chemicals and deliberate forest fires which destroy everything.
In some parts of Spain which I frequently visit is what is been happening.
I hardly see starlings or even swallows.
Hardly any bats at night. Moths, butterflies. Is all gone.
Just subscribed. Really enjoyed this.
Thank you. Glad to have you onboard!
Brilliant video Liam
Omg thank you very much! This helped me so much! 💕
2:50 a female blackbird was just hopping around outside my kitchen window😂😂
Question for everyone out there....have you seen a reduction of small birds in your garden, birds like sparrows, Gold Finch, Blue tits, even Blackbirds or Starling? Over the last 3.months I have seen a marked reduction and have not seen any visitors for at least the last month, maybe the odd Wood Pidgeon and Maggie but nothing smaller which is very odd. Anyone else experiencing this?
I have noticed a drop in sightings but I think it’s probably just down to the trees being in full bloom and most birds have finished nesting/rearing chicks so can be more secretive again.
I notice a drop in sightings this time every year
Probably down to the explosion of magpies which predate the smaller birds, chicks and their eggs.
There is a small wooded area behind my house and in one particular hawthorn tree, together with my garden, I have seen all sorts of birds at various times of the year. Birds such as wood pigeons (nested), blue tits (currently nesting in a nest box in my garden), great tits, the occasional long tailed tits, collared doves, magpies (nested in the wood), crows (nested in the wood), wrens, bullfinches, chaffinches, robins, dunnocks and blackcaps. A pair of blackbirds also nested this year in my garden, however the nest was abandoned after 3 eggs were laid and these eggs disappeared (presumably taken by crows or magpies). I have also seen at least one sparrow hawk flying over the garden whilst hunting and I have heard what I think is some sort of warbler in the wood.
what I should've pointed out is the oft forgotten mass cullings of starlings in the late 80's. millions were exterminated due to the 'pest' factor on city buildings
Hi. You just got a new subscriber haha. Thanks.
Nice one mate, but WOW! Check out the extended upper mandible on one of those Starlings! The left hand one on the aerial from 3:01, and again (same individual?) in the tree from 3:24. I think you should name him "Beaky" (which was what we used to call one of our Biology teachers at school - but not to his beak obviously). 👍😎👍
Well spotted, it’s actually two separate birds, there’s 4 or 5 of them like that in the area. It amazes me that they can feed their chicks with beaks like that.
@@AShotOfWildlife must be a local family trait. Or as a friend of mine once said: their genes have got their knickers in a twist 😆
Hi there im new to your channel, i have to be honest i love it, the reason for the comment is could you please do a video with information like all your videos about the Goldfinch please 🙏 many thanks 😊
Hello. Sorry for the very late reply. Goldfinches are on my list, I can't guarantee when I'll get round to tgem but stay tuned as it'll be in the next month or 2 (I hope). Cheers
Bello.gilgerito.
Where i lived, Sunflower hearts were gold dust to gold finches. They chose that over niger seed everytime. Plus green finches, chaffinches, coal tits, blue tits, great tits, sparrows, and even red polls one year. Although they were mostly niger seed. So yeah, Sunflower hearts are amazing.
Thank you , sadly I don’t see many hiuse sparrows but do see tits blue and great in my garden I feed birds seeing finches starlings go crazy for the mealworm feeder they are very entertaining birds !
They are millions in south Greece every year
Random question: why do i often see woodpigeons perch particularly on ash trees, usually to chillax and eat on it. Are they're particularly attracted to ash?
I Live In USA, Is It Weird That I'm Watching This?
Nope, not weird at all. Some of the birds you get there are very similar although I'm not sure how many from this video actually live there lol.
@@AShotOfWildlife House Sparrows, Starlings And Collared Doves Are Introduced In The USA
Ive never identified a starling nesting in a tree hole before, just know they like buildings
You forgot ravens and crows
er crow? jackdaw?
How can you hear the birds properly if someone is constantly talking…
Lol. Just listen in-between the words.
global warming my asssssssss
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